MKT 105 South, with two GP-7's and two re-engined Alco FA's, gets a roll on southbound freight 17 miles out of Kansas City, Mo. on Feb. 5, 1967. Those aren't MKT CTC signals between Lenexa and ... (more)

On the line between Houston and Waco, MKT GP40s charge southbound by the depot at Bastrop, Texas which looks like it could use a paint job. The clear order board indicates there were no train or... (more)

An A-B-B-A set of MKT F units hauls southward tonnage at Sterrett between Dallas and Waxahachie, Texas on Sept. 3, 1966. The Katy had a mixture of diesels equipped with steam boilers for passen... (more)

MKT 206 North climbs through Heidenheimer, Texas, as it has detoured 117 miles over the AT&SF from Sealy and has only six more miles before returning to home rails at Temple. Note two tri-leve... (more)

On a brisk Dec. 21, 1963 at Chama, N.M., D&RGW 2-8-2 493 has another Mikado, 488, in tow as the two of them head for the wye to turn and then take a 3rd cut of cars up to Cumbres Pass summit, and ... (more)

Having just left Chama, N.M., D&RGW 488 (with a helper on the rear) gets a run at Cumbres grade with the second turn of the day, Dec. 20, 1963. In those days it usually required three trains to ... (more)

50 years ago D&RGW's eastbound freight led by Mikado 493 took water at Gato, Colo. between Durango and Chama on Dec. 19, 1963. It was the last winter D&RGW operated its narrow gauge lines, and th... (more)

UP's depot and hotel at Kelso, Calif. was placed on the Register of National Historic Places, and the trees were cut down, the sod, brick platform and lamps were ripped out and replaced with a ste... (more)

One of the last passenger trains to pass Kelso was Amtrak's short-lived "Vegas Celebrity Train" which ran sporadically between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Behind an SDP40 and three F units, the tr... (more)

A solitary double-deck, cab-control coach leads Milwaukee's amply-powered commuter train at Grays Lake, Illinois, on Aug. 12, 1964, as it is about to cross the Soo Line. How would you like to be ... (more)

MILW Little Joe E76 powers up and leads three SD40-2s (3009, 3018, 3000) eastward out of St. Regis, Montana across the namesake St. Regis River on August 9, 1973. Following the river was the Nor... (more)

After Milwaukee Road abandoned its western electrification and took down the catenary, Extra 21 East with four SD-40-2s recharges the brake line after making a pick-up at Avery, Idaho on July 19, ... (more)

Where electrics formerly ruled, Milwaukee Road Extra 21 East was reaching for the sky near Adair, Idaho on July 19, 1978 as it climbed the 1.7% grade toward St. Paul Pass and Montana in the Bitte... (more)

MILW Little Joe electric E73 catches some ZZZZs in the Deer Lodge roundhouse on Aug. 4, 1973. Ordered and built for Russia, but never delivered because of tensions, the streamlined GE electrics ... (more)

Box cab electric helpers were not always placed mid-train in Milwaukee's eastbound freights climbing the 1.6% continental divide out of Butte up to Pipestone Pass, Montana. On April 10, 1970 E29... (more)