Happiness is finding a string of bright blue Rock Island hopper cars in your hometown! ROCK 700193 and company are at Provo Yard, ready to be loaded with Utah bituminous coal on June 25, 1978.

A mix of Alco RSD-12, RSD-4 and RSD-5 models lead a Utah Railway Wattis Turn through a photogenic horseshoe curve just north of Wattis Junction on Sept. 3, 1978. Tape recorders, anyone?

A quartet of Utah Railway Alco RSD-4s assigned to the Martin Turn idle away on the service rail at Provo Yard on Jan. 22, 1978.

Utah Railway RSD-4 No. 303 has a newly rebuilt Alco 244 V-12 prime mover installed at Martin Yard on July 25, 1977. Unfortunately, the 244 engine tarnished Alco's reputation as it had reliability ... (more)

LN yard job switching Corbin

Many people don't know that Utah Railway painted a locomotive in Bicentennial colors. Alco RSD-4 No. 304 was repainted at the Martin Locomotive Shop in solid white (in lieu of gray) with blue hood... (more)

A Utah Railway 'Martin Turn' encounters light snow on the climb to Soldier Summit the afternoon of April 2, 1977. Leading the train of coal empties are Alco RSD-15s 400, 402, 401, 403 and RSD-12 N... (more)

Morristown & Erie #18 Alco C424 heading west to its Morristown engine facility on the Whippany line through snow clearings near John Street at Morristown New Jersey after switch and track inspecti... (more)

Delaware Lackawanna ALCO's bring their train out of the 755 foot long Nay Aug Tunnel built in 1865. The parallel bore was built in 1905 as part of the the DL&W modernization. It has not been used ... (more)

In pre-G&W days, the homebound leg of LR&W's Little Rock turn climbs out of the Arkansas River valley behind a C420/geep combo.

"Returning to Lake Junction"

The Morristown based local has just finished switching customers at the end of the D&R branch and is seen here returning to Lake Junction with a sing... (more)

M&E 18 passes two former NJ Transit Comet I coaches parked on the team track. A production company is removing the seats for use on a set for an upcoming cable TV series.

On its way to meet the OL-2 at Falconer, New York, Western New York & Pennsylvania (ex-NYC) C430 #430 passes the ancient feed mill at Columbus, Pennsylvania on the former main line of the New York... (more)

Retired and headed for scrapping, this unit began life as a Piedmont and Northern engine, went to SCL and ended up on the relatively large L&N fleet of C420s.

After an hour's worth of switching at Tobyhanna, PT-98 is underway once again, rounding the broad curve just north of the PA-611 overpass. It was nice to get some sun at Tobyhanna after dealing w... (more)