Helpers giving a shove on an EB grain train. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

A northbound single stack rounds the curve and is about to enter the most reconstructed portion of the CNO&TP. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

As a huge coal train is entirely over the top of the grade its large helper set is still attached, which is somewhat unusual. Looks like the conductor is stepping down with his grip. As the coal... (more)

Probably among the last of the "big hook" work trains to ever run on NS before the Cormans and Hulchers took over departs westbound and is now on the Clinch Valley Sub, allegedly traveli... (more)

Out in the sunflower vastness of the Nebraska Sandhills, BN 5584 leads a set of DC power on an eastbound coal train through cow country west of Mullen.

One of several Burlington Northern painted C30-7s in operation in Brazil

My dad captured this gem. Railroading at it's finest. Five C30-7's with a loaded coal train, working up hill, with the sanders on. I can only imagine the sound, (Tom Ellis photo)

Out of the haze, a westbound helper set heads to Farm for another shove. On a good day a haze remained in the tunnel from lots of trains and if a little east wind was blowing in Coopers the ghost... (more)

An eastbound freight roars by. I think we drooled. Each of those white cars contained refrigerated, unpasteurized high gravity Coors beer going to northern Virginia to be watered down. Coors is... (more)

I think that fellow taking pictures was me. And it's cold as a westbound string of empty hoppers make their way out of the gloom. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

Three BN C30-7s share the honors with an SD70MAC leading a coal train that is about to rattle the UP diamonds in Fremont, NE. Fuji Astia.

It is a crisp, clear day in Cajon Pass after a winter storm has dumped snow on the mountains. Union Pacific 2507 exits tunnel number 1. A lot has changed at this locations since this photograph wa... (more)

A Santa Fe freight heads east behind a C30-7, F45, C30-7, SD40-2, SD40-2 consist … so typical of the railway’s power consists in the late 80s. (Corona, California – January 1988)

The MRS MOW train during the crew change at Paranapiacaba yard and behind the train, a replica of British clock Big Ben.

The Everett to Roosevelt garbage loads are a little over 20 miles form their destination at Roosevelt, Washington. Even after the BNSF merger, the lead GE was something of a rare bird in the North... (more)