A westbound Burlington Northern coal empty departs Guernsey, Wyoming, on July 18, 1985. The train is powered by four GE C30-7s bracketing a lone EMD SD40-2. Visible through the exhaust is the brid... (more)

What can happen when a freight train splits a switch. Workers can be seen carrying cartons of Schlitz Beer from a damaged box car. Many a bottle of brew from Milwaukee was snatched by members of ... (more)

Sold to the Illinois Railway Museum by the Virginia Museum of Transportation, the locomotive was towed to Altoona, PA for a cosmetic restoration, which never happened. This summer (2017) it made i... (more)

Following the Penn Central merger, PC found a new use for some of its 25 ex-PRR RSD-12s by putting them to work as hump power in former NYC territory. A pair of the handsome six-axle Alcos slowly ... (more)

This locomotive is pushing the string of cars headed for the rail ferry CHIEF WAWATAM which can be seen in my photo 627990.

A CSX local, sporting a GP40 still in B&O paint, passes through West Park on NS rails on Pittsburgh's Northside. The crew is presumably returning from NS's Island Avenue Yard.

Union Pacific GE U25B's 627, 626 with Alco RS27 677 and UP U25B 625. The U25B's equipped with high short hoods. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer listed on slide.

A Roger Puta Photograph

What once was the front of a former Southern Pacific Cadillac is now reduced to a lawn ornament for a local tourist outfit. The 4405, as far as I know, was one of the Port of Tillamook Railroad's ... (more)

The St. Johnsbury & Lamoille County's pair of ex-NYC GP9s head up the daily Morrisville-St. Johnsbury (VT) freight as it creeps along at 10 mph over the landmark Wolcott covered bridge. This pictu... (more)

A former NYC RS-3 is in charge of Penn Central's Pittsfield-Adams (MA) local freight as it crosses the Cheshire Reservoir causeway at Cheshire, MA, northbound on a spring morning. This part of the... (more)

Fresh from completion at Juniata Shops in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Conrail SD80MACs 4104 and 4102 are put to the test with a nearly 20,000-ton coal train in snowy conditions. The pair stalled at Ga... (more)

An ex-Interstate yard crew shoves three (Nos. 1, 2 and 3) of Westmoreland Coal's re-engined Alco S2's through Appalachia en route to Andover Yard. Interestingly, the units are now lettered PRC 1, ... (more)

Spokane, Portland & Seattle 700 leads a train towards Spokane on the second day of a four-day Portland, Ore.-to-Spokane, Wash. round trip. Alas, the locomotive would only make it through three of ... (more)

Lone Chicago & North Western C628 6716 leads Escanaba – Green Bay train ESGB-A through Little Suamico, Wisconsin.