UP GE U50s 31 and 33 lead 40-ft. box cars west out of Topeka, Ks. at Menoken Jct. in pouring rain and head to Marysville and on to North Platte, Nebr.

East of Goodland two Rock Island F7s are straining to drag just 40 cars across western Kansas against the Kansas wind on Sept. 26, 1966. The train should be in Denver before daybreak. The track ... (more)

An E unit with round (porthole type) side windows, westbound just east of Broad street.

Pennsy Position Signals on the NS line from Bucyrus to Conway Yard. CF&E owns this ex-Conrail line, but NS, CSXT, and CF&E trains run over it. This signal here displays stop, Pennsy signals like t... (more)

A mixture of Rock Island power has an eastbound passing a typical Kansas landmark while on UP trackage at North Topeka, en route Kansas City. F2 No. 43, 1239 and 1347 are GP18s, 1329 is a GP9, a... (more)

One of the most famous trains in the USA during its heyday, New York Central Train 26, The Twentieth Century Limited, behind two E8As and an E7B prepares to depart LaSalle Street Station Chicago o... (more)

Eastbound UP Train 10 City of St. Louis at M.P. 66 has just departed North Topeka depot and is en route Kansas City where it will be handed over to the N&W (former Wabash) for delivery to its name... (more)

Sharply on time at 10:30 a.m. on May 16, 1967, after idling most of the night two Erie-Lackawanna E8s crack open the throttle to move the 7-car Lake Cities Train 6 out of Dearborn Station for the ... (more)

No, this wasn't photoshopped. Apparently a shop laborer had a little time on his hands to modify UP's slogan on the side of Great Western's a-bit-worn GP-9. Note GW's jackrabbit herald in the ea... (more)

Two UP U-50's, a GP-7B and another Geep are in the siding at Aikins, Kansas to meet an eastbound, headed for Kansas City while Nos. 45 and 43 are going to Marysville and on to North Platte, Nebr.,... (more)

Rock Island F2 49 apparently had to have a face make-over once upon a time, and not having any extra headlights, the shop forces sheet-metaled over the nose. This is NOT a photoshopped exercise!... (more)

Oooops, someone forgot to set the derail and a handbrake on a roundhouse lead track at Santa Fe's La Junta, Colo. roundhouse. F7 247 rolled off into the turntable pit June 1, 1968, and apparentl... (more)

Receiving a little attention at the engine shed at Kansas City, Ks. is Alco PA 621 while GP-7 1327 takes a spin on the turntable. The Alco was built in 1941, re-engined by EMD in 1953 and eventua... (more)

This is the old Santa Fe line over Raton Pass. The line has not been used for freight since 2004. Amtrak leases the line and runs one passenger train a day in each direction. Semaphores are in op... (more)

Rock Island F2 49 apparently had to have a face make-over once upon a time, and not having any extra headlights, the shop forces sheet-metaled over the nose. This is NOT a photoshopped exercise!... (more)