PUEBLO CO June 16 1973 — Rio Grande SD9 5313 leads a caboose hop as it travels south. My photo.

It’s a stark winter day in central Illinois as a westbound Santa Fe intermodal train, powered by five EMD GP60Ms, rolls west of Chillicothe on the short climb over Edelstein Hill on February 16,... (more)

The Tunnel Motors were designed to keep units from overheating in tunnels and snowsheds like those on Donner Pass. The tunnel motor design was applied to 245 SP-SSW SD45T-2s and 239 SP-SSW and... (more)

Intermodal, 1970s Style!

A westbound Southern Pacific intermodal train, full of those "long" 40' containers (two per 89' flat!) has just crossed the Santa Fe's Third District. T... (more)

Back in 1994 DRGW 5404 heads a train climbing the Tennessee Pass as it nears Leadville.

At Dallas Union Station AT&SF E3A #11 built in 1941 and two of the 1953 rebuilt E8M's 82A-83 arrived at Dallas on No.11 KANSAS CITIAN, at 7:50 am December 21, 1962, after a 1083 mile trip that ... (more)

Other than the little bridge over the creek and the downtown buildings in the distance, this was a pretty nondescript spot. In spite of that, it was one of the busier railroad locations in August... (more)

THE SEMINOLE arrives in Effingham on a cold morning behind a GofG E8 and two IC E9A units. It is crossing the Pennsylvania Railroad's Panhandle Line here and the Pennsy's position light signals ca... (more)

A pair of PRR RS-3's units 8435 and 8597 bring a local freight into the west end of Brockway on the Erie to Williamsport Line, in September 1963. From my collection, Photo by R. Malinoski.

Old ATSF Roundhouse at Bakersfield, as seen from the backside

One of WP's final F7A's running down the Altamont pass en route to the Bay Area

D&H PA-1s 16, 17 and 18 at South Station, Boston Mass. on Oct. 8 1977. The PAs were leased by the power-short MBTA in 1977-78 for commuter train service.

Chesapeake & Ohio E7A 4514 arrived at Detroit's Union Station at 10:30am with train 14 the morning "Pere Marquette" from Grand Rapids. Later after its arrival, E7A 4514 is making a ba... (more)

Alco RS-3's were re-engined with 12 cylinder EMD 567 power plants, and were known as RS-3m's or GP12's. They had a very distinctive three-stack manifold that was fabricated by MoPac at North Lit... (more)

With the notable Castle Rock landmark in the background, Santa Fe No.200 rolls northbound on March 30, 1967. E8M #81 was rebuilt in 1953 from #2B, a 1937 model E1. Santa Fe owned the entire pr... (more)