A Duncan Hill helper set sits on a spur track waiting for their next push assignment.
On a cold foggy morning Amtrak train 365 departs East Lansing MI on its way to Chicago.
Richard Beal photo In your face railfanning! GP30-led NW drag roars past the old tower as the conductor readies himself to grab the orders, the engineer with his hand out just in case he misses... (more)
A Richard Beal photo: Classic west Michigan power at Pleasant Street Tower in Grand Rapids, MI on this summers day, grabbing the orders as well
A eastbound lumber manifest seen in the Antelope valley, which is the western edge of the Mojave desert
A Cascades Cabbage heads towards Milwaukee.
1218's engineer cleans it headlight to ready it for another night move out of Roanoke as a classic NW signal showes an aproaching train. Virginia Museume of Transportation/Lerro productions
It's 1984 and the Jacks (DDA40Xs) are back from storage, and running on the former WP. An eastbound freight prepares to depart Oakland in the late hours of the evening.
A couple of SD40-2's shove on the back of a coal train.
Two different "eras" of LIRR paint schemes are represented in this photo of equipment on weekend layover. 270 wears the classic wave scheme while 260 wears the later high-visibility scheme.
An eclectic early Conrail group; note that all three colors of classification lights are lit on the 2479!
Eastbound NJ Transit train prepares to depart Dover, for Hoboken, with this colorful locomotive pushing.
The start of a busy day...
