NC&St.L F3A 806 with F7B 842 are being eased onto the turntable at Atlanta in November 1955. Photo by Henry Libby from my collection.

Five NC&StL F7's in the lead of a long manifest, preparing to leave Memphis, Tennessee on February 15, 1959. A Hugh Comer photo, from my collection.

Tennessee Central Railway Alco FA-1 801 at Nashville Yard on April 8, 1966. Photo from my collection, no photographer information on slide.

Visits to Lamberts Point, Virginia in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s usually were rewarded with veteran Alco locomotives of several types working around Norfolk & Western’s coal piers. Fir... (more)

GTW SD40 5924 built 1970, with GTW GP38AC 6207 (former DT&I 207) at Moline, Ohio in April 1987.

Burlington Northern SD9 6124 in hump service at Pasco WA July 1972. The 6124 was built as Great Northern 597 in April 1958 and retired in October 1983. Vincent Porrecca Photo from my Collection.

Burlington Northern SD7 6006 in hump service at Pasco WA July 1972. Built in May 1952 as Great Northern 556 and retired in September 1983. This SD7 has left its home rails on the old GN Mesabi Div... (more)

An ABBBA set of F7s leads a train out of Dearborn Station in Chicago, IL. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

Western Maryland F7(A) 238 and 61. No photographer listed on slide.

Many of these wooden bridges around the upstate of South Carolina have been closed in the last few years. This one over the former Piedmont and Northern has been a target for me since acquiring t... (more)

This crew is getting underway westbound on the tough Charleston & Western Carolina, but they have 18,000hp (three SCL SD45s and two Clinchfield SD45-2s) to ease their pain. I was led to understan... (more)

Second-generation B-Bs from EMD and GE team-up to take a freight south to Mobile.

Wish I had spent more time on the old B&O West End. A westbound hopper train is leaving M&K Jct. as it crosses the twin Warren truss bridges above Cheat River. In November of 1985, both bridges we... (more)

Monon 502 leads a Louisville to Chicago freight off the K&IT bridge and onto Vincennes Street in New Albany, Indiana where the train will spend much of the next two miles of its journey navigating... (more)

In Amtrak's early days, the Floridian was generally short enough to be handled by a single E, like this B&O hand-me-down getting its windshield cleaned. The train would grow for a couple years, t... (more)