The Santa Fe Super Chief is seen at Albuquerque New Mexico in 1943. Note the wartime headlight visor on the EMC E6. Jack Delano photo, from the Library of Congress collection and my collection.

Running light after making a delivery at Speed LIRC's 2301 races back to its Jeffersonville yard passing the Clark County airport.

One of the seven Amtrak Platinum Mist GG-1s is southbound rounding the big superelevated curve north of Aberdeen's Amtrak station in March 1978- not long before the installation of concrete ties o... (more)

Urban Lifesaver | Passing through a derelict area of inner-city Kansas City, MO, Amtrak's Operation Lifesaver unit leads the eastbound Southwest Chief. Having just departed KC Union Station... (more)

ATSF Dash 9-44CW 616 and Dash 8-40CW 865, running light, head west to Los Angeles. These two Santa Fe diesels have yet to be marked with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway reporting marks, as t... (more)

ATSF 128 and 112, both GP60Ms, face off at Corwith Yard, Chicago between runs to the West Coast.

Class Dash 8-40BW, ATSF 500, gets a roll on it as it proceeds by Union Station at Joliet with an intermodal hotshot out of Corwith Yard, Chicago. Everything is better with a warbonnet on it!

Midnight Blue And A Blue Sky. Amtrak 100 (P42DC, 50th Anniversary, Midnight Blue) is in a unique paint scheme that represents the "commitment of our employees moving people around the ... (more)

So, this is where things are at right now in terms of road power. On this date, three fuel tenders were not in use, stored under the shed in Bowden, the future of the LNG program "under revi... (more)

The Pennsylvania RR heritage leads a New Orleans-Macon freight past a Christmas Tree Farm.

The Oneida & Western "Green Train" passes through Atlanta with four matching SD40-2's built to L&N specs. Photo by Richard Thomason.

#430 is easing down across the bridge as, around the corner at Moultrie Junction, they will get on the Wilbur Wright Industrial Lead and take the remnants of the old main line (to Palatka) to serv... (more)

Descending Lightly. CSX AC44CW no.s 465 and 487 are seen alone descending down the Hell Gate Bridge approach, crossing the Astoria Line at Astoria-Ditmars Blvd station. The two locomoti... (more)

Santa Fe had visions of a company museum, and was wise enough to hang onto a variety of locomotives with that in mind. It never happened, of course, and the collection was donated to the Californ... (more)

CSXT 1897 "Monon" and 1853 "New York Central" leads train M20826 through the small town of Wadley, AL early in the morning.