The early morning overcast is beginning to break up as an eastbound Santa Fe freight splits from the original 1883 mainline, with a 3% grade, to head up the 1913-built mainline – with a gentler ... (more)

A Santa Fe freight heads west through Fullerton behind a quartet of EMD GPs: GP30 – GP35 – GP30 – GP35. All four are still in the original blue and yellow paint scheme, although they all c... (more)

Greenville and Western pulls with 5 cars bound for the CSX interchange in Pelzer, 12 miles to the north. G&W positioned themselves in the clear, allowed Pickens to shove the outbound cars onto th... (more)

1987 Railfan Weekend on the BM&R.

Union Pacific GP30s 842, 851 and 837 leave East Yard and head south on the railroad's San Pedro Subdivision. As they do, they cross the Santa Fe's Third District at Hobart Tower on July 27, 1975.... (more)

GN GP30 2213 displays its customized cooling system at Minneapolis in March 1973. The loco is really BN, but no initials saying so, and it still says Great northern on the hood. Only the goat is m... (more)

Two old relics sit together under the hot sun outside of downtown Clarksdale.

3 ex Coos Bay Rail Link units, now painted out and owned by Mountain States Contracting.

A Southeast Kansas Railroad (SEK) train is making the daily interchange to the KCS at Pittsburg, KS. In the consist is a nice representation of Watco power: SKOL2211 (ex PRR/CR GP30), SEK117 (ex ... (more)

Railroad mergers often make strange bed fellows out of motive power. Who would have thought WC 711, a former Soo Line Alco trucked GP30 (same no.), would mate up with former Fox River Valley GP9 n... (more)

Southern Railway GP30 2594 pops its head out of the East portal of Missionary Ridge Tunnel with TVRM train 100, the "Missionary Ridge Local", bound for Grand Junction Station. 2594 is leased from ... (more)

A view of Conrail's Bethlehem engine terminal ready tracks in 1977. The Septa RDC's were protecting Bethlehem - Lansdale service on the Bethlehem Branch that ended in 1981. The 2 Lehigh Valley &qu... (more)

A consist, including the leading GP30, GP40 3010 and the ex Rio Grande Zephyr F9 A/B set picks up some cars on the Leadville branch.

Still wearing the the colors and markings of its original owner, Carolina Southern Railroad GP30 2613 could easily be mistaken for Southern Railway 2613. This forty-five-year-old locomotive not o... (more)