UP M-10001 is in charge of train 2, the City of Portland (6 cars), at Cheyenne Wyoming on July 7th 1935. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

PRR 4809 leads 11 cars at 60 MPH near Stelton New Jersey on August 19th 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

PRR-Westinghouse 2-C-2 number 4782 leads train 28, the Broadway Limited, at 70 MPH near Stelton New Jersey on August 19th 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Union Pacific train number 111, the City of Denver, is seen leaving Denver on its first westbound run, with ten cars at 35 MPH, on June 19th 1936. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Chicago, 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Power car # 325 of the TGV-Atlantique, which set a world record for rail vehicles that had long been unsurpassed: 515.3 kilometers per hour on may 18, 1990, between Courtalain and Tours. The TGV-A... (more)

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

AT&SF train 12, The Chicagoan, is seen east of Newton Kansas on January 21st 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

The 49er, UP train number 48, (8 cars 35 MPH) is seen near Echo Utah on October 23rd 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

An eleven car El Capitan, ATSF 21, is seen on the move at 60 MPH, east of Trinidad in 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF 3460 leads a twelve car Fast Mail Express, ATSF train 7, doing 60 MPH, just east of La Junta Colorado, on June 4th 1939. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Fast and swift looking ATSF E1 3 is seen near the station at Raton New Mexico in 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.

ATSF train 17, the Super Chief, is doing 40 MPH with nine cars near Dalies New Mexico in 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.

To most railfans, Lehigh Valley means two things: Camelback engines with Wooton fireboxes, and long trains of anthracite-laden hoppers toiling over the mountains towards New York. The Black Diamo... (more)

With the demise of the Paris-South-East TGVs I thought I would dig into the past to see if I had photographed No 1 'Patrick' but alas no. (see Jean-Marc Frybourg's excellent photos of No1 making i... (more)