D&RGW train 18, The California Zephyr, is seen at Dotsero Colorado in 1952. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

How many men does it take to wash a 567 engine? BN 6110's engine gets a bath at Belknap St. Yard in Superior, WI, July 1973. Superior was once a location of major locomotive shops for the Great No... (more)

WC 6624 leads UP/SP power on an all rail ore train headed from the Missabe Iron Range in Minnesota to Geneva, UT.The train is just south of Waukesha, WI about to cross Pebble Brook & Hwy XX near V... (more)

Morrison-Knudsen EMD F45 No. 5525 sits in Martin, Utah, on September 7, 1995, while serving Utah Railway. The paint job certainly doesn’t conceal it’s former days as Santa Fe No. 5950.

Rolling west through Basta toward the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is a BNSF intermodal train. Santa Fe GP60 4021, not yet rebranded with BNSF reporting marks, teamed with an ATSF Dash 8-4... (more)

Pond is an unincorporated community in California's Kern County, in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley. It is located 8.5 miles (14 km) north of Wasco. Pond was established around 1889, and a p... (more)

FCP Alco RSD12 507 and S6 708 set in the dead line at the roads shops in Empalme. The 507 was undergoing a full rebuild at the time along with 2 of its sisters. There were also 2 Alco RSD5s bein... (more)

This C&O Alco S2 # 9168 was Kept at The EMD plant In La Grange for one reason it was the one thing they has at the time that they knew Exactly what its weight was. so it was used as a scale test ... (more)

Bringing up the markers – literally – on a westbound Southern Pacific freight is SP C50-7 4626. Built by Pacific Car & Foundry from April to August 1978, this bay-window caboose was only few ... (more)

Resting in the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) Coney Island Yard during a snowstorm on January 13, 1982 are 35-ton locomotives 11 and 10. The locomotives were built by GE in 1959 and were ... (more)

New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) R10 no. 3210 is the lead motor on a Brooklyn-bound A train seen at Rockaway Blvd Station on the IND Liberty Avenue Line in October 1965. Unknown photogr... (more)

WC 6624 leads UP/SP power on an all rail ore train headed from the Missabe Iron Range in Minnesota to Geneva, UT.The train is just south of Waukesha, WI about to cross Pebble Brook & Hwy XX near V... (more)

MARTIN UT August 9 1981. — Utah Railway RSD15 403 idles at the engine facility while awaiting its next coal train assignment. The alligator was built by Alco as Santa Fe 847 (b/n 83057) in June ... (more)

MARTIN UT Oct 5 1978 — Utah Railway RSD-15 403 idles at the engine facility while awaiting its next coal train assignment. The alligator was built by Alco as Santa Fe 847 (b/n 83057) in June 196... (more)

Conrail EMD SD40 Nos. 6280 and 6277 helper locomotives are on the rear of an eastbound freight, assisting with braking on the Allegheny Mountain crossing west of Altoona, Pennsylvania, on October ... (more)