Paul Meyer photo.
SP 7874 sports the Kodachrome paint scheme as it sits in one of the helper spur tracks at Bena.
We would sneak over form railfanning the Santa Fe, to try and catch the brand new 8000 series B39-8/B40-8 on Beaumont Hill. In the process we ended up with trains like these with five B30-7. I'm s... (more)
Grinding up and over the Tehachapi Mountains, a Southern Pacific eastbound is pulled by SP B30-7 7803, teamed with a Cotton Belt GP20 and an SP GP35. (Keene, California – September 4, 1978)
I would say to take your pick, but I'm not so sure that's possible in this situation. When it comes to this mass gathering of locomotives from many different railroads, some have futures and some ... (more)
SP 7867 is leading a stack train thru numerous curves as it climbs Beaumont Hill.
A smoking B-boat lashup drags an SP train up Beaumont Hill in 1984.
A pair of Southern Pacific GEs bracket an EMD switcher on a mixed freight moving through Joliet. Paul Meyer photo.
CSXT 5572 former, Chessie System (C&O) B30-7 8290 at St. Thomas, Ontario. A Gary R. Zuters photo.
MNNR 49 passes the historic White Bear Lake Depot on its journey to Hugo.
MNNR 49 has reached the end of the line in Hugo.
MNNR 49 is returning from Hugo. Today the crew had to manually flip the signal at the diamond.
A cab hop with SSW, SP, and Conrail power heads west on the IHB. Tom Golden photo.