Gulf, Mobile & Ohio EMD GP38 sits next to Illinois Central Gulf SD20 No. 2016 at ICG’s Kansas City, Missouri, roundhouse on December 7, 1985.
The Orange Juice Train has been a staple of east coast railroading since 1971, when Tropicana instituted a once-a-week unit train between its processing facility in Bradenton, Florida, and its nor... (more)
Jersey Central 2505, one of the railroad's dozen SD35s, posed at the Bethlehem, PA, engine terminal shared by the CNJ and Reading. The dust probably came from a recent assignment on one of the ra... (more)
Five months old, a Florida East Coast boxcar rolls through Belt Line Junction, Pennsylvania.
Escanaba & Lake Superior was another of the many short lines that tried to cash in on the short-lived per diem box car market. Here one of their cars rolls through McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. ... (more)
Freshly rebuilt at National Railway Equipment in nearby Dixmoor, FEC 435 is at CSX's Barr Yard awaiting movement back to Florida. Tom Golden photo.
UP GE U25B numbered 625-640 (625-636 equipped with high short hoods) Photo taken from my slide collection. Photographer unknown.
With a GP15T and GP30 bringing a local out of the east end of Barr Yard, B30-7 5554 and an EMD sit in the weeds awaiting rerailing after a slight mishap where the units were shoved off of the roun... (more)
A U28CG, an FP45 and two F45’s lift Santa Fe’s combined Super Chief - El Capitan around Wootton Ranch curve in Colorado headed up to the highest point on the AT&SF Ry. at Raton Pass, 7588-ft. ... (more)
Four hoods from ATSF 6300 U-boats makes handy and instant sheds at Argentine Shops, Kansas City, Mo. Feb. 16, 1980. Conrail unit 3683 at left will be headed back home.
A brand-new GP50 leads an intermodal train into the yard as an eastbound prepares to depart for Tehachapi Pass and Barstow.
Every one of the nine EMDs on this eastbound SP coal drag--including the four here on the rear--are screaming in notch 8 to lift 10,000 tons up the steep grade at the east end of Cliff. The coal i... (more)
A Roger Puta Photograph
Mid-Train Helpers. A Roger Puta Photograph