ATSF 3940 is seen in mid-train helper service, near Pine Lodge California, on April 26th 1933, during The Great Depression. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1793 and ATSF 4-8-4 3782 lead a 15 car Chief, train 19, west of Trinidad Colorado on April 9th 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF train number 21, El Capitan, is seen near Wootton Colorado in 1944. ATSF 1797 and ATSF E6, number 13, have thirteen cars in tow doing 25 MPH on rugged Raton Pass. Otto Conrad Perry photo from... (more)

ATSF 920 and EMC E1 number 6 lead train 21, a five car El Capitan doing 35 MPH on the east side of Raton Pass near Starkville Colorado, in 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.

An east bound reefer block train is seen ascending Cajon Pass, near Pine Lodge, with 71 cars at 20 MPH. Helper locomotives 3940 and 3895 are visible in the distance. From my collection, Otto Conra... (more)

Long and lean, these beasts shove the train over the hill while the rear brakeman glances at the onlookers from the cabin window.

Northern Pacific Extra 7005A-West, with four F9's between Livingston and Muir a distance of 12 miles, require helpers in this area. Extra 7005A has the assistance of a pair of GP9s 272 and 300 on... (more)

N&W 2150 is the second engine of two Y6 types on an eastbound freight passing the Blue Ridge, Va. station. Y6 2150 was different from others in having aftercooler piping on the boiler as can be se... (more)

N&W Y6b 2179 pushes an eastbound coal drag and is about to pass under the wooden road bridge at Blue Ridge.

My father and I spent the day just east of Roanoke and there are Kodachromes of mine from that day elsewhere on the website. Y6a 2156 is assisting class A 1212 on eastbound coal and I'm there next... (more)

At the PRR's Hawthorne Yards, old and new steamers could be found working together on a daily basis. On this day, an H10S was seen passing through the yard in tandem with a J1.

A SD-40 and SD-45 are shoving hard on the tail end of a westbound freight as it grinds its way up the eastern slope of the Alleghenies.

Shoving hard on the tail-end CR 6341 and SD45-2 6655 are knuckled onto a CR bay-window caboose, westbound up Horseshoe Curve.

The summit of the Alleghenies is just a few miles away but there's still hard work to be done as an SD35/SD45 pusher set shoves on the rear of an eastbound Penn Central mixed freight at Cresson, P... (more)

Midway between the apex of Horseshoe Curve and MG Interlocking, an SD45/SD40 helper duo lends a strong assist to symbol freight PG-3 as it climbs the mountain on No.3 track in McGinley's Curve. Th... (more)