ex C&O 3046

ex B&O 6973

The colorful lineage of the BNSF is represented - AT&SF bluebonnet, BN cascade green and BNSF pumpkin orange.

The ATSF had numerous branchlines in southeastern New Mexico to serve the various potash producing mines in the area and this local freight is in route to perform switching at one of them. I did ... (more)

BNSF's twice weekly Pikes Peak Local to near Drennen has finished the long climb from Denver to the top of the Palmer Divide at Palmer Lake with a short train and will descend the next thiry miles... (more)

GMR/HOG GP30M 4215 is back in service after a three year hiatus. After the departure of the Hartwell Railroad's two former Rio Grand GP30s a year and half ago, the 4215 is now the only GP30 in the... (more)

WIR #20, the trusty old GP30 brings fertilizer loads into town. The short train is crossing the Palouse River, on the north side of the town of the same name.

GMR GP30M 4215 stands in Americus, Ga. with a unknown future. With the two HRT ex DRGW GP30s gone and reborn as Gensets, ex CSX nee Chessie System/C&O 4215 is the only remaining model of the GM Au... (more)

With two B&O lettering schemes on display, 4253 shares space in the old L&N yard with a U36B in early CSX dress and an MP15 in the short-lived Seaboard scheme.

Wearing the short lived YN1 paint scheme, 4209 idles away the afternoon on Neville Island.

This would be the last train over this stretch of the C&O as this unit is at the front of a rail train picking up the CWR. Trailing unit was a former SBD GP40. Notice the spikes have already bee... (more)

Several years before a highway project changed the view, Q384 works upgrade towards Sand Patch with a trio of Geeps.

An elderly GP30M gets an inspection at Cumberland.

The CSX merger took place two years earlier, but Chessie appears to still be running the show on this day in 1988 at the former C&O Fulton Yard.

An early summer morning finds a GP 30 backing up towards an SD 50 and a GP 30m at the west end of Keyser. It always seemed to be a lot easier to wake up early and photograph trains in the summer ... (more)