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)

Classic consist of final ATSF Super Chief departs Dearborn Station Chicago.

Final ATSF Super Chief ready to depart Dearborn Station Chicago. See albums below for more 70's and final private RR passenger runs in Chicago.

This 4-8-8-2 articulated locomotive, number 4211, was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Southern Pacific Railroad. The total engine and tender weight was a whopping 1,051,200 lbs., a... (more)

This 2-8-4, number 1954, was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. The total engine and tender weight was 750,200 lbs., and the tractive effort was 65,290... (more)

CNW 4110 gets ready to pick up some cars from the small yard near the Continental Grain facility on the south side of Milwaukee, WI in December of 1995.

Katy GP7's working Houston yard. Bill Folsom photo from my collection.

The Santa Fe–Southern Pacific merger was an attempted corporate consolidation of two of the major railroads in the Western United States at the time: the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway an... (more)

Final Illinois Central Shawnee departs Chicago for Carbondale, IL. See below for other 70's photos and 430/71. Albums

Super Chief departs La Junta westbound

Soo Line 6601 brings a freight past Echo Lake in Burlington, WI. in January of 1986. The Soo Line had just acquired the Milwaukee Road and operations would change dramatically in the following mon... (more)

During the 1980s and up until 1993, the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE), due to a shortage of locomotives and an increase in transport demand, periodically leased the famous EMD G16 units fr... (more)

Former passenger F3A in freight service at La Junta yard

Final Burlington Northern Denver Zephyr departs Chicago Union Station led by one of three BN painted E8's. See Below for other 1970's and into Amtrak

Twilight of GG1-powered freight operations, with the 1935-built 4801 leading a northbound manifest. Cousin Barry on the platform is saving his movie film for the then-new and more colorful Amtrak... (more)