Heading west at the ex-Erie RR station

A couple U-boats lead a GP35 on westbound 83 at Cedar Lake in 1966. Photo is part of my collection but is not shot by me. No name on slide, scanned from a Ektachrome transparency.

For some unknown reason I remember this like it was yesterday. I was my first experience on the former NYC main line. As we arrived at the location and looked down a long straight stretch to the... (more)

Headed for W. 72nd Street

BN U boat and GP sitting at Galesburg, IL || June 1976

A C&O mine run is en-route to the mines with a train of empty hoppers at Elimer, KY on C&O's Sandy Valley and Elkhorn Subdivision. By this date, May 31, 1978, C&O's U25Bs were nearing the end of ... (more)

Shortly after the merger of GN, NP, SP&S and CB&Q there were many examples of mixed running and mixed consists. Witness this meet at Scribner, WA on the former SP&S with a GN U25B and a NP SD45.

a westbound SP "hauler" is heading around the loop track at the east end of West Colton yard toward Los Angeles. West Colton yard is layed out for eastbound operation with recieving yard, hump yar... (more)

Orange Empire's Bloody Nose U-Boat Lettered The vinyl lettering was done on Thursday. The decals were made using 3M Scotchlite which is the correct historical material. She was out in the... (more)

Colorful motive power consist!

A Santa Fe GE U25B and U23B team up to move coal empties from the EJ&E connection north of downtown Joliet, Illinois.

Today, the former C&O yard and engine facility at Gladstone, VA is nothing but an overgrown field, filled with grass and scrub brush. At best, one or two tracks remain. Back on October 17, 1970,... (more)

The only one we ever saw on ATSF, I think. This is a fairly early version of the model. They had really nice lines.

Penn Central photographic Perfection. BX-29 is creeping past the tower after completing work at Mansfield and Attleboro. Conrail is less than a year away and some original New Haven u-boats still ... (more)

A quartet of GE's with an Eastbound smoke it up at sunset.