CSX's Metropolitan Subdivision sees a familiar friend once again, Chessie the railroad kitten. CSX's Chessie System Heritage Unit 1973, brightens up the rainy night as it leads mixed freight M4152... (more)

By the generosity of the Norfolk Southern our club was provided a tour of the then new yard. In a view from the tower we see some power moving cars around in the yard.

VGN 2-8-8-2s 739 and 710 are seen leaving Page West Virginia with a freight in 1953. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Morant's Curve (named to honor Canadian Pacific photographer Nicholas Morant [June 29, 1910 - March 13, 1999]) is best for eastbound trains … and, naturally, we got a westbound (CPKC 301, a grai... (more)

Hazy Day On The Sunflour Railroad. Built for what would become the Soo Line Railroad, the modern day Sunflour Railroad (reporting marks SNR) functions as a car storage line with no active c... (more)

Only just an hour into the northbound Coast Starlight’s journey, disaster has struck. A large truck was fouling the single main around 11:15 AM Wednesday morning when Amtrak #14 came through at ... (more)

Rolling through Sandwich, Illinois on October 01, 1959 a westbound Burlington freight is propelled by a trio of Chinese Red high-nose SD24's on the point. Here U.S. Route 34 parallels the CB&Q m... (more)

BN 6004 was Balmer Yard's principal hump engine in the mid-70s. The unit was GN's fifth SD7, part of a fleet of 23 SD7s and 27 SD9s, most of which were assigned to Minnesota. I enjoyed several eve... (more)

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)

ATSF 575 leading an eastbound Q train takes five at Joliet near Union Station while the Employee Passenger Special gets under way just ahead of it. Soon both trains will be headed for Corwith Yard... (more)

An ABBA set of what was once common freight power leads a Santa Fe freight through Oklahoma City on the elevated portion of track over the Rock Island and Frisco. Taken by Frank Tribbey. Patrick M... (more)

Tilted wafer logo. CN 3309 has recently had a vintage CN logo added to its long hood, sometimes referred to as the tilted wafer logo. Here it is on the tail end of CN 120, along with... (more)

Under the fog shrouded coastal hills, southbound Union Pacific SD70M No. 4404 leads a Directors Special along the beach at Emma Wood State Park.

CSX's Monon and New York Central heritage units depart Nashville with train M21227 after a crew change at Kayne Avenue, passing the historic L&N Union Station.

It's 2003 but you would never know it. The employees in Helper, Utah keep the Rio Grande alive as long as they could. D&RGW 5349, 5354, and 5390. near the end of the Sunnyside Branch with a loaded... (more)