T.G.'s Photography Blog

Chicago and Northwestern 8507 (a GE C40-8) is on the point of a Union Pacific train rolling south at mile post 10 on the UP's Chester Subdivision. I am actually not sure which of the locomotives is spewing the smoke out but whichever one it is, it is doing a great job. This image was scanned from a Kodak Ektachrome slide on a Nikon Coolscan 9000 ED film scanner. I scanned the image as a 16 bit NEF file (Nikon RAW file) and then used Adobe Camera RAW and Photoshop to post process the image. May 1997. Columbia, Illinois. Photo © Tom Gatermann. All rights reserved.

May, 1997. Cahokia, Illinois. Union Pacific 9293 (a GE C40-8) and five Cotton Belt and Southern Pacific locomotives sit with their respective trains at Airflite Drive. The lead Cotton Belt locomotive is St. Louis and Southwestern (SSW) 8049 (a GE B40-8). Behind SSW 8049 are Southern Pacific 8011, Southern Pacific 5103, and two other SP engines whose numbers I can't make out. The image was originally captured on Kodak Ektachrome film. Photo © Tom Gatermann.

UP 9283 Leading Train QAYASX12 October 14, 2007. Fountain, Illinois. Union Pacific (UP) 9283 (a C40-8) is leading train QDYASX 12 north at Fountain Creek, on the UP's Chester Subdivision. Train QDTASX12 is a "Quality" manifest train running from Dayton, TX to the Alton & Southern's Gateway Yard in East. St. Louis, IL. Photo © Tom Gatermann.