Chicago and North Western 401 is an F7(A) unit built in 1949. It served the CNW for 47 years before being retired in 1996. It now sits in the yard at the Union Pacific's roundhouse in Cheyenne, ... (more)

Three generations of EMD Diesel-electric power are nicely lined up in Asheville - FP7 3499, GP30 2562 and SD60 6584. The FP7 had been Southern's 6147 and four of these units will pull an excursion... (more)

An A-A-B-A set of Santa Fe F7 units sits with an eastbound freight in Slaton, Texas while a westbound is ready to go and a Baldwin switcher stands nearby. Slaton was about 17 miles from Lubbock w... (more)

At Dallas Union Station AT&SF E3A #11 built in 1941 and two of the 1953 rebuilt E8M's 82A-83 arrived at Dallas on No.11 KANSAS CITIAN, at 7:50 am December 21, 1962, after a 1083 mile trip that ... (more)

This beautifully restored unit unit handles the museum train. The MARC control cab still looks is on display.

Wabash Railroad FA1 1202A and its mates are seen in the yard at Peru Indiana in 1959. From my collection, Dennis Schmidt photo.

New York & Lake Erie's classic MLW & ALCO diesels sit side by side before a long day of activities for a private photo charter.

Wyoming and Colorado FP7s 1510 and 1512 await their next excursion from Laramie in 1994.

B80-G515-G521 with 9564 up Long Island steel train at Chelsea.

Note the front truck placement, which was significantly different on later models.

At the last spot of our chase and after a crew change, we caught both CP's presidential train and CP 251 which was waiting for the highest priority train on CP's system to clear the tracks.

THE SEMINOLE arrives in Effingham on a cold morning behind a GofG E8 and two IC E9A units. It is crossing the Pennsylvania Railroad's Panhandle Line here and the Pennsy's position light signals ca... (more)

An Alco FA unit and a Baldwin AS-16 sit at Joplin. Mo. Both have been re-engined with EMD prime movers. I was a newly-minted USAF pilot driving on leave from Lubbock, TX to Hackensack, NJ.

Boston and Maine E7 3801 sits at Springfield on a Saturday. My father had driven us there so that my sister could visit Mt. Holyoke College and dropped me off by the railroad, of course.

“Don’t Judge a Book…”
“WM”/MMID 97A (ex-MILW 97A), attired in Western Maryland speed lettering, rests at the Union Bridge shops on a Sunday in mid-October, 1985. Despite its... (more)