Originally PC. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

A grain extra on the Emporia Secondary in charge of one of the units originally ordered by Autotrain and no taken. Photo by Mike Dolenski, from my collection.

An early version of the model, originally NYC, is heading a string of somewhat more drab units. Photo by Mike Dolenski, from my collection.

WB DAPX hopper train approaching the cliffs. Photo by Jim Satterwhite.

This is a UP passenger special turning on the wye. Photo by Mike Dolenski, from my collection.

You can almost hear the clang, clang, clang of that gong bell as this freight moves by in the late afternoon sun. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Working a customer, with a string of second handers, out on the plains is typical Northwestern. Photo by unknown, from my collection.

A regular denizen of the area, this former Southern SD24 is hauling a big string of cars by the bluffs, one more time. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Missing number boards and one porthole but still the grand old profile. Photo by unknown, probably Gary Zeitler. From my collection.

Looks a little naked without any number boards up there in front but it is a famous face in the service of the big city as one of its stablemates demonstrates.

That green varied a great deal over the years and on different units. The unit started on NYC, then went to PC, then CR and ended up at the Alco orphanage. Photo by Mike Dolenski, from my collec... (more)

Photo by Gary Zeitler, from my collection.

Photo by unknown, from my collection.

From my collection. Photo by Mike Dolenski.

Cedar Valley Railroad unit "bug eye" is a ex-IC unit that looks like a GP10 but was never renumbered. Curious. Photo by unknown, from my collection.