A lot has changed here since 1981: The Mt. Vernon Avenue overpass is gone (and will be replaced with a less-rickety structure), the tower at A Yard is gone, A yard is now an intermodal fac... (more)

For Valentines day figured I would post a picture from Valentine, Arizona. It's hard to beat the Santa Fe for their variety of power. 5145 a SD40-2 Leads 5516, a SD45-2B, with an 9551 SF30-C and w... (more)

Unmarked slide from my collection. Photographer unknown.

On a pleasant spring day in Illinois, an eastbound Santa Fe hotshot approaches Streator on the morning of April 25, 1987. Trailing lead EMD SD40-2 No. 5145 is a pair of F45s, one of them painted f... (more)

at last light of day a westbound begins the hard climb from Siberia to Ash Hill in the Mojave desert

Almost to Summit on North track. Westbound descending South track at right

Solid set of SD40-2s

Desert heat is creating thunderheads in the distance as a Santa Fe westbound hustles across the Mojave Desert on it way from Needles to Barstow and points west.

BNSF Westbound Freight Train at Daggett, Ca. on BNSF'S Needles Sub in April of 1998