RI track structure was showing the stress of cost cutting in 1973. The Rock was still experimenting with color schemes as well. These paint color variations created interesting power combinations... (more)
U boat and GP 40 team up on Rock Island hotshot. This image shows precarious condition of the diamonds,
A visitor from the east is resting next to its western host in Pueblo, Colorado, on August 28, 1973. Norfolk & Western high-nosed U28B 1912 was built seven years earlier (8/66) and would be retir... (more)
From the Going Away School of rail pictures. I was surprised to see a heavy manufactured item leaving New England. It came off a ship at Boston Harbor.
A U28B meets the torch.
Rare on the L&N this is even more out of place in SC, good paint job is probably rarest of all.
In Wahpeton, two of Great Northern's six U28Bs in the simplified Empire Builder colors handle a merchandise train. GN's U28Bs utilize trucks from traded in Alco FAs and FBs.
Stored
Sitting outside the roundhouse
Typical Iowa meet, Northbound MD-3 meets the Albia/Des Moines local in front of the joint M&StL - NW (Wabash Depot).
TTI 257 sits quietly on a Sunday with it's work train ready to go back to work dumping stone come Monday morning.
Eastbound approaching the IC bridge.
Eastbound approaching the EJE crossing