Arctic Railroading - Well, not quite. Fairbanks is 125 miles south of the arctic circle, but with temperatures dipping routinely to 30 or 40 below zero you wouldn't know the difference! I... (more)

Railroading at 30-below! - It is 30 degrees below zero and dropping on a Tuesday afternoon in Alaska's second largest city. A lone yard unit is coupled to a long string of TOFC flats and h... (more)

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue....and Gold! - This is indeed something new for the ARR. A borrowed three section drawbar connected double stack well car (... (more)

Conrail was just eleven days old and very little had appeared to change on April, 11, 1976 as two former Reading GP30s finished humping a cut of cars at the former Reading yard in Rutherford, PA.

There is one thing for certain. For its size, WM had some very diverse scenery, from the urban docks of Baltimore to the wooded hollows of West Virginia, and everything in between. On a hazy Nov... (more)

The snow had just begun to fall at WM's Hagerstown Yard as BL2 No. 82 worked over the hump on February 19, 1975.

Western Maryland BL2 No. 82 does some switching in heavy snowfall at Hagerstown Yard in Hagerstown, MD on Feb. 19, 1975.

Oglebay Norton Alco S2 No. 10 switches their coal trans-loading facility at Kenova, WV on Nov. 9, 1977.

An Ann Arbor yard job with S3 No. 7 was busy switching cars to be loaded on the "MV Viking" at Boat Landing on June 18, 1981.

Ann Arbor Alco S3 No. 7 was taking a momentary break at the yard in Elberta, MI on June 18, 1981. Ann Arbor car ferry "MV Viking" had arrived from Manitowoc, WI and the cars unloaded. Soon westb... (more)

Using 12 Verona for head room, GTW 4928 shoves a cut of cars into the yard.

C&O NW2 No. 5068 was going about the business of loading C&O car ferry "City of Midland 41" at Ludington, MI June 16, 1981. I remember being amazed at just how much the ship would lean to one sid... (more)

C&O SD40 No. 7551 was assigned to the yard job, and was working momentarily in front of the old concrete coaling tower at Peach Creek Yard in Logan, WV on May 19, 1979.

A C&O yard job drills empty hopper cars at Shelby Yard in Shelbana, KY on Nov. 12, 1977 with GP9s No's. 6179 and 6078.

It was early evening in Gladstone, VA and things were quiet for awhile. Westbound manifest No. 91 had yet to arrive from Richmond and the conductor for the yard job was walking over to the yard o... (more)