UP 1381 (GP40-2) works the North Yard in Denver, Colorado.

Yes, that's the ID they are using now. "BIZ" for business, "N" for north, 17 for date. Fancy. They have only been doing this again since December, having tacked the business... (more)

I guess it's GTW at this point. For a solid color this last paint scheme is pretty good. Photo by Dave Petke, from my collection.

Box For Baldor. Deep in the blue hour on June 14, 2022, CSX Train L-017(14) crosses Food Center Drive, in the Bronx, New York with CSXT 6222 (née-BO 4323, GP40-2, 2/1979) shoving a single ... (more)

L614 arrives back in Apex with a slug set for power on a dreary day.

The day Apex Local arrives back in Apex on the former Durham & Southern, passing one of the few remaining farms on the D&S.

A Chessie System eastbound freight led by B&O 4140, an early GP40-2, built in October 1972, pauses at New Castle, PA behind a Safety Special led by C&O steam locomotive 614 (not shown). I visited ... (more)

Picking up empties from Ardent Mills on the Canal Bank spur involves shoving them back to the Pointe-Saint-Charles yard, and that is what this pair of CN geeps is about to do. They would return so... (more)

Well into 1988 the lead unit on this SB rail train has not been renumbered or relettered.

Well into 1987 the lead unit on this empty covered hopper train has not been renumbered or relettered.

P59 prepares to depart Glenwood Yard for South Raleigh with their usual slug set for power.

Conrail RR-262 (Fort Wayne-Elizabethport).

CN's Pointe-Saint-Charles switcher, CN's nos. 4795 and 9523, is picking up empty grain hoppers from Ardent Mills on the Canal Bank Spur on a Monday in early February.

Service to Ardent Mills, last rail client on Montral's Lachine Canal bank, is a fragile business, constantly threatened to be handed over to the rubber-tired competition. At a time when service wa... (more)

After working Halifax Paving the 905 comes back north in the last light of the day.