The lone high hood on the Lancaster & Chester roster emerges from a tree tunnel leading into Fort Lawn on a beautiful summer day.

As the remaining high hoods on the NS roster sit and await an uncertain fate. It's always nice to look back upon a collection of photographs and think, I sure am glad I took that. After being in s... (more)

The Lancaster & Chester RR's train 14 job rumbles out of Richburg with the former Southern high hood leading. They will stop just ahead in Fort Lawn to pick up a handful of cars and then continue... (more)

A pair of BNSF EMD veterans lead M-CHIGAL into Kinsman, IL.

Running as CSXT train Z473-18, this Grand Trunk trackage rights train is departing CSXT's Queensgate Yard enroute to Detroit with a heavy volume of steel traffic. This is a scan from when I still... (more)

Lancaster & Chester Railway's lone ex-Southern high hood leads train 14 back toward Lancaster after picking up their load from Richburg. Here they are working in downtown Fort Lawn as they pass t... (more)

An Albany & Eastern train heads towards Lebanon after working the yard in Albany on a typical Oregon spring day.

The crew of the Lancaster & Chester RR begins their morning of serving customers with a visit to Jones-Hamilton.

I have always found high hoods to be some of the best engines to photograph since I got into railroad photography. It is even better when they are on a shortline railroad. Such is the case with th... (more)

I have always found high hoods to be some of the best engines to photograph since I got into railroad photography. It is even better when they are on a shortline railroad. Such is the case with ... (more)

I have always found high hoods to be some of the best engines to photograph since I got into railroad photography. It is even better when they are on a shortline railroad. Such is the case with ... (more)

Dusk falls over Chester, SC, with the L&C power sitting in the yard.

L&C GP38AC sits quietly in the yard as the sun sets on a warm March evening.

BNSF 2111 (GP38AC) crosses the South Platte River and pushes a string of cars into the Denver Yard while BNSF 9116 (SD70ACe) pushes a loaded coal towards the Joint Line.

Led by one of the "skunk"-schemed GP38ACs, a string of private cars awaits the arrival of N&W 611 so they can head east on an excursion. Tom Golden photo.