On a cool, grey first day of spring, CP 2816 passes Netook Siding as it heads south on the Red Deer Sub.

The Royal Hudson steam locomotive #2860 is shunting at the Vancouver North yard before hauling its train to Squamish. Unfortunately, this beautiful engine is no more in operation today. The Royal... (more)

BCOL 2860, The Royal Hudson, exits a tunnel at MP 20, Tunnel Point, just north of Brunswick Beach, BC, along Howe Sound. The train is making its return trip from Squamish back to North Vancouver w... (more)

Santa Fe train number 4, the California Limited, is seen approaching Lamar Colorado in 1950. ATSF 3455 is coupled to EMD F3A number 24. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

CPKC giving their steam engine a shakedown run seen hear heading south on the Red Deer Sub.

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

With the skyline of Alberta's Capital City providing the backdrop, The Empress shoves into the rarely used South Edmonton Yard. The rails end about a mile north of here, by the old CPR South Edmon... (more)

On a cool October morning, CP 2816 blasts out of Edmonton, bound for Calgary with CPKC 40B-18. The Empress put on quite a show on the first trip back to Alberta's Capital City and drew large crow... (more)

C&O 490 on display at the B&O Railroad Museum.

The Empress is back! CP 2816 rolls into Okotoks, Alberta on a beautiful summer morning.

CP 2816 and CP 4106 highball over the Little Bow River in Carmangay, Alberta on a test run from Calgary to Lethbridge.

Royal Hudson.A long time resident of Exporail in Dleson, Quebec, Canadian Pacific 2850 (4-6-4, MLW, 1938) is known as a "Royal Husdon" because it pulled the train of King George V... (more)

AT&SF 4-6-4 3456 leads train 2, The Scout, at Wichita Kansas in May of 1940. Note the clanging bell, and rods down, at 25 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF 4-6-4 3459 is leaving Denver with a six car train on May 23rd 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.