The Union Depot area in Pueblo, Colorado was once teeming with passenger activity. That activity was supplanted by a seemingly never-ending parade of Powder River coal trains like this 112-car one... (more)
While five 3000-hp Burlington Northern C-C’s cross the trestle over the Salt Creek in Pueblo, Colorado, Powder River-bound empty hoppers snake behind them. Although the train disappears behind t... (more)
An empty auto rack train moves east on the Santa Fe at Abo Canyon, New Mexico.
Weirton Steel Company in Weirton, West Virginia has a small fleet of tank cars in revenue service. Here one sporting a corrosive placard passes through Mingo Junction, Ohio.
SEPTA FP7’s 4372 and 4371 (ex-Reading 902 and 900, respectively) are seen in storage in the yard at Wayne Junction, Pennsylvania. A third FP7, SEPTA 4373 (ex-Reading 903) is stored in Reading, P... (more)
After 31 years of hauling intercity and later commuter passenger trains, two of SEPTA’s three ex-Reading FP7A’s languish in the yard at Wayne Junction, Pennsylvania.
Although I doubt that they ever pulled a train together, an Ontario Northland FP7 and a Canadian National FPA4 ride the turntable together at CN’s Spadina roundhouse in Toronto.
An Ontario Northland FP7 waits in the servicing area at Canadian National’s Spadina roundhouse in Toronto.
The Roads No Longer Taken Four years after a landslide at Thistle, Utah blocked the Spanish Fork River with thousands of tons of earth, wiping out the town, a westbound Rio Grande ... (more)
Moving through the area known as Detour in the Rio Grande timetable, a westbound D&RGW manifest works its way down the Soldier Summit grade.
A Speno rail grinding train is working on Rio Grande’s Soldier Summit grade at Colton, Utah. Streams of sparks can be seen under the grinder cars.
The grade involved in descending the Gilluly Loops is evident in this view of a westbound Rio Grande freight approaching the Route 6 overpass.
Several auto racks and a Rio Grande caboose punctuate a westbound DODX train under grim skies at Soldier Summit, Utah.
Westbound tonnage punctuated by a Rio Grande caboose rolls across the flats at Una, Colorado.
Rolling alongside the whitecaps of the Arkansas River, Rio Grande train 179, the Ford Fast Freight, grinds through Spikebuck, Colorado.
