Time to hit the road

What kind of sandhouse gossip do you think these trainmen are discussing on this pleasant September day amongst the Streamliners? #5 was a mail train.

I hope you have your hearing protection on. For additonal views of #51 on this day, click "UP 51" above. This unit was the first production turbine. Number 50 was a double-ended demonstrator.

UP 3966 goes for a spin. Click "UP 3966" in the loco # field for additional views of the engine being serviced that day.

A followup view to a shot posted earlier shows UP 4017's hogger leaning out the window looking for any obstructions to getting his train into the yard and finishing his run.

With brake shoes smoking a manifest with stock cars in the consist slows for the yard at Cheyenne. #4017 was preserved and sits today, silent but imposing, at the National Railway Museum in Green... (more)

Waiting in the rack

Getting the big blow ready for another pull

Brakeshoes smoking, limestone loads descend the 4% grade on the lower loop crossing of US 50 near Maysville.

September 1970 saw Alcos working the slope in helper service, a C636 and C630 mate drift by. That same month also saw the debut of Monday Night Football, with Frank, Don, and Howard. The Centuri... (more)

Shooting the bull, waiting for the next run

Months before PC was able to jettison passenger service under the Amtrak umbrella, one of 75 ex-PRR E8's leads this ramshackle remnant of the once great fleet past the eyes of the Operator at MG.

Nothin' says lovin' like somethin' from the oven, or so the Pillsbury ad campaign claimed. In this photo, the Southern steam assembled for this day's excursion emerges from the depths of the Sout... (more)

The lineup of steam at the 1970 NRHS Convention simmers away.

Nickel plated nightime at Roanoke