A westbound merchandise freight crosses the flyover at Frost. Trailing units are GP9 2292, GP20 3060, GP50 3818, SF30C 9519 and D8-40CW 855. Bringing up the rear are SD45 5349 and F45 5957.

On the Side Lines. The RBMN 1542 heads up a string of Reading and Northern engines that perform background service to the Star of the day that leaves them in the dust, or steam, so to speak. The ... (more)

What once was, the Elk River Railroad that has since been removed and shut down to be turned into a bike trail slowly exits the tunnel in Exchange WV. The crew is working today collecting all the ... (more)

BNSF 9647 was delivered with the Santa Fe warbonnet and in BN Executive colors to celebrate the approval of the BNSF merger on July 20, 1995. The colors on the 9647 were not adopted by BNSF as a... (more)

Not many EMC/EMD FT diesels, which pretty much were the locomotive that killed steam, were preserved – just two FTA units and three FTBs, although these Bs had been converted to Steam Heater Car... (more)

Santa Fe had visions of a company museum, and was wise enough to hang onto a variety of locomotives with that in mind. It never happened, of course, and the collection was donated to the Californ... (more)

BNSF 9297 wears BNSF's initial experimental "Heritage" orange and green paint scheme. It featured a solid 3" red pinstripe that separated the orange and Brunswick green along the right carbody... (more)

The SD7/SD9 fleet of the Great Northern which dominated the Missable Division is being invaded by newer EMD SDs in the form of SD40s & 40-2s by 1975. BN 6009 is one of several seen at the Belknap ... (more)

"Retired Subways Through the Newburgh Mill"

On the cloudy evening of August 7th, 2023, a single New York City Transit Budd R32 (NYCT 3829) and a few R123 CWR railcars pass t... (more)

Last hurrah for the Rio Grande, and it's tunnel motors. I was fortunately enough to get a last chance, of catch four Rio Grande tunnel motors working together on the dirt train in 2002.

On February 9th at 4:45 am, one of BNSFs monster coal trains derailed east of Cairo Nebraska. The three SD70ACes were the mid-train DPUs.

AT&SF 2-8-8-2 1797 awaits its next helper assignment on Raton Pass near Morley Colorado in 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (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 terminal at Long Beach from a JFK approach.