Greenville & Northern 75 working at Berea, SC in November 1971
It's February 1958 and the Pennsy is borrowing power from it's southern connections to augment the GG1 fleet on the corridor as a freak snowstorm a few days earlier had crippled the fleet. Here a... (more)
It was a more innocent time… when a summertime swim in the Coal River might mean jumping off the railroad bridge at Sproul, and that’s what the photographer found when he visited there on June... (more)
A five-unit consist of Alcos--FA2/RS3/FB2/RS3/FA2--coils through a reverse curve near Emerson, Georgia, on the Georgia-owned Western & Atlantic. This train is probably fast freight number 42, boun... (more)
The iconic Rio Grande Zephyr train #18 roars east through Spanish Fork Canyon approaching Thistle. The toe of land to the left of the 5771 would in six years become the huge Thistle landslide that... (more)
Originating at Nashua, New Hampshire, 1129 is westbound, working the branch line between there and Bennington, The train is on the Main Street grade crossing in the small New Hampshire village of ... (more)
Modern power mixes with steam in this 1955 view at Morris Park engine terminal.
"Original" Norfolk Southern #1609 working at Raleigh, NC in September 1955. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.
CPR GP9 8700 is loading the barge with carloads of lumber on Slocan Lake, after which the Iris G will take the barge and its load to Slocan City at the south end of the lake for connection to the ... (more)
In the waning days of steam, we made several trips to Burlington's Clyde Yard in Cicero to find steam survivors. On this beautiful sunny day we also saw steam's eventual replacement, EMD FT AB 109... (more)
An interesting mix of Clichfield RR power leads a northbound freight through Spruce Pine, NC during the summer of 1970.
A wild mix of Clinchfield EMD power leads a northbound freight up the mountain at Camp Two in the summer of 1970.
A SD40 / F7B / GP38 trio shove on the rear of a southbound loaded coal train at Spruce Pine, NC in 1970.
Before this I didn't know SP would let a unit out on the road by itself. At least it's an EMD. This one's pushing a westbound, apparently one without a lot of tonnage.
