BLE 903 leads a trio of rebuilt tunnel motors on a taconite train getting ready to depart the northwest end of CN's Proctor Yard and head down Proctor Hill to the Duluth ore dock. It took a bit of... (more)

A string of UP GP20 and GP9 B units were in storage at Albina Yard, Portland, OR in December 1974. The 309B and 347B are GP20Bs made from GP9Bs by UP in Omaha. The third unit is a GP9B not rebuilt... (more)

UP displayed UP 8444 at Spokane's Expo 74 Worlds Fair during the summer of 1974. This photo was my first encounter with the locomotive, and over the next 20 years there would be several more. The ... (more)

UP 2900 is mated up with another U30C at Argo Yard under the yard tower and freight offices. UP was dominated by EMD power at this time, but U28Cs, U30Cs and U50Cs would show up on occasion. As th... (more)

An EMD factory built GP20, UP487, idles at Albina Yard engine facilities with GP30 no. 839 on a dreary December day in 1974. This unit featured the flared 48 inch rear fan plus a 36 in. fan covere... (more)

BN 702, an F3A, was the oldest cab unit still operating on BN in August 1979. Still retaining its 3 porthole side window, the unit had an upgraded GP style twin sealed beam headlight mounted on th... (more)

BN 800, a former NP F9A, gets some attention in the Interbay shops in Seattle, WA. This area tended wheel/axle changeouts as well as traction motors (one to the left). A former Burlington Route SD... (more)

BN 2216 leads what appears to be a train for the Inside Gateway to California through Seattle with a mix of BN, Frisco and Western Pacific power. The WP power was run through from Bieber, CA to Se... (more)

BN 1750 leads a quartet of GP9s west on the Cle Elum Turn out of Yakima, WA just east of Cle Elum. The train will exchange trains with an eastbound counterpart from Auburn, WA and the crew will re... (more)

BNSF 6940 leads a grain train west on Montana Rail Link east of Heron, MT, heading across a causeway built in the 1950s for the NP by the Army Corps of Engineers due to dam construction on the Cla... (more)

BNSF 5640 catches a glimpse of sunlight as it leads its empty grain train east along the Clark Fork between Heron and Noxon, MT. Operating on Montana Rail Link, the train is on a causeway created ... (more)

MRL 113 and 127 head west toward Paradise, MT after switching the lumber mill at St. Regis. The local will continue west to Thompson Falls and switch another mil, then head east again back to Para... (more)

MRL 113 gets fired up for a day's work handling the Paradise local, a turn that worked east to St. Regis, MT and west as far as Trout Creek, MT at the time. Geeps 113 and 127 will handle chips, lu... (more)

SOO SD40-2 786 leads SD40 747 and U30C 802 at Irvine Yard, Chippewa Falls, WI. With switching completed it will soon depart with its priority freight to Shoreham Yard, Minneapolis. SOO was a partn... (more)

A switching crew handles duties with SOO GP9s nos. 402 and 403 in one on their yard in Superior, WI. Although The Twin Ports were known for their Missabe and GN ore docks, Soo Line had more lines ... (more)