"Former Operation Lifesaver"

ex CR 8480, exx PC 8480, nee NYC 683

A locomotive lash-up like this was quite rare to find on a through-freight this late in 1966 on the Seaboard Air Line Virginia Division. This September 1966 photo finds First 88, operating as Ext... (more)

A&C westbound train 708 was approaching Cadiz CA where it will exchange trains with Santa Fe's Cadiz Turn out of Barstow

A spotless EMD SW-1200 is switching piggyback flats in the late afternoon at Galesburg.

A newly painted Union Pacific C45AH leads the Southbound Intermodal by the newly installed signals at North Emerson.

The 742 local is held for three trains before finally getting a clear to head to the yard at Valley. A careful observer can see some snow way up on the mountain top in the distance.

CSX's most recent acquisition of Maintenance equipment is an Ex. MARC GP40WH-2, painted in CSX's Boxcar Logo, used almost exclusively for the CSX Geometry Train. Today, he ran south from Baltimore... (more)

A Oakland bound Union Pacific 8992 Passenger train at San Pablo street crossing on Alhambra Sub in Los Angeles, California.

Q167 creeps through Depew behind a nice C40-8 leader.

The Union Pacific Pocatello, Idaho hump switcher grabs a cut of cars from the yard on July 28, 1980. This SD7 and yard slug team worked between June 1974 and November 1982 first in North Platte, N... (more)

A fresh rebuilt NS Admiral cab SD40-2 leads a local long hood forward in Fostoria, OH.

Freshly painted units await forwarding to Michigan

A new Vulcan rebuilt GP-9 waits in Easley to go to its new home. Loco was rebuilt at the CLCX shops in Pickens, SC, and the Pickens RR brought it to Easley for Norfolk Southern to transport.

In the last glowing rays of the day the fresh orange paint of ICG 7738, a Paducah built GP8, glows extra bright. 7738 transformed over the past two years from a rag tag painted donated unit to a s... (more)