Morning lineup outside the Ogden UP diesel shop, a GE Gas-Turbine 21, EMD E8(A) 629, GE U28C 2905 and EMD DD35A 78 on this September 07, 1966 view. Unknown photographer photo, from my slide coll... (more)

In the early 1970s, the GP38 was the dominant loco type on the old Central of Georgia main through Opelika. Boxy, black, turbo-less 2,000hp - not very exciting. Anything else was a relief, but S... (more)

I am about to run out of light on a December afternoon as a westbound train enters Sylacauga behind a GP38-2, two GP30s and a GP35.

LV Baldwin S-12 works Sayre Yard in front of the LV's beautiful station on a hot and hazy August 30, 1973. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo.

Big Boat on Belden Hill

One of the Delaware & Hudson’s U33C’s leads four Alco’s on what appears to be a northbound “salt train” that originated on the Genesee & Wyoming. ... (more)

Happened on this facility during a weekend jaunt up from Blacksburg. Did not make notes as to its location, but it was in the general vicinity of Elmore, as I recall. Maybe some N&W pros can hel... (more)

N&W 518122 was at one end of a string of about 6-8 wooden cabs shoved onto an unused track in the 'back' of the yard at Radford. Only had a few minutes so just grabbed a couple of shots. Came ba... (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.

Milwaukee Road Fairbanks-Morse Erie Built 13A 2000-hp built in 1946, with A1A-A1A wheel arrangement. Photo by J.Bailey, from my collection.

The southbound Seaboard "Silver Star" rolls through Chester, Virginia behind E7(A) 3046, E7(A) 3035 and E8(A) 3051. From my slide collection, Photographer Wiley Bryan.

A matched trio of Southern Railway GP50s hurry a hot shot freight up the Washington Division on a bitterly cold mid-winter morning. The undulating terrain of the Northern Virginia Piedmont is clea... (more)

Three SP F7's A-B-A set wearing black widow paint scheme, on helper duty at Truckee, California in January 1955. Don Hansen photo from my collection.

A gleaming set of C&O F-units in their high-wave paint scheme, on lead of the Chicago Division's freight train in this 1960 view at Hegewisch, Illinois. Photographer E.L Huddleston, from my colle... (more)

The roundhouse at Conrail’s Conway Yard is mostly empty, but the outside turntable tracks are teeming with six-axle Alco Centuries assigned to drag freight service. Colors of the Lehigh Valley, ... (more)