The Reading operated a large network of commuter trains in the Philadelphia area. The majority of the equipment was electrified MU cars, both of ancient (1931) and of Silverliner vintage. For line... (more)

The holiday rush has hit Raton Pass on December 18, 1964, as Santa Fe second 17, the Los Angeles-bound Super Chief, heads for a quick stop in Raton behind F7A 46C. Second 17 seems to consist mainl... (more)

Fairbanks-Morse 556, a 1956-built H12-44, sets out for an afternoon switching Santa Fe’s vast Argentine Yards in Kansas City, Kansas on April 26,1965. The ancient yard office in the background... (more)

This is one of the GE motors were ordered by Russia but not delivered. Three went to the South Shore and the remainder was divided between the Milwaukee Road and the Paulina Railroad in Brazil.

Colorado & Southern’s Globeville Branch snaked through Denver to serve the historic Globe Smelter and the city’s extensive stock yards, both of which in January, 1959, still provided enough tr... (more)

A southbound Chicago and North Western ore train approaches Goose Lake near Partridge, Michigan, during the last light of October 18, 1986. It was twilight in more ways than one on this trio of Al... (more)

I spent one day chasing the North Shore, riding from the Loop to Great Lakes and walking between the Great Lakes station and Pettibone yard. This is a Chicago bound train on the Skokie Valley lin... (more)

A Santa Fe F passenger unit reduced to freight service pauses with a northbound at Bellville, Texas to swap crews just after 2:00 a.m. on July 19, 1971.

Engine #5875 is wiped down, and the crew briefed before departure on this June '55 Philadelphia Chapter NRHS trip to Wilkes-Barre via the Schuylkill Branch and eventually (via LV's Hazelton Branch... (more)

The "Crescent" slows for its Manassas stop

A Rc4 Swedish test unit has finished testing, and sits at Port Newark for return to Sweden. The unit was nick-named the "Swedish Meatball" and stuck even with the AEM-7's. (The Rc4 was t... (more)

Three weeks into spring, winter still blankets the right-of-way along Colorado’s Joint Line as Fort Worth and Denver 751-A rumbles through Louviers, a few miles south of Denver. On April 15, 196... (more)

One of a kind locomotive 6000 HP GM6C, Conrail 1975, with TV-22, comes off the Columbia Port Deposit Road, on to the NEC at Perryville, MD. 9/23/1978

The curve at Palmer Lake had been a favorite with railroad photographers for decades, all the more so this June 27,1965, as traffic returns to the Joint Line after a massive series of floods wiped... (more)

Extraordinary circumstances have brought Rock Island 131 to Palmer Lake on June 27, 1965. A massive series of storms two weeks before swept away almost every railroad line into Denver. UP’s trac... (more)