Five NC&StL F7's in the lead of a long manifest, preparing to leave Memphis, Tennessee on February 15, 1959. A Hugh Comer photo, from my collection.
This view shows the west end of Milwaukee Road's station at Beverly, WA. The main track and siding are still lined with unused catenary poles, although the wire has been removed and sold as scrap.... (more)
On a mild Indian Summer Day, the Battenkill local heads back north to Greenwich Jct with eight loads out of the Eagle Bridge interchange as it passes through rural Americana in Shushan.
A train of empties roars through Sonora on a hot summer morning. With Baldwin locomotives and a dependency on the timber industry, the Sierra Railroad was a quasi-Northwest shortline in Central Ca... (more)
NS 1115 leads a CN local east at Hermansville, MI after doing work on the line between Powers and Iron Mountain, MI. The train will turn traffic over to other CN trains at Powers.
With 35 loads of chicken feed and 4 cars for Tate it takes most of the Georgia Northeastern roster to heave this heavy train up the stiff grades along the former L&N Hook & Eye Line. Old head engi... (more)
"Work 1 at Clinton Road Station" Long Island Railroad's "Work 1" shoves past the old Clinton Road Station on the Garden Mitchell Secondary while on their way to pick up... (more)
The Crockett Rocket switches out a couple covered hoppers of sugar at the C&H Sugar refinery in Crockett, CA around 6:30pm. After at least a two year hiatus from rail service, C&H is once again sh... (more)
Amtrak's Inter American is serviced during its layover in St. Louis.
Former UP E9(A) 659 leads an ABBBA lash-up on an intermodal train through Joliet. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo
Now on Waukesha Sub (former WC) rails for the trip home to Schiller Park, GTW 5846 slams the former J at Leithton.
Under sunny skies, GTW GP38-2 #5846 leads southbound L501 by Rondout Tower after working the industries of North Chicago.
Illinois Central SD40A #6013, at East Thomas Yard, was one of 18 units built with the oversized fuel tank. #6013 was built August 1969. Unit later was re# Illinois Central Gulf #6013. In August ... (more)
Amtrak Cardinal train 51 at Cross-B-Crest Farm on April Fools' Day.
The Rock Island ceased operation 40 years ago today; less than two years earlier, the Peoria Rocket waits for its return trip to Chicago.