Canadian Pacific 2-10-4 number 5913 leads 9 cars near Field British Columbia in 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF 2-10-4s 5034 and 5030 lead a 62 car freight, east of Belen New Mexico, in 1946. 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 5021 and ATSF 2925 sit in the roundhouse in Albuquerque awaiting their destiny. 2925 is a Baldwin 4-8-4 and both along with the whole collection of diesels were donated to the California Stat... (more)

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)

Texas and Pacific 610 sits on display for the Hall of Giants.

Texas and Pacific 2-10-4 610 in on a Southern Railway Fan trip from Cincinnati to Danville KY and return in July 1977. This was on of the few chances i got to shoot the loco without a crowd in fr... (more)

From the cab of T&P 316, T&P 610 basks in the afternoon sunlight before being pushed back into the Texas State Railroad's Palestine shop building

T&P 610 is raising all kinds of commotion on a rainy Sunday morning as it passes Southern Railway's Orange, VA station.

As Southern 2-10-4 610 backs its excursion train away from the Alexandria, Virginia passenger station, RF&P tonnage rolls south.

Fire up 610! Hey, if they could raise the millions to restore and operate Norfolk & Western 611....without a contract for a place to operate, surely someone could come up with the scratch t... (more)

A locomotive as big as Texas. Squirreled away in a shed on the grounds of the Texas State Railroad, sits a locomotive worthy of the Whyte Classification "Texas." This monstrous 2... (more)

Everything is bigger in Texas. Here's a rear-quarter view of the massive Texas & Pacific 610, a 1927 Lima 2-10-4, seen here on display in the yard at the Texas State Railroad in Palestine, ... (more)

Naked and Unafraid

Bessemer & Lake Erie Texas type #643 has had a rocky history over the past couple decades. Restored to operating condition in the mid/late 1980s, it was all dresse... (more)

Suprise! All fired up and ready to roll!

A few of us were privy to this event well in advance - notably, photographers of a Lerro Productions photo charter back in April of... (more)