Three years have passed since Rock Island's abandonment, but the trustee's decrepit GP18 - bent frame and all - is still shuttling up and down the mainline tying up loose ends. On this afternoon,... (more)

A GP18 leads a rather unusual lash-up on the former Nickel Plate line.

While it rode on traded-in Alco FA trucks, MoPac GP18 491 had a mixture of power with it on a westbound freight near Valley Jct., Texas on Jan. 15, 1972. A roadmaster’s dream — a manicured ri... (more)

(Original) Norfolk Southern GP18 No. 4 is being turned at Glenwood Yard, Raleigh, NC.

A somewhat-rare high-hood GP18 sits at the front of a westbound freight waiting for a crew.

My sons Mike and Jeff tagged along with their railfan Dad about ninety percent of the time when they were young, and I enjoyed every minute. They're both avid railfans to this day. Seen here at th... (more)

A trio of older EMDs bring a lumber car into Myrtle Beach across the ICW drawbridge. In the 1980's we visited family in Myrtle Beach on several occasions. Nearly 20 years later I finally got to ... (more)

A trio of older EMD's bring a freight into Chadbourn, NC. This train was bringing in interchange from CSX at Floyd, SC to Chadbourn, NC. From Chadbourn, another train would take the freight to C... (more)

One of Carolina Southern units that continues to rust away.

A northbound freight approaches the Ann Arbor - GTW diamond south of the depot in Durand, MI. The freight came up the what is known now as the Holly Subdivision, and the diamond for the Ann Arbor ... (more)

Copper Basin Railway’s President and Chief Operating Officer L.S. “Jake” Jacobson poses on the front of spotless GP18 No. 201 at Hayden, Arizona, on March 8, 2005. Jake has run the CBRY for ... (more)

The Borax brush sprayer is almost to the telephone pole on the Rock Island at Pleasant Hill, Mo. Aug. 28, 1965. Such work trains could disburse over 100,000 gallons of herbicides in a day. Then... (more)

Would you say it was high time to run the brush sprayer? Note the barely-visible pole line crossarm, adjacent to the two Rock Island GP-7s 1347-1337. Borax contractor brush sprayer was eastboun... (more)