WSOR 101 leads a business train thru Ackerville on May 11, 2009. The WSOR freight working the yard was icing on the cake! This is one of the last rolls of Provia slide film I shot.

Union Pacific inspection special IVBCB passes Tower B and also by the rear end of BN's Bayard local.

The days leading up to "Streamliners at Spencer" provided all sorts of colorful, wild, and unconventional locomotive consists. Such is the case here, as Southern 6900 retrieved Union Pac... (more)

Former UP E9(A) 659 leads an ABBBA lash-up on an intermodal train through Joliet. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

WSOR 101 brings up the rear of the Milwaukee Road #261's North Pole Express.

A classic BN commuter train is seen near Lisle.

A charter passenger train dubbed the “Bill Gates Special” cruises through Broomfield on the BNSF’s Front Range Subdivision on September 25, 1998. The classy train was made up of mostly BNSF ... (more)

Business train crosses the flood stage Rock River south of Edgerton heading toward Madison.

Showing her age in this night image, the 37A is now in IRM's diesel shop undergoing restoration.

UP 951 crawls thru Atchison, KS with an excursion train on a brutally hot August day in 1994.

The last E-unit ever constructed, built as UP #914, languishes at the engine terminal.

Here's a look inside an E9 locomotive, a work in progress at the Illinois Railroad Museum back in August 1992. The side panels on F and E units eventually wore out over time, requiring replacement... (more)

Union Pacific’s A-B-A set of E units power an eastbound passenger train past mile 231.5 west of Lindbergh, Wyoming, on July 10, 2009. Dubbed the “City of Yoder,” the classy train ran from Ch... (more)

On July 10, 2009, a Union Pacific excursion train dubbed the “City of Yoder” ran from Cheyenne to South Morrill and return on the Yoder Subdivision for the UP Historical Society. Here is the s... (more)

There was a new train listed in the June 15, 1976, Amtrak timetable – trains 781 and 782, the Las Vegas Limited. This train departed Los Angeles at 1:30 pm on Fridays, and returned on Su... (more)