Santa Fe 3751 from the engineer side. I saw the 3751 for the first time on November 26, 1976 when it was still on display in San Bernardino. After it was restored by the San Bernardino Railway Hi... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

CNW 6867 leads a freight across Pike Creek near Somers, WI in January of 1989. The train is on CNW's New Line.

OKLAHOMA CITY OK Oct 16 1983 — Santa FE SD40-2 5131 and SD45-2 5685 roll south on train 185. EMD delivered the unit (s/n 796396-4) in December 1980 as an RCE Locotrol remote locomotive with two ... (more)

Conrail's First Rock BM1 has an ex Penn Central RS11 this morning (in Jersey Central territory). It is being passed by Conrail passenger 5407 to Raritan, which is behind a renumbered GP40P.

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

SP train 26, The Owl, is at Glendale California in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

SP train 70, The Coaster, is on the move near Glendale California at 40 MPH, with 13 cars, in 1940. Otto's trusty 1935 Ford V-8 sedan is visible at left. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collectio... (more)

A forty nine car southbound freight is seen at Fresno California in 1938. Otto's speed estimate was 8 MPH. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

The Napa garbage loads roll northbound on the Shasta Route in the summer of 1999.

My father had a LP record called "Valley of the Steam Locomotives", which featured different NdeM steam locomotives. Sometimes when mom and my sisters were out of the house for a while, my dad wou... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)