Name: Westbound Amtrak 5 "City of San Francisco" climbs Donner Pass.

With only 5 or 6 big chunks making a load, Union Pacific’s local with 3 GP38-2’s haul logs southward along the Payette River south of Smiths Ferry, Idaho on Aug. 18, 1977. The northern end o... (more)

Apparently E unit 954-B was along on this odd consist just to supply steam heat to business car 110 as U.P. 83 West (DD35A and GE U-50 No. 32) lead the extra across Kansas west of Menoken, headed... (more)

In Sept. 1987 the British Columbia Railway ran its first system-wide excursion covering every mile of track with three RDC cars. On Sept. 15 they crossed Pine Creek bridge at M.P. 16.7 on the re... (more)

Sitting in your office chair on BNSF 9984 South at the beginning of Colorado’s Joint Line single track at Palmer Lake on May 2, 1999, the dispatcher advises you are waiting for UP 8080 North. ... (more)

BN 7101 East blasts out of Nebraska’s only railroad tunnel at Belmont on Aug. 30, 1979 before BN extensively rebuilt its principal coal line over Crawford Hill to double track to handle all the ... (more)

Three Piedmont & Northern Alco RS-3’s haul the coal received in interchange from the Clinchfield westward from Spartanburg, S. C. for delivery to a power plant on April 13, 1963.

Clinchfield SD-40 3000, an F B unit and another SD-40, tug on coal Train 26 south leaving Kingsport, Tenn. The smokestack in background was Borden Mills textile plant --- the plant doesn't exist ... (more)

ALM GE 44-tonner 34 interchanges with the Missouri Pacific on a very hot and muggy August day when the temperature reached 108 deg.

AT&SF rail gang at work just outside Santa Fe's only double track tunnel transposing rails on curves to gain more wear from them. Nelson, Ariz.

VIA’s westbound Train 1 “Canadian” with 11 cars passes Stephen, B.C. and is about to leap off Kicking Horse Pass on fateful Oct. 4, 1989. That was the day the Canadian Government announced ... (more)

Fortunately for UP 705 East climbing Cajon summit, many of its cars were empty such as these livestock cars on Aug. 31, 1974.

With several headend cars including an RPO, Southern's Train 41 , "Pelican" crosses the Holston River at Bluff City, Tenn. just after being received from the N&W at Bristol. Every-other bridge pi... (more)

It was business as usual on Denver & Rio Grande Western's narrow gauge on June 1, 1966, as Class K-37 498 and mid-train helper 488 lift westbound tonnage of asphalt, drilling mud and pipe through... (more)

A couple of former NP U-33-C’s on the old NP lead a modest westbound freight through semaphores near Cyr, Montana on Aug. 7, 1973. The U boats were only four years old.