Small power for a big road. Santa Fe GE 44-ton switcher 467 didn’t have drawbars but rather steel plates for shoving 2-axle buggies of green cross ties into pressurized creosote cylinders at t... (more)

Sitting at EMD's factory in La Grange, Illinois, is Southern Pacific GP9 5643. Southern Pacific assigned class DF-607 to this order of 104 diesels (SP 5643 was the eighteenth unit of the order). ... (more)

In the days when a casual stroll through an engine terminal was still possible – and interesting -- the line-up at Southern Pacific’s Bayshore near San Francisco on a September afternoon in 19... (more)

The year is 1957 and the operator at White River Junction, Vermont is passing up orders to an arriving Boston & Maine UJ-2 train at 12:30 a.m. - the nightly except Sunday Berlin, NH to White River... (more)

Pan Am Railway's Office Car Special train is southbound on the NECR Roxbury Subdivision rolling along the Connecticut River through the rural part of Windsor, Vermont, with B&M Heritage GP9 77 and... (more)

More conqueror’s of C&O steam — Alco RSD-15’s 6802 and 6808 at Peach Creek, W. Va., brand new on Oct. 6, 1956.

To Pennsy they were just another diesel model in the ranks, online in 1955, a year in service grime showing to prove it at the time of this photo. They're at Columbus, blending in with the produc... (more)

Old-school DT&I power works the weed-strewn PRR yard tracks by St. Clair Ave. This land would later become I-670.

The pair of new geeps are spotted near the old auxiliary coal dock. PRR class ES15m, in service 1951.

A couple of [Roundhouse Foreman] Mr. Cherry's steam engines get serviced at Camden Terminal Enginehouse. He was accommodating to the young men with cameras. PRR Class B6sb.

EMD and Alco products, in two PRR paint colors, are spotted side by side in the pit along Roundhouse Rd. at Lewistown. The edge of the turntable is seen on the left, it still shows as operational... (more)

Another scene for the modelers in the audience, as PRR Class L1s #1685 waits with a cut of cars, the Renovo shop buildings in the distance. The spotlight-equipped '51 Plymouth might have been a c... (more)

The "Go Go" Sox of 1959 would end up meeting the Dodgers in the World Series. Meanwhile that summer a couple miles north of Comisky Park the Zephyr Pit cranked out a daily fleet of domed streamli... (more)

Modern power mixes with steam in this 1955 view at Morris Park engine terminal.

A view from the coal dock at East Altoona reveals a passenger train, powered by a EP40,on the main line westward to the Altoona station. The dead steam in the foreground will probably never run a... (more)