Arizona and California's westbound road train arrives at Rice to handle some switching passing the old ATSF water tank.

Heritage Unit Reflection - The Daily Browns yard supply train from Oak Island yard Newark has just arrived (in the distance) with the locomotives now separated and parked in the foregrou... (more)

Twenty Cylinders, No Flares

Heading west on Santa Fe's Third District is a short freight (not unusual on the Santa Fe in the 1970s) of primarily piggyback cars. Lead engine 5672 is ... (more)

MELROSE NM Sept 10 1983 -- Santa Fe SD45-2 5660 leads a mixed freight with welded-rail cars toward the head end. Note dents in 5660's fuel tank.

SF freight with two F45 in old livery and an SD 45-2 downhill on the 3% grade, passing west summit island

The Ringling Brothers circus train began its day in Philadelphia, and is now getting ready to proceed west from Altoona. Two GP40-2’s have been adequate to get the train to Altoona, but now an S... (more)

GALLAHER NM Aug 6 1982 -- Santa Fe SD45-2 5665 and an SD45 are on the point of a TOFC-COFC train as it traverses the Transcon in a vanishing point picture.

SAN BERNARDINO CA Sept 3 1983 — Santa Fe SD45-2 5626, C30-7s 8114 and 8031 await an assignment with the shops in the background. EMD built the unit (s/n 7391-2) and delivered it in May 1972 in b... (more)

Conrail's OI-16 is passing through NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line Perth Amboy station, en route to Brown's Yard.

The Transcon has been part of BNSF for over a year. You might think otherwise if you were trackside, watching an eastbound manifest near Kingman.

Erie Lackawanna heritage SD45-2 1700 is once again leading the southbound OI16. It's viewed passing the signals at Sewaren, N.J. on a short train.

A Santa Fe freight climbs into Abo Canyon on the morning of June 2, 1995. The rear of the train is just leaving Sais siding, with the freight is now crossing Bridge 874.2 (on right) and Bridge 873... (more)

On an otherwise gloomy day with heavy overcast and rain, a break in the cloud shortly before sunset provided enough light to silhouette a transfer freight crossing the Raritan River at Perth Amboy... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe intermodal train is about to end its journey from the west as it approaches Corwith Yard on August 30, 1986. In the background is the Crawford Generating Station, a coal-fire... (more)

Conrail ME-84 returns from Oak Island with 32 cars for Metuchen Yard. The train is in the process of crossing over from 3 to 2 track and will ultimately cross over from 1 to 0 track at Lincoln in... (more)