Western Maryland 1309 leads its freight train around Helmstetter's Curve with the winter sun setting on a late February evening.

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1790 and ATSF 4-8-4 3784 are seen leading train 20, The Chief, east of Raton New Mexico on June 16th 1945. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1797 and ATSF 4-8-4 3777 are working hard pulling a 13 car Chief at 30 MPH, near Raton New Mexico, on April 9th 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF train 9, the Navajo, is seen at Raton with ten cars in the consist, on September 2nd 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF 1792 and ATSF 3767 are doing 30 MPH on Raton Pass, with a 20 car Chief, in 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.

Western Maryland 1309 does the final runby for the Trains Magazine photo charter at the famous Helmstetter's Curve

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1794 and ATSF 4-8-4 3773 lead train 19, a fourteen car Chief, doing 25 MPH at Lynn New Mexico in 1945. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

ATSF 1790 is seen assisting ATSF EMC E3 11 and its mate, as they leave Raton with a twelve car El Capitan streamliner in 1945. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.

Out on the road again for the first time in years, ATSF class locomotive 3751 gets a little bit of sun before it begins its trip back from Fullerton to Los Angeles. Sadly a diesel had to be put in... (more)

The Grand Return. Five years after it last ran on the mainline, Santa Fe 3751 returned to the rails to great fanfare for an Amtrak safety event in Fullerton, CA following its 15 year rebuil... (more)

They Will Be There Until They Are Not. On April 14, 2022, Webb Rail's former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built Pullman dome/sleeper 313 (WEBX 801044), former Northern Pacific Railway Budd... (more)

Reading & Northern Railroad has just finished the restoration of its Former Reading Railroad T-1, 2102. The Locomotive has completed a series of test and break in runs. Here is the Locomotive on i... (more)

Starting Up Raton. Amtrak Southwest Chief (Train 4) was splitting the searchlights and climbing the grade at Raton, New Mexico on April 14, 2022 as the illuminated the early spring scene. W... (more)

IAIS 6988 slowly crosses the Mississippi River on the Government Bridge from Iowa into Illinois with 2100 tons of freight.