An eastbound Chicago & North Western freight, led by EMD GP50 No. 5070 with horns blaring, blows by the De Kalb Bank and across the busy intersection of Illinois Highway’s 38 and 23 at De Kalb, ... (more)
The Willmar, MN to Northtown Yard manifest heads east through Waverly past the iconic barn.
Passing under the wooden overpass of S. Burlington Road, Burlington Northern train 13 curves through a cut west of Oregon, Illinois, on April 1, 1989. Hustling the intermodal train destined for Po... (more)
A matched trio of Southern Railway GP50s hurry a hot shot freight up the Washington Division on a bitterly cold mid-winter morning. The undulating terrain of the Northern Virginia Piedmont is clea... (more)
Union Pacific GP50 5517, the former Chicago & North Western 5060; leads a westbound intermodal train at Dominguez Junction on UP’s Basin Subdivision. Behind the 5517 is C30-7 419 (ex-UP 2419) a... (more)
A rebuilt GP50 is on point of this manifest that was tied down outside the yard, now bringing it it in.
Tom Golden photo.
GP50 #3167 and GP60 #167, both still wearing Santa Fe Bluebonnet paint, switch the east end of Clyde Yard as they pass by East End Tower. Aside from the tagging of 167, the paint has held up quite... (more)
A southbound local crosses Union Slough as it nears its destination of delta yard in Everett, WA.
A pair of GP50s from merger partners illustrate the lineage of the BNSF while working in Murray Yard.
Rock Hill to Charlotte turn returns to it's home yard with a high hood GP50 leading.
Norfolk Southern local crew waits for the Lancaster and Chester to arrive at the interchange in 2013 as a fellow railfan lines up his shot.
A nice collection of EMD's bask in the morning sunlight at GM Yard in Hodgkins. This is L CHI104, the local from Galesburg to Hodgkins. Typically, the power on 104 handles the duties of the night ... (more)
CNW 5096 brings a Falcon past the soon to be torn down Dixon, IL depot on a brutally cold day in January of 1985.