ON a lazy Sunday afternoon in October 1977, a muscle car sits at a set of fuel pumps in Bellevue, Iowa, as a set of Milwaukee Road Funits trundle down the street with a long grain train from Iowa ... (more)
From the collection of Joe Geronimo
BN's Hutch Local from Lyndale Jct. to Hutchinson crosses the Arcola Bridge along Lake Minnetonka on a frosty Nov. 25, 1975. The line has been abandoned, but the bridge remains without rails.
traversing the loop at Farner on the Hiwassee River Railroad
Just after crossing over the SP, WP 914A is heading East on Altamont Pass with a manifest freight in February of 1970. About a half hour after this train, WP's California Zephyr would pass this sa... (more)
30-4114 reflected in the lagoon collecting diesel fuel runoff sit on the wye next to the small diesel shop.
The trustee grouped locomotives by type after the shutdown. Here four U25Bs await disposition before the massive Silvis yard was ripped up.
Pacific Fruit Express NW2 1048 began life as Union Pacific 1048. It is seen here at the PFE shops in Tucson, Arizona, on October 6, 1996.
The 1744 is currently headed for excursion service over the ex-DRGW La Veta pass on the San Luis and Rio Grande. But this is the SP 1744 in 1958, on a fan trip on the Knights Landing branch. It ... (more)
No. 10 headed toward Tuolumne with one of the last trains of logs. In a few days the railroad would routinely shut down for the winter, but never reopen. This is another old Anscochrome slide th... (more)
Amtrak's "rainbow" era was underway. SP 6446 would later become Amtrak #110.
"Right in her own front yard". Rock Island train bound for Columbus Junction with former CRIP #1247 on the point.
Amtral 111, Westbound with the Reno Fun Train at Norden. This would turn out to be the last all F-unit train to cross Donner Pass
The NWP (SP) Budd car heads south from Eureka to Willits on its tri-weekly roundtrip through the scenic Eel River canyon.
BN 710 leads an A-B-B-A set of F-units westbound on the Northtown - St. Cloud local. BN 710:2 was originally SP&S 800A:2/801/BN 9750 built 4/47 and retired 11/81.
