A Rock Island intermodal train has just come off joint trackage onto Kansas City Terminal trackage at Sheffield interlocking for the trip through downtown on it's way back to it's own trackage in ... (more)

A string of stored power at SP's Taylor yard in Los Angeles.

Built for Rock Island and displaying the early-style carbody this classic old GE is preparing to join seven or so of its stablemates in taking the daily coal train across the bucolic countryside t... (more)

Refugee from the Rock Island, this early-style version of the U28B exhibits a common U-boat characteristiic I have never seen modelled. Notice the leaves all over the radiator screens?

A paint job to warm the cockles of a bean counter's heart. This ex-P&LE unit had apparently not even gotten the yellow doors before being whisked of to this great little rural coal hauler.

Great place for old GEs to work in semi-retirement. It has to be fall, just look at that radiator screen.

Westbound on the Elgin Joliet & Eastern Porter branch at Water street with some interchange cars to set off. The four unit lash-up will then return light, back to the N&W (Chicago-Fort Wayne) ex N... (more)

BN 5457 at Galesburg in the Winter of 1971. The shot is from my collection and it has no photographer information listed.

A U28 of obvious P&LE heritage rests at Paris.

Old warriors. The ex-BN unit was being moved around to be painted the next day.

Lots of jointed rail visible

We considered this one a great catch. I've hardly ever seen on of the ex-BN on the front of anything, much less in this paint scheme. Fortunately this one was working the dumper.

Paris, Kentucky - this town must have had the most U Boats per capita in the country!

Transkentucky Transportation U28B #244 was built for Rock Island in 1966 and acquired by TTI in 1981