The end was approaching for passenger service on the Boston & Maine's Central Massachusetts Branch as a solo RDC making an afternoon trip to Boston loaded passengers at the South Sudbury, MA, stat... (more)
As the sun drops low, EMD-engined Amtrak RS3M 106 shepherds an outbound equipment draft between Boston's Southampton Street coach yard and South Station. The South Station switch job was the regul... (more)
A construction-related weekend power outage on Metro North's New Haven Line led to this sight of an HEP-equipped Amtrak E8 towing a pantographs-down AEM7 and its Washington-bound train through Mil... (more)
A late running Coast Starlight coming off the Suisun Bay Bridge into Martinez, CA on the way to LA.
A CNW E8 crosses Scott Street in Fond Du Lac, WI with what is probably train #153. Bob Ferge Kodachrome from my collection.
Union Pacific #2403 leads SD40 #3065 and U30C #2921 on a Westbound Military train.
The same train as in photo 654455.
The Boston section of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited gets underway out of South Station. It's headed for Albany and its Chicago connection beneath the semaphores that were a distinctive part of South... (more)
Union Pacific E9A 951 leads a brand new SD60 on a passenger special that originated at the former C&EI Yard Center in Dolton. Tom Golden photo.
Brand New in 1994. Union Pacific GE #9545 is only a few days old as it leads a coal train into Muskogee, OK.
Eastbound coal rolls through Glenwood Canyon, Colorado.
In January 1994, Santa Fe 835 East negotiates the multiple hogbacks at Sunshine, AZ, near the end of its 291-mile run from Needles, CA.
For Valentines day figured I would post a picture from Valentine, Arizona. It's hard to beat the Santa Fe for their variety of power. 5145 a SD40-2 Leads 5516, a SD45-2B, with an 9551 SF30-C and w... (more)
A Rio Grande tunnel motor and a pair of SD45’s bring eastbound coal through Glenwood Canyon near Allen, Colorado.