In preparation for the BigBoy move; back from repairs at NLR UP 4014 leads UP 4884, UPP 6334 Art Lockman, UPP 209 Howard Fogg, UPP 5714 Lynn Nystrom, UPP 9374 & 9313 Cheyenne WY Rotary Snow Plow c... (more)

After meeting the Denver, Colorado to Green River, Wyoming manifest at Brighton, the "Test" train led by UP E9A no. 949 races along US-HWY 85 near Henderson, Colorado. What I assume is t... (more)

Something you don't see every day: An MP15T pushes five office cars carrying 'important' employees on an otherwise completely disused track near the port. This piece of track used to serve several... (more)

Photo taken by Glen Fisher, my father-in-law. He is is a railway consultant and was involved in the BC Rail Tumbler Ridge electrification during the early 1980s. This shot shows testing of the GF6... (more)

Freshly painted and washed SD38s power a mining engineer train that included passenger cars from the WC, Missabe and Duluth museum. BN's "Range Rocket" local holds the siding in the distance and w... (more)

You never know what you'll run across on a sunny fall day. Union Pacific Mobile Lab brings up the rear of the northbound Coast Starlight.

One of Reserve Mining's rare SD28s leads four side dump cars and the mining railroad's private car towards the interchange with the DM&IR at Norshor Junction. The parlor car had been sold to the E... (more)

On a bleak January day in 1975, Southern's southbound No. 7, the "Lynchburg Special," makes a station stop at Monroe, VA with FP7 No. 6146. At this time, No. 7 was normally a mixed train between ... (more)

A UP Mobile Laboratory car trails on the back end of Amtrak 5 and is bound for Roseville

A rare passenger extra on private ore hauling road LTV Steel Mining Company rolls past a stopped empty ore train. The passenger train was operated for mining engineers but seats in the first car w... (more)

Celebrate the Century Express
I set up at a curve just east of Green River, Utah, for Amtrak No. 6, the California Zephyr, on September 1, 1999. After photographing No. 6 at this loc... (more)

Freshly painted SD9 6107 leads a special passenger train at Iron River on BN's Ashland branch. This train operated for the Arrowhead Civic Club and underprivileged children from Duluth. It is like... (more)

The real neat aspect of UP's Atlanta Olympic train was the flame car that brought of the rear.

A pair of freshly washed rebuilt geeps lead a special passenger train for mining engineers across the Prairie River en route to Grand Rapids, MN.

The NdeM was still paying employees at outlying points by pay car in 1962. In this photo, pay car 2187 is coupled to the rear of Train No. 4, which was a secondary train from Laredo to Mexico City... (more)