The last GP40-2 on the UP roster still in SP colors, although patched and tagged, crosses Central Avenue in Nickerson Gardens (this is the area for which South Central gets its name, as this is Ce... (more)

Roseville bound tonnage emerges from the Norden shed, led by a 'Sierra 5200', with a classic SP signal bridge framing the snowy scene. At the time the searchlight installations at Norden were (and... (more)

A Christmas Eve snowstorm produced some significant snowfall in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. My alarm went off at 0300 Saturday morning to drive down and see what kind of shots I could ge... (more)

With the snow-capped San Francisco Peaks in the background, a baby Phoenix, AZ to Belen, NM manifest climbs the final grade into Winslow, AZ, while the San Bernardino, CA to Atlanta, GA Z Train ca... (more)

A 3 pack of EMD SD75is, number 5775 in the lead, blast through small town of Dyersville, Iowa with U708 behind them. The 1889 built Basilica of St Francis Xavier Church still stands tall in the fo... (more)

UP 958500, a heavily modified former SD40-2, pushes one of UP's RELCO built tie pick up trains into Roberts.

The last of the stored locomotives at Ravenna. Two weeks previous they were buried in a sea of box cars,

Extra loaded autorack train L211 prepares to enter one of the large cuts on the South side of Cumberland Mountain. With all the rain we received over the winter many of the areas natural springs w... (more)

Oh … So the Flashing Red Lights Mean "Stop"?

As Southern Pacific's Huntington Beach Hauler was heading west (compass north) on the Stanton Branch back to Anaheim, at just ... (more)

End of the line...well sort of. CEFX GP20D 2002 was at Northern Maine Jct., Maine, on June 18, waybilled to Progress Rail for salvageable component removal and scrapping. The 2002 suffered a pri... (more)

It’s Christmas day and the scrappers working in Wisconsin Central’s Shops Yard locomotive facility at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, are home with their families enjoying the holiday. In the foregr... (more)

Photog unknown....from my collection....

Norfolk Southern C97 cruises across the trestle that spans Elk Creek in Girard, Pennsylvania on the former Nickel Plate. C97 ran out of Conneaut to pick up a train of brand new Wabtec GE ES30ACi's... (more)

The damage to CSX # 168 after the derailment of K429 on February 13, 2020. This was the lead motor of the train and went nose first into the Levisa Fork.

A look at the Florida East Coast Railway's New Smyrna Beach locomotive shops at sunset. The string of SD40-2s in the FEC's UP paint scheme are currently in storage. Behind the shop, a GP38-2 in th... (more)