Beside a new shelter the nicely matched dinner train looks ready to depart for faraway places instead of a runaround a few scenic miles away.

CSX 118-119 with an eastbound CSX OCS is past the crossovers at Drakestown and about to enter Confluence, Pennsylvania. October 13, 1987. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

For my money the best combination of motive power and passenger cars that Amtrak ever managed to assemble. Photo by E Forest Hadley. From my collection.

Western Maryland had no FP7s but Canadian Pacific did and because of that we can see what a Western Maryland FP7 might have looked like, well, minus that round tank and ditch lights etc. In any c... (more)

Once sitting nearby rotting in the weeds, #1400 is on display with #29 in Ogden, having been relocation from the Pavilion downtown.

Lots going on in this Minot North Dakota scene on July 11th 1956. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

BN 9794 has been set out from the North Coast Hiawatha during its station stop at Livingston, MT. The passenger train has just departed the station and is starting to climb Bozeman Hill, and will ... (more)

MILW 60A, an FP7 built as 90A in June 1950, mates with an F7A and moves away from the MILW engine terminal at Pig's Eye Yard, St. Paul. After a career of handling Hiawatha's and other MILW passeng... (more)

The "Georgia Express", on display along the Columbus riverfront on Georgia Southwestern trackage, during its statewide tour in May of 1991.

One of the few occasions I got out of my technical school to do some railfanning. Here the "Crescent" is on its way to New Orleans back when it went by the multi-road route. Shows how ... (more)

The Es where the stars of the passenger world but this one was always my favorite, especially SP's with all the lights, dynamic brakes, ice breakers etc. I'd love to see these racing along a main... (more)

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)