Waiting to be picked up and put in service.

Mott Haven Memories. The scene looked quite different from present day when CSX crew B949 brought the outlawed Q431 south from Croton West Yard to Oak Point on Sunday April 3, 2016 with CSX... (more)

When Chicago & North Western placed their order for C44-9W's. They decided to save a little money by ordering them without air conditioning. So soon as the temperatures got warm in the coal Fields... (more)

Western Pacific 4-8-2 171 is seen at Oroville California in 1938. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Looking pretty good after a few years, a small relief from "stealth" is on the point of a southbound train.

These two ALCOs have been returned from the East Stroudsburg area. Spending the past year (?) marooned due to a massive washout of the main. Repairs completed and RS-32 and RS-11 came up on yester... (more)

On a rare visit to the Kansas City area, a quartet of GM&O SD-40s have uncoupled from their train, likely #91, and are headed back to the engine house. The SD-40s were purchased by the GM&O to ha... (more)

Grafton & Upton 1751 is sporting fresh paint after repairs were made after years on the side line. The GP9R was built as a straight GP9 for the Grand Trunk Western as their 4932 in November, 1958.... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Wabash heritage unit is on the point as it leads manifest freight 15M west, soaring over Walnut Creek on the trestle in Fairview, Pennsylvania. The train made a stop in Erie to ... (more)

Local Delivery. New York & Atlantic leaser locomotive GMTX 2204 idles on the Bushwick Branch with train RS-40 as a man on an e-bike crosses the tracks on Morgan Ave in East Williamsburg... (more)

A solo AC4400CW wearing the YN2 scheme rolls through Erie, Pennsylvania as it leads high & wide move S997 westbound. The turbine load and two idler cars were picked up from the General Electric Sc... (more)

A fifty eight car freight is westbound near Eads Colorado in 1950. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A manifest comes into West Colton Yard off the Palmdale Cutoff. Power are a pair of SD40T-2s (SP and DRGW) bookending a MK SD40M-2 rebuild. Oct 25 1995.

On its maiden run after receiving Amtrak's Phase VII paint scheme, Amtrak P42DC 167 leads a late train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, as it departs Fullerton headed for its final stop at... (more)

The CN&W use their Oelwein Shops til May 31, 1994. The line from Oelwein from Marshalltown was severed in 1987-88 due to the construction of the highway thru Waterloo. The CNW then used the IANR t... (more)