Cape Cod received a few inches of snow as the result of a recent Nor'easter storm. Cape Cod Central ran their first annual Valentine's Dinner Train a day after the storm, resulting in my first pho... (more)

RPCX 6622 at Alamosa, CO.

CLF2-X31-C501-CSR004 power through Brooklyn with 7922V up Dooen freight.

PA and PA in PA: An N-scale NKP PA poses next to the real thing at Steamtown.

C means it was the third unit of the 347 consist. I wonder where the others are now...

The C&O 4008 leads the Georgia Washington at Lee Hall, eighteen miles out of Newport News. We are now following the C&O on its westerly course paralleling the James River to Richmond, VA on Se... (more)

GM27-GM10 with the AK cars inspection train heads west through Laverton.

BN 9790 pokes its nose out of the diesel shop at Auburn, WA, a former Northern Pacific facility located between Seattle and Tacoma. A close look shows that this former BN passenger F7 still wears ... (more)

The Santa Fe Super Chief is seen at Albuquerque New Mexico in 1943. Note the wartime headlight visor on the EMC E6. Jack Delano photo, from the Library of Congress collection and my collection.

Raton New Mexico Super Chief station scene four days after Christmas in 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

MILW 60A, an FP7 built as 90A in June 1950, mates with an F7A and moves away from the MILW engine terminal at Pig's Eye Yard, St. Paul. After a career of handling Hiawatha's and other MILW passeng... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western's Rio Grande Zephyr is making it's station stop and crew change at Grand Jct., Colorado. Date is not known. Scanned from a color print.

Santa Fe had visions of a company museum, and was wise enough to hang onto a variety of locomotives with that in mind. It never happened, of course, and the collection was donated to the Californ... (more)

The Santa Fe still lives on in the Museum these days.

CSX's Monon #1897 and New York Central #1853 heritage locomotives lead train M212-27 northbound through Bowling Green, KY. as they pass by L&N E8 #796 which is on display at the train museum in to... (more)