A typical midwestern scene -- Rock Island mail train No. 39 with a single coach on the rear leaves Herington, Kansas on May 31, 1965 to continue its run to Tucumcari, N.M. to be handed over to the... (more)

CB&Q Train 20 arrives Kansas City, Mo. on Feb. 22, 1967 after its 4-hour, 195-mile run from Omaha. E-7 9928B hardly had to break a sweat handling the four cars. In this year CB&Q had three pair... (more)

Rock Island F2 49 apparently had to have a face make-over once upon a time, and not having any extra headlights, the shop forces sheet-metaled over the nose. This is NOT a photoshopped exercise!... (more)

Out of a roster of 40, two UP GE U50C;s bring westbound tonnage into Green River for a crew change.

The Jordan spreader work train is amply supplied with horsepower with two Milwaukee Road GE box cab electrics E50A and E50B while dressing the ballast near Piedmont, Mont. Easy around those pole... (more)

UP GP-35 762 guides two ugly-duckling GE 4500GETL 4500-hp units 60 and 60B eastward on a train into Cheyenne, Wyo yard as a C&S SD-9 crosses overhead ahead of the train.

Two F's and two Geeps cross over at Menoken Jct. west of Topeka to get westbound tonnage rolling to North Platte, Nebr. The track in the foreground is the "K.P." across Kansas.

A work extra has just gotten in the clear to allow MoPac's "Southerner" Train 8 to continue its rush toward St. Louis.

Rock Island's passenger Train 39, formerly called the "Imperial," derailed at Valencia, Ks., 11 miles west of Topeka, and two steam-powered derricks were slowly clearing the double-track mainline ... (more)

Oooops, someone forgot to set the derail and a handbrake on a roundhouse lead track at Santa Fe's La Junta, Colo. roundhouse. F7 247 rolled off into the turntable pit June 1, 1968, and apparentl... (more)

F7-A 813 and three matching B units tug on Clinchfield's daily coal Train No. 26 southbound between Gray's Station and Boone, Tenn. on Oct. 12, 1963. Two F or GP-7 pushers are on the rear shoving... (more)

Receiving a little attention at the engine shed at Kansas City, Ks. is Alco PA 621 while GP-7 1327 takes a spin on the turntable. The Alco was built in 1941, re-engined by EMD in 1953 and eventua... (more)

Wanna race? Put the petal to the metal! UP Centennial 98-ft. 5-in. long 6902 is running a steady 79 mph westbound near Bosler.

What a perfect day for grinding rail --- snowy, cold and overcast ten miles west of Denver with little chance of causing grass or brush fires. Loram RG8 is westbound at walking speed.

White Pass & Yukon Train 2, consisting of containers, piggyback private vehicles and no-two-alike passenger cars, leaves Whitehorse, Yukon en route Skagway, Alaska on Sept. 2, 1978. Up ahead ar... (more)