A pair of former SP units, one still in Kodachrome paint, are awaiting their next move at the IHB's Blue Island Yard. Tom Golden photo.

Erie Lackawanna GP35 2565 brings the "bottle train" through Niles, OH past the old Erie Railroad depot on its way back to Youngstown, OH.

After returning late to Canaan from New Milford, NX12 heads north through town to grab a cut of cars for the run north to Pittsfield later in the evening.

A Willamette Valley Railway train departs Mount Angel on Presidents Day 1997.

Nothing on the slide. From my collection. Cumberland, MD maybe?

After working the Pioneer Corp owned Michigan Southern Railroad, Grand Elk local 503 heads further south into Indiana, where it will work Alliance Sheets in Bristol, IN and then return back north ... (more)

Wheeling & Lake Erie train 612 is hard at work heading upgrade through Brookline, Pennsylvania with a five pack of EMD's. In the lead is P&WV painted GP35 WE 101 as the train crosses a trestle ove... (more)

A southbound Willamette Valley Railway train departs Silverton on Presidents Day 1997. WVR had purchased the line from Union Pacific the previous year, so the old Southern Pacific mileposts were ... (more)

A hole in the clouds finds Willamette Valley Railway 2503 and train at Pratum, Oregon on a winter afternoon.

On Veterans Day 1996, a Willamette Valley Railway train passes the former depot at Mt. Angel. The GP35 had recently been acquired by WVRD, and was subsequently transferred to Albany & Eastern.

Under a typical threatening Oregon sky, a Willamette Valley Railway GP35 goes around the wye at Geer, just over six miles east of Salem.

On Presidents Day, a Willamette Valley Railway train passes a dairy near Mt. Angel. In a few years, those trees in the foreground will be ready to be cut as Christmas trees.

A Willamette Valley Railway train is departing Mt. Angel on the former Southern Pacific West Stayton branch. Since most of the morning fog has burned off, the stately St Mary Catholic Church can ... (more)