The Rio Puerco River was running muddy as Santa Fe Train 1, San Francisco Chief, crossed it westbound on Aug. 8, 1970, after leaving Albuquerque, about 34 miles back.

No safety vests were required on a hot summer day - or any day - back in 1974. One of the few RS-1s to get orange and white leads two unrepainted Alcos as they put together a train for the Prattv... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

The George Washington A Roger Puta Photograph

During our brief visit to the Indiana and Ohio in Brookville, Indiana, a mechanic showed up and brought the Lima switcher to life to work on the prime mover. Although the switcher didn’t move, i... (more)

Back when Cleburne was the place to be another local eases out of town with Fs in their next to last incarnation, at least of John Santa Fe.

An ex-Pennsy caboose brings up the rear of a ballast train as it wends its way westward on the Columbia & Port Deposit Branch in the vast amphitheater of the Susquehanna Valley. The train is cros... (more)

Union Pacific was an early customer for General Electric’s new U25B line of 2,500-hp diesels, acquiring 16 of the units including the four demonstrators starting in 1961. Eleven had short high h... (more)

Just a shell of how this yard use to be. Looking west at the Smith Creek Yard in Clifton Forge, not much remains except the C&O Heritage Center. The equipment pictured, in various states of repa... (more)

I shot the westbound Norfolk & Western Y-6 2-8-8-2 with auxiliary tender from the 5th St. bridge over the Roanoke yard.

Battered and dirty, still equipped with the old "honker" horns and the jaunty bell, this old cab unit is again ready to venture into the north woods in search of traffic.

BN 640 heads up an interesting mixture of former Great Northern and Northern Pacific F units at the Belknap St. roundhouse in Superior, WI, September 1970, about six months after the BN merger. Th... (more)

The E-8's are entering Red Bank from New York City on the New Jersey Coast Line (NY&LB). I was a daily commuter 1969-1995 and sometimes shot photos of my trains on days off.

Blue hour relic. Cushing Stone 264 is one of only 11 EMD Model 40's built. This unit sits at an active stone quarry along Rt5s in Upstate NY. The unit has been inactive for a number of years as it... (more)

NYSW 3004 leading a northbound near Norwood, NY || June 1983