A VIA RDC train set heads for a bath at the CN/VIA coach yard and diesel facilities in downtown Toronto near CN Tower. In the background several CN MLW switchers are accompanied by Tempo equipment... (more)

Soo Line 807, one of ten U30Cs owned by the railroad handles some switching at Humboldt Ave. Yard, across the Mississippi from Shoreham. The Dodge cab over pick up might be more rare than the GE a... (more)

Milwaukee Road no. 997 heads up a long string of EMD power at Pigs Eye Yard, St. Paul, MN.

Snow has let up a bit as the westbound VIA Super Continental pulls into Boston Bar, BC on CN trackage. CN MOW people have dug out access to the speeder shed and are not being deterred from keeping... (more)

Santa Fe 5832 West, a hot 199 train, roars through a super-elevated curve at Glen Frazer as it fights a 1.0 percent grade. The high-priority pig train is moments away from entering tunnel 3, insid... (more)

In heavy, bone-chilling fog, a Santa Fe eastbound with a U36C on the point makes its way up hill at Cable Crossover, a little west of the town of Tehachapi.

An SW8 in one of the Lehigh Valley’s later paint schemes works the west end of the yard in Allentown Pennsylvania. Today, I would never expect to see a piggyback car in a classification yard, bu... (more)

A trio of ICG EMDs leads a coal train through Gilman, IL. Paul Meyer photo.

In March of 1985, an eastbound SP manifest bursts out of the fog at Stockton Tower.

MILW SW1200 no. 630 switches cars on and off a barge at Seattle's waterfront in December 1978. Barge service here reached North Vancouver, as well as Puget Sound industries at Pt. Townsend, Pt. Ga... (more)

Getting some mechanical attention

The Cornell depot was the end of the line for the Cornell branch that followed the Chippewa River about 20 miles northeast from Chippewa Falls, WI. The station was still active with a freight agen... (more)

It's just another day on the Cornell local out of Altoona, WI. The rear brakeman throws the switch back to the main after a meet with train 406 at Koll siding on Chippewa Falls' south side. The tr... (more)

The 805-D is on the point of the westbound California Zephyr as it zooms by at Magna, Utah near Salt Lake City. Photo from my slide collection, photographer's name unknown.