Elsdon Yard, on Chicago's southwest side, had a roundhouse and service facilities for Grand Trunk Western steam power until the end of the steam era. We visited the yard and found a good number of... (more)

Elsdon Yard, on Chicago's southwest side, had a roundhouse and service facilities for Grand Trunk Western steam power until the end of the steam era. We visited the yard and found a good number of... (more)

On a cold December day, Chicago Burlington & Quincy 5615 heads a freight west at Congress Park, Illinois. I managed to get this shot as she slowed to work the Indiana Harbor Belt interchange.

Detouring due to a large derailment that blocked the ATSF Transcon Line, ATSF hot intermodal train Q-NYLA heads through Raton, NM behind a quintet of Warbonnets. Scanned from my Kodachrome 25 slid... (more)

Climbing away from the Rockies on the way toward La Junta, NM is a detouring ATSF 891 intermodal train with a pure Warbonnet set of power leading the hot intermodal. Scanned from my Kodachrome 25... (more)

NKP 765 storms south with a mixed freight for Owosso in the early fall.

Southern Railway 2-8-4 #2716, with the conductor protecting the shove move, is being turned for the return excursion trip to Birmingham. The building in the distance is the Western Railway of Ala... (more)

N&W 1218 waits at Fargo, Ga to meet NS 8583 south. Today's excursion is the Suwanee Steam Special, a round trip to Valdosta Georgia, a distance of 106.5 timetable miles.

The exhaust clings to the cutting wall as a westbound freight blasts the last few hundred yards toward the tiny (and hopelessly under-used) Galadesitai station. Passing loops here allowed the pass... (more)

Alco-build No 2056 powers her train upgrade from Fickburg towards Ionia Siding with a train of fuel tankers.

25NC 'Elize' performs with a short freight within the confines of Reefsteamers Germiston Depot. A planned main line trip for Geoff Cooke's tour group using Reefsteamers engines and stock had been ... (more)

Santa Fe 3751 slowly leads it's 4 car special down into San Bernardino while BNSF 7651 pushes hard on the rear of a WB stack train.

ATSF #3751 idles in LA Union Station, awaiting it's journey to San Diego.

With her fast freight seeming to stretch forever into the distance, Nickel Plate Road's Berkshire #765 highballs south through the Michigan countryside.

The stillness of a hot August sunset is broken by the passage of a fast freight racing southbound through the lush Michigan farmland.