Steam still prevailed at Cheyenne in '57, it still is home to UP's steam fleet today. For more color views from that day, click heremore)

"Big Blow" #51 gets fired up at Cheyenne. A small diesel engine used for hostling and for starting up the turbine was installed inside. The turbine would be spun to starting speed before combust... (more)

UP Challenger X3941 rolls off the table at Cheyenne. For more color views from that day, click here

Crew of this train gathers in front of B&O #51 before leaving Jersey City for Washington, D.C.

Albany Port Railroad RS3 #2, July 1983.

A Northbound Baby Bullet has began it's journey to San Francisco, and in just over a hour it'll arrive at Third and Townsend.

Three Oneida & Western SD40-2s lead an empty coal hopper train at Pineville, KY in 1985. These engines were owned by Shamrock Coal Company and built to L&N specs. They were later sold to the Briti... (more)

“Alleghany West Virginia Railroad 777”, one of the “Unstoppable” movie locomotives, spends some time in Louisville before heading south over the PAL to VMV in Paducah. The unit appears to ... (more)

One of those you really had to see it to believe it moments. Soo 4408 rides high over 6600 in the aftermath of the July 12, 1982 head on at Gilchrist

Firefighters, railroad workers, police, and a couple photographers at the site of a head on collision between Soo trains 909-910 about 1 mile east of Gilchrist. 910 was supposed to take siding at ... (more)

Pretty sever winter conditions has existed in Nebraska due to a heavy winter storm that dumped over 20 inches of snow in spots. From the look of things the rotary has gotten a good workout getting... (more)

An eastbound Keystone tries to outrun its own wake as it flies through Princeton Junction.

Double Resurrection! First, Rio Grande speed lettering once again adorns the long hood of 6-axle power in the form of recently acquired SD90MACs from CITX. Second, the annual Ski T... (more)

As a Timken employee, I thought that I have to share this archive picture with the RP members. Timken 1111, also called the Timken Four Aces, was a 4-8-4 steam locomotive built in 1930 by American... (more)

Back when the D&RGW ran the Rio Grande Zephyr, the Utah Valley railfan community would come together on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays to witness the arrival of train #17, the westward zephyr f... (more)