Wabash EMD E8 1012 leads a seven car train at Thompson Missouri in 1953. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Struggling up the long grade from the Rio Grande valley at Belen to Mountainair, BNSF 505 East leads another one of the diverse power consists that proliferated at the time, including an F45. Fuji... (more)

KANSAS CITY KS March 10 1979 — Kansas City Southern NW2 4200 is ready for a switching job. My photo.

Wabash train number 79, the Chicago Express, is seen leaving Detroit Michigan in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

N&W train number 4, the Pocahontas, is seen near Bluefield West Virginia in 1950. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

VGN 2-8-8-2s 739 and 710 are seen leaving Page West Virginia with a freight in 1953. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

SP 2-8-2 790 leads a 57 car westbound freight at Galveston Texas in 1936. Otto's speed estimate was 18 MPH, and he caught it with the rods down. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Southern Railway GP38-2, 5128, shares the Pomona Yard servicing facility with N&W 611. 611 was laying over in Greensboro for an upcoming excursion.

A Grand trunk western Alco RS1 1951 works the roads yard in Mattle Creek MI in august 1979. this was the Last RS1 Alco Built and i believe it is Preserved at the Union Illinois railway Muesum.... (more)

You never knew what you were going to get for a power consist in the years following the big mergers of the 90s. UP or C&NW leaders were the norm for UP trains between Ogden, Topeka and Chicago ac... (more)

BINGEN WA Sept 27 1978 — Burlington Northern GP35 2511 leads a mixed freight west on the Fallbridge Sub. Rolling trains were rare as this was in the middle of a nationwide railroad strike. My ph... (more)

SAND SPRINGS OK March 30 1980 — Sand Springs Railway SW 900 101 awaits its call to work as it sits at the engine house. The 101 was purchased by the railroad in 1956. My photo.

Burlington Northern SD40-2 6331 rolled out of General Motors Electro-Motive Division's plant in McCook, Illinois, in February 1972. (McCook, Nebraska – August 5, 1985)

CNW 6836 leads a westbound freight under the Tripoli Ave. bridge in St. Francis, WI. in December of 1991. This bridge and the Norwich bridge just south of here were well known for their steep appr... (more)

An SD60I and SD60M lead a westbound out of the encroaching shadows of an autumn afternoon as the train unwinds from Scotch Run curve, a mile east of Horseshoe. Fuji Astia.