Union Pacific train 717, the Los Angeles Challenger, is seen in Los Angeles at Pasadena Junction in 1940. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Five GP's are in charge of a manifest in the Price River Canyon. GP40-2's, a GP40, and GP35 brings up the rear. D&RGW 3120, 3095, 3089, 3119, 3047 at Kyune, Utah.

The engineer widens out the throttle after getting a high green as an eastbound gets into the clear.

PURCELL OK Feb 7 1981 — SD40-2 5106 leads a train which is tied down on a yard track. When a new crew arrives it will continue its trip south. EMD delivered the unit (s/n 786219-36) in October 1... (more)

8402 was one of five Alco RS-2's delivered to the CPR in 1949 as part of the dieselization of its lines in Vermont. Twenty years later it is in front of the St. J station. It was scrapped in 198... (more)

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)

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)

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)

AMTK 447 waits to depart Union Station while an Amtrak Turbo Train arrives from St. Louis, passing under the Union Station tower that controls the trackage south of the terminal.

BN 6459 & 6465 lead a freight toward St. Paul at Newport, MN traveling on paired track shared with Milwaukee Road. Trailing unit, BN 6465 is still in its as delivered CB&Q scheme featuring the whi... (more)

BN 6607, former GN F45 no.434, waits its turn for servicing at BN's Auburn, WA diesel shops, most likely after arriving from a trip over Stampede Pass. The loco was built in June 1969 and would wo... (more)

An eastbound freight led by BN 6925 pauses at Skykomish to add helpers before heading up Stevens Pass to the Cascade Tunnel and on to Wenatchee. F45s were regularly mixed in with the big SDs at th... (more)

BN 1976 was specially painted for the U.S. Bicentennial in 1975. The unit was a former GN SDP40 bought in 1966 for passenger service. Of the six units, one made it to Montana Rail Link, BNSF kept ... (more)

Its rush hour at La Grange, IL and BN 9920 is pouring on the coals as the train rushes through the station without making a stop. BN commuter service was provided between Chicago & Aurora, IL. Ser... (more)

ATSF 500, Santa Fe's first B40-8W, leads a GP60M and another GE on westbound Q-train passing under the large signal bridge near Joliet Union Station and tower. Trackage here is both Santa Fe and S... (more)