The Canadian rolls east toward Lake Louise, AB at the summit of Kicking Horse Pass. Today's train features a passenger GP9 trailing the F unit.

When my father was in the San Francisco area for business in the 1960s, he often photographed the Northbound Lark before work. The Lark was an overnight train between Los Angeles and San Francisc... (more)

EMD didn't have many misses in the 1950s, but the Aerotrain sure was one. Intended to be the future of inter-city passenger service, the Rock Island quickly relegated them to Chicago commuter ser... (more)

Rock Island E7(A) 642 and DL-105 622 lead a passenger train in Chicago in the early 1960s R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

An ABBBA set of F7s leads a train out of Dearborn Station in Chicago, IL. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

Frisco (SLSF) FP-7 5047, a baggage car, a baggage-RPO, a coach, and a sleeper for forwarding to St. Louis on the METEOR make up the standard consist. From my collection, Photo by Louis A. Marre... (more)

For the last time, the Delaware & Hudson's overnight Montreal Limited out of New York approaches the station at Rouses Point, NY, as an employee watches. It was the first morning of Amtrak and thi... (more)

On the first morning of the Amtrak era, the Delaware & Hudson's overnight Montreal Limited out of New York crosses the Lachine Canal outside Montreal on its final trip to Windsor Station, with PA... (more)

Frisco (SLSF) E8A 2018 "Ponder" on the head of the St. Louis-Oklahoma City WILL ROGERS at Springfield, Missouri in May 1967. Unknown photographer photo, from my slide collection.

Amtrak #3, The Southwest Chief, makes a station stop at Joliet. Tom Golden photo.

One of the shortest assignments a GG-1 could get was the short trip forwarding Lehigh Valley passenger trains between the Lehigh Valley connection at Newark, NJ and New York Penn Station. Here, t... (more)

The Black Diamond passes into history. A number of my father's photos of the last days of LV passenger service appeared in Lehigh Valley 3 In Color, but here is one that they didn't use. PA-1s 6... (more)

The Delaware and Hudson's "Laurentian" starts its trip to Albany and on to New York City as it passes through the Lasalle Yard in suburban Montreal. In the winter the D&H leased four E8... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound Broadway Limited has just departed Harrisburg station. Next stop, Lancaster, PA.

I am aboard CN's crack passenger train No. 61, The Rapido, from Montreal to Toronto. Due to a derailment on the mainline in Dorval (suburban Montreal) all trains coming from and heading to the wes... (more)