N&W 1373 waits in the hole, as a manifest freight heads east on the former Nickel Plate Road Chicago-Fort Wayne mainline.

One of Southern's 148 Alco RS-3's nos.2039, with Slug 2472 at Atlanta, GA in October 1970. Slug 2472 built from wrecked SOU 6548 FM H16-44 frame at Atlanta's Pegram Shops in October 1964. Phot... (more)

New York Central System subsidiary Pittsburgh & Lake Erie SW-9 9831, 8937 and 8938 leads a wreck train at Youngstown, Ohio on March 25, 1962. Photo by Ken Douglas, from my collection.

Northern Pacific Railway FTA 5401A, built by Electro-Motive Corporation (EMC) in March 1944 as NP 6001A, was photographed in Sumas WA along with an FTB, a GP7 and another A-B set of FTs. Sumas is... (more)

BN 2016 retains its GN appearance in North La Crosse, WI in August 1972. The short hood is the rear of this unit and the GP20s were the final long hood front and high nose road switchers GN acquir... (more)

BN 986, formerly GN NW5 no. 186, sits on a snowless January day in 1973 at Minneapolis between assignments. This was GN's first of 10 NW5s, built in December 1946, and retired by BN on April 29, 1... (more)

Chicago & North Western EMD GP15-1 No. 4410 and EMD GP7 No. 4144 tug at a long string of coal gons out of the east end of Proviso Yard on September 1, 1991. The train is approaching the 25th Avenu... (more)

GTW SD40 5910 mates up with two CN SD40s at the sanding tower in Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific's yard in West Duluth. Soon it will be on its way to Ft. Francis, ON with a freight.

One of five former Columbia, Newberry & Laurens GP7s that joined the ACL roster powering a phosphate train with two F units at Mulberry, Florida on February 28, 1965. ACL subsidiary CN&L units ... (more)

CB&Q F3 162 leads a westbound 76 car freight near Smithboro Illinois in June 1951. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Union Pacific ALCO FA1 1608 and mates lead a westbound freight near Brady Nebraska in 1958. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

"Hammerhead" might be a fitting nickname. Unfortunately this is not as ugly as they got when they were turned into B-units. I wonder if one may be mouldering away somewhere but suspect... (more)

Rolling out of Union Station, two bald PRR E8s 4255 and 4297 leading train 22 the Manhattan Limited on its journey to New York on June 19, 1968. Photo by photographer's name not listed, from my... (more)

High green ahead. A westbound Erie Lackawanna freight is approaching Broad Street interlocking tower at Griffith in 1975.

BN 6254 is seen at BN's Harrison St. roundhouse in July 1973. This unit came to BN as CB&Q 514, built in May 1959. the unit was retired in July 1982. BN had perhaps the largest roster of SD7/SD9/S... (more)