My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

A Northbound West Point Route freight heads past the depot in downtown Auburn, Alabama lead by A&WP 425 in July of 1952. Photo by J. Parker Lamb.

D&RGW train 18, The California Zephyr, is seen at Dotsero Colorado in 1952. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

When I climbed on top of this hill, I saw for the first time the Santa Fe derailment that happened just north of Highway 138 in Cajon Pass, and at first glance it looked like it was from an HO mod... (more)

A north bound UP intermodal drifts down the Tehachapi grade and around the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA while the setting winter afternoon sun glows the rocks along the hillside.

UP M-10001 is in charge of train 2, the City of Portland (6 cars), at Cheyenne Wyoming on July 7th 1935. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A Lexington Avenue Local, the 6 train, heads south from Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx to the Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall Station in Manhattan, crossing the Bronx River as it does. The Bronx River ... (more)

Norfolk Southern F7A 4271 leads the NS OCS out of Columbia, South Carolina on a dreary, ugly and rainy day in late 2014. I would not always shoot under such weather conditions back then but my son... (more)

An eastbound BNSF grain train, viewed from US Highway 2 somewhere west of Havre, MT.

Norfolk & Western 611 flies out of Goshen on a sunny October afternoon.

Steam 20

ATSF train 4, the California Limited, is seen approaching La Junta Colorado at 50 MPH on September 16th 1934. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Reading Northbound. After making its first stop in Port Clinton, PA, Reading Blue Mountain & Northern T-1 no. 2102 is seen leaving the railroad's headquarters en-route to Jim Thorpe.

Southern Railway 4501 rolls onto the turntable in Summerville, Georgia getting ready for the return trip to Chattanooga, Tennessee with the Summerville Daylight

One of the most successful stories in modern rail preservation is that of the East Broad Top in Rockhill Furnace, PA. The coal and common carrier railroad was saved from scrap in 1956 by Nick Kova... (more)