At first glance this looks like a New Haven RR scene, but the four-digit number on ex-NH SW1200 9190 indicates that in 1970 Penn Central is in charge at Maybrook, NY. The empty yard behind it symb... (more)

In pre-radio days railroads maintained private telephone networks with lineside phones at stations, junctions, and other key points, used by train crews to communicate with dispatchers and towers.... (more)

Former New Haven S1 0947 got the black dip paint job that transformed it into Penn Central 9418, but no lettering for its new owner. The anonymous Alco worked a switch job at Cedar Hill Yard in Ne... (more)

"Can I have my Hobart Tower well done, please?" The local transients of Los Angeles were happy to abided this order, unfortunately, as seen in blacked-interior and blown out windows of the ... (more)

This was once a common sight across the country, now rare: a classic EMD switcher working an urban yard. Boston & Maine SW9 1231 shuttled cars at Mystic Junction in East Somerville, MA, on a sprin... (more)

In later years the Western Maryland's pair of EMD BL2s were assigned to yard jobs at Hagerstown, MD, paired with homemade slugs for extra tractive effort. WM 82, seen working here on a winter day ... (more)

Air temp 112 degrees

The crew of a Conrail GP38 makes a switching move at Nevins Yard in Framingham, MA, while an eastbound freight led by a B23-7 that is terminating here waits for them to clear in order to yard the ... (more)

In the late 1960s/early 70s, Brooklyn's Bush Terminal Railroad was known as the home of some of GE's first diesels, a group of seven 60-ton, 300hp mini-hood units built in 1931 that turned out to ... (more)

One of GE's earliest diesels, 1931-built Bush Terminal Railroad 5, works the Brooklyn waterfront back in 1970. These interesting little engines and the railroad itself are long gone, but some of t... (more)

DMIR 403 shoves back to it's train of empty taconite cars to tie on and head north for loading at Cliffs Natural Resources owned United Taconite, BLE 900 and DMIR 211 pull cars and shove cars in ... (more)

Upon arrival at Council Bluffs this was the first shot of the surroundings exposed on John's roll of film, the human side of railroading always a treat to see.

Ten years into it's service life NP 309 works the yard at the Butte terminal.