Norfolk & Western 2-8-8-2 number 2175 leads 120 cars west through Oakvale West Virginia in 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

AT&SF 2-8-8-2 1797 awaits its next helper assignment on Raton Pass near Morley Colorado in 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1793 is seen on the west side of Raton Pass, near Lynn New Mexico, during WWII in 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Norfolk & Western 2-8-8-2 number 2175 leads a westbound 76 car freight near Elliston Virginia in 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

VGN 2-8-8-2s 739 and 710 are seen leaving Page West Virginia with a freight in 1953. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

N&W 2-8-8-2 2175 leads an eighty three car freight westward, near Salem Virginia, on July 11th 1953. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Photo by Howard Hutchison from my collection. Superior WV is approximately three miles east of Welch WV on the N&W Pocahontas Division. The railroad calls this Huger in the timetable. N&W Y3a 2060... (more)

ATSF locos 1797 and 3811 are working hard near Morley, with 936 shoving at the rear. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1794 and ATSF 4-8-4 3773 lead train 19, The Chief, near Gallinas Colorado, on June 16th 1945. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1790 and ATSF 4-8-4 3784 are seen leading train 20, The Chief, east of Raton New Mexico on June 16th 1945. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1797 and ATSF 4-8-4 3777 are working hard pulling a 13 car Chief at 30 MPH, near Raton New Mexico, on April 9th 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A Southern Pacific freight is seen near Cougar California, with snowcapped Mount Shasta visible in the background, on July 26th 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1793 and ATSF 4-8-4 3782 lead a 15 car Chief, train 19, west of Trinidad Colorado on April 9th 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF train number 21, El Capitan, is seen near Wootton Colorado in 1944. ATSF 1797 and ATSF E6, number 13, have thirteen cars in tow doing 25 MPH on rugged Raton Pass. Otto Conrad Perry photo from... (more)