Rio Grande Alco PA-1 #6011 and F7B #5712 slowly accelerate from Denver Union Station with the southbound Royal Gorge on November 15, 1958. Photo from my slide collection, photographer Lou Schmitz.

Photo by Gary W. Zeitler, from my collection.

Union Pacific's City of Portland leaves Denver headed west, as it passes four CB&Q E's which have just delivered the California Zephyr from Chicago to Denver, heading to the 23rd Street engine te... (more)

The Crescent - behind two E8As and two FP7As - pulls away from its Tuscaloosa station stop.

The Piedmont - with its usual cut of pigs on the rear - makes its station stop at Lynchburg.

On October 27, 1965 the westbound Houston to Clovis train 75 the California Special behind Alco PA 53 and two PB's at Texico, Texas near Clovis, New Mexico. The California Special will connect wit... (more)

In the 1970s, the southbound Crescent did not get to Hattiesburg until very late in the afternoon, which could be a problem on short winter days. That's why the approach to the Leaf River Bridge ... (more)

One of the last runs of the westbound Wabash Cannonball makes a scheduled station stop in Logansport, IN likely in April of 1971, shortly prior to the Cannonball service being discontinued. Kodak ... (more)

It is still hard to believe that the Southern Crescent had to call at this pitiful remnant of Terminal Station. Built in 1909, and torn down in 1969 (just 5 years before this photo), Terminal Sta... (more)

The Rio Grande Zephyr sits proudly at Denver's Union Station during 1983, shortly prior to the DRGW discontinuing the Zephyr's passenger service in late April of that same year. I never had the op... (more)

I played 'catch the sun' all weekend on one of my few trips to Tuscaloosa way back when. As the Crescent rolled in from Birmingham, it was overcast as heck. A few minutes later, a brief sweet sp... (more)

The northbound Floridian kicks up dust as it speeds through Elmore, site of the junction with a branch to Wetumpka, the county seat. The tank cars - probably carrying chemicals needed by a local ... (more)

Two Nickel Plate Alco PA's 181-183 Blue Birds, meeting a smoking Rock Island Alco RS-3 494 near Chicago's La Salle Street Station in August 1961. Photo from my collection, Photo by Van Dusen.

A shabby ex-B&O E8A (assisted by a leased SCL E7A) is on the headend of the Floridian during its stop at Montgomery's equally shabby Union Station.