Six Santa Fe F units are lined up at their Archer Avenue passenger engine facility south of downtown Chicago. The units are under Amtrak operation at this point and are being readied for an outbou... (more)

Metra 308 the bilevel train east past the searchlight at Seemann Rd.

CNW 411 leads the bilevel train west past the semaphores at Olson Rd.

Clinchfield 800 creeps across the CSX diamond in Quincy, heading north on the DT&I with an Ohio Rail Experience excursion.

KCS 1 the OCS train tied down in the yard and you can see the car repair shops to the left and the engine shops to the right

Two Milwaukee Road F7 A-B-A sets join forces to drag a Portland bound freight out of Tide Flats Yard. The B units are slugs and the two sets were assigned to Tacoma to handle helper service up the... (more)

A nice line-up of first generation EMD diesels for a special photo shoot at the Wisconsin Great Northern. Lighting by Steve Smedley and Jeffy Terry.

After playing a gig with my band Supernatural Beavers at the Museum, i checked out the yard including this original NP F7A. Extremely cool collection and live music on Saturdays following the trai... (more)

Commonplace boring at the time.

The Milwaukee Road 118-C (EMD F7A) and the Milwaukee Road 1603 (ALCO HH-660) on display for Diesel Days

Station stop scene at Elmhurst Illinois in 1979.

WPRRM Collection

From August 9, 2019, the diesel shop or barn 2. From the left, BN-3 (EMD E9AM) and SLRG 102 (EMD E9B) are coming into station 2. On track 21 whe have the METX 308 (EMD F7A), next on track 22 the C... (more)

A pair of F7s and a GP35 await their next assignment at Savanna, IL on a snowless January morning in 1976. As with many former Milwaukee Road locations, a visit to Savanna would leave one thinking... (more)

Clinchfield 800 and Seaboard 1030 navigate the overgrown Florida Central branch to Winter Garden. These two locomotives were put on display next to the Central Florida Railroad Museum for a night ... (more)