The 1990s were a great time to be out trackside. There were still plenty of locomotives in AT&SF, C&NW, D&RGW and SP colors, rolling stock still bore the road names of myriad lines and traffic was... (more)

The town clock has just tolled 9am as a pair of Conrail's lovely SD-80MACs, the 4110 and 4114, highball through town with 159 cars. The former Hunt Block and Interlocking Station once housed a US&... (more)

Santa Fe style: Beneath a "standard" Santa Fe cantilever a trio of warbonnet Dash8-40BWs are wasting no time getting up to track speed as they depart the Argentine terminal. That was cla... (more)

MRL 317, an ex-SP SD45-2, is on the move at Big Timber after meeting an eastbound. The Mainstreet of the Northwest lineage of this route is evident with the NP-era searchlights and gantry.

Into the summer sundown comes CNW 8616 with North Platte to Denver symbol ANPDV-12 on a warm July evening. Barely visible on the right are the rails of the Julesburg Sub that diverged here and joi... (more)

With everything but the kitchen sink - 4 Dash-8s, SD-50, GP-40, and a new C40-9W in primer - Harrisburg to Chicago symbol Mail 9H accelerates through the Lewistown narrows at CP Hawstone. Fuji Ast... (more)

The Hinkle to North Platte perishables sweep into the curve just east of Potter, NE behind a pair of SD40-2s, a former D&RGW SD-50 (5512) and D&RGW SD40T-2 5361.

Before UP started abandoning routes, Oregon lumber traffic out of Eugene historically traveled the SPs Modoc line from Klamath Falls, OR to Flanigan, NV and thence through the SP-UP gateway at Ogd... (more)

BNSF 792, ATSF 335B and ATSF 642 struggle with a lengthy van consist as the train negotiates the long ascent from Winslow to the divide.

Many reckon the warbonnet would have been a fitting scheme for the BNSF, as exemplified by the 4716 leading a mix of AT&SF and BN power on this sixty car eastbound freight on the last lap into Bel... (more)

Getting underway for North Platte after a crew change, UP 3369 and B4247 are crossing the BNSF Sioux City Sub diamond. The second unit is former MP SD40-2 3247 that had its controls removed and ef... (more)

The clanging of the bell and swinging arm of the magnetic flagman proclaim the arrival of LMX 8530 bringing a westbound manifest through the Missouri River bottom lands at Camden, MO.

BN 9478 along with AT&SF GP-35 2935 leads a westbound manifest off the Sioux City Subdivision at Ashland toward Hobson yard in Lincoln, NE. The distinctive Q signals have long since fallen to prog... (more)

A set of SD40s departs Kansas City enroute Parsons and beyond. The train is entering Sheffield interlocking which, at this time, was an at grade crossing with the BNSF with a fairly steady flow of... (more)

Working up the Allegheny grade with 26 cars and no push, Mail 3 leans into the reverse curve between the 2455 signals and Bennington; one of 29 train movements in eight hours.