Never mind that Santa Fe’s southward local out of Topeka has three Fairbanks-Morse diesels on it, dig the price of gasoline at far right — 28.9 cents a gallon on March 27, 1965! Two H16-44s h... (more)

Of the ten Baldwin switchers retired on this May 29, 1965 at Santa Fe’s Argentine yard in Kansas City, some were traded in to EMD or GE for new power and some were scrapped after 20+ years of se... (more)

E6 No. 11, with E8 and E6 B units, awaits its afternoon call as new EMD SD45 demonstrator 434C and test car stand ready for their next run at Santa Fe’s Argentine yard diesel facility on May 29,... (more)

Santa Fe’s Train 31 south out of La Junta, Colo. gets freight rolling among the semaphores at Ormega. An Alco RSD-7 leads two RSD-5s as they head for Raton Pass on April 23, 1967.

To show switching crews as well as shippers and customers how damaging coupling impacts at higher speeds can be, Canadian National rebuilt a 40-ft. box car with plexiglass and equipped with a big ... (more)

With two GP40’s MILW 2015 West was en route to Kansas City and met an eastbound train at Chillicothe, Missouri on July 31, 1980.

Ever seen the swarm of electric locomotives that guide and tow ships through the Panama Canal? These are the first two on this port side of a container ship; there are probably six others attach... (more)

Obviously a Paducah graduate, Panama Canal Ry. Geep 1855 had its nose in the sunshine at the Colon Shops on the north or Atlantic end of the line.

MILW’s track inspector was patrolling the mainline of the Milwaukee at Kohrs, Montana, on Aug. 15, 1979. Sharp eyes will note the green block signal on NP’s adjacent mainline, under the “Sâ... (more)

Through a forest of telephone and former catenary poles, MILW 169 East crosses the Northern Pacific at Sinclair, Montana on Aug. 14, 1979, about 8 miles east of Deer Lodge. NP’s route of the â€... (more)

Milwaukee’s local was passing M.P. 48 near Purdue, Idaho on the 72-mile Bovill branch, returning back to the mainline at St. Maries with a load of logs and lumber on Aug. 16, 1977. Many of the... (more)

Two EMD A units separated by an Alco FA, rush a MoPac red ball freight onward toward St. Louis on June 3, 1961. A weed sprayer work train on the Cotton Belt RR was in the clear near Paragrould, ... (more)

A matched A-B-B-A set of four Alco FA units urge Missouri Pacific tonnage westward on Cotton Belt trackage rights at Campbell, Mo. on June 23, 1961.

MoPac’s eastbound Missouri River Eagle has shrunk to three cars on Sept. 24, 1967 as it sails into Pleasant Hill, Mo., headed for St. Louis. Two T&P E-8’s have replaced the E-7’s; No. 34 ... (more)

Two E-7s zip eastbound Train 16 into Pleasant Hill, Mo. on its way from Omaha to St. Louis on Aug. 28, 1965. It was still named the Missouri River Eagle, and E-7 No. 19 was formerly the 7010, no... (more)