Coal trains on the Santa Fe race track looked out of place. These York Canyon Coal trains were heading to McCook and points east. Usually, these heavy trains got 3-4 big GEs for power. As seen he... (more)

I didn't see a lot of Dash 8s leading trains when I lived in Galesburg in the mid-90s. At least I didn't shoot many. A quartet of blue and yellows hammer their way towards LA. Seen here at MP 171,... (more)

A Westbound Chicago to San Bernardino passes under the classic Santa Fe signal bridge at New Boston on the Marceline Sub. These signals were retired on October 1, 2019, and the bridge was removed ... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe train number 19, The Chief, is departing Barstow California with seven cars in 1933. Otto's speed estimate was 12 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

On short term lease these units made things interesting in the nineties and I missed most of them but got lucky on this date. I might have caught him in the street in La Grange had gotten out a b... (more)

848 leads SD75M 232 and Dash 9-44CW 687 climbing the grade towards Bealville.

Eastbound manifest. Trailing units are SDF40-2 5252 and SD45-2 5823.

Trailing units are SD45 5385, B23-7 6401 and SD40-2 BN 8092.

Cresting the summit of Cajon Pass behind 504 are GP60M 127, GP40X 3805 and GP60M 130.

Trailing units on this westbound manifest are a Dash 9-44CW, GP50 and SD40-2.

GP60 4028 leads SD45B 5502 and EMDX SD40 6501 on an eastbound.

One of the great things about the Santa Fe was the potential for variety in a lash up. This afternoon westbound doesn't disappoint. Lead by a B40-8W, F45 5963, SD45-2 5853, FP45 96, GP39-2, and a ... (more)

Four B trucks lead by a GP60 have just departed Holbrook, Arizona.

GE Dash 8-40CW 943, along with 3 classmates and GP40X 3801, leads eastbound doublestacks into the canyon.

When I was ten, in the "Roanoke Times" newspaper, I saw a shot of N&W steamers lined up in rows with sparks of acetylene cutters coming up somewhere. Here, in a contaminated field by a ... (more)