Two brand new GP-38's team up with an RS-18. CP acquired its first GP-38's in 1970 and received a second batch in March 1971.

On the first day of Spring the wet snow is falling as the head-end crew of an excursion train to Drummondville confer before backing their power down the two miles to Windsor Station to pick up th... (more)

Soo Line SW1200 no. 324 handles switching duties at Irvine Yard in Chippewa Falls, WI on a cool January 1973 afternoon. Delivered in black with duluxe gold striping, the unit fits well into the sn... (more)

Milwaukee Road FM switcher 731 idles with a pair of F7s at Janesville, WI in September 1972. This unit features the steam locomotive inspired cab roof extension over the end of the cab as well as ... (more)

Milwaukee Road received some of the earliest EMD SD40-2s after foregoing SD40s in favor of a handful of SD45s. Originally delivered in the 3000 series they were the last engine model delivered wit... (more)

With Soo Line acquisition of the Milwaukee Road, several units did received Soo Lines red/white colors, but the vast majority received the unattractive "bandit" paint scheme; cheap flat black pai... (more)

What appears to be a seriously overpowered train likely dropped most of its cars at Montreal Yard (now called Taschereau Yard) and is bringing the piggyback and container cars to the Turcot Piggyb... (more)

Pushers in Wisconsin? Soo Line 2550 and 700 team up to push a Soo Line (Lake States) train thru Fond Du Lac and up Bryon Hill in September of 1987. One doesn't normally think of Wisconsin as needi... (more)

Freight train near Jasper double headed by the EMD SD40-2W #5269 and by the EMD SD40 #5161.

Four CP switcher of the SW120RS class are joining their force to haul a freight train near Sudbury.

WC's rare SDL39 585 (ex-MILW) brings a transfer in to the Canadian side of The Soo in May of 1988.

Right after FO-2 passed, an EL eastbound passes through the semaphores. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

“Reading 96 Redux”
Conrail’s Hagerstown Secondary crosses in the foreground, as the modern iteration of “Reading 96”, CSX R342 (Cumberland to Enola), approaches NC Tower in Hag... (more)

An eastbound train on the Siskiyou Line is descending the grade into the Shasta Valley near Weed. Lead unit SP 6819 is now preserved at the California State Railroad Museum.

Santa Fe EMD E8m 87 leads train 15 the "Texas Chief" at Dallas Union Station in November 1967. The Texas Chief stopped operating from Houston to Galveston in 1967, and the Dallas secti... (more)