Passing Green River Butte, rising on the edge of town, a Union Pacific Quality Perishables Manifest, making its way from Roseville CA to North Platte NE, slows for a crew change. Union Pacific ET... (more)
5351, 5390, 5393, 5342 and 5369 head an eastbound loaded coal out of Hot Sulphur Springs.
Seaboard GP40's 600-650 built between 1966-1967. The GP40's brought a new color scheme to the Seaboard, but one that would last only two years. Photo of five Jolly Green Giants units taken at H... (more)
Aberdeen and Rockfish power, 73-year old GP7 no. 205, equally aged but substantially modified CF7 no. 2486, and youngster 61-yr old GP18 no. 300 rest outside the shops on a Friday afternoon. 205... (more)
Union Pacific train number eighty five, the National Parks Special, is seen near Henderson Colorado in 1953. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
Louisville & Nashville FP7 652 leads passenger train The Gulf Wind at Pensacola, FL on August 03, 1963. The Gulf Wind was a joint operation by the Louisville & Nashville and the Seaboard Railr... (more)
Martin Marietta Material Mover. Martin Marietta Materials B23-7 locomotive 427 is seen briefly outside the perimeter of the company's Ruby Quarry in Macon, GA as the crew switches track... (more)
Three hikers rest under the massive Corona Arch as Union Pacific's once weekly Potash local prepares to enter Bootlegger Canyon on the return run to Grand Jct.
With blue signal protection in place, Lancaster and Chester extra Train 10's crew awaits the all clear from maintenance personnel before moving cars around at the recently added passing track in c... (more)
A Union Pacific coal train descends the 2.29% grade at the Crater Loops running 2x2x2. This train loaded at Energy Mine on the Craig Branch and is bound for Southern Company's Plant Daniel in Miss... (more)
Bnsf 8068 races a stack train west through Fort Sumner New Mexico.
Santa Fe train number 21, El Capitan, is ascending Raton Pass west of Trinidad Colorado in 1946. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
CP ET44AC 7433 pulls into the Vaughan Intermodal Terminal.
"Down, But Not Out"
On the morning of Friday, August 9th, 2024, Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 141 collided with the rear of a tractor-trailer carrying paper rolls, which w... (more)
Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 3802 leads a 15 car Gold Coast Express (UP 2nd 24) near Hermosa Wyoming in 1952. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.