With a fascinating array of power a loaded CSX train eases down the connector to head southbound on the former Clinchfield RR main.

Late on a spring day, a westbound Santa Fe freight zigzags downgrade through the reverse curves at Caliente. When SP built the line over Tehachapi, its construction crews came right up the very fi... (more)

Eight year old Wisconsin Central had really come into its own by 1995. It was doing a superb job of providing local customers with top-notch service, but it was also growing, having gained access ... (more)

An EMD SD70M demo set led a Los Angeles to Chicago stack train east into Ludlow

Union Pacific's LUC53 local pulls a brand new 75-ton Grove RT875 Rough Terrain Crane through Salt Lake City on August 23, 1993. It features a 4-section boom with a maximum length of 125 feet, a te... (more)

A Detroit Edison coal train rolls south (timetable north) on the Monongahela Manor Branch. These trains were heavy, typically with mid-train helpers and upwards of one hundred and forty 140-ton ho... (more)

Lake State Bay City job works the south end of Bay City yard. W.T. Clynes photo, Robert Jordan collection.

The EMD SD-70M demo units pass through KCS's Knoche Yard, sometime in 1993

Alco S2 #1043 working at Plainview, TX || Sept 1990

The Shannopin mine railroad: A trip to photograph the Monongahela Railway yielded a day with the usually-busy Waynesburg Southern side of the MGA dead due to scheduled track work. The only activi... (more)

ex CNW 4503, 1742

And they're off!

Toledo Peoria & Western GP20u 2003 and 2010 lead a hefty TP&W train off the connection and onto the ATSF Chillicothe Subdivision at Lomax, Illinois, on the way to Fort Madison, Iowa. The train wa... (more)

A short freight headed by an MLW RS18 for Newport Vt. is about to duck under the I91 access road in St Johnsbury Center Vt. Scanned from Kodachrome.