Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe FP45 5992 (ex-5942, nee-102), teamed with FP45s 5991 and 5998, is on the point of a 14-car Analysts' Special climbing Cajon Pass as the train heads from San Diego to Bak... (more)

Welcome Home PSU 2020, Penn State's demonstrator SD60I arrives at its new home, the Railroaders Museum in downtown Altoona. This locomotive was donated to the university by Norfolk Souther... (more)

N&W 2-8-8-2 2175 leads an eighty three car freight westward, near Salem Virginia, on July 11th 1953. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

CN finally found some people and power to run an extra plow job out of Waterloo. The crew is working drifts on the Dubuque Sub to Manchester and the Cedar Rapids Sub to Cedar Rapids. The drifting ... (more)

BNSF hostlers ride point as the Santa Fe Bicentennial SD45-2 that will eventually go to the Southern California Railway Musuem, heads to Hobart Yard, where it will ride along on a baretable train ... (more)

The daily (M-F) US Sugar/South Central Florida Express Sebring Turn passes the former Atlantic Coast Line depot in Lake Placid, Florida, on the northbound half of their journey towards Sebring fro... (more)

No. 2102 at Lake Hauto. The fans were in force! Why include them? Because they are very much a part of my experience with this great locomotive. Three of my friends are in this group.

D&RGW train 6, the Exposition Flyer, is seen west of Leyden Junction Colorado in 1947. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Brand new EMD SD75M 222 represents the Santa Fe's Superfleet series numbered ATSF 200-250 and delivered at the final stages of the BN-SF merger. They were renumbered into the 8200 series.

With the Bayview setoff complete, and the conductor and conductor trainee back on the head end, I032-04 blasts off eastbound from Dump Rd on track 1, overtaking a tied down M372-04 on track 2.

While two of Portland & Westerns 1st generation power has been retired, PNWR 1801 still trundles along the Newberg Branch. This could possibly be one of the last runs on the line and for the locom... (more)

I seem to remember a country music song with the lyric “some days are diamonds, some days are stones” Well, September 16, 2013 was a diamond for me at Helper Yard, Utah. I had driven from my r... (more)

Moffat Derailment From Gilpin County Sheriff’s Office: The Gilpin County Sheriff's Office reported Sunday that a train derailed near Pinecliffe. The sheriff's office said the r... (more)

NS 9646 is seen here at Juniata Locomotive Shop awaiting either scrap or rebuild after being involved in the July 2022 Columbia, SC derailment

BN 1991 leads a loaded coal train out of the Black Thunder mine. Returning to the main at Reno Junction. (Tom Ellis photo)