A set of C&O E units taken from the Roosevelt Road overpass on Kodachrome II film with an old Kodak Rangefinder camera. I was 17 at this time :).

PRR 5901 glistens as the late afternoon sun shines on her lighting her up as she show of her fresh waxing in preperation for upcoming NS days 6/1 & 6/2. All the locomotives are starting to be pre... (more)

Looking out over the nose of L&N E7 760, this is the view from the fireman’s seat as train 6, the New Orleans-Cincinnati “Humming Bird” approaches its final stop at CUT in the Queen City. Th... (more)

Riding a Pitcairn local, an eastbound headed by an EP40 passes us.

This is a staged L&N p.r. photo. The young girl waving to the engineer is standing alongside the double-tracked main line to Nashville--a few miles south of Louisville--for no apparent reason. Thi... (more)

This slide has been in my collection for many years, though I regrettably do not know the identity of the photographer. The scene is L&N’s old Canal Street station in the “Big Easy”—New Or... (more)

Seaboard Coast Line passenger, mail, & express train No. 3 is making fast time approaching Franklinton, NC in February 1968. The consist of No. 3 has diminished considerably by this date and the ... (more)

On a summer day in 1959, we’re roaring down the L&N’s “Short Line” between Cincinnati and Louisville in the cab of E7 760. This wonderful photo by my long-time friend Charlie Castner was t... (more)

It's very late in the day as E7A 557 and another roll into Petersburg with the Birmingham-bound SILVER COMET.

It's 12:01pm at Raleigh, NC and passenger, mail, and express train No. 4 has just released brakes and begun it's northward roll towards Richmond, Va. E7 3034 leads an SDP35 and a typical consist ... (more)

A classic small town scene in Upper Michigan with a passenger train and REA trucks. I shot this on Kodachrome II film at the age of 15. Everything in this photo is now gone - the engines, station ... (more)

The Texas Special is southbound leaving Austin.

Southbound passenger train at the Station in Dwight, IL. Taken on Kodachrome II film with a Miranda G camera.

The southbound Sunshine Special had to cross the Colorado River. Yes, there is a Colorado River in Texas. The Austin skyline in 1947 was dominated by the University of Texas Tower and the dom... (more)

B&O E7 #74 at Cumberland, MD in July 1955. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.