Western Pacific 2-8-2 311 leads 45 cars west bound at Elko Nevada on July 29th 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

FORT WORTH TX June 29 1979 — MKT GP38 301 accelerates with a hopper train. Note its original red paint showing through in several locations. My photo.

December in Wisconsin
The skies are leaden and scenery umber, with many shades between, fading to the horizon. A skiff of snow over harvested fields brightens the scene, but chilly wind... (more)

A trio of GP30s and an AS-16m lead eastbound train 472 into Pulaski on a snowy and probably cold March day in 1976. The East Minneapolis to Green Bay train is still running on the old Merrillan-G... (more)

CNW 6905 is about to duck under Hwy 13/151 near Bertram, IA, just east of Cedar Rapids, on a nice Fall day in October of 1989.

C&EI purchased a grand total of 36 carbody units, which included (3)E7A's, (16)F3A's, (7)F3B's and (10)FP7A's From my slide collection, John Bowman photo.

The St. Louis to Denver train 11, the 'Colorado Eagle" with MoPac's E8A 7018 and E7A 7010, sweeps into town westbound with twelve blue and gray cars to pick up passengers at the Kirkwood,M... (more)

Western Pacific F7A 919-D, F7B, GP20, F7A prepare to head west out of Keddie yard in October, 1969. Photo from my collection, the photographer was not specified.

Today ex-Zephyr FP7A 805-D and two F-units are rolling a 58 car freight west-bound near Oakland, California on March 10, 1970. From my slide collection, no photographer's name on slide.

Towers, semaphores, and derricks were quite common in this 1970 scene where MoPac personnel are performing cleanup after a coal train derailment on the former C&EI. Tom Golden photo.

Cleanup is underway after a Missouri Pacific coal train has derailed on the former C&EI. Tom Golden photo.

Missouri Pacific train 153 is on the double track approaching the end of the run at Texarkana Yard in this view from what is now the Interstate 49 bridge.

An empty Union Electric Labadie train on the Chester Sub. is headed for another load of Southern Illinois coal with an interesting U30C-SD40-GP50-B23-7 lashup. The fresh GP50 is just a few weeks o... (more)

Western Pacific's CCVX is seen here crossing the Humboldt River at the abandoned townsite of Palisade, Nevada. This location in Palisade Canyon was the northern end of the narrow gauge Eureka and... (more)

Action at Keddie in February 1971, shows a train coming off the 4th Sub the High Line from Bieber. Powered by a solid set of first generation F's and a Geep, this was a rare sight at this late da... (more)