On February 18, 1970, an eastbound Santa Fe freight struck the caboose of a Union Pacific local at a crossing in Fullerton, California. The UP conductor was fatally injured. The UP caboose was cut... (more)
On April 26, 1972, GP35 3313 shoves Jordan spreader 199232 along the eastward main track between Griffith and Harris, Arizona, on the Kingman Subdivision, later Seligman Sub. Nothing manicures the... (more)
The Jordan spreader work train is amply supplied with horsepower with two Milwaukee Road GE box cab electrics E50A and E50B while dressing the ballast near Piedmont, Mont. Easy around those pole... (more)
What a perfect day for grinding rail --- snowy, cold and overcast ten miles west of Denver with little chance of causing grass or brush fires. Loram RG8 is westbound at walking speed.
It's only July but the residents of this trackside home already have their Christmas lights hanging in preparation for the holiday season. Meanwhile a Simpson Timber Railroad work train makes a f... (more)
This work train just finished its job of dumping riprap with side dump gondolas and then smothing the rock out with a spreader that is on the other end of the train. Some of the fresh rock can be... (more)
A BNSF work train was dumping riprap along the bank of the Mississippi River with side dump gondolas, which I had never seen in action before. The train consisted of a green and white GP50L 3162,... (more)
A southbound work extra is dumping welded rail at Elmont, VA on August 2, 1979, led by GP7 No. 103. Because of its size, it wasn't economically feasible for RF&P to have its own rail train. Most... (more)
During the 1960's, Alco RS-3s, along with EMD F7As, were the staple of the Manassas-Harrisonburg Branch. By the 1970's, they had been replaced by EMD GP30s, GP35s, and finally, GP38s. I was amaz... (more)
ICE Russell plow 100251 charges into a cut just east of Jackson. They had come through earlier and were headed back east in a brutal wind that was filling the cuts as fast as they could plow.
A work train headed by former GN GP9 658 backs out of a coulee between Square Butte and Arrow Creek on the former Milwaukee Road Great Falls branch
"NIRC 4" shoves her work train thru the Libertyville "S" curves to tie down for the night at Rondout.
Mbta work train with 4 ballast cars and caboose head to Sommerville.
Mbta 3247 pushing the work train back to Sommerville. Mystic River bridge just north of Rt. 99
Don't let the fall colors fool you, its a 25 degree morning for the crew of this ballast train . Nikon D50 70-300mm.
