In Beecher, WI the power for the Escanaba & Lake Superior's business train (shipper's special) waits to run around for the northbound trip to Mass City, MI. Baldwin RS-12 300 and GP38 400 have the... (more)

The Escanaba & Lake Superior's business train (shipper's special) is seen making its way through the middle of nowhere with their RS-12 leading the way. Built in 1953 as the Seaboard Airline (SAL)... (more)

Westbound UP passenger special at Garnet, Nevada with cars Feather River, 110, 105, 101. Scanned from a color print.

Vermont Railway GP 40-2 308 pulls up to the ex-B&M station at Ely, VT (built 1900) with the VRS Polar Express trainset, chartered for a Christmas Party by LDK Engineering Services to run White Riv... (more)

Inyo into "the hole". Just prior to completing a day of running at the Nevada State Railroad Museum, V&T #22 "Inyo" backs her short train onto the wye in a grove of tree... (more)

V&T #22 with....V&T #22. V&T Locomotive #22 sits on the siding in front of the museum's Wabuska Depot, as V&T Motor Car #22, sits on the platform track, loading passengers for the next excu... (more)

Headin' for Reno. With a little careful framing, you can almost imagine the V&T #22 "Inyo" out on the main line, making her way north from Carson City to Reno. That's Engineer K... (more)

Bound for Carson City. Looking resplendent in the morning sunshine, V&T #22 "Inyo" heads south toward Carson City with a short passenger train. Photographed in this location at ... (more)

Now on the Amtrak NEC our last spot on the Passenger Extra chase is along the Shore in Noank as the trains now can coast at a good speed to Providence.

I was fortunate to catch a surprise passenger train at Riverton, Utah on Aug. 6, 1996. Due to a big grass fire on the Leamington Cutoff, the train was rerouted to Los Angeles via the Provo and Sha... (more)

A pair of EMD SD40-2s lead a Union Pacific passenger special through Tooele Valley on Oct. 23, 1994. The south shoreline of the Great Salt Lake and the old Western Pacific mainline are just to the... (more)

Iowa Pacific's E8s depart out of Fox Lake on their return trip to Chicago from Prairie Du Chien, WI.

Flying high over the Crooked River bridge on a sunny fall day, what could be finer than a beautiful streamliner?

The 13km Hex River Tunnel was never designed for steam traction, but crews on steam specials had determined it was possible to drift down from Kleinstraat to Salbar without the need for any electr... (more)

A Salt Lake Garfield & Western passenger special rambles slowly through the salt grass near the Salt Lake International Airport. The SLGW ran passenger specials every fall when model train shows w... (more)