A set of four Utah Railway SD45’s bring a train of empties back to the mines at Mill Fork, Utah.

The Western Maryland Spring Grove switcher passes the freight house as it drills the P.H. Glatfelter paper mill in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. Anybody who has been to a paper mill town knows the o... (more)

The familiar rise at Dale, Wyoming is captured in the reflection on the side of one of Union Pacific’s excursion coaches. Standing in the Dutch door was a fine way to see Sherman Hill.

A southbound CP/D&H train accelerates through Alburtis, Pennsylvania on Conrail’s East Penn line. Leased units were becoming increasingly common on the Delaware & Hudson by this time.

Spring wildflowers are blooming on Tehachapi as a 55-car westbound Santa Fe freight drops into Caliente, California.

Union Pacific Challenger 3985 puts on a smoky display as it storms through Perkins, Wyoming on a photo runby.

”Someday, This Will Be Mine!”

An aspiring young engineer holds onto the handrail of one of the world’s largest diesel locomotives as he poses for a portrait. In a few short hours, ... (more)

The First Amtrak California Zephyr?

Well, almost. When the Western Pacific received permission to discontinue its portion of the original CZ, the Chicago – Oakland ro... (more)

A Western Pacific GP35 shunts cars near Denver Union Station. I never made it out to the WP, but the Union Pacific provided a few units for me to see while in Denver.

A Union Pacific U30C, a Southern SD40-2, and a Western Pacific GP35 share the small UP servicing facility near Denver Union Station. UP and WP units were expected, but the visitor from the east wa... (more)

Three Union Pacific SD60’s bring a train of coal, possibly off of the Utah Railway, over the top at Soldier Summit, Utah. It will be almost another decade until this is truly UP territory.

A pair of Union Pacific SD40-2’s brings a baretable train into the “sag” at Palmer Lake, Colorado. The most interesting part of this train is the presence of more)

Two Maine Central Units and a Delaware & Hudson RS3m bring a train off of Belden Hill and into Binghamton, New York.

Maine Central Units make their first appearance on Delaware & Hudson train NE84 at Palmerton, Pennsylvania. The Lehigh Valley area grapevine was alive with the news that the U25B/GP38 combo had go... (more)

Excursions on the former Reading Perkiomen Branch between Emmaus and Pennsburg, Pennsylvania have been operated by three different railroads since the line was spun off by Conrail in the 1980’s. T... (more)