Amtrak's California Zephyr consist includes cars whose letterboards read Union Pacific, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Burlington, Amtrak, and California Zephyr. SP FP7 No. 6456 and two other... (more)

OKLAHOMA CITY OK (September) 1977 — Katy FP7 78C is tied down at what is left of the engine facility in Turner Yard awaiting a return trip to McAlester. EMD built the FP7 (b/n 14806) as MKT 121C... (more)

A New Lease On Life. The Woodstown Central Railroad announced on Friday, September 15, 2023, that it has secured the lease of former Reading FP7 902 (EMD, 5/1950) from the Reading Company T... (more)

With no passenger duties to fulfill this unit is leading an EB freight and the herald indicates the Barring era. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection. Wouldn't I love to have that cast ... (more)

Northern Pacific FP7 6510C leads train number 2 near Dickinson North Dakota in 1956. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Welcome To Honesdale. The The Stourbridge Line afternoon "Pocono Express" was near Sunrise Avenue in Honesdale, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 when it passed a neighbori... (more)

On September 15, 2002, the Royal Canadian Pacific luxury passenger train rolls through a broad curve north of Aldersyde, Alberta, on the CP’s Aldersyde Subdivision between Lethbridge and Calgary... (more)

My favorite FP7 in the lead on the westbound Amtrak "San Francisco Zephyr" must be the result of some failure, mishap, or whatever.

Prominent in this photo is a once ubiquitous symbol we should have kept, and another.............

Ersatz Monon but looking magnificent the lead units of the "Fair Train" are outside on a beautiful winter day. Photo by Mike Dolenski.

MILW 101A leads another FP7, E9B & E9A on the Morning Hiawatha as the train glides downgrade and crosses BN's main on the approach to the Mississippi River crossing into Hastings, MN. The train ha... (more)

CP FP7A no. 1413 leads the eastbound Canadian out of the Connaught Tunnel below Rogers Pass in the Selkirk Range of the Canadian Rockies. The 5 mile tunnel was completed in 1916, lowering the elev... (more)

Reading FP7 engines 903 and 902 are calling Steamtown home for the time being. Each locomotive is owned by a different historical society. For Railfest, the engines were placed on the far displa... (more)

A new addition to the Cresco city park is a Milwaukee Road FP7 locomotive, box car and caboose.

In a rugged canyon formed by an emerald Kicking Horse River, a westbound Royal Canadian Pacific tour train approaches Glenogle, British Columbia, on September 20, 2002.