The terminal at Long Beach from a JFK approach.
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)
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.
AT&SF 4-6-4 3456 leads train 2, The Scout, at Wichita Kansas in May of 1940. Note the clanging bell, and rods down, at 25 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
Some old SW9's painted up for the conrail still exist, All through they are now just rusting away.
BN 9790 pokes its nose out of the diesel shop at Auburn, WA, a former Northern Pacific facility located between Seattle and Tacoma. A close look shows that this former BN passenger F7 still wears ... (more)
A cut of former CN SD60Fs sit in storage on the Aberdeen Carolina & Western.
Looking more like a model railroad scene, a class 2600 electric loco is seen between Porto Sao-Bento and Porto Campanha.
The engineer on Santa Fe 5350 proceeds very slowly on the north track past the derailment site located just north of Highway 138 in Cajon Pass. Heavy rain storms caused track damage and ATSF 3338,... (more)
The trailing SD38 throws up a massive cloud of smoke with sanders applied to pull a big cut of cars out.
On January 6th, 2024 an MBTA/Keolis work extra moved B&M RDC-2 #6213 and B&M milk car 1930 from Boston Engine terminal to the former shop complex at Iron Horse Park in North Billerica. The Budd RD... (more)
SP train 26, The Owl, is at Glendale California in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
Quiet morning at Ferrosur Puebla Yard, as the shift change occurs, Popocatepetl volcano wakes up with the now usual, daily volcanic ash fumarole.
US Steel SW8 #1247 is seen moving a cut of bottle cars around the USS Granite City Works.
