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Metra inbound 59 pulls into Glen Ellyn towards the end of rush hour making a quick station stop.

UP 4014 glides through Agnew just before the US-30 overpass on its way to a scheduled stop in Sterling. The defect detector on the left had a mouthful after they passed.

Santa Fe 4600 and SP 7333 sit nose to nose inside the SF Barstow yard in August 1985.

Santa Fe 5643 East with a pre-merger consist including SP 7319, SP 8498 and SF 6342 at the SF Barstow yard in October 1984.

As the day of rare CSX trains continued to deliver, M415 rounded the curve along the Potomac River with an all EMD lashup, including a rare SD23T4 trailing 3rd.

Santa Fe converted SD45 B-Unit 5502 sits by itself at the Barstow diesel facility in August 1985.

Santa Fe 5501 a converted SD45 B unit is in consist with a train at San Bernardino yard in November 1986.

CNJ RS-3 1554, ICRR 2-8-0 790 and NS “Lackawanna” 1074 sit on display at Steamtown National Historic Site during Railfest 2024.

Reading & Northern 2102 breaks the sound barrier as Shane Frederickson sets the throttle wide open at Nesquehoning Junction.

NKP 759 makes a staged entrance on the Steamtown turntable, with NKP 190 and 514 looking on from the stalls.

This lone tree has been a part of so many pictures from this railfanning location in Lorton, VA as it was for my picture of this southbound VRE.

On its way to the Hialeah Terminal in Miami, FL, recently rebuilt Amtrak GP38-3 #747 trails 3rd on M409 and attracts plenty of railfans as it travels down the RF&P Subdivision.

Engineer Chuck Trusdell makes the final preparations to Reading 2102's running gear before its first excursion of the year.

Reading 2102 rests in Jim Thorpe on a foggy June morning prior to its round-trip journey to Tunkhannock.

NS 265 with units #9811 and #9975 up front creep past the CD 382.6 defect detector just outside Kendallville, slowing down while waiting on Amtrak 49 to run around them. These Daah 9's will soon be a rarity for NS as their AC44C6M rebuild program continues.

Amtrak heading west bound out of Bakersfield

SP 8568, Rio Grande 3156 and SP 7470 lead the westbound NOLAT (New Orleans-Los Angeles) over the lower bridge at Cienega Creek. This was one of many detour trains going the wrong way down the eastbound track due to a derailment in September 1990.

SP 8330 East is about to pass next to the Mescal coaling tower with the LBHOT-06 (Long Beach-Houston Trailers). Todays consist includes another SP SD40 and four Rio Grande GP40's.

Amtrak 29 'Capitol Limited' with the 'Day One' ALC-42 Charger leading flies through rural Noble County coming up on CP 395 heading into Ligonier. This was shot right at sunrise.

A mere hour and a half before the CHP blocks off access to Emigrant Gap to the largest crowd it's seen in a long time, Amtrak train 6 makes it way east. This train had actually been following the 4014 excursion out of Roseville. When the incident we all know too well happened, they leap-frogged ahead on the original #1 track.