MILW 71A, part of an A-B-A set caught at Pigs Eye Yard, St. Paul, MN was still in its orange and maroon scheme, quite a rarity in 1970. Also unusual was the black pilot as these were normally pain... (more)

Two Southern Railway GP-38's tread lightly through the Nantahala Gorge with an eight-car freight westbound for Andrews, NC on Southern's Murphy Branch.

A westbound Southern Railway freight enters the Nantahala Gorge in October 1979. This location is within a few hundred feet of where the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad trains now make their stop a... (more)

Amtrak is over a year old, but 1446 - which would become Amtrak 202 - still wears its B&O dress. The Floridian would grow to a point where 2 SDP40Fs would be required, but then would be discontin... (more)

Red River Valley & Western #300 southbound near Jamestown, ND || September 1989

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal empty traverses scenic Wendover Canyon, Wyoming, on the afternoon of May 25, 1997. It still looks like Burlington Northern, with five Cascade green motors on th... (more)

Camas Prairie's log train from Headquarters, Idaho, crosses a trestle at Konkolville near Orofino on Aug. 17, 1977, as it heads for Lewiston to complete its 82-mile run behind four Geeps from its ... (more)

Four SP F7 units are struggling with mostly lumber tonnage up the 1.8 percent grade at McCredie Springs trying to reach the Cascade summit and on to Calif.

Southern NW2 #1016 leads a short train northbound on the A&Y line to Sanford || June 1975

Three GP9s from joint lessors Union Pacific and Burlington Northern drag the daily local from Lewiston, Ida. up the Grangeville line, and near Nucrag crosses one of several wooden trestles on the ... (more)

Amtrak NorthCoast Hiawatha Train 9 behind four former NP F7s negotiates Jefferson Canyon near Sappington, Montana headed for the headwaters of the Missouri River at Three Forks.

Soo Line tested the Burlington Northern SD60MACs in 1993. Nos. 9500, 9503 and 9502 lead Soo Line train No. 430 up 2nd street in downtown Bellevue, Iowa, on October 17, 1993.

SP's Coastal mail Train 154 is "eastbound" (southbound) at Narlon en route L.A. on Oct. 19, 1964. A single rider coach is on the rear.

Was it any crossties or was it the sod that held the gauge on MILW's Winifred branch near Suffolk when the local with eight 40-ft. box cars tenderly negotiated it at 10 mph? Remnants of old "rai... (more)