BNSF 9647 was delivered with the Santa Fe warbonnet and in BN Executive colors to celebrate the approval of the BNSF merger on July 20, 1995. The colors on the 9647 were not adopted by BNSF as a... (more)

Having meet with a collision of some sort, probably on the "Silver Star," these units were set out. Photo by unknown. From my collection.

Eastbound coal leaving Bluefield on track one while four additional trains await their turn. Next out will be the train with a variety of eight diesels on the head end. Identifiable are N&W SD40... (more)

El Capitan, AT&SF train 21, is seen descending on the west side of Raton Pass near Lynn New Mexico, on January 16th 1944. Note the wartime headlight visor on E6 13. Otto Perry photo, from my colle... (more)

On the Side Lines. The RBMN 1542 heads up a string of Reading and Northern engines that perform background service to the Star of the day that leaves them in the dust, or steam, so to speak. The ... (more)

CPKC Railway intermodal train 112 (Vancouver IMS, British Columbia, to Côte Saint-Luc, Québec) follows the Bow River as it rounds Morant's Curve, within Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rock... (more)

BNSF 9297 wears BNSF's initial experimental "Heritage" orange and green paint scheme. It featured a solid 3" red pinstripe that separated the orange and Brunswick green along the right carbody... (more)

High Wide On The Move. On July 13, 2016, Norfolk Southern Train H08 picked up a Siemens power device from the interchange with the New York, Susquehanna, and Western Railway in Port Jervis,... (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)

At the old N&W yard in the area there is a nice lineup on this date. Photo by Dave Petke.

The terminal at Long Beach from a JFK approach.

The morning mine train is getting ready to depart from Plaster City as DL535E pulls up to make a hook with the empty cars. Had to get a shot with a little bit of Alco (or MLW) smoke.

Last hurrah for the Rio Grande, and it's tunnel motors. I was fortunately enough to get a last chance, of catch four Rio Grande tunnel motors working together on the dirt train in 2002.

Former NS/Southern GP38-2 #5206 eases downgrade across Big Gulch Bridge along what is left of the Tennessee Central mainline, with Lhoist North America's train from Crab Orchard, bound for interch... (more)

After getting more water in Wishram, WA the BNSF fire train heads west to continue to help fight the Tunnel 5 fire west of Bingen, WA.