Construction is still underway on additional mainlines on the Powder River Coal Line as BN 5508 brings a trainload of concrete ties into Bill ,WY in May of 1998.

7 Tilden shoves back into the yard after pulling up on the Pellet Plant lead for headroom.

This is what we came for! An impromptu road trip yields great rewards as two sets of greens were used on this day as opposed to the blue CEFX leasers. 7 Tilden arrives back at Eagle Mills with loa... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

Sunny morning at Mairink facilities, with the most common models: The C30-7 and GE U20C locomotives.

Belt Railway of Chicago acted as Southern Pacific's classification yard and agent for Chicago. The yard became a flood of Southern Pacific equipment. This consist has a Conrail leader. CR564 is a ... (more)

BN 5519 leads a mix of vintage EMDs on a northbound freight at Reservation Tower in Tacoma, WA on a somewhat dreary February day in 1979. Taken from the embankment of the Milwaukee Road overpass, ... (more)

CN's U741 ore train has stopped clear of Partridge while freight L-549 puts its train together. This short delay allowed LS&I's 7-Tilden to sneak past at Empire Junction with C30-7 3073 and U30C 3... (more)

An eastbound train approaching the Eagle Mills yard.

As surprising as it seems, former BN GEs continue in service on venerable iron ore hauler LS&I in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Here 3073 (C30-7) and 3009 (U30C) ease 60 iron ore loads out of the Ti... (more)

Whiteface C30-7 5032, starts its assault on Crawford Hill in May of 1990.

Kansas isn't completely flat, as this southbound led by #8137 in the Matfield Green area shows.

After a failed attempt to climb this hill a short time earlier in a heavy rainstorm, two C30-7s dig in to start climbing with 60 loads of ore pellets. The cascade green paint alludes to their prev... (more)

Four Burlington Northern GE C30-7s pull hard on a coal train rounding Breezy Point west of Belmont, Nebraska, on the climb over Crawford Hill on July 7, 1996. In the background on the other side o... (more)