By the Spring of 1986 if not sooner it was becoming obvious that the CNW Alco fleet that had called the ore lines home since 1974-1975 was living on borrowed time. The CNW had SD50's on the prope... (more)

Shooting GBW train #1 crossing into Minnesota at Winona was normally a non-event. It usually landed around daybreak and it would be coming right out of the sun. A late running train plus a cloudy ... (more)

CNW 6706 rests at the end of a long string of stored C628's in the new ore yard at Escanaba. After being stored in December of 1986 the Alcos spent quite awhile in the number six ore yard with der... (more)

About 7 miles west of Escanaba on the line to Powers the CNW crosses the Ford River on this bridge. Alcos 6703,6727,and 6704 are hustling the Antoine turn west toward the Milwaukee connection at I... (more)

A typical hot and hazy summer afternoon in the Chicago area finds the crew of this IHB switch job protecting the shove from the platform for a Conrail caboose. I'm sure this wasn't the IHB's most ... (more)

I'm sorry now I'd didn't concentrate more of my photographic efforts trackside on the CP/D&H during the CP MLW era when living in Mass. By the time I relocated to NY State the lovable red beasts... (more)

I started off 2013 by shooting something that has been on my bucket list for a while; CN 580. This local run goes through downtown Brantford once a week and winds its way through homes and local b... (more)

After leaving its last stop at Topeka, Ks. with three E7s, Rock Island's Train 4 Golden State Limited is eastbound passing by "Calhoun Bluffs" on Union Pacific trackage rights en route Kansas City... (more)

Only in town at the end of the run for two hours, one of N&W's two Pacifics remaining at the end of steam service, the 563 turns on the table at Norton, Va. to prepare for its run back to Bluefiel... (more)

With three F units, SP hustles Mail Train 39 westward at Tully, Ariz. on Sept. 9, 1964 as a storm brews behind it. The train was received from the Rock Island at Tucumcari, N.M.

NS #7001 one of three GP40X's that NS has leads a South Bound out of Tunnel 26 MP255.5

In Better Days: With just a month remaining before the discontinuation of the Northlander passenger rail service, 1809 passes along the eastern shore of the appropriately-named Siding Lake,... (more)

Seaboard Coast Line GP7 #714 awaiting its next work at Hamlet, NC || February 1971

Clinchfield NW2 #359, a former Appalachicola Northern engine, works at Kingsport, TN in March 1971 still sporting the colors of its former owner.

Southern GP30 #2609 and GP38 #2757 lead a westbound local through downtown Knoxville in this July 1984 scene. This line is operated today by the Gulf & Ohio Railways / Knoxville & Holston River Ra... (more)