An eastbound manifest has stalled on the 1% grade of Kirkwood Hill and a pair of switchers from the Ewing Avenue Yard in St. Louis has been called in to help the train up the hill.

A fifty eight car freight is westbound near Eads Colorado in 1950. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

F3A 4134, F3B 4329, F7B 4402 and F7A 4185 at Southern's Inman yard, Atlanta, GA. To accommodate a 1225 gallon water tank, Southern relocated the air tanks to the roofs of several F3As, including... (more)

Union Pacific ALCO FA1 1610 and B unit mate lead 114 cars east at 55 MPH near Alda Nebraska in 1958. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A Union Pacific eastbound train, operating on BNSF's San Bernardino Sub, with an eclectic mix of early merger power: Southern Pacific SD45R 7453 (ex-SP SD45 8887), Union Pacific SD40-2 3915 and a... (more)

8711 leads UP SD60 6034.

GP18 and GP35 team-up to power the westbound local. GP18 178 was the last diesel put into service by an independent CofG before the Southern takeover in June 1963.

An ALCO A-B-A set awaits its next assignment at Cheyenne Wyoming in 1956. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

The Royal Gorge, D&RGW train 1, is departing Denver Colorado in 1953. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

D&RGW F7 5594 and mates lead a 92 car westbound freight near Palmer Lake Colorado on October 20th 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Union Pacific train number 9, the City of St Louis, is seen near Buford Wyoming in 1951. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

An ALCO A-B-A set leads eastbound with 87 cars near Cheyenne Wyoming in 1955. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Surrounded by automobiles from the long-gone American Motors Company (AMC), a Penn Central TrailVan behind five 4 axle EMD's heads into Weehawken yard. Up ahead, the TOFC will take a left turn ... (more)

BNSF 9647 the Celebration unit for the BNSF merger leads this XTY Coal train through Trinidad, CO with BN 9690 & BN 9659. This was a Texas Power coal train returning to the Powder River.

Genesee And Wyoming’s First Diesel. Genesee & Wyoming Inc. Railroad 20 is a General Electric 80 ton centercab locomotive, and was the first diesel-electric locomotive owned by the New Yor... (more)