The engineer waves as he brings the National Limited on its climb out of the Little Blue River Valley.

A well traveled Rock Island E8 leads even more well traveled steel commuter coaches past UD Tower.

In 1995 UP was so short of power that they pressed their heritage E8's into regular freight service between Cheyenne and Denver. Usually, a regular loco led, but on this day it was a pure E unit l... (more)

An Auto Terminal Special move out of New England skirts the Hudson on a warm summer afternoon heading south back to Altoona.

"The Frontenac" has just begun its journey from Montreal to Quebec City when it approaches the sectionmens' flag and lantern indicating their work limit.

On the former New Haven Shore Line, a pair of ex-PRR E8s charge through the Pine Orchard section of Branford, CT, on the point of a Penn Central Boston-Washington train. The cinder platform that I... (more)

On a fall day seven months before Amtrak would take over, a pair of Penn Central Empire Service trains headed up by ex-NYC E8s meet at the Albany-Rensselaer station.

CR OCS including recently acquired full-length dome #55 comes off Rockville Bridge and heads for a stop at Enola Yard, before continuing down the Port Road Branch.

After being delivered back to the museum by NS, former Southern Railway E8 No. 6901 is staged beside the newest piece of the museum, CSX SD45-2 No. 8954, which was built for the Seaboard Coast Lin... (more)

AZER 6070 is about to depart Sturtevant, WI on February 19th, 2012. The engineer is Craig Willett and the E-unit did not last long in this paint scheme. Neither did my film camera after this as I ... (more)

One of Amtrak's five HEP-equipped E8s pulls into the classic 1887 station at Hartford, CT, on its way from New Haven to Springfield with a two-car shuttle run. Amtrak 495 was an ex-PRR unit rebuil... (more)

An early morning arrival negotiates the switches at the entrance to Windsor Station. The station is at the bottom of a grade and all inbound trains are required to make a brake application at Gre... (more)

The leverman's view from Montreal West Tower. On a rainy April day one of CP's three E-8's departs Montreal West with the "The Frontenac", the morning train from Montreal to Quebec City.

On a frosty winter's day one of CP's three E-8's departs Montreal West with the "The Frontenac", the morning train from Montreal to Quebec City.

This was definitely early Amtrak. The motive power consists of two RF&P E8s, and a Union Pacific E9B unit. The "Silver Star heads north near Releigh, NC on May 16, 1975