ATSF train 17, The Super Chief, is seen running 70 MPH west of Ayer Colorado on February 22nd 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF train 22, El Capitan, is seen departing Albuquerque New Mexico on June 28th 1947. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF train 21, El Capitan, is seen near La Junta Colorado on June 5th 1938. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

If You Dream Long Enough. Ending at once for all time the ongoing debate about its appearance, New York, Susquehanna, and Western Railway. released SD70M-2 4064 (née-Norfolk Southern 2708,... (more)

After a late afternoon meet with southbound Pacific Surfliner no.794, northbound Union Pacific ES44AC no. 5446 Highballs the Guadalupe Local out of Gaviota Siding trying to keep ahead of northboun... (more)

A set of GP60s leads the LABRF north in the Sacramento Valley. Following the Rio Grande/SP merger four years earlier, the quartet of four axle units heading for the mountainous terrain of the Oreg... (more)

Late night fog starts to roll in over Tehachapi Pass as the headlights, and ETD, from a northbound BNSF train illuminate hillside of Marcel.

Three SD40s are still accelerating their KC-bound train a couple miles out of Coffeyville yard.

Three of MP's burly GP50s are westbound on a hazy summer afternoon.

Salina was on a looping branch off MP's Pueblo main, and normal service in the early 1980s was a local with a geep or two and a handful of cars. When grain was moving, MP would send as-needed ext... (more)

When UP and MP merged, a decision was made to pull most through traffic off the former MP line to Pueblo. That reduction was offset by Rio Grande (and later SP) trains running on rights between P... (more)

Yard power sits as GP38-2 2256 and three SD40s take 110 cars toward Kansas City.

I think these GP38s and their cab are headed to Illinois, but I cannot remember which bridge this is.

On the former MP Pueblo line, an eastbound is in the hole to meet an opposing empty coal train. It's a beautiful spring day, so everybody seems to be on the ground to give the coal train a good l... (more)

At merger time, it was hard to believe MP would disappear. All these years later, it is sometimes hard to remember what it was like to have so many Class Ones.