Chicago Great Western F7(A) 156 and CB&Q E8(A) 9942B at CB&Q's Omaha Passenger Station in August 1964. A Lloyd Keyser Photo from my Collection.

Canadian Pacific’s Royal Canadian Pacific luxury train exits Kicking Horse River Canyon and arrives at Golden, British Columbia, on a pretty September 13, 2002. The classy train is pulled by a A... (more)

Nothing unusual to see here, just an F7(A) on a revenue freight train in 2020 in California, shoving LPG cars for storage between Fillmore and Piru on what was once the mainline of the Southern Pa... (more)

It was not uncommon to find interesting mixes of BN predecessor F units around Minneapolis in the early 1970s. Here a group weather a lousy March 1973 day at the diesel facilities at Harrison St.,... (more)

Erie Lackawanna F7A 7111 (ex-Erie 711A), built by EMD in 1950, leads an F7A-B-A and a SW1200 lashup westbound at Marion, Ohio in September 1973. Photo from my collection, the photographer was not... (more)

After waiting for the northbound NRFF to pass by on the main, the southbound leg of the first official OCS handled by the former NS F units is back on the main and is seen entering the Reading Div... (more)

Close Call!

With the headlights and ditch lights on at first glance this looks pretty scary. But after a second you realize the train is not on the main and the woman isn't run... (more)

Communipaw; The Jersey Central's engine servicing facility was about one mile west of the passenger terminal. The engine facility hosted a wide variety of Jersey Central, Reading and Baltimore & ... (more)

Diesels have always been banned from New York's Grand Central Terminal, but in the wake of a severe power shortage in 1983, Metro North was forced to borrow E8s from New Jersey Transit and Amtrak ... (more)

A herd of zebras was spotted out on the prairies of Manitoba in June 1986 as CN inadvertently lined up a nice sampling of GMD power at Symington Yard on Winnipeg's east side. The prize was F7A 916... (more)

After their "careers" in the Rio Grande Zephyr ended, the Rio Grande F-Units could be found in freight service. A F9 A/B set is shunting at Leadville on the branch from Malta.

Union Pacific special trains have run with many different diesel engines leading over the years but nothing ever looked better than the A-B-A set of E's on the head end. An example is this Union P... (more)

As the morning rush hour winds down at Boston's South Station, a long Penn Central commuter train that has turned on the loop backs into a platform while a GP9 stands by. Ex-PRR E8s and ex-NH GP9... (more)

The overcast weather on this dreary Spring afternoon could not dampen the stunning appearance of the Reading and Northern's classic EMD Fs on their first test run along the R&N Pottsville Branch. ... (more)