Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 whistles as it meets an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe double-stack train at Casa Blanca, four miles west of the Riverside Amtrak/Metrolink station. The steam engine i... (more)

Cotton Belt 60' flat car 854668, carrying a pair of M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), was built by Greenville Steel Car in April 1969. The Cotton Belt's parent company, Southern Pacifi... (more)

ATSF 104 & 105 slow to a stop at Joliet Union Station where they will uncouple from their train and run around to the rear for a return to Corwith, in Chicago. They are handling an employee passen... (more)

The crew of the Brook Park Turn has dropped off BN 6118 for a short visit into the depot. They had arrived light engine from Brook Park, and no doubt stopped several blocks east of here for lunch ... (more)

Illinois Central’s Markham Local speeds southbound between Peotone and Manteno, Illinois, on a clear January 21, 1989. Leading the train is solid orange Illinois Central Gulf EMD GP10 No. 8186.

CSX GE C40-8W No. 7683 hauls a train of autoracks westbound at Gary, Indiana, on the old Baltimore & Ohio main line late in the day of February 11, 1995. Just to the north on the former New York C... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio E8(A) 4016 leads train 20 The Pere Marquette at Traverse City, Michigan on a very cold day, January 15, 1965. Photo by E.L Huddleston, from my collection. ... (more)

Daily Mulberry, FL-New Orleans, LA mixed with the traditional runthru power from SP. This tradition continued into the UP years, but eventually the train routing was changed and replaced with ano... (more)

CNW 7012 glides thru Elmhurst, IL in October of 1990. Proviso Yard is only a few miles away. CNW's safety yellow (also unaffectionately known as Zito yellow) looked good when new but faded badly a... (more)

After a steady downpour the last drops are noisily landing here and there and the rising fog portends a bright day in the deep hollers along the Kentucky line. The shadows are long nevertheless, ... (more)

NORMAN OK June 3 1978 — Santa Fe GP39-2 3631 overtakes train 563 lead by GP38 3556 at the north end of the passing siding in north Norman. I never thought I would miss B-truck mainline diesels s... (more)

Crossing the state line a WB covered hopper train is squiggling through the mountains. Photo by Jim Satterwhite.

UP SD40-2 snoot no. 3288 poses next to SDP35 1406 at Argo Yard where both units lead consists that will depart with freights for Portland/Hinkle and points east. In this era UP also had a through ... (more)

UP GP30 no. 839 leads a trio of SD45s at Argo Yard, Seattle, WA as it waits for an assignment to an outbound freight to Portland and points east. In 1974 it was typical for UP to have 3 freights a... (more)

UP GP7 no. 104 appears freshly repainted in the "We Can Handle It" slogan era of the 1970s at Albina Yard, Portland. These venerable Geeps were sometimes equipped with large snowplows fo... (more)