Big Boats on the Star

One of the staples of Allentown-area train operations before Conrail was Reading train HB8. Operating from Harrisburg (Rutherford) to Bethlehem (actual... (more)

CSX local Y129 returns light back to Louisville with a wild assortment of power in a GP40-2,SW1001 and GP15T

LS&I 2501 and 2500 switch the ore dock in Marquette, MI in August of 1974. Bob Ferge Kodachrome from my collection.

MILW No. 22 leads a dead freight across the Columbia River at Beverly, WA. The massive bridge and train are minimized by the surrounding landscape.

Turning back the clock is a FWRHS photo freight with NKP 765 pulling the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum's vintage freight cars over the Kankakee River.

MILW SW1200 no. 630 switches cars on and off a barge at Seattle's waterfront in December 1978. Barge service here reached North Vancouver, as well as Puget Sound industries at Pt. Townsend, Pt. Ga... (more)

The tide is in as MILW 630 attempt to unload and load a barge on Puget Sound in Seattle. This barge appears to be mostly BC Rail equipment, which would then float to North Vancouver, BC.

Against a background of 19th century mill buildings, Boston & Maine train CPSP (Newport, VT, to Springfield, MA, via CP/B&M) crosses the Connecticut River from Holyoke into Chicopee, MA, late on a... (more)

CNW 6805 leads train ALSSA across the Chippewa River in Eau Claire, WI in March of 1990.

SOO GP7 381 rolls across the Eau Claire River as below zero temperatures create icy steam on the water and frost the trees. The railroad had a stub end yard to the left of the bridge, then used Mi... (more)

The Okanagan Express ran annually in the mid to late 1980s from Vancouver to the Okanagan Valley Wine Region in British Columbia. A Roger Puta Photograph

The spring runoff has raised the Delaware River above its banks, but the Erie Lackawanna is high and dry as a trio of U25Bs leads an eastbound freight from the Pennsylvania side into New York and ... (more)

Working under the G&W umbrella, Indiana Southern GP40 #4040 leads a Bay Line fertilizer train south across Bayou George into Panama City, Florida.

Well into the second shift, Columbia and Cowlitz 701 and companion 702,( ex SP 2407), depart the Longview Fibers complex with a train headed for Rocky Point Yard, the interchange with BN in Kelso,... (more)