In the quietest moments of a winter storm, fire and ice converge in the tangled trackwork at Metra's busiest interlocking in the Chicagoland area.

Chilly night along Elkhorn Creek.

Santa Fe F7 38C leads the eastbound San Francisco Chief past the siding at Christie, California, on April 24, 1971. The train only has a week of operation left before the start of Amtrak. Fujichr... (more)

A 3-unit set of Erie Railroad Alco FA1's waiting for their next assignment. 35mm slide from my collection, photographer unknown.

The dispatcher has an eastbound lined up at the E.E. Miller City as the morning fog begins to roll in on a cool summer morning.

Amtrak westbound train number three was treading lightly through the remains of a two story building that was being moved across Santa Fe's Second District main line in Highland Park, CA hours ear... (more)

BN 6847 in this shot from my collection, no photographer listed.

KCS 1, 2 & 3 was on display in Mexico Missouri for KCS's 2013 Holiday Express Train.

Rock Island Train 18, "Twin Star Rocket," barrels eastward out of North Topeka, Ks. on time on Union Pacific track en route to Kansas City where it will return to home rails. Operating from Hous... (more)

Led by an F and two E units, Rock Island's "Golden State Limited" rushes into Topeka, Kansas where it will cross the Kansas River and enter Union Pacific trackage rights for the run to Kansas City... (more)

Is the camera aimed the wrong direction? Rock Island U25B 231 was on the point of Train 4, "Golden State," standing at North Topeka, Ks. station as westbound mail Train 39 with two F units approa... (more)

With E8 653 and a passenger Geep, Rock Island's mail Train 39 "Imperial" with one coach leaves Topeka, Ks. on a dreary Nov. 5, 1966. At Tucumcari, N.M., Rock Island will hand the train over to SP... (more)

A classy and colorful caboose is at the rear of a manifest freight as it rolls west through Griffith almost thirty nine years ago, just east of the famous Broad street tower. Gotta love those spru... (more)