After making the run to Paris, the management train returns to MacMillan Yard. This train ran for months training management how to operate trains in case of a possible strike or when man power is... (more)

By late 2003, the UP United Way locomotive was looking a wee bit worn, but still quite striking.

“Close Encounters” ~ Eerily silent – the florescent landing lights and glow of what at first glance appears to be an alien craft counting down to liftoff thrusting its rocket, spear-like plu... (more)

Two BNSF northbounds await new crews at the northbound fuel racks in Temple, TX. 7669 North, an empty grain train, has just arrived, and its crew is now in the van. 5510 has been here a bit longer... (more)

In an exceptionally thick fog, FEC 228 makes it's way toward Jax with a sole little champ leader.

One of the hotter trains on the Shasta Route in the 80s was the CZLAT, which carried paper barged to Portland from a Crown Zellerbach mill in Camas, Washington. Here, a manifest has been put away... (more)

A trio of Blue and Yellow SD40-2's hold out south of Rapid City Yard after an overnight trip north from Dakota Jct.

A four-unit set of SP power helps a stalled Santa Fe 991 train up the steep grade at tunnel 10 on Tehachapi Pass. The 991 was Santa Fe's hottest eastbound train over the mountain, and the dispatch... (more)

A FILTHY SP unit ! A westbound stack train passes Joliet with a mixture of SP and CSX units. I would have been happy with any unit in the consist leading - with the exception of the one ac... (more)

It must have really been something to pace the world's largest diesel locomotive. By this time period all the high speed 8000 series SD40-2 locomotives have been returned to their normal gearing a... (more)

A pair of RJ Corman locomotives bring a loaded coal train into Keating for interchange to NS.

Locomotives:
RJC 8336 SD40T-2
RJC 3478 SD40-2

A pair of UP SD40Ns work a pulldown at the west end of Global III.

A pair of BNSF SD40-2s sit in GM Yard.