Tunnel Motor at Madison
I don't think I've ever seen a Bessemer and Lake Erie locomotive before, especially around St. Louis. This one is at Quality Rail Services for maintenance.

Southern Pacific, SP SD45T-2 9254, with a westbound rack train on the D&RGW's Tennessee Pass Route, Minturn, Colorado. May 10, 1996. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

SCFE's Sebring Turn ran exceptionally early and direct to Sebring this morning without any stops, allowing for them to get back out of Sebring rather quickly, also not stopping along the way until... (more)

D&RGW SD40T-2 5375, engine terminal at Helper, Utah. April 20, 1997. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

SP 9282 west passes through the small community of Guadalupe just south of Victoria, TX on what had been Southern Pacific's Port Lavaca Subdivision. This line was previously part of the Galveston... (more)

A head-on view of SP 9282 west operating on the former Southern Pacific Port Lavaca sub. Track speed must have been relatively low, as I have multiple photos of this train between Victoria and Pl... (more)

The weekday Sebring Turn is rolling over US 27 northbound to Sebring, today running a bit earlier than usual.

SSW, Cotton Belt 9161 leads a eastbound over the San Pedro River at Benson, Arizona. December 13, 1983. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

A trio of EMDs await their next assignment on the Raleigh & Fayetteville Railroad.

Crossing Searles Station Road in Searles, CA, two of Trona Railway's fleet of approximately 50-year-old UP and SP castoffs smoke it up for the last bit of grade they will face.

The Trona Railway arrives at the lonely junction in Searles, where they will shove their train for the UP up the remaining stub of the SP Jawbone Branch and then grab the second half of a coal tra... (more)

Lancaster & Chester train 14 in Fort Lawn

An early run of the Sebring Turn had a small train going north & equally small train south out of Sebring proper, but there is much work to be done just beyond this point. #6324 is ex-SSW SD45T-2... (more)

Denver and Rio Grande Western, D&RGW 5341 SD40T-2, leads a dirt train on the Sunny Side branch at Sunny Side, Utah. April 20. 1998. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Snow is falling as a short local from Two Harbors makes their way down the east leg of the wye at Iron Jct. coming off the CN Iron Range Sub heading for Keenan yard where they will drop cars off, ... (more)