Prominent in this photo is a once ubiquitous symbol we should have kept, and another.............

KCS 1 leads the BRUDY through Lavonia Park

The Iowa Northern's North Crew does work in the Manly Terminal. This is the farthest north the Iowa Northern goes. The Manly Yard used to be a small little operation with an interchange point wit... (more)

D&RGW FT 543 and mates lead a 65 car freight near Pinecliff in 1947. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

AC 1753 is parked at the Shops Yard engine facilities at Wisconsin Central's North Fond Du Lac yards. The unit began life in January 1957 as CN 6514, a GMD built FP9A. It came back under CN owners... (more)

Metra 90 and CNW 411 sit side by side at IRM as a CA&E interurban set departs the East Union Depot.

BN 9984 dressed in an early attempt at a BN color scheme for former CB&Q E units idles at a platform in Chicago Union Station with a "Dinky", the nickname often associated with Burlingto... (more)

Late running intermodal swings off the Roodhouse Sub toward East Saint Louis, passing the Holiday Train which was waiting for them to clear before switching out the night's display. At the time, ... (more)

Special move to Galveston Railroad Museum for delivery of their adopted "ATSF" inspired F-units.

MILW 101A leads another FP7, E9B & E9A on the Morning Hiawatha as the train glides downgrade and crosses BN's main on the approach to the Mississippi River crossing into Hastings, MN. The train ha... (more)

A four-unit FT set is seen near Mitchell Colorado with 54 cars and two helpers, 3615 and 3414, on August 1st 1948. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

I was about to give up on ever seeing a three porthole Phase I F3 when we spotted this thing. Last one also.

Two NYC E8s led by 4049 and 4069 power train 35 the Iroquois (Boston-New York-Chicago) at South Bend, Indiana on April 29, 1961. Photo by Louis A. Marre, from my collection.

CNW 205, former CGW 108C, waits alongside the diesel shops to be hostled onto a freight consist for an outbound train from Oelwein. F units were common on trains operating through Oelwein into the... (more)

BN F9A no. 840 (Northern Pacific heritage) idles outside the wood engine house at Wishram, WA, the former SP&S crew change location between Pasco and Vancouver, WA. Immediately west of Wishram the... (more)