MNTX 454A now sits in the public part of the roundhouse at the Minnesota Transportation Museum. It was on the shop side but now more easily seen as it awaits for repairs/funding.

In my mind, there’s hardly anything better than a few beers around a campfire on a crisp, snowy Montana evening along the Clark Fork and Montana Rail Link’s busy Fourth Subdivision. Friends Da... (more)

CSX Grain Train Eastbound up and over the viaduct bridge in Evansville Indiana with leader CSX 914. The fields surrounding the bridge are all Soybeans this year.

A lot going on in this scene. Salt Lake Garfield & Western's blue GP9's 8223 and 8201 are seen at the far westend of their yard and trackage. Also in the picture is a 44 tonner SSR 4501. Then ther... (more)

NS trains block the main lines as they wait for fresh crews.

Engineer Russell and Fireman Kylah make it rain over the Animas River as they ease Durango-bound train 464 across High Bridge.

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)

THERE IS A PROTOTYPE FOR EVERYTHING: An International Harvester School Bus has been converted to the Silver Flyer to carry passenger on the A&SV tracks from Enterprise, KS to Woodbine, KS.

A new air compressor is installed into Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6891 inside the Backshop at UP’s Burnham Shops at Denver, Colorado, on the evening of December 17, 2015. Normally this can be... (more)

The morning Z train out of Seattle races East over the Skykomish River at the Big Eddy

A trio of former Utah Central switchers sit outside the former Union Pacific roundhouse in Evanston, Wyoming, which has been restored to its former glory by the city after serving for years as a t... (more)

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1794 and ATSF 4-8-4 3773 lead train 19, a fourteen car Chief, doing 25 MPH at Lynn New Mexico in 1945. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.

Emergency personnel on the scene after MP15AC 151 hit the ground earlier this morning. RS61 was hauling 9 freight cars west when the lead engine derailed. As per an MTA Police officer on the scene... (more)

First run with new stainless steel cars on the ATSF Super Chief, train number 17, east of Trinidad Colorado, 8 cars, 50 MPH, May 19th 1937. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

I stayed overnight in a dump of a motel, got up a 4:45 AM, got soaked in the rain, drove 400 miles round trip, spent hundreds of dollars, and after waiting 27 years, was it worth it?

You bet you... (more)