Union Pacific's Chicago & North Western heritage unit appears briefly between the trees on the upper part of the historic Williams Loop, located near Spring Garden, California. In a few moments it... (more)

UP 3608 leads a freight getting ready to depart Argo Yard, Seattle. The second unit is a GP9B followed by another SD45 and an SD40 or SD40-2. UP 3603 was renumbered by 1980 to no. 3, and was retir... (more)

Union Pacific E8A 931 and two B-Units lead train 103, the westbound City of Los Angeles, as it makes its final station stop, at the railroad's East Los Angeles station, before ending its tr... (more)

Working as the rear-end distributed power unit, Seaboard System 1982 shoves on the hind-end of train I14009 shortly after daybreak, crossing West Point Lake on the Chattahoochee River near LaGrang... (more)

A nice mix of blue four-axle power has gathered outside the Selkirk diesel shop. All of the units wear the standard Conrail paint scheme, even though "Conrail Quality" painted units had... (more)

When Eras Collide - As the sun rises upon Downtown LA, the 1927 built ATSF 3751 begins its two mile shove movement along the Los Angeles River from Amtrak's north yard to Union Station for the 202... (more)

A westbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway freight train passes the Fullerton station behind SD45 5508 (ex-ATSF 1808), mated with an F45, an SD26 and another SD45. (Fullerton, California – ... (more)

ATSF 139 leads an A-A-B-B consist of Superfleet scheme GP60Ms/GP60Bs on a 199 train, Santa Fe's hottest westbound trailer train between Chicago and Los Angeles. It's crossing the Vermillion River ... (more)

Some rare power gathered up at the US Sugar South Shops, including an ex-SP SD40T-2, ex-SP SD40R, and an MP15T. Since the latest acquisition of USSC 6324, depicted here are the three 6-axle units ... (more)

Poignant for me is the sad state of the former N&W passenger geep pictured here. Note the longitudinal air tanks, feature usually reserved for the later GP18. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my col... (more)

Warbonnets on freight became more common as more passenger trains disappeared. May have kept the silver units together due to gearing differences with blue units.

The Utah Railway GP38-2's were just coming on the scene. Pictured are Utah 2005, 2006, 2003. One of the previous lease fleet of GP10's OMLX 1030 is still on the scene. Of interest in this is pictu... (more)

C&S train number 7, the Gulf Coast Special, is crossing the Arkansas River south of Pueblo Colorado in 1936. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

WC 6652 shows off its' Santa Fe heritage as it rolls thru Byron, WI. in June of 1995. This was WC's only FP45 and it sure brightened up an otherwise dismal day.

D&RGW 3008, SP 7856, and DRGW 3015, return from Kennecott with the Midvale Tramp.