PRR GG1s and B1s, Queens, 1964. Sunnyside Yard was (and still is) the coach yard serving Manhattan's Penn Station. That day's quest was the legendary DD1 side-rod electric, which didn't seem to... (more)

Built 1925 as GTW 8325.

Twin Baldwin cab units are hauling the Slate Picker under route 30 on the return to Whitehall, NY. 30 minutes earlier the crew picked up interchange cars from the G&J at Salem, NY.

Rushing eastward across the Chihuahuan Desert near Van Horn, Texas, May 13, 1973, Missouri Pacific GP35 615 is 120 miles out of El Paso and still some 350 miles from its Fort Worth terminal. Techn... (more)

In its day, Train 8, the Rocky Mountain Rocket, was a class operation, not as fast as its Union Pacific and Burlington competitors but a luxurious and comfortable. ride from Denver to Chicago. But... (more)

Westbound Northern Pacific passenger train the "North Coast Limited" with in the lead F9(A) 6701A, F9(B) 6702B, and F9(A) 6706A moving at track speed through Deer Lodge, Montana September 30, 19... (more)

Fans circle the turntable during a fantrip stop. I shot the Reading 4-8-4 from a hill overlooking the roundhouse.

The E-8's are entering Red Bank from New York City on the New Jersey Coast Line (NY&LB). I was a daily commuter 1969-1995 and sometimes shot photos of my trains on days off.

History passed this way: Near tiny Romeroville, New Mexico, where wagon trains bound for Santa Fe once made their way, Santa Fe Train 23, the Grand Canyon, on July 27, 1967 begins the climb to Glo... (more)

Reading T-1 No. 2102 is under ex-PRR wires at Amtrak's monumental 30th Street Station, in a scene scanned from a Kodachrome slide from the collection of Bob Etchberger.

Missouri Pacific’s far western extension to Pueblo, Colorado, completed in 1887 as a sign of its transcontinental intentions under Jay Gould, disappeared a century later, gobbled up by all-devou... (more)

Boston & Maine F-3A 4228 is ready to start "The Ambassador" south to New York via Springfield. I had come up from Boston on the RDC train in the background and photographed some of the ... (more)

In memory of my father, Richard T. Steinbrenner, who passed on Friday, January 22nd, I am posting this picture. Many of you knew my father and many others are familiar with his books on Alcos and... (more)

Snow was a rarity in Central Texas in the winter of 1947, but so were steam locomotives on the Sunshine Special which by this time had been dieselized. The abbreviated consist was indicative of ... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph