An east bound reefer block train is seen ascending Cajon Pass, near Pine Lodge, with 71 cars at 20 MPH. Helper locomotives 3940 and 3895 are visible in the distance. From my collection, Otto Conra... (more)

AT&SF mixed train 505 is seen leaving San Bernardino California in 1934. From my collection, Otto C. Perry photo.

RBMN 2102 and RBMN 425 shove back out of the Port Clinton shops creating a massive steam cloud on the cold Pennsylvania morning.

Reading & Northern 4-8-4 No. 2102 has just come to a stop in Port Clinton to pick up passengers for its 2nd last Fall Foliage Excursion of the year. For a photo of 2124 in virtually the same loca... (more)

A Saturday Night In September brought me back to the Black River & Western Railroad in Ringoes, NJ for an event celebrating its volunteers passed and Present. Mike, Ryan, and the organization aske... (more)

ATSF Baldwin 3523 leads south bound at Del Mar California in 1933. From my collection, Otto Conrad Perry photo.

R647 is just south of Oaktown on the former C&EI/L&N Chicago to Atlanta main. Taken with my Pentax K1000, developed and printed while working on other projects for my college class. Working on as... (more)

In what could be a scene from the 1930's, the Colorado Railroad Museum's DRGW 491 (built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1902) runs past the Rio Grande water tower on the museum grounds in Golden, ... (more)

Five days before the discontinuance of the famed "oil cans" daily run over the Tehachapi Pass, SP 8656 leads the train eastbound out of Caliente.

UP Big Boy 4014 makes a run in the Cheyenne Yard, pulling UP 5511 around to see how the grease held up in the rod joints.

Cresting the grade south, Reading T1 #2102 races towards Church Road outside of Hometown, PA on September 3, 2022.

Norfolk Southern local P77 trudges slowly through the fog in Cayce, SC enroute to Edmunds. The train is led by Norfolk Southern (NS) 5575. It was built by EMD in 1971 as Norfolk & Western (NW) 414... (more)

"Steam and Steel": With steel alloy main rods and Boxpok drivers gleaming Reading & Northern T1 #2102 slides past the photographer outside of Port Clinton on the morning of August 13, 20... (more)

Comin' In Hot. Maybe a little too hot. On a wet Labor Day afternoon, Amtrak's Valley Flyer train to Greenfield slows for its stop at Berlin, Connecticut. Unseen to the camera is the fact th... (more)

While waiting for the roundhouse door to be opened, Southern FP7A 6133, makes a fine sight on this cool November evening.