The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.

Second 81 crosses Kiowa Creek near Bennett behind EMD-re-engined FA 141, a load of autoracks out of Kansas City headed for dealers and showrooms in Denver and along the Front Range. It’s high su... (more)

SP’s Train 12 “Cascade” left Eugene, Oregon five minutes ago before it picked up train orders at Burma where new CTC signals were being installed. It’s now 6:20 a.m. and the Alco PA’s h... (more)

Wabash Alco FA-1 1201 and FB-1 with two F7(A)s near Oakwood, Michigan January 08, 1961. No photographer listed on slide, from my collection.

In mid-1965, it was still possible to catch an Alco PA nosing out of Kansas City Union Station with Santa Fe train 7, the Fast Mail Express for Los Angeles. On April 25, the 65 is just getting und... (more)

Extraordinary circumstances have brought Rock Island 131 to Palmer Lake on June 27, 1965. A massive series of storms two weeks before swept away almost every railroad line into Denver. UP’s trac... (more)

No doubt you’re aboard an Alco PA, looking back at your 4-car Train No. 9, Yampa Valley, passing through Fraser Canyon en route to Craig, Colo. the last day of 1966. The last two cars carried... (more)

Alco PA 6013 leads D&RGW’s amply-powered 2-car Train 1, The Royal Gorge, during its station stop at Pueblo on April 16, 1967. After going through the Gorge, the train will terminate in another ... (more)

LB-2 heading for Boston Freight Terminal after setting out at Readville. BL-1/LB-2 followed a sort of "outer belt" route, connecting with Boston and Maine at Lowell, Mass. and New York Central a... (more)

Texas Chief No.15 coming in the station with F7(A) #47 and three 'B' units in the lead, with Alco PA-1 #64 watching the action. Photo taken from my slide collection. photographer J.B.King.

D6H PA1 17 arrives Bostons South station with the last sun rays

Lehigh Valley's flagship passenger train The Black Diamond ran between New York City and Buffalo until 1959, when the LV's passenger service was reduced to (2) mainline trains a day. The John Wi... (more)

Presenting Streamliner #26-and-a-half: Hoping for a unique photo opportunity, I packed this N-scale model of an NKP PA with the rest of my photo gear. I had tried a few times throughout th... (more)

Westbound Santa Fe train #1 the San Francisco Chief at Amarillo station with four Alco PA's led by number 58. Three Flexi-Vans flat cars of US Mail, two head end cars, three hi-level chair cars ... (more)

The Nickel Plate concentrated on its freight business. Nevertheless the NKP did manage a comfortable passenger service, and in diesels opted for Alco's classic PA's. Chicago bound 'Bluebirds' 181... (more)