Northern Pacific train number 407 is seen departing Portland Oregon on July 29th 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Two locomotives of the e428 group of the State Railways are preserved at the Luino station by the Verbano Express Association; number 174 was built in 1939 with a semiaerodynamic case, 208 in 1940... (more)

NS 8099, the "Southern" heritage unit, shoots through The Plains, Virginia on the return trip from the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. Actor Robert Duvall actually lives right around ... (more)

M653 rolls around the bend at Millard along The Big Sandy. Gotta say this looks like a very good loadout going to waste if you ask me.

PORTLAND OR Aug 20 1981 — Southern Pacific SW1500 2645 handles a caboose hop at North Albina Avenue east of Union Pacific’s Albina Yard. Photo by Charles Stookey.

Under a cloudy Summer day, part of CSX's Office Car Train sits and awaits its next trip to see part of the system. The building to the right, known at the Kenneth C. Dufford Transportation Center ... (more)

A little over a year after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a westbound train highballs Mott siding on the Shasta Route. The crew change at Dunsmuir is about ten miles away.

Steel Mill Railroad. Four Colorado and Wyoming Railway locomotives are seen resting at the railroad's shop building within the Evraz North America steel mill in Pueblo, Colorado - SW8 n... (more)

Santa Fe On Display. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 4-8-4 "Northern" no. 2912 is seen on display at the Pueblo Railway Museum in Pueblo, Colorado. Built in January 1944, the lo... (more)

2816 crosses the Mississippi River on the short run from Humboldt Yard to St. Paul Union Station for display.

CN 2039, about to take the signal at S. Biwabik, hauls iron ore pellets into the darkness on the trip back to Two Harbors while snow falls and swirls about.

Mine Rescue Car. Colorado Fuel & Iron mine rescue car no. 1 is seen at the Steelworks Center of the West in Pueblo, CO, across I-25 from the former CF&I steel plant. The car - the last ... (more)

CP 2816 approaches Tower B17 on the final stretch to Bensenville Yard just outside of Chicago on the CPKC Final Spike Steam Tour. Too bad the KCS is hardly represented on this train other than a f... (more)

2816 climbs the grade from the Sheyenne River after passing under BNSF's massive viaduct.

For the second time in the past month, Amtraks New Orleans to Chicago train has experienced locomotive issues, causing CN to send a rescue pilot to drag the set to Chicago. Todays rescue sports a ... (more)