Fresh out of the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's San Bernardino Shops are two SDF40-2 locomotives. These were former Amtrak SDP40Fs that the ATSF acquired 18 of in a trade for 43 switchers. ... (more)

NS 5825 rolling coal at the diesel shop

In the last year of Monon's small passenger business, high-nose Alco Century 420's 501, 502 and 503 took over for the twenty year old F's. On May 25, 1967 Monon's number 5 departs Chicago's IC ... (more)

As the sun rises over the mountains burning off an early morning fog, a pair of switching crews work simultaneously in the CSX Cumberland yard with classic EMD leaders.

Memories of Former Glory. The Railroading Heritage of Midwest America's Centennial unit poses with the recently repainted Santa Fe 537 during a night shoot.

Missouri Pacific 4602 is at the headend of a trio of RS-11s running westbound through Kirkwood, Missouri on August 14, 1960. After purchasing something near a legion of GP7's and GP9's the order... (more)

FC 6974 ex BNSF SD40M at Yetter, IA.

UP 9014 leads eighty cars eastbound, near Laramie Wyoming, in 1929. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Missouri Pacific Baldwin DR-4-4-1500 #207 babyface style carbody built in late 1948 at Omaha, Nebraska on March 31, 1951. These units would not m-u with any other power, and so were destined to... (more)

C&EI GP7 71 (originally numbered 206) with a lone ERIE 40ft box car and C&EI Caboose 438, crossing the Chicago 21st street diamonds on June 2, 1968. The C&EI had 30 GP7's (203-232) easily their... (more)

The "Train du Désert" with GPL-15T BB # 207 stands in the stub track of the Boulenouar station on PK 96 of the 650 kilometer long railway line from Nouadhibou to Zouérate. It will depa... (more)

CSX 2024 Santa Train passing the turntable at Dante Yard

Chicago to St. Louis Abraham Lincoln with UP coaches

An unidentified Conrail freight train passes through Metropark in Iselin NJ on February 11, 1979, under the power of a pair of E44 electrics. I had no idea at this time that these motors only had ... (more)

Every now & then in this hobby you get to see someone famous riding the rails, this day it was Jay Leno riding in the cab of UP's "Big Boy" #4014 across western Iowa during their Heartla... (more)