Fast and swift looking ATSF E1 3 is seen near the station at Raton New Mexico in 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.

With a pair of GP15-1's on the point wearing the railroad's BN inspired paint scheme, the Northern Lines Railway's local returns from Rockville with a train of empty LNG cars in tow. The train is ... (more)

In two specific time windows it is possible to photograph the last train on the Brocken (highest mountain in the Harz) in the light of the low sun and you will be surprised again and again by impr... (more)

Canadian Pacific F9B No. 1900 is providing more power to a passenger train at Banff, Alberta, on October 1, 2010. The F9B looks very similar to a F7B, but unlike the earlier model, No. 1900 has th... (more)

A pair of Southern Pacific GE AC4400CWs lead an eastbound Union Pacific coal train downgrade and across a wood trestle over Boulder Creek out of Tolland, Colorado. You wouldn’t know it from the ... (more)

CP Holiday Train NY. Canadian Pacific's Holiday Train returned to New York State for the first time in 3 years on Sunday, November 27, 2022. While its normally "sunset" departure ... (more)

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe EMD FP45 No. 90 rests at the Corwith Yard engine facility near Chicago, Illinois, on September 1, 1991. These EMD cowl locomotives were built at the request of Santa Fe... (more)

Northbound Fall Foliage at Zehners.

A Southern Pacific Railroad freight prepares to depart the railroad’s West Colton Yard late in the day. SP SD45T-2 9340, SD45 8956, SD45T-2 9228 and SD40 8443 will have the honors of lifting th... (more)

Leading BNSF Railway train Z-LACNWH3-19A (Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal; Los Angeles CA to North Baltimore OH) is BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4709. It may not be obvious, but this locomotive wears a unique ve... (more)

Passing the Amtrak station in Fullerton as it heads east out of Los Angeles' Hobart Yard is an Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway freight, with SD45-2s 5646 and 5640, along with an FP45, for power... (more)

After clearing a tree off the tracks Tacoma Rails Hill Job is underway on the 3.8% grade as they lift the first of two cuts to 85th Street.

One of the many switchers assigned to Georgia Port Authority's sprawling Port Wentworth facility sits dormant on Thanksgiving night. This G&W SW1001-1 rebuild is dwarfed by its surrounding, making... (more)

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1794 and ATSF 4-8-4 3773 lead train 19, a fourteen car Chief, doing 25 MPH at Lynn New Mexico in 1945. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.

Burlington Northern EMD E9A No. 9922 on a BN/Metra commuter train rests for the weekend at Hill Yard in Aurora, Illinois, on the afternoon of March 15, 1992. Twenty-five former Burlington E8A and ... (more)