"Eat Taters & Wear No Clothes" ET&WNC's two Consolidation 2-8-0's regularly operated tender-first (hence, the cut-down sides of the coal bunker) on their "eastbound" runs from Johnson City to Eliz... (more)

Camas Prairie's Kamiah Local has BN GP-7 1708 towing empty log cars along the appropriately-named Clearwater River near Pardee, Idaho on Aug. 17, 1977. This scenic branch was 76 miles long, begi... (more)

Cumbres & Toltec Scenic regular excursion is eastbound though Sublette, N.M. en route Antonito, Colo. on this fall Sept. 24, 1989 day. The structures were not so much a "depot" as they originall... (more)

Elk River Coal & Lumber shay #19 has five loads of logs en route from the lumber camp to Avoco, W. Va. on Nov. 24, 1961. They didn't build bridges, they just forded the creeks. A watchman ri... (more)

Amtrak "Southwest Chief" Train 4 negotiates a telephone pole-free curve on ex-AT&SF northward near Levy, N.M. on May 29, 2003. Uhh, how many P42's does it take to power this train? Doubtlessl... (more)

The friendly C&S engineer waves as five SD-9s struggle to lift southbound Train 75 out of Walsenburg, Colo. on Feb. 25, 1968. No. 75 has just collected refrigerator cars full of San Luis Valley ... (more)

The No. 1 rated passenger train in South America is Perurail's "Andean Explorer" shown here leaving its southern terminus of Puno on the shore of Lake Titicaca on Aug. 2, 2008 for its 230-mile run... (more)

Left over from the Northern Pacific days, Amtrak's Train 9 is getting its windows of dome "Silver Lounge" hand washed at Livingston, Mont. on Aug. 2, 1973.

PRR class J1 2-10-4 6448 is beside the coaling tower at Columbus, Ohio on Nov. 2, 1957, exactly 25 days before the PRR killed the last fire and declared itself all-diesel or electric.

Dieselization is catching up to the N&W as these Alcos and an EMD Geep await their next assignment at the water tank at Norton, VA. RS-3 306 is ahead of the 308 on Dec. 29, 1956.

American Orient Express is in the siding at Imbleu, Ariz. on the Grand Canyon Ry. to meet its regular southbound train returning from the Grand Canyon on May 30, 2004. Much has changed since th... (more)

Three Amtrak P42's glide the now-defunct 18-car American Orient Express downstream along the Truckee River east of Truckee, Calif. en route to Reno, Nev. on Oct. 22, 2007. The luxury train, the... (more)

Colo. & Sou. Train 1 southbound "Texas Zephyr" with stainless steel E5 9955 on the point, entering Pueblo, Colo. Union Station on its run to Dallas. Train was discontinued Sept. 11, 1967

Algoma Central's daily Train No. 1, led by GP-7 No. 170, is near M.P. 22 (near Northland, Ontario, Canada) in fall colors on Sept. 30, 1993 with frost on the crossties. The train is en route Hurs... (more)

N&W's mixed train, #202 with 4-8-0 No. 382, has returned from its run to West Jefferson, N.C. and is in the siding at Abingdon, VA to meet time freight #88 led by Y6b 2-8-8-2 #2180 on Aug. 8, 1956... (more)