After the LTV Steel Mining Company ceased ore production in 2001 their mainline to Taconite Harbor was shuttered. However, in November 2002 Minnesota Power tested running coal trains from their po... (more)

A trip down memory lane, CNW train 483 rolls west with U30C 936 on the point, and two SD45s trailing (949 and an unknown No.), crossing the Soo-Milwaukee diamond at Eau Claire tower. CNW SW1 No 12... (more)

Northbound mixed freight at Frisco, TN with SD40-2 #8338 still sporting its Clinchfield paint scheme in this June 1985 scene.

Rock Island Train 18, "Twin Star Rocket," barrels eastward out of North Topeka, Ks. on time on Union Pacific track en route to Kansas City where it will return to home rails. Operating from Hous... (more)

Led by an F and two E units, Rock Island's "Golden State Limited" rushes into Topeka, Kansas where it will cross the Kansas River and enter Union Pacific trackage rights for the run to Kansas City... (more)

Is the camera aimed the wrong direction? Rock Island U25B 231 was on the point of Train 4, "Golden State," standing at North Topeka, Ks. station as westbound mail Train 39 with two F units approa... (more)

With E8 653 and a passenger Geep, Rock Island's mail Train 39 "Imperial" with one coach leaves Topeka, Ks. on a dreary Nov. 5, 1966. At Tucumcari, N.M., Rock Island will hand the train over to SP... (more)

Believe this to be a Class I-5 caboose

ATSF local freight, engine no. 3637, crossing the big bridge over Alamito Creek near Presidio, Texas, on March 26, 1984, as seen from the caboose. This was on the line from San Angelo to Presidio,... (more)

Monon's "Thoroughbred" passing the semaphores at Salem. Photo by Tom Smart from my collection. I was a little over one year old when this photo was taken.

Special round trip LA to Bakersfield & return

A Burlington Northern coal train grinds up Crawford Hill west of Belmont, Nebraska, on July 2, 1989. The train is powered by two BN GE C30-7s and three EMD SD40-2s (BN 7239, along with Kansas City... (more)

Slowly working its way east on the former Baltimore & Ohio Garrett subdivision more than thirty years ago.

Sheffield tower