The St. Paul to Kansas City daily freight train had some unusual motors in the consist. A pair of CP hydrogen locomotives are dead in tow. Each locomotive is painted in a unique paint scheme for t... (more)
A Westbound Chicago to San Bernardino passes under the classic Santa Fe signal bridge at New Boston on the Marceline Sub. These signals were retired on October 1, 2019, and the bridge was removed ... (more)
CP 7050 leads CSX empty potash train B222 westbound on the B&O through Deshler.
The St. Louis Steam Train Association provides smoke for the photographers as it climbs out of the Mississippi River Valley onto the Illinois Prairie with a St. Louis NRHS special headed for Centr... (more)
The BNSF merger was getting closer to reality by May 1995. Galesburg was about to become a major hub in the east with this merger. Lots of things would change, but for now the BN was as is with th... (more)
Led by a quartet of GE C44-9Ws, Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Denver to Stockton manifest freight climbs out of Rocky, Colorado, on April 23, 2002. In the background sits an eastbound Union Pac... (more)
Empties at Two Harbors do not leave the way they came in. I believe that's due to the headroom issue at Two Harbors, loads are dumped and then shoved towards an outbound yard. Empties then depart ... (more)
CPs 8WWA ballast train rumbles over the wooden Crawfish River bridge on a cold and windy spring afternoon. Todays train sports a trio of six-axle EMDs.
ALCo - A rarity nowAfter Railway board's descision to discontinue ALCos from mainline service, first time spotting an ALCo with express train
Th BN tested 4 SD60MAC's and then later in 1993 they placed an order for 350 SD70MAC's. The SD60s were the test bed to what became a huge investment in the coal power fleet with the purchase of th... (more)
A westbound UP stack train is passing in front of the old Marceline station, which is now the Walt Disney Hometown Museum.
BNSF 9243 (SD70ACe) leaves the yard in Golden, Colorado and will head to Denver.
A pair of BNSF EMD SD70MACs lead a BNSF coal train westbound over the Clark Fork between Thompson Falls and Belknap, Montana, on September 11, 2010.
The old Ford was the first of several props to appear on the photo charter.