Burlington Northern train 203 gets passed by a BN “dinky” commuter train at Eola, Illinois, on the afternoon of June 11, 1988. Leading the freight is EMD GP40-2 No. 3055, while the commuter train ... (more)

Hottest of the hot
Powered by a quartet of Super Fleet GE B40-8Ws, Santa Fe’s 199 train, the hottest in a fleet of hot intermodal trains, barrels through Ancona, Illinois, at 4:00 p.m. ... (more)

Photog Chione....from my collection.....Brookfield,WI.........The train affectionally known as "THE CANNONBALL" comes into Brookfield,WI. on the eastward main westbound as train 23......I made my ... (more)

NS 143-28 soaring over the Ohio River in High Bridge, KY.

NS Wabash heritage unit #1070 hauling train 393 pulls into Bluefield, WV on the morning of March 7, 2021. Meanwhile, an NS conductor, surrounded by empty coal hoppers awaiting a ride, radios and s... (more)

Marching downgrade, NS train 11V has 4 loaded DODX flatcars with US DOD Bradley Fighting Vehicles. The units are being shipped west.

Almost Heaven... Blue Ridge Mountains...

While these Country Roads took me home to the Arizona Northland, these blue mountains are not the ones that this lash-up of power would... (more)

The #5 California Zephyr has a hard time of it today. After it left Denver Union Station it was stopped for 3 hours in Arvada, Colorado while track crews fixed a faulty switch. It then encounter... (more)

The southbound Seaboard "Silver Star" rolls through Chester, Virginia behind E7(A) 3046, E7(A) 3035 and E8(A) 3051. From my slide collection, Photographer Wiley Bryan.

Getting a run for the hill, N798 is in full throttle preparing to battle the grade to Sand Patch.

A Metro Rail work train is behind a Brandt truck as it is going to be moving from the Green Line (now the C Line) to the brand new Crenshaw Line, pulling Metro Rail's very first car, retired P865 ... (more)

Photog CHIONE,,,,,from my collection.

A PHL BNSF dock job shoves into Long Beach, passing through Pier B Yard with a Santa Fe warbonnet Dash 9 and a 25th Anniversary BNSF sticker unit ES44AC as the power.

I just happened to be driving by and looked over! CSX Z520 (NYSW CL-1) enters CSX trackage for the pocket on a spring Saturday in Central Upstate New York.

Photog Mike Bingen......from my collection. The 809 in the dead line at Bensenville West Yard......when I used to catch this loco on the Cannonball in passenger service it was the 209......it appe... (more)