CNW 205, former CGW 108C, waits alongside the diesel shops to be hostled onto a freight consist for an outbound train from Oelwein. F units were common on trains operating through Oelwein into the... (more)
Durban and Greenbrier Valley, Tygart Flyer, departing Elkins WV.
VIA FPA-4 no. 6759 and a pair of FPB's get hustled around the VIA/CN passenger engine terminal near CN Tower in downtown Toronto, ON. A lot of changes were underway as can be seen by the construct... (more)
CN FP9 no. 6509 has stopped just short of the bumping post with the Super Continental at the Canadian National station in Vancouver, BC. Other CN passenger equipped is positioned on adjacent track... (more)
CP FP7A no. 1413 leads the eastbound Canadian out of the Connaught Tunnel below Rogers Pass in the Selkirk Range of the Canadian Rockies. The 5 mile tunnel was completed in 1916, lowering the elev... (more)
A westbound Canadian Pacific Office Car Special crosses the Thompson River at Lytton, British Columbia, running over Canadian National’s Ashcroft Subdivision on September 2, 2007. Powering nearl... (more)
There is a lot going on for Steamtown's Railfest. Here,a caboose hop train passes the recently cosmetically completed Delaware Lackawanna & Western F3A, F3B and F3A set. As this is a former DL&W ... (more)
Clinchfield F7 #800 and C&O #2716 make a nice pair at the former L&N yard in Ravenna, KY.
Reading FP7 engines 903 and 902 are calling Steamtown home for the time being. Each locomotive is owned by a different historical society. For Railfest, the engines were placed on the far displa... (more)
The last Santa Fe F7 left resides in the California State Railroad Museum. This is the only F7 originally built for Santa Fe that is still an F7. In the 1970s, Santa Fe turned over 200 F7s into C... (more)
GMO 103A heads up Amtrak's State House passenger train at Joliet, IL in May 1974. The venerable E7 was among the oldest of hand me down locos put into service on Amtrak at the May 1971 start up. H... (more)
ATSF 185 leads a nice set of EMD FT motors, with freight in tow near Palmer Lake Colorado. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
The Chief is seen arriving at Albuquerque with ATSF FT 167, and mates, leading 14 cars on June 28th 1947. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
Detouring southbound south of Littleton Colorado, due to flooding in Kansas, July 15th 1951. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
ATSF train 17, The Super Chief, is seen running 70 MPH west of Ayer Colorado on February 22nd 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.