Belton RR 504, a 600-hp EMD SW-1, came off TRRA in St. Louis, and was doing its work at Smith, Texas on March 16, 1972.

What is it? Numberless 50-ton Atlas diesel, one of two built in the early 1940's for the U.S. Navy with side rods and radial couplers, was working for Georgetown Railroad at Georgetown, Texas on... (more)

A Davenport 390-hp Cooper-Bessemer 45-toner --- only nine of them ever built for the U.S. Army in 1942. All of them wound up in private service as this No. 503 working for Texas Construction Mat... (more)

Smoky Mountain's 44-ton GE, appropriately numbered 440, handles pulpwood at Sevierville, Tenn. on July 11, 1957.

Eureka Springs & North Arkansas 2-6-0 Nos. 1 and 201 were tied at at Eureka Springs, Ark. on Sept. 20, 1994. While this year's NRHS Convention in the Ozarks will feature a dinner train on the ES... (more)

St. Joseph Terminal EMD switcher No. 2 handles Santa Fe's Combine 2415 in the yard at St. Joseph, Mo. ATSF mixed train service 73-miles from its mainline at Henrietta, Mo. to St. Joseph was fast... (more)

Kentucky & Indiana Terminal 1000-hp Fairbanks-Morse H-10-44's, including No.s 55 and 59, have tied up for the day on July 14, 1961 at Louisville, Ky. [The Southern Ry. bay window caboose... (more)

Roscoe Snyder & Pacific 600, SW-1500, kicks west Texas dust off the right of way tumbleweeds amid the cotton fields at Roscoe on Oct. 17, 1989 as it delivers repaired cars back to the U.P. The 3... (more)

Controlled by an SD40 DPU, two more brand new SD45s and the 3075 SD40 are mid-train helpers on UP 3622 West out of Rawlins, Wyo.

Probably when they were the darlings of the U. P. railroad, four brand new SD45's hustle a westbound out of Rawlins, Wyo. on May 11, 1968. But the fuel-guzzling V-20s eventually turned sentiment... (more)

Two UP Century DD40A-X's are assisted by an SD24B and a GP30 up Cajon grade at Devore, Calif. on April 30, 1976. UP operates on AT&SF (new BNSF) trackage rights over Cajon Summit all the way to D... (more)

On Union Pacific's original transcontinental mainline, SD70M 5022 urges freight eastward through Echo Canyon, Utah near Emory, on Sept. 29, 2005.

Traipsing through the blooming rabbitbrush, UP 5505 C45AC ushers an eastbound hotshot through Echo Canyon, Utah on Sept. 29, 2005.

Fifty years ago on the shortest day of 1963, D&RGW 488 makes a gallant showing as it climbs out of New Mexico into Colorado with the 3rd Cumbres Turn. At Cumbres Pass the three sections of frei... (more)

Looking like a fire truck just out of the paint shop, MKT's GP-7 105 leads its tonnage southward 25 miles out of Kansas City on SLSF track at Moss, Kansas, Feb. 5, 1967. The two Alco FA's will ... (more)