A sharp looking SS GP38-2 leads a southbound freight past the Talladega local and crew.

A trio of RS-1s - the center unit in ICG orange and white - sits at the primitive engine servicing facility at West End Yard.

On a gray March afternoon, the NS crew has just returned from a trip up the branch to Lafayette, and will end their day working the Opelika yard with GP30 2536, still in a well-preserved Southern ... (more)

A passenger sits back and relaxes while looking out the window with another passenger sleeping in the Sightseer Lounge on Amtrak #5 as we do our station stop here in Creston, Iowa. Just outside th... (more)

Amtrak passengers enjoy the late afternoon sun from the Sightseer Lounge as we pass a loaded coal train that is parked in the siding at Barr, Colorado.

The polished carbodies of the three EMDs on the point of the Daylight shine in the afternoon sun as they pass through acres and acres of grape vineyards.

A freshly painted GP60 leads Union Pacific's MDVRO through Castle Gate on March 21, 1999. The UP 5866 was built by EMD as the SP 9767 in July 1991, and the UP 9078 (also in fresh paint) was built ... (more)

Six-axle EMDs idle in the yard awaiting their next assignment.

A trio of Southern Pacific AC4400CWs lead a Trona, CA to Skyline, UT coal empty through Roper Yard on July 6, 1997. A pair of Rio Grande GP60s and a UP C44-9W just arrived from Denver on the MDVRO... (more)

an eastbound intermodal train grinds it's way up Cajon Pass rounding Sullivans Curve above Cajon station

This rebuilt former Reading geep has an Interlake hot metal train in tow on the former PRR mainline, which shows its years of deferred maintenance. The bottle cars made a hot and humid summer day... (more)

A stable of Rio Grande tunnel motors await work out of Helper, Utah on March 14, 1999. The UP assigned as many as 18 SD40T-2s to work Helper terminal well into the late 1990s. The 5411, 5405, 5385... (more)

Union Pacific's Malad Local rambles through the Malad and Bear River Valleys with 26 loads of scrap metal for Nucor Steel. A local dairy farmer appears to have the corner market on the stockpiling... (more)

On a cloudy and surprisingly snowless December day in 1982 a Milwaukee Road train off the DW&P in West Duluth heads for Minneapolis over BN while one of the home road's SD9s works the DM&IR interc... (more)

A workman has just finished washing recently delivered GE U23B No. 2258, and it gleams in the afternoon sun as water still drips off it.