From left to right - BN's Pacific Zip, Amtrak #7 behind 538 and 532, Amtrak E8 332 off #793 and Amtrak #11 preparing to depart for Los Angeles. A little different perspective of the under-constru... (more)

You can't get there from here.......by scheduled passenger train any longer. The westbound Amtrak North Coast Hiawatha waits at Butte for the station work to be done before proceeding west behin... (more)

BN waycar 11462 brings up the rear of the Irish Mail as it passes through Batavia, IL, on its way from Eola to West Chicago. This piece of railroad was the great granddaddy of the CB&Q, the one-t... (more)

An A-B-B-A power consist of BN F units powers an officer's train at Roosevelt Road in Chicago. 744, 737, 705 and 766 form the classic streamliner lash-up

Before VIA assumed operation of most Canadian passenger service, CP's dome-sleeper-observation car, Laurentide Park, stands during a station stop at Field, BC, dwarfed by the Canadian Rocky Mounta... (more)

This was power for the Lafayette, Illinois, coal train. GP9s 1331 and 1332 bracket F7Bs 13, 10 and 12. All the units carry the brilliant red and yellow "billboard" scheme which was usurped by "B... (more)

Penn Central GG1 4854 stands at the Trenton station with Amtrak's westbound Bay State. It appears that the car washer only did the sides of the motor as the nose is filthy.

Amtrak's Coast Starlight departs King Street Station behind E8 333, F7B 154 and E8 340. The now demolished King Dome was under construction at the time adjacent to the station leads. All three u... (more)

UP 8444 stands at the Cheyenne passenger station coupled ahead of Amtrak E8 330 on the headend of #6. In the early days of Amtrak, UP would ferry the big locomotive to and from Denver on the head... (more)

This was a Christmas Eve present that the BN received courtesy of vandals in my hometown of Oswego, IL. Three of four SD9s derailed when the "mainline" half of the crossover switch was thrown rev... (more)

Former Burlington 10-6 sleeper Silver Isle's letter and name boards are framed by the an open area of former NP passenger station at Livingston. The Silver Isle was the rear car of a seven car we... (more)

Rio Grande F9A 5771, assisted by B units 5762 and 5763, leads the westbound Rio Grande Zephyr at Glenwood Springs, CO.

Amtrak E8 253, ex SCL 596, exx SAL 3057 and leased SCL E7 5557, ex SCL 557, ex SAL 3031 poke out from under the north end of the huge trainshed at Montgomery, AL, while powering the northbound Flo... (more)

Cruising along under wires she doesn't need, dusty CN 4105 rolls towards the CN passenger station to shuffle a few cars around.

The northbound Southern Crescent stands at Terminal Station in Birmingham behind an E8-FP7-E8 locomotive consist.