Two factory new C40-8Ws lead two more Dash 8s on an eastbound CR SEBO as it meets TV-9 with a factory new SD60M leader on a cold March morning on the Boston Line at CP-148. One of the forgotten g... (more)
A Walter Schopp original Kodachrome slide from my collection.
Rio Grande locomotives gather at the engine facility at North Yard in Denver, Colorado, in June 1981.
Route of the "400" and tiger stripes? Builders photo of EJ&E #100, known as the Golden Goose. This photo was attached to a July, 1946 letter to C&NW's Chief Mechanical Engineer. It toute... (more)
CC&P Russell plow Extra working Waterloo to Cedar Rapids to nock down drifting. Now days they use Snow fighters a ballast regulator with snow blades added do the work.
In its last summer of operation, SP's Lakeview Local heads for Alturas on the Lakeview Branch. The line would be sold to Lake County, Oregon at the end of the year.
Northbound SP Local out of Klamath Falls near Modoc Point
A newly rebuilt SD45T-2 splits the semaphores at Safley, Oregon on the Siskiyou Line.
On Black Friday 1992, a trio of Cadillacs switch out the beet loader at Merrill, Oregon.
Late on a beautiful afternoon, Santa Fe 7427 West attacks the 1.0 percent grade of Vine Hill in Martinez, CA. The train is climbing to Franklin Canyon and the summit in tunnel 3.
Lake Superior & Ishpeming’s Hill Job works its train by the yard office at the east end of Eagle Mills yard.
At sunset, an eastbound WP manifest with four pooled UP SD40-2s for power, roars through the sweeping curve at El Pinal as it approaches the crossing of SP's Valley Line. The engineer appears to h... (more)
Six units area assisting SP's eastbound loaded "oil cans" through Acton , CA. Seven more units were leading this train for a total of THIRTEEN units.