Two EMD E7 units pause beneath the semaphores with the GREEN BAY 400 bound for Chicago. The C&NW was known for its unique left hand running at this time.

The GRAND CANYON arrives at Dearborn Station behind F3 A-B-B-B units late in the afternoon.

GM&O E7 units 102A and 102 are backing into Union Station with train 3, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, for its 5:50 p.m. CDT departure. The Missouri Pacific sleeper was a through car to Hot Springs, AR.

An E8, E7B and FP7A are teamed up on the Rock Island / Southern Pacific GOLDEN STATE departing LaSalle St. station.

Two Burlington E8 units power the Northern Pacific's NORTH COAST LIMITED from Union Station. There is a Budd Slumbercoach several cars back. This was the summer of the Seattle World's Fair.

EMD A-B-B-B-A F units are ready to lead the GRAND CANYON west from Chicago. The unit number indicates that 30C is an F3 despite the F7 style dynamic brake fan. The unit is also displaying green fl... (more)

GP9 units 4916, 4910 and 4139 are ready to depart with the MAPLE LEAF on an overcast June morning. The train on the left is ATSF no. 16, TEXAS CHIEF, just in.

Reading Baldwin road switcher 542 runs light at E. Penn Jct..

Reading T-1 2102 pulls hard after making a brief stop just west of Allentown. The Iron Horse Ramble will proceed down the Perkiomen Branch to Zionsville and will terminate at Belle Meade, NJ.

Reading Alco FA-1 units 302 and 304 sit at E. Penn Jct..

Reading F3 260 is coupled behind GP7 600 at E. Penn Jct..

Reading T-1 2102 has been turned at Gettysburg and sits next to Gettysburg College awaiting departure on an IRON HORSE RAMBLE.

New York Central E7 A-B units exit Breakneck Tunnel with THE PACEMAKER from Chicago. The four track mainline along the Hudson River has recently become double-tracked.

The locomotive on the afternoon excursion from Etowah, TN has run around the three car train at Farner after passing over the Hiwassee Loop. Tennesee Valley Railroad Museum operates this interesti... (more)

The doubleheaded T-1s back down to the waiting Iron Horse Ramble for the return to Philadelphia. The steam train line under 2100's tender looks fairly new and may have been since the locomotive ha... (more)