A westbound CCP train crosses the Cedar River bridge in Cedar Falls on the way west towards Ft. Dodge and western Iowa. Only a couple more years were left for this short-time regional in 1993. The... (more)

It wasn't too easy getting solid orange-matched jeeps in the later part of the CCP days. Here a westbound rolls through West New Hartford on the way toward Ft. Dodge and western Iowa. Only a coupl... (more)

Amtrak and the Santa Fe made a deal on 18 SDP40Fs in 1984. Amtrak had a lot of derailment problems with these units. Some thought it might have been the hollow bolster version of the HT/C in the t... (more)

I don't remember a lot of Chicago to KC Q-trains running, so I think this was a little odd for 1995. Also odd was how the Santa Fe found the CNW 6564 unit. The 6564 was the one-off that was rebuil... (more)

The notes I found said this is the 1st time we seen these Dash 8s on Amtrak. Amtrak received 20 of these Dash 8s in 1991. . The Southwest Chief ran via the Santa Fe until 1998, when it was moved t... (more)

The Southwest Chief discontinued service east of Cameron Connection in 1998. Once the BNSF merger got going and the connection was built, the Chief stopped taking the Chillicothe Sub into Chicago.... (more)

The hoarfrost is burning off around Galesburg on this crisp December morning in 1992. The Illinois Zephyr makes good time on its morning trek from Quincy to Chicago. The train is on the BN 4th Sub... (more)

In the late 1990s, the Iowa Northern Railway (IANR) was going through a difficult time and had leased a variety of locomotives to augment its fleet of GP20s and GP38s. A couple of Amtrak units wer... (more)

MoPac F7A 814 leads three more F-units and a GP18 on the T&P near Shreveport, Louisiana on January 4, 1968. MoPac F7A 814 was former International Great Northern (IGN) nos. 595, built 09/49. Ph... (more)

Originally a WP unit this machine has lots of transplants inside which upgrade it greatly. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

Not the sunny south in this case.

Southern Pacific Railroad SD70M 9809 was built by General Motors Locomotive Group in June 1994, one of 25 of these locomotives acquired by the SP. This fleet proved to be a great purchase by the ... (more)

A westbound Santa Fe intermodal comes over Main Street in Galesburg. 4 blue and yellows have this intermodal bound for the west coast 173 miles west of Chicago on the Chillicothe Sub. This sure do... (more)

How would you like to come to work and grab 3 B23s/GP 50 and go run 70 mph with them and not have any worries about fuel conservation! Back 30 years ago, the railroads wanted to move traffic and g... (more)

An Alco C415 along with an RS3M haul a transfer freight through Blue Island, Illinois.