A Union Pacific, and a Conrail SD40-2, make their way across the plains of Wyoming on the Overland Route.

Conrail "Baby Tunnel Motor" rests between assignments at Port Newark.

CNW 8528 basks in some late evening light as it brings a loaded coal train past MP 107 (East Walker, WY.) on the joint CNW/BN coal line in May 0f 1991.

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe train number 19, The Chief, is departing Barstow California with seven cars in 1933. Otto's speed estimate was 12 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Western Pacific 4-8-2 171 is seen at Oroville California in 1938. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

An eastbound manifest has stalled on the 1% grade of Kirkwood Hill and a pair of switchers from the Ewing Avenue Yard in St. Louis has been called in to help the train up the hill.

A ten car California-Nevada R.R. Historical Society Excursion is seen at Roseville California on November 30th 1957. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

For reasons unknown SP train number 19, the Klamath, has arrived Gerber California 8 hours & 15 minutes late on July 30th 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A fifty eight car freight is westbound near Eads Colorado in 1950. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Winding slowly downgrade on the serpentine branch this loaded mine run was an easy chase. Though wearing its short-lived Seaboard System number it still bears the proud logo of SCL's whipping boy... (more)

Fifty two years ago Wilmot Model Railroad Shop in Prattville was a beacon for model railroaders in the deep south. We traveled there as often as possible to buy treasured models and to chit chat ... (more)

Had to be in the panhandle on business and got to get out a little. Caught this westbound with a former MP unit.

On short term lease these units made things interesting in the nineties and I missed most of them but got lucky on this date. I might have caught him in the street in La Grange had gotten out a b... (more)

Battered but not beaten this former L&N veteran sits proudly in the winter sunlight. Photo by Craig Hatter. From my collection.

Stressed out and in need of rest I took a sentimental journey to my old haunts in the spring thirty one years ago. In Cordele I found this Electric Fuels unit coal train headed for Florida. Ver... (more)