Still waiting for a repaint this former SCL>SBD unit is heading toward its train.

There were already getting rather uncommon there even in those days but they seem to me to be fairly recent units, as if they should still be around. Guess that's a function of getting "olde... (more)

Southbound BN coal train climbing Crawford Hill

PICK 7082 sits with two other Pickens locomotives and what's left of a CLCX SW8 (or at least it used to be) at the shops in Gluck, SC. 7082 and sister locomotive, 7025, both former CSX C30-7s, wer... (more)

Former SCL, CSX, and Naseville & Eastern C30-7, now Pickens 7025, sits at Pickens's Gluck Yard just outside of Gluck, SC. Who would have thought we'd be shooting C30-7's in 2015 still wearing thei... (more)

One of the two latest additions to Pickens fleet sits at the Gluck Yard on a sunny October morning. The locomotive was originally built for SCL, then turned to CSX, then Nashville & Eastern aquire... (more)

UP's St. Louis to Oakland Z train rolls west through the Weber River Valley at Henefer on Aug. 23, 1993.

Northbound empties roll through Unicoi, Tennessee on a warm May day in 1982. After following the ET&WNC from Johnson City to Elizabethton and return, we decided to go to Erwin in search of the Cli... (more)

Just after sundown, the North Platte to Milpitas autos roll west along the old WP in Skull Valley on August 12, 1993.

Texas-bound Powder River coal passes through Sedalia, Colorado on the Joint Line. I don’t know if the presence of Katy units was a regular occurrence, but it was a nice surprise for a visiting e... (more)

Staying just under the clouds, 15,000 horsepower of GE-manufactured locomotives labor as they lead Powder River coal on the climb to Palmer Lake. Three U30C’s are sandwiched by two of their newe... (more)

Big GEs and EMDs battle the fierce grade of Ash Hill's eastern slope. The top of Ash Hill, which is where today's station sign of the same name is located, was originally called "Squaw Summit." Lo... (more)

L&N>SBD>CSX>Oblivion

A westbound Santa Fe auto parts train leans into the super elevated curve at the east end of Esperanza siding on Santa Fe's San Bernardino to Los Angeles Third District

In the pre-wide cab era, it was generally preferable to have a minority builder (non-EMD) unit leading. In this case, I would have been happy to have those three SD26's all alone on the point of t... (more)