Pictured in its last winter season as a Great Lakes (via NYC north of Cincinnati) to Miami (via Seaboard Air Line south of Jacksonville) coach-Pullman train, Southern's northbound "Florida Sunbeam... (more)

It was a more innocent time… when a summertime swim in the Coal River might mean jumping off the railroad bridge at Sproul, and that’s what the photographer found when he visited there on June... (more)

East bound out of Mechanicville, NY, is following the Deerfield River, east of the Hoosac Tunnel enroute to East Deerfield Yard and Boston. Photographer Ken Patton shows us a different look from ... (more)

Pushing east up the Berkshires. One geep still has it's original 1950's maroon and gold paint, albeit the maroon has pretty much faded away leaving mostly dulux gold.

A westbound Union Pacific coal train slows to enter the passing siding at Reed to meet a passenger special coming east from Milford, Utah.

Photographer ken Patton taking photo of B&M local freight E-3 returning from North Adams on a misty mountain day in August. The clean looking switcher would soon get the B&M blue paint job and nev... (more)

Acquired in trade - Probably an R. J. Robl photo.

Union Pacific SD24 411 leads a GP20 and three SD40's westward through Meadow Valley wash near Elgin, Nevada on April 11, 1976. Crew change at Las Vegas is still some 100 miles ahead.

Something for the Rio Grande aficionados. An eastbound lumber drag off the SP gets a shove via two GP40-2s while a westbound general freight descends the grade toward the west switch at Gilluly. M... (more)

Extra 21 East has just emerged from Snoqualmie Tunnel at Hyak, summit of the Cascades (2562'). Note poor condition of the siding, still in daily use. That's the Hyak substation in the background, ... (more)

Westbound Train 201 ascends Boylston Hill at the east switch of Doris. The 16-mile, 2.2%, 2000-foot climb from the Columbia River is longest and steepest on the Milwaukee.

Westbound Milwaukee Road freight train climbing the grade up from the Columbia River at Doris, Washington, on July 14, 1979. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund and courtesy of the more)

Among the last units to be delivered new in L&N gray and yellow, L&N 3573 and 3578 (EMD 12/74) lead a newer SD40-2 sister (3585 - EMD 9/77) adorned with the Family Lines scheme.

Not long after being repainted back into the red & silver, a pair of FP45s leads a Santa Fe 589 train up the steep grade out of Mojave, CA, on Tehachapi's southeastern slope. The smoke here is com... (more)