An original Kodachrome slide from my collection; the photographer was not specified.

Santa Fe eastbound SUPER C Bandini just minutes into it's journey to Chicago. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the startup of this train.

Brand new, on it's first run since repaint KCS 4006 leads the QSHKC NB through the S curve at Cleveland MO on a cold November day.

ICG's Bicentennial Locomotive, "The American Eagle", stirs up the dust as it switches industries north of town.

Mid-America car 6/30/18.

Bethlehem Steel’s Patapsco & Back Rivers painted one of its EMD-re-engined Baldwin S12’s in a bicentennial scheme. Here the tribute unit works at the mill in Sparrows Point, Maryland.

SCL 1776 - The One That Begat Them All

There were two different U36Bs on the Seaboard Coast Line that carried the number "1776." The SCL's U36Bs were being delivered, and 1776:1 was... (more)

30 stars decorate the cab of PSCC 17 with 15 on each side to honor those American servicemen that perished in the 2011 Extortion 17 Chinook helicopter crash in Afghanistan. This photo was taken o... (more)

The Pennsylvania and Southern, a switching operation in and around the Letterkenny Army Depot near Chambersburg, PA debuted #17 an EMD SW7 built in 1950 for Weyerhauser in the Pacific Northwest. I... (more)

NW 1776- a high hood SD45 that was cosmetically restored in 2012 cuts an impressive stance at VMT.

Union Electric Company/Ameren has UCEX No. 2015 decked out in patriotic colors to honor “Ameren’s Military Veteran Employees” in its coal-hauling fleet of hoppers. On July 3, 2016, No. 2015 ... (more)

Forget Cleveland…Chatsworth Rocks!

”Chatsworth Rocks” was the location of many publicity photos of Southern Pacific’s Coast Daylight back in the steam days, so it was,... (more)

BN 1991, which was painted in a red, white, and blue scheme as a tribute to the troops that participated in Operation Desert Storm, is seen on the point of an empty coal train which is about to ar... (more)

Both of Ameren Energy's Commemorative Hopper Cars move east on UP Train CWLNA9 24 past Edwardsville. The car on the left honors Ameren's Military Veteran Employees, and the other is for Breast Ca... (more)

Of the three units SP painted up to celebrate our nations BiCentennial celebration this was considered the ugly duckling used mostly in local service as seen here near sunset at SP's LA area Dolor... (more)