The Kansas City Chief A Roger Puta Photograph

Great Northern 99 works GN equipment at the King Street Station.

Lehigh Valley class AF-27, Alco C628, was the backbone of the LV’s latter-day road fleet. After purchasing eight of the six axle beasts new from Alco, the LV jumped on the opportunity to get ni... (more)

Forty years ago, it was common knowledge that the Lehigh Valley Railroad would cease to exist on the coming April 1. I made a commitment to capture as much of the Lehigh Valley as I could in the f... (more)

Southbound Florida East Coast Cincinnati to Miami "The Royal Palm" running on FEC and Southern Railway, FEC E8A 1032 and 1034 are taking on fuel and water at Fort Pierce, Florida August 08, 1... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

IC 8075 leads four Paducah Geeps and an un-rebuilt one on a southbound freight just leaving Markham Yard at Homewood, IL. An Indiana Harbor Belt switcher works interchange on the next traffic over... (more)

This is how a day of rail fanning would begin for me in 1977 - a parent would drop me at the Oradell train station and I would ride the Conrail passenger train off to wherever I was going. On this... (more)

The Afternoon Congressional. A Roger Puta photograph.

The George Washington. A Roger Puta photograph.

A westbound Burlington Northern dinky rips through Hinsdale, Illinois, on May 28, 1992. At this date, commuter trains on BN’s racetrack were powered with a mixture of BN E9s and Metra’s new F4... (more)

A Phillies Baseball Special is ready to depart from behind the old JFK (Municipal) Stadium, in the shadow of I-95. This was a doubleheaded GG1-powered all-Amfleet train from Harrisburg. Most bas... (more)

Baltimore & Ohio E8(A) 1435 with an E8(B) on the C&O's Cincinnati to Detroit "The Cincinnatian" near Cincinnati, Ohio January 22, 1961 Photo from my slide collection, no photographer listed on s... (more)