NYC FM CFA16-4 6601 leads a freight near South Bend Indiana in 1954. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Chesapeake & Ohio E8(A) 4016 leads train 20 The Pere Marquette at Traverse City, Michigan on a very cold day, January 15, 1965. Photo by E.L Huddleston, from my collection. ... (more)

CofG E7(A) 801 with GP7 106 at Terminal Station, Atlanta, Georgia on October 19, 1961. Atlanta's Terminal Station served the Atlanta & West Point, Central of Georgia, Nashville, Chattanooga & S... (more)

A three unit FT set leads a 52 car southbound freight near Littleton Colorado in 1951. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Lightning Striped Reunion. On one of its first trips on the Danbury Line since being wrapped, MNCW P32AC-DM 211 (New York Central Heritage/40th Anniversary) was assigned to MTA Metro-North ... (more)

Central of Georgia F3(A) 904 with two GP7's on this southbound freight at Hapeville near Atlanta, Georgia on May 10, 1953. Photo by Ronald Sharpless, from my collection. ... (more)

AT&SF train 21, El Capitan, is seen near Trinidad Colorado in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

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

Lackawanna Railroad train 6 the PHOEBE SNOW with 816 in the lead, passing through Waverly on September 6, 1959. The DL&W trains were operating by trackage rights over the Erie Main through Wav... (more)

Livingston, Montana was Northern Pacific's major diesel maintenance facility for their entire transcontinental fleet of freight and passenger locomotives as well as the Rocky Mountain Division... (more)

D&RGW train 18, The California Zephyr, is seen at Dotsero Colorado in 1952. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Three NP passenger locomotives F7A 6511A, F9B 6701B and F7A 6501A has just uncoupled from the passenger cars at St. Paul Union Depot on April 11, 1968. Photo by RR Wallin, from my collection. ... (more)

Amtrak's California Zephyr consist includes cars whose letterboards read Union Pacific, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Burlington, Amtrak, and California Zephyr. SP FP7 No. 6456 and two other... (more)

The Northern Pacific Railway continued to use FT's long after other railroads had traded theirs for 2nd-generation diesel locomotives. The Tacoma Division was the home of the remaining FTs in t... (more)

Rock Island train number 509, The Rocket, is seen at Wichita Kansas in 1940. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.