When my father was in the San Francisco area for business in the 1960s, he often photographed the Northbound Lark before work. The Lark was an overnight train between Los Angeles and San Francisc... (more)

My father rode a fan trip out of Chicago pulled by CB&Q 4-8-4 #5632 in the early 1960s. Here the train meets an eastbound freight led by the incredible combination of CB&Q F3(A) - GN FT(A) - GN F... (more)

EMD didn't have many misses in the 1950s, but the Aerotrain sure was one. Intended to be the future of inter-city passenger service, the Rock Island quickly relegated them to Chicago commuter ser... (more)

Rock Island E7(A) 642 and DL-105 622 lead a passenger train in Chicago in the early 1960s R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

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An ABBBA set of F7s leads a train out of Dearborn Station in Chicago, IL. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

Here is another of my father's pictures from Pinole, CA in the 1960's. Three Santa Fe Geeps lead a short train that must have a pretty good roll on it as the semaphore hasn't started to drop yet.... (more)

In the mid-1960's my father took a number of photos on the Erie Lackawanna's former Lackawanna suburban lines in New Jersey. He was drawn there by the EL's use of former Erie PAs on a number of t... (more)

N&W GP9 648 leads a westbound GP9-C425-GP9-GP30 combination on the former Wabash mainline across the C&O at Romulus, Michigan. We had stopped in the tower (obscured by the train) to find out if t... (more)

RS11 #309 and RS27 #310 lead GBW train #4 as it arrives in Kewaunee, Wisconsin with cars for the ferry to the Ann Arbor on a foggy August 19, 1979 morning. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

I remember my father showing me this photo, and, if my memory serves me correctly, he took it while on an extended work assignment in Indianapolis in 1960. This is a real rarity, 1 of 22 center-c... (more)

We rode the ferry across Lake Michigan between Kewaunee, Wisconsin to Elberta, Michigan on August 19, 1979. Here, we are approaching the dock at Elberta as Ann Arbor S3 #7 prepares to remove the ... (more)

The CNJ really had a diverse roster with locomotives from EMD, Alco, Baldwin, and Fairbanks Morse. Two Trainmasters lead a CNJ Freight at an unknown location, but I'm wondering if it might be on ... (more)

When my father had business trips to the Bay area in the 1960s, one of his favorite spots was Pinole, where both the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific skirted San Francisco Bay. Here a GP9 still ... (more)

The CNJ didn't buy any F7s new, but ended up leasing them from both the B&O and N&W. Here, an example of each lead a rather unimpressive eastbound past an RS3 drilling Bound Brook. R.T. Steinbr... (more)