Northbound on the Joint Line near Louviers, Fort Worth & Denver 752D heads a Colorado & Southern freight for Denver on July 8, 1967. The practice of sandwiching one or two SD9s between paired AB F... (more)

The Rio Grande Zephyr is well into its climb to the Continental Divide as it rounds the curve to enter Tunnel 1. Having already travelled a little under an hour from Denver, Number 17 still has b... (more)

With northeast Pennsylvania’s trees in early blaze mode, a northbound Delaware & Hudson train rolls near the quiet borough of New Milford on its way from Scranton to Binghamton. Bicentennial TE5... (more)

Ex-Reading T-1 No. 2101 is coming off the old PRR Northern Central Railway at CLY Tower, on its way to the New Cumberland Army Depot for display. The exhaust was absolutely deafening.

Promptly at 3:30 p.m, August 10, 1966. Union Pacific E9A 955 eases the City of Denver out of Denver Union Station to begin its 1,048-mile dash to Chicago. Waiting in the background, CB&Q’s Denve... (more)

Colorado’s famous Joint Line starts here. Already running on Rio Grande rails, Santa Fe F7A 247 heads an ABBBA set of F’s out of Denver on a hazy April morning, bound for La Junta via Colorado... (more)

An eastbound freight exits the middle of the three tunnels near the Mason-Dixon Line on the Columbia & Port Deposit Branch. Frazier Tunnel is 1/10 mile below the PA-MD border; about 3 miles south ... (more)

The eastbound Washington Section of the Broadway Limited is passing the L351-L352 signals adjacent to the Washington Boro United Methodist Church parking lot, preparing to switch onto the Columbia... (more)

Conrail's Pittsburgh to Morrisville freight crosses the massive 1905-built bridge over the Conestoga River near Safe Harbor Dam. The old Pennsylvania Railroad Atglen & Susquehanna Branch is now a... (more)

In 1967, Chicago Burlington & Quincy‘s 114-mile Alliance to Sterling line is not at all what it will become in just a few years, when the flood of coal from the Powder River Basin starts moving ... (more)

On the last day of 1966, Burlington’s Longmont local out of Denver trundles along north of Broomfield, as faithful and reliable as an old dog. Led by SD9s 326 and 363, cars for cement loading, p... (more)

On the next-to-last day of summer, 1981, the last rays of sun bathe the 1902 Philadelphia & Reading Railway station in Lansdale, PA. Conrail still operates all Philadelphia commuter rail service, ... (more)

In mid-summer, 1966, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy train number 10, the Denver Zephyr, remains the most successful passenger operation to and from Denver, beating out even Union Pacific’s feet of... (more)

Two passenger trains preparing to depart Denver, headed south down the Joint Line to Pueblo, on April 4, 1967 — AT&SF Train 191 at left and C&S Train 7 at right. Both will be manned by AT&SF cr... (more)

This was the engine of my youth, CB&Q’s handsome O-5 Class Northern, which I watched from my grandmother’s backyard in Denver’s Globeville section. And just about the time I thought I would... (more)