TTI 260 gets christened at the Illinois Railway Museum during their Diesel Days event.
On June 22, 1973, Amtrak’s California Zephyr is seen passing through Galesburg, Illinois with a CB&Q E8A in the lead. Original Slide. Harry M. Grossman Photo. Sam Foster Collection.
WC 3018, the last WC painted GP40, switches at Manitowoc yard with L548. Also in the yard was a WC caboose. It made for a cool sight!
NREX 109 sits with string of old diesel locomotives at National Railway Equipment in Dixmoor, IL.
WE 7016 passes an old car as it departs Norfolk Southern’s Moorman Yard in Bellevue, Ohio.
A pair of GP15-1s work hard to pull a string of loaded coke hoppers into the ArcelorMittal steel mill in East Chicago, Indiana.
WC 3018 passes WC 17, a former Algoma Central remote control caboose while switching at Manitowoc Yard.
WAMX 4171, a former Rock Island SD40-2, leads a rare daylight T-001X through Fox Lake, Illinois.
GCRY 237, a former Amtrak F40PHR, approaches Willaha on the return trip to Williams. Willaha is a remote crossing that is home to a siding and an abandoned building.
FNM 501, an Alco RS11, leads an Excursion near Nogales, Mexico in April 1990. The 501 was originally built for the Ferrocarril Del Pacifico in 1957. Original Slide. Tom Baldner Photo. Sam Foster C... (more)
South Dakota Central 103C sits in the afternoon sun at the 50’s Train Diner in Midland, SD.
CF&E 5597, a former CP SD40-2, sits with a train on the west end of IHB’s Blue Island Yard in Riverdale, IL.
Shortly after doing some switching north of town, WC 3018 crosses the Manitowoc River as it heads back towards the CN yard.
GTW 4920 leads the Lakefront Local east through CP 502 after switching on Chicago’s South Side.
HZRX 1500 shoves a cut a scrap gons into a mill on Chicago’s south side. This unit was originally in 1953 as a Santa Fe F7A.
