Southern Railway GP49's #4600, 4604 & 4605 await the call to duty at Southern Railway's Norris Yard. #4600 was built November 1980 and later became Norfolk Southern #4600. After leaving roster, u... (more)

Heading east on the Union Pacific's Butte Street Line is a Southern Pacific freight heading out of J Yard. This train, with SP GP9E 3355 (ex-SP 3402, née-SP subsidiary Texas & New Orleans 402), ... (more)

During this era it was not uncommon for the crew to uncouple the power from their train, so as not to block the road crossings, and run engine light uptown, tie down on the main, and "go to beans"... (more)

Although the last train through Utah's Marysvale Canyon vanished by 1972, the scenic splendor and history of this area continued to draw fans of the D&RGW. Standing on top of the Eagle Rock Tunnel... (more)

By the early 1990s, finding an active sugar factory in the west that was served by rail was uncommon. The Utah-Idaho Sugar Factory near Nampa, Idaho was operating in business as usual mode in the ... (more)

A westbound Santa Fe manifest runs down the main as a 991 holds in the siding at Woodford.

power from UP's short lived Cima to San Pedro, CA ore train was laying over at Harbor Belt Lines yard in San Pedro while the ore train was being dumped nearby at the Port of LA bulk facility

In December '76 SP was testing borrowed CN GP40W's tractive effort systems, here remote "slave" unit 8350 along with the trio of CN units leads an RCE power set on 8300 east at Beaumont, CA

One of the Los Angeles Junction's five CF7s sits next to one of four BNSF MK1200G natural gas locomotives at the LAJ's yard in Vernon, California, on April 25th, 2009. But by this late date, all ... (more)

Frisco was bright and audacious. Their new yard just southeast of Memphis was a showplace for the scrappy Midwest carrier and the SD45s were still on top of the horsepower totem pole. Gosh I mis... (more)

In 1967, using then-cutting edge technology, the identity of North America's rail equipment was each reduced to a number (because each railroad had its own number, replacing reporting marks.) Aut... (more)

Back in the good old days Corbin necessitated at least a yearly trip. They seemed to change the yard switchers every year and they were always something exotic. Then you had these guys. God see... (more)

New to the area and in a new job, I was seldom available to get out trackside and unfortunately Santa Fe was soon to change paint jobs aggressively. so here is one of the fairly few shots I got in... (more)

A short Rio Grande 187 train glides west through Ironton (near Provo) on June 24, 1987. D&RGW GP40-2 No. 3115 would be destroyed in a wreck when it struck a rockslide at Cliff, Colorado on Septemb... (more)

Union Pacific NW2 No. 1011 leads a chartered dinner train on the Heber Creeper just outside Provo Canyon approaching Deer Creek Dam. The first car is a former rotary snow plow turned into a power ... (more)