Among my archive of photos taken of the Rio Grande Zephyr, this one has always been a favorite. Train #18 is winding its way through the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon amid broken clouds and n... (more)

I like to say that I planned this image but this is a grab shot. Here you see the result of the trainman putting the red fusee on the west of the track rather than the east side at Dock Road. When... (more)

On Seven Seven Seventy-Seven (July 7, 1977), Rio Grande Zephyr train #17 emerges from shadowy Spanish Fork Canyon into golden evening sunlight at Gomex. When on time, train #17 arrived at this loc... (more)

A Western Maryland freight makes an early departure out of Cumberland and thunders Westbound through the Narrows towards Frostburg on a blistery cold morning.

Two Milwaukee Road Hiawatha passenger trains at Chicago Union Station, circa 1950. Leading the train in the background is F7-class 4-6-4 no. 102. Photograph by more)

Top of the morning to you from way up high in the silo. Great Western #90 makes an early morning caboose hop en route to pickup a load of cars left at Leaman Place the day before.

A pair of Lehigh Valley Alco products led by C628 #640 lead an eastbound freight at Dupont, PA in July 1975. Photograph by more)

Rock Island E6 #630 switching at Chicago while E8 #660 rests in the background in this May 1973 scene. Photograph by more)

Great Northern Railway passenger power lays over at the roundhouse next to St. Paul Union Depot in the early 1960s. The F3As and E7As pictured here were used on the GN's premier trains, including ... (more)

The Strasburg crew get an early morning start as they prepare to pick up freight left by Norfolk Southern at Leaman Place, four and a half miles east. First, former N&W #475 needs to couple up wi... (more)

Notch 8 and a cloud of smoke. BB 3 heads East with 11 loads of salt before sunrise.

The Nebraska Zephyr departs the Windy City out of Union Station on a rare excursion off the Illinois Railway Museum grounds bound for Quincy, IL and return. The Silver Pilot (the sloped nosed E-5... (more)

Oooops, someone forgot to set the derail and a handbrake on a roundhouse lead track at Santa Fe's La Junta, Colo. roundhouse. F7 247 rolled off into the turntable pit June 1, 1968, and apparentl... (more)

At the foot of Kicking Horse Pass, candy-stripe FP7 1416 on westbound Canadian Pacific Train 1 "Canadian" receives boiler water at Field, B.C. A downpour of rain had just occurred on June 15, 19... (more)

The Lehigh Valley heritage unit sits on the roundhouse radial tracks with 19 of its friends on media day for the Norfolk Southern Family Portrait at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.