Amtrak F69PHAC's 451 & 450 with EMD test car and 2 F40's street running through Jack London Square, Oakland on #11, Coast Starlight. Sometimes you get lucky.

CNW train #576, with 5 loads and 46 empties (left) readies for departure to Proviso from South Janesville yard on a Sunday afternoon. It is viewed from atop a loaded autorack of 1970 Camaros. It... (more)

Its late at night and 3rd trick Operator Clarence Nelson, father of Mark and Mike Nelson, taps back the orders he's just copied on his Form 19 pad, confirming the Dispatcher's intent. These were ... (more)

A Turbo set rests between assignments at Spadina.

Action in the yard in Green River.

OOPS! In 40 years of being around the tracks on almost a daily basis, I've never seen an underframe break like this. The Car Dept knows for sure the knuckles on this one are good!

Westbound Chessie freight passes the Point of Rocks depot.

An IC freight makes an appearance at Brighton Park's manually controlled junction.

In near white-out conditions, 383 reaches the summit at Sand Patch and passes a helper set and a stopped R137. The weather on this day was constantly changing, intense snowfall at one moment, bri... (more)

Always a great place to see Lehigh Valley power, the old footbridge in the shop town of Sayre was the vantage point for this shot.

Without the mail contract, the metropolitan became a skinny train with lots of horsepower. The E unit provides steam heat. Click He... (more)

A pair of remanufactured GP9s sit in front of the diesel shop at Stuart St. yard. Today this yard and shop is operated by RailAmerica's Southern Ontario Railway.

All exposed for the world to see. Hundreds of brand new 1981 Fords.

Dropping back 48 years from my last post! I wonder if this kind of log dumping is still done. These particular logs were hauled into Tuolumne by the three-foot gauge Shays of the West Side Lumber... (more)

She overheated so much that the frame sagged down,She caught fire on the road in NB.