“Age Before Beauty”
Westbound coal empties, with Chessie System/B&O SD50 8590 in charge, are paused on the Hood siding to meet a higher priority eastbound trailer train with CS/C&O S... (more)

Rio Grande 5504 heads Eastbound at Plainview with a loaded coal train just after Sunrise.

CNW 7015 leads an eastbound freight across Packwaukee Lake in February of 1990. The bridge was designed to turn, but I doubt that it ever did. The local bar used to put an old car out on the lake ... (more)

After getting a track warrant train PISB leaves the yard limits at Muller and heads for the industrial parks outside of Scranton.

Rio Grande SD50s No. 5513 and 5502 pull a 65 car Alton & Southern (East St. Louis, Illinois) to Roper (South Salt Lake, Utah) manifest freight through Riverton, Utah on June 16, 1994.

A brand new MoPac SD50, sporting Union Pacific colors, is at the former C&EI Yard Center awaiting its first revenue move. Tom Golden photo.

One of Conrail's new SD50s has been delivered to the Indiana Harbor Belt's Blue Island Yard and is working its way toward its outbound train. Tom Golden photo.

A trio of SD-50's bring a loaded coal train from Ravenna off the EK to head south towards Corbin.

CSX SD50 8506 leads CP 281 east through Franklin Park.

A handsome pair of CNW SD50s, nos. 7005 and 7019 head west at Northport, NE in threatening weather with an empty coal train returning to the Powder River Basin. CNW and UP worked together to give ... (more)

On a warm and breezy October afternoon the crew is enjoying the air as their pair of SD50s, the 6778 and 6782, bring the 135 cars of symbol ALEL-0 through the curves of the Allegrippus between MG ... (more)

Conrail 6831 blasts out of the now closed Gallitzin Tunnel in a cloud of diesel smoke with a coal train in June of 1992.

An eastbound coal train leans into the 1.1% grade of the Hill Track from Reading to Blandon via Laureldale. The locomotives diverged from the former Reading main line about a half-mile back, and a... (more)

An eastbound Conrail coal train, possibly a UPS, rolls through the location known a Geissingers on the former Lehigh Valley main line between Allentown and Bethlehem. Originally named for the fami... (more)