Recently restored Santa Fe Bicentennial unit 5704 poses near Kansas City Union Station on Flag Day, on display during the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society convention.

An otherwise nice broadside of the Seaboard Coast Line U36B 1776, the first of hundreds of locomotives painted for the American Bicentennial in the 1970s and operating an all-Bicentennial train (2... (more)

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Delaware & Hudson painted two locomotives in a patriotic red, white and blue paint scheme: U23B 1776 and RS-3 ... (more)

My father took this picture of freshly painted BN Bicentennial SDP40 1976 in the Twin Cities in 1975. I recall that he had this photo enlarged into a color print so that I could take it to my kin... (more)

In August 1980, we ran across this Bicentennial GE 44-tonner at a quarry in Bellevue, Ohio. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo.

My father got this early Conrail photo in the Allentown Engine Terminal. D&H RS-3u (aka Morrison Knudsen model TE56-4A rebuild of RS-3 with a 251 engine) 1976 sits in the engine terminal with Con... (more)

New SP GP40P-2 3197 leads bi-levels on commuter train #112 near San Francisco, CA in 1976. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo.

"Boston Bug" One of Boston's many railroad oddities - AARX 101218, a remote-controlled ALCO 125 Ton switcher sits dormant at Ciment Québec, a local industry in Everett's Coke Wo... (more)

After arriving at UP's Argo Yard, Seattle, the quartet of E units that will head the Old Timers' Special east, have cut off their train and are being positioned at the diesel facility for their ov... (more)

UP GP30 842 along with a GP30B & SD24B hold at Black River Jct., Seattle, WA, while a UP deadhead move rolls by with UP E9A 951, The Preamble Express, trailing. The deadhead move will leave the fo... (more)

Santa Fe Railway’s flagship freight train, the hot Super C, has just begun its daily high-speed trip from Los Angeles to Chicago with a load of piggyback trailers on flat cars. One of th... (more)

On August 25, 2021, “The Patriot” pulls two cabooses on a special run over museum trackage at Pueblo, Colorado. This bright paint scheme and Colorado & Wyoming Railway No. 102 have quite the h... (more)

The American Freedom train arrived in southern California on December 22, 1975, and the train was on display at the Los Angeles County Fair Grounds from the 23rd until the 30th. In the midst of A... (more)

D&H Alco Rs3u 1976 painted Red white and blue for the Bicentennial.. at the Belt railway of Chicago Clearing yard on display for the NMRA national convention along with others form other railroad... (more)

Indiana Harbor Belt GP38-2 3800 shows off its new-ish Veterans paint scheme at the railroad’s Gibson Yard. This engine was built as Penn Central 8066, later becoming Conrail 8066, and then Norf... (more)