In the 1960's, Reading FP7 902 leads a short commuter train. I don't have a location for my father's photo, but I think it might be on the CNJ. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

What could be the "Seminole", bound for Jacksonville from Chicago, passes the northbound "City of New Orleans" somewhere around central Illinois in the 1960's...but in reality was a photo shoot in... (more)

In a rare unobstructed view of the former CN F7A, RPCX 9177 sits in the Shenandoah Valley Railroad yard on an absolutely frigid night in Staunton, VA. This locomotive was originally acquired to be... (more)

WP 's last hurrah F7s running down the Altamont pass en route to Oakland

After nearly 60 years of control, parent Louisville & Nashville merged the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis on August 30, 1957. Photographer Henry Libby, photo from my collection.

An ice-encrusted MBTA FP-10 has completed its run from the suburbs and lays over at Boston's North Station awaiting the next trip. The cars behind it are ex-New Haven mainline coaches.

Burlington Northern EMD E9s gather on BN/Metra commuter trains stored in the coach yard (Hill Yard) at Aurora, Illinois, on April 16, 1988.

E unit on Amtrak
In mid-1993, the upper midwest region of the U.S. was plagued by epic flooding, especially around the Mississippi River basin. Eventually, the Burlington Northern’s m... (more)

Five NC&StL F7's in the lead of a long manifest, preparing to leave Memphis, Tennessee on February 15, 1959. A Hugh Comer photo, from my collection.

A trio of Penn Central E-units led by an ex-PRR E8 accelerate past Bank Tower in Red Bank, NJ, with an evening commuter run. Conrail was the operator of the train but it had yet to make much of a ... (more)

“R&N Orthodoxy”
The onion domed towers of St. John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Church dominate the borough of Nesquehoning, as Reading and Northern’s Fall Foliage F-unit excursion... (more)

The PAR OCS moves around in the Deerfield yard after a day of crazy shenanigans. After flipping a dome car around on the wye due to generator issues, the OCS backs into the yard to tie down for th... (more)

NP 6703A currently resides at the Inland NW Rail Museum just west of Reardan, WA off US Hwy 2. The unit is wearing its passenger colors and it once was part of NP's passenger F fleet.

A pair of ex-PRR E8s still in Pennsy colors lead a Penn Central Boston-New York train through Readville, MA, on a summer afternoon. The massive two-level ex-NH station here was destroyed by fire a... (more)

Heading out the old B&O Mountain Sub behind CSX A-B-A F-Units and two MARC Geeps bracketing another F-Unit. The special traversed the Seventeen Mile, Cranberry, Cheat River, and Newburg Grades, t... (more)