Kansas Prairie Dawn. Just minutes after sunrise, an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe local makes its way across the Kansas prairie east of Abilene, with a few passengers, some small freight item... (more)

Reading 2102 opens its cylinder cocks as it departs Port Clinton with its excursion.

Night Hostler Richard Butterworth keeps Reading 2102 hot for its excursion in the early morning hours.

Trem Caiçara, a tourist train operated by ABPF-PR.

Nicely restored steam locomotive RVRR 15 sits on display at Steamtown National Historic Site on a nice Sunday afternoon.

Southern Pacific 4-8-8-2 number 4190 heads east with SP 3rd 824, a 76 car freight, at Los Angeles California in 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

SP cab-forward 4135 leads 61 cars westbound at 10 MPH, after exiting a snowshed in the vicinity of Donner Pass, on August 4th 1935. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SP Daylight, 2nd 99, is seen at the Third & Townsend Street station in San Francisco California on July 26th 1939. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SP cab-forward 4119 leads The Owl, SP 2nd 26, at Los Angeles California on May 4th 1934. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

AT&SF train number 74 is seen leaving Los Angeles California in 1934. ATSF 4-6-2 1342 is sporting some unusual looking marker light brackets as it leads three cars at 15 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry pho... (more)

Pacific Coast 2-8-0 number 106 leads five cars northbound at 25 MPH on the narrow gauge line near Santa Maria California in 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

D&RGW train number 1, the Scenic Limited, is seen at Ogden Utah on July 30th 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Atlanta & West Point #280 leaves Auburn, Alabama in October of '52. The A&WP owned two of these Lima-built Pacific's, the #280 and the #290, and while the #280 is long gone, the #290 still survive... (more)

Philadelphia & Reading 4-6-0 "Camelback" number 600 is seen leading two cars at 25 MPH near Albion New Jersey on August 11th 1932. Thank you, Gord Young from Peterborough Canada, for the very inte... (more)

PRR 2-8-2 1319 leads an eastbound freight at 40 MPH near Stelton New Jersey on August 19th 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.