1 of 2 built, Amtrak #450 dashes thru the snow with a Hiawatha in Oak Creek, WI in January of 1991.

Amtrak "stealth" under the wires, as the only two F69PH-ACs ever built head east with the German ICE Train in tow. The old PRR freight station on the left still stands.

One of two made! Amtrak F69PH-AC #451 leads a southbound Hiawatha thru Oak Creek, WI in September of 1992. For some reason, I have numerous shots of these units, even though they were quite rare.

A pair of EMD SD90MAC-H units and a Southern Pacific SD40M-2 pull a westbound intermodal train through Utah's Tooele Valley on July 8, 2000. UP 8555 and 8553 were assembled by Super Steel Schenect... (more)

While waiting for my DC-bound train at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, I took the opportunity to get to the end of my platform to record this light E60 rolling through on the adjacent track. ... (more)

A long, heavy Union Pacific freight powered by two SD90MAC-H 6000 horsepower locomotives grinds past the south (east) switch of Walong on California’s Tehachapi Pass on March 28, 2001.

Cowl unit CN 5548 led this general freight train out of Winnipeg on a warm August day.

Big Blow 23 leads an extra east from North Platte, Nebraska, on October 22, 1966. The 8,500-hp turbine is typical of UP railroading in the mid-sixties, but for a moment take a closer look at the s... (more)

Screaming toward the camera at about 55 mph somewhere east of North Platte, Union Pacific’s westbound Big Blow 22, a member of the final class of 8500-hp Class 23 and 24 turbines, is about the m... (more)

A different 611 in a view that is now gone thanks to buildings put atop of the railroad.

A factory fresh EMD SD9043MAC awaits a clear signal through Grant Tower in Salt Lake City in May 10, 1997.

The ill-fated CP 9300 pauses for the conductor to align some switches as it departs Thunder Bay with train 441. The CP 9300 and the three other SD90MAC-H IIs owned by CP were scrapped several year... (more)

The First Pooch! A Roger Puta photograph

UP's only coal turbine electric makes a test run as many officials look on. This locomotive was an experimental and didn't run very much as it was deemed a failure. A set of diesels was always in ... (more)

Freshly painted Santa Fe exAmtrak SDP40F redesignated by Santa Fe as an SDF40 sits at Santa Fe's Hobart diesel facility ready for work.