Gotta Love Art Deco! It's nice when beautiful stations are allowed to live. Omaha Union Station is now the Durham Western Heritage Museum.

Wearing #52 (the San Joaquin Daylight), 4449 approaches Merced, CA.

Power-starved UP had to pull everything off the shelves in the spring of 1984 and for a few months Centennials were back in service. Those few months were good ones for Kodak.

8444 crests Cima Hill, Calif on the way to Los Angeles to celebrate Union Station's 50th birthday.

Barely a month old, #9696 swings around the broad curve at Cabazon. This was a great place to catch multiple locomotive sets -- in this case the head end and the helpers.

Cotton Belt Tunnel Motor #9295 rounds Tehachapi Loop.

SP 6814 leads the "Tank Train" through Cable Siding. The good paint on the Tunnel Motor is a rare treat. I didn't even have to pay the kids to wave!

Backing into North Station.

913 tiptoes out of the swirling fog at Taylor, AL.

New GP60 9670 works it way through the El Casco curves.

With the lead units visible around the curve, SP 6874 shoves the mixed freight up Beaumont Hill. This is truly a mixed freight -- Containers, auto racks, and boxcars are all visible in this photo... (more)

A Tunnel Motor in its natural habitat.

VIA #6304 sits at the former Canadian National terminal in Vancouver. In the morning she will head east. The glowing dome on the left is part of the newly-opened 1986 Worlds Fair.

The steep grade of track #2 is obvious as 102 drops into Cajon.