The New Year's Day edition of OI-16 is running under the wires of NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line as it approaches Perth Amboy station. This Conrail local uses a roughly 3 mile segment of th... (more)

The first OI-16 of 2017 rolls south through Sewaren with the Erie Lackawanna heritage unit leading. The crew had just completed their work at Port Reading Yard and is making good time enroute to ... (more)

The Last OI-16 of 2016
The Erie Lackawanna heritage unit leads a three-unit OI-16 south into Port Reading on the last day of 2016. The train is passing an ethanol train which is in th... (more)

MRL 317, an ex-SP SD45-2, is on the move at Big Timber after meeting an eastbound. The Mainstreet of the Northwest lineage of this route is evident with the NP-era searchlights and gantry.

An EMD SD45-2, dressed in SPSF 'Kodachrome' livery, leads an eastbound manifest freight through Arizona's Coconino National Forest approaching Darling on April 5, 1987.

Pushing on caboose 999584. A Roger Puta Photograph

Two of the Five units on the Cincinnati East Terminal Railway's locomotive roster, SD45-2 332 and GP49 2806, bask in the morning sunlight of a cold December morning near the CCET's Headquarters on... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

Appropriately, my 300th RP photo documents a hometown shortline that has netted me some of my most noteworthy photography, partially thanks to an article I wrote about the Cincinnati East Terminal... (more)

Freshly-repainted Santa Fe EMD SD45-2 No. 5830 sits at Corwith Yard in Chicago, Illinois, on August 30, 1986.

A single helper ATSF 5642 pushes on waycar 999395. A Roger Puta Photograph

Several Santa Fe locomotives rest at Corwith Yard southwest of downtown Chicago on August 30, 1986. Left to right is freshly-repainted EMD SD45-2 No. 5830, the 100-story John Hancock Center, four ... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

Train #189 has just departed Mojave and begun it's climb of Tehachapi Pass.

HOLIDAY JUNCTION KS May 1975 -- SD45-2 5702 takes the super elevation as it leads Super C on its trek to the west. Note missing presidential seal on the round shield.