Trips to Brockville, Ontario were always fueled by the desire to shoot the last active Alco/MLW cab units in service. Getting an F7A on an eastbound train was not a bad second prize.

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.

Under a Full Moon, Fillmore & Western F7A no. 100 stops at the Semaphores in Santa Paula to load passengers for a trip to Santa's Village on the North Pole Express.

Chesapeake & Ohio 8016 rolls on to the turntable at the North Carolina Transportation Museum to the delight of the many rail fans in attendance. This was part of the Streamliners at Spencer Event... (more)

Reading and Northern 270, formerly one of the NS F units, leads a passenger train to Jim Thorpe from Reading.

Ex Spirit of Washington F units at the small desert yard at Jacumba, on the now abandoned Carrizo Gorge RR.

The Spirit of Washington dinner train crosses the Wilburton Trestle near downtown Bellevue. For 1994, this was as close as you could get to a classic 1950s domeliner in the Northwest.

A photo freight nears Ellensburg in the Yakima River Canyon. The F units had been reconditioned for use on the Spirit of Washington dinner train near Seattle.

VIA's eastbound Super Continental arrives at Portage La Prairie, MB behind CN freight F7 no. 9168 and a VIA F9B. Portage is the last stop before Winnipeg on the train's route from Vancouver, BC.

CN freight F7A no. 9168 has been assigned to help out with the VIA Super Continental and is making a station stop with the eastbound train at Portage La Prairie. The train is stopped at the CN sta... (more)

CN freight F7A no. 9168 has been assigned to help out with the VIA Super Continental and is making a station stop with the eastbound train at Portage La Prairie. The train is stopped at the CN sta... (more)

Through the weeds. Penn Central is just over a year old as an F7A and U25B power the daily freight from CPR's St. Luc Yard in Montreal to PC's Dewitt Yard in Syracuse. The line was conveyed to C... (more)

A photo freight on Washington Central rolls through the Yakima River Canyon between Yakima and Ellensburg.

Former passenger F no. 9726 of GN heritage is mated up with NP F7A no. 756 at BN's Auburn Yard, located halfway between Seattle and Tacoma, WA on the former NP mainline. The yard was reduced in im... (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)