Someone in Sparks had a sense of humor when they tacked this "showroom condition" F7 on the point of Espee's premiere transcontinental streamliner, the City of San Francisco, seen here near runnin... (more)

NSM #2001 returns home after a brief stint up in the cold of Northern Minnesota. Taken on private property.

Sometimes, even after 41 years of railfanning, you see something you've never seen before.

BN 541968 still looks grand after working so many years in coal service on BN and BNSF. Now, it works as a MOW Hopper, seeing being used on a Tie Work Train in Longmont.

Milwaukee Road SD40-2 No. 188 leads the westbound hotshot on April 5, 1986, at Brookfield, Wisconsin. The Soo Line merger is now at four months with the Milwaukee, but the orange and black locomot... (more)

Heading for Duluth
A short Soo Line transfer freight approaches Grassy Point Drawbridge at Superior, Wisconsin, on October 19, 1985. Either the conductor is really cold, or the dampers ... (more)

Four Rock Island U-Boats are headed toward the diamonds as a N&W mixed freight heads the opposite way. Tom Golden photo.

Still lettered Ferrocarril-Huancayo-Huancavelica, Japanese railcar No. 31 was formerly narrow-gauge and had just recently been converted to standard gauge by Ferrovias Central Andina (FCCA) when p... (more)

The chunky lines of an EMD/MK50-3 leads a 72 car Provo-Ogden turn east along the big fill over 90th South Street in Sandy.

Freshly painted LA&L 428 pulls out of the Avon yard with an 18 car train. Note that the cab roof is painted gray on the 428, which is a new variation of the LA&L paint scheme.

No. 12 derailed at Mile 4 account sabotage (someone removed a rail) but no one was hurt...the lead engine stayed upright. 2 CPR hoists and the ACR hoist are moving the 182 in preparation for re-ra... (more)

The CRANDIC takes it's turn pulling the NRHS convention excursion on the historic Cedar Rapids to Iowa City interurban line.

A pair of NS Baldwins go about switching at Glenwood Yard in Raleigh, NC || December 1971

Westbound NS train 63 at Knightdale, NC behind a pair of 'original' NS GP38s || August 1972