This image, shot in August of 1980, shows GM50 - the GP40-2 that EMD delivered in special gold paint to commemorate EMD's 50th anniversary. Shot on Kodachrome 25 on a very humid August day at Roug... (more)

Any white-water rafting trip to West Virginia and the New River isn't complete without a side excursion to Thurmond. The National Park Service had just recently taken control of Thurmond during th... (more)

Three Lake Superior and Ishpeming RSD-15's (ex Santa Fe) wait quietly for a crew to come on duty and fire them up for the next ore train. Ektachrome 64.

GLLX 921, also known as "Miss Scarlet" - due to that name being painted on the end of the long hood - is ex-Twin Branch Coal 921, nee NW 921. After serving the N&W, it was acquired by the Twin Bra... (more)

The cab roof of GTW 7911, an EMD NW2, sits amongst its shattered remains in a Battle Creek scrap yard in the summer of 1984. This locomotive, built in February of 1942, was one of 15 in the order ... (more)

Charlotte Southern #3 is seen here in its namesake city warming up in preparation for the sold-out 7pm Murder Mystery Dinner Train. Sandwiched between two 6-foot snow banks, the GE 44-tonner and i... (more)

Working its way slowly across the front lawn of the Thomas Edison Inn, CN's (former GTW) Dunn Paper local is approaching the end of the line just beyond the Thomas Edison Depot Museum and the twin... (more)

About to clatter over the diamonds at Milwaukee Junction, GTW GP9 4914 (former passenger engine; note "torpedo tube" air tanks on the roof) is caught on this fine June day in 1979. What's interest... (more)

Conrail B23-7 number 1980 was delivered in April 1979 with a one-of-a-kind message on its long hood: "Keep It Moving With Conrail!" This was the only locomotive to feature this slogan. The thought... (more)

In this March 1979 image, a GTW employee fills the sand box of GP9 4440. Still in black and red, this GP9 and sister 4444 were my two "shadows" - the units I seemed to see the most way back then. ... (more)

The Steam Railroading Institute and the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society hosted a night photo shoot with NKP 765 in her "As-Built" condition.

Fresh from rebuilding at Peaker Services in Brighton, Michigan, this 1981 image at Milwaukee Junction shows SEMTA GP19 904 just prior to being placed into commuter service between Detroit and Pont... (more)

Kodachrome of GP18 4706. Built in February of 1960, seen here in October of 1988, is just a few dozen yards northeast of the diamond with Conrail's Junction Yard Branch. When built, steam power o... (more)

This March 1989 Kodachrome shows a filthy U30B leading this southbound train at Carleton, Michigan with the engineer just about to grab the orders. Today, the tower is closed (but still standing... (more)

Shortly before the arrival of NKP 765, two NS employees, after backing their work truck down the access road next to the NE leg of the wye at Bucyrus Ohio, apply a liberal amount of grease to the ... (more)