The UP/BN coal line was not always 100% coal trains. BN routed 2 piggyback trains on the line, #91/92 into the early 1990's. Congestion on the line eventually led to them being rerouted. One wonde... (more)

Slide Scan shot of Santa Fe #844 leads a West Bound pig train up Curtis Hill

An eastbound Milwaukee Road freight with a pair of leased Southern SD24's hugs the banks of the Mississippi River between Pleasant Valley and Le Claire. The SD24's eventually received Precision N... (more)

SOO struggled with seasonal power shortages and occasionally 912 would be called out of Gladstone with a singe unit or lose a unit to a 911 that was having power problems. Normally an extra would ... (more)

Encountering a three-builder lashup has always been unusual, and by the 1980's it was quite a rarity. If you did encounter one, it would have at least one locomotive from each of the two surviving... (more)

Grinding up the .82 percent to Hermosa Tunnel and the 8014-foot summit of Sherman Hill in late September, 1965, Union Pacific 418 leads a motive power consist that could be assembled on no other ... (more)

Power strapped Milwaukee Road leased a number of B&O GP's and 3 of them found their way onto the Nahant to Savanna way-freight which ran over the Rock Island to East Moline and then north on the A... (more)

Eastbound BN SOU St Louis Louisville runthrough train on SOU near Huntingburg

On spring afternoons, clouds often pile up against the foothills along the Joint Line between Denver and Palmer Lake letting loose brief thunderstorms that can fill dry creek beds and slow traffic... (more)

Santa Fe’s Super Chief-El Capitan Train 17 west has just left La Junta, Colo. and its two FP45’s (Nos. 104, 105) have the train up to speed as it whizzes by a windmill that pumps water for a l... (more)

Cherryvale is the operational hub of the South Kansas and Oklahoma. This ex-CN unit is about to lead a train to Tulsa, as a set of ex-Apalachian & Ohio SD50s waits to head west to Winfield. Ther... (more)

The engineer goes over his track warrants with dispatch as he prepares for his depart from West Gilman. The consist includes 2 G&W GP50's and an ISRR GP40. The new TPW looks to be fairly busy thes... (more)

Patches of a previous snowfall remain on the ground and more is coming this afternoon in March, 1964 as Alco-GE GTEL 58 climbs Archer Hill east of Cheyenne. The turbine will take this mixed freigh... (more)