Having just cut away from a cut of loaded auto carriers, a Wilsmere Yard switcher reverses to clear the next switch (assuming the short hood is the rear - probably shouldn't assume that though).

Ex-Pennsylvania Railroad.

Southern GP50 7059 and two trailing SD40-2's lead a coal empty north towards Atlanta.

I shot this at Wilsmere Yard near Wilmington DE on July 8, 1978. A Baltimore & Ohio SW1, circa 1940, and a former Chesapeake & Ohio NW2, about nine years newer, sit next to a boxcar with a roof ha... (more)

Lehigh Valley Alco FA2 582 mated with an FB-1 and two EMD counterparts powers this NE-1 passing in front of the joint LV-RDG station with a pair of SW-8's working the locals on February 29, 19... (more)

An eastbound manifest has stalled on the 1% grade of Kirkwood Hill and a pair of switchers from the Ewing Avenue Yard in St. Louis has been called in to help the train up the hill.

A fifty eight car freight is westbound near Eads Colorado in 1950. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Fifty two years ago Wilmot Model Railroad Shop in Prattville was a beacon for model railroaders in the deep south. We traveled there as often as possible to buy treasured models and to chit chat ... (more)

F3A 4134, F3B 4329, F7B 4402 and F7A 4185 at Southern's Inman yard, Atlanta, GA. To accommodate a 1225 gallon water tank, Southern relocated the air tanks to the roofs of several F3As, including... (more)

Union Pacific ALCO FA1 1610 and B unit mate lead 114 cars east at 55 MPH near Alda Nebraska in 1958. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A Union Pacific eastbound train, operating on BNSF's San Bernardino Sub, with an eclectic mix of early merger power: Southern Pacific SD45R 7453 (ex-SP SD45 8887), Union Pacific SD40-2 3915 and a... (more)

8711 leads UP SD60 6034.

GP18 and GP35 team-up to power the westbound local. GP18 178 was the last diesel put into service by an independent CofG before the Southern takeover in June 1963.

An ALCO A-B-A set awaits its next assignment at Cheyenne Wyoming in 1956. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

The Royal Gorge, D&RGW train 1, is departing Denver Colorado in 1953. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.