B&O purchased 28 FA-2s and 16 FB-2s for use in the Jersey City-Chicago fast freight pool, an additional 10 As and 5 Bs steam generator equipped, were purchased for passenger service. Photo from m... (more)

Wabash E-8 1004 leading the Chicago to St. Louis "Banner Blue" leaving the Decatur Station for the remaining one hundred and thirteen mile trip to St. Louis on February 21, 1958. Photo... (more)

A red flag was displayed on the lead unit for the back-up movement of no.2 the San Francisco Chief, from Dearborn Street Station to the 18th Street Yard on June 3, 1966. Lead unit 326 is an F7 gea... (more)

A southbound Monon passenger train makes a scheduled stop in Lafayette, IN during a picture perfect day. John E. Troxler collection, photographer unknown.

Frisco's standard black and yellow freight livery suited Alco and EMD carbodies very nicely. This westbound freight, with in the lead an Alco FA-1 5217 and four EMD F-units, rolls over the N. Can... (more)

A westbound SP freight with a set of A-B-B-A F7's in Black Widow paint scheme , roared pass the photographer at Alhambra, California in July 12, 1957. Photo from my collection, photographer Rober... (more)

Birdsboro Meet

Two years after SEPTA discontinued passenger service to Reading, two passenger trains met at Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia Chapter NRHS sponsored a Phila... (more)

CB&Q F3A 122-A with an F3 B-unit and a pair of F7's, combine to create a four-unit, 6000-hp locomotive consist. This train represents Burlington's fast freight service as it crosses the High Pl... (more)

Other than continuing to operate subsidiary Lehigh & New England Railway, the Jersey Central ceased operations in Pennsylvania on 1972, and competitor Lehigh Valley took over operations of all rem... (more)

Northern Pacific Extra 7005A-West, with four F9's between Livingston and Muir a distance of 12 miles, require helpers in this area. Extra 7005A has the assistance of a pair of GP9s 272 and 300 on... (more)

Wabash E8 #1006 slowly accelerates out of Chicago's Dearborn Station with train 121 the Blue Bird for its run to St. Louis in November 1959. Photo by Al Holtz, from my slide collection.

Rio Grande Alco PA-1 #6011 and F7B #5712 slowly accelerate from Denver Union Station with the southbound Royal Gorge on November 15, 1958. Photo from my slide collection, photographer Lou Schmitz.

Leading this southbound Monon freight is F3A #201, BL-2 #32, two more F3A's and an FM H15-44 #45 at Harrodsburg, Indiana on, Monon's Bloomington to Bedford Line in March 1965. Photo taken from my... (more)

Union Pacific's City of Portland leaves Denver headed west, as it passes four CB&Q E's which have just delivered the California Zephyr from Chicago to Denver, heading to the 23rd Street engine te... (more)

GM&O 883-A leads GM&O #17 out of Chicago with 3 cars.