The St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern operates an excursion and dinner train service with an ex-PRR E8, which recently received a new coat of paint but has not yet been lettered. This unit saw e... (more)

Erie E8 833 suns itself on the old Erie Turntable in Port Jervis. Sadly, this engine hasn't turned a wheel since it went to Spencer last year for the Streamliners at Spencer event. I have to won... (more)

On Thanksgiving morning, 1965, the Denver Zephyr hustles past Cudahy siding near the Denver stockyards, running a little late for its scheduled 8:30 a.m. arrival at Union Station. Today’s train ... (more)

E8 925 was originally a C&NW E7 which was wrecked by UP in 1951 at Wyuta, Utah. UP then purchased it and sent it back to EMD for rebuilding. UP sold this engine to the Rock Island in 1969. Here it... (more)

A cold, wet, gloomy November day greets the Rock Island and its commuters at La Salle Street Station, Chicago as E8 649 and another E wait for their next assignment. In addition to running commute... (more)

Painted for the bicentennial, Rock Island E8 652 leads the Peoria Rocket west out of Chicago. Kodachrome slide processed in January 1977.

After making a Chicago Superintendent's Special from LaSalle Street to Bureau, Illinois and back, their classy passenger train heads down the Airline for Amtrak's Chicago Terminal.

Southern Visitor from Georgia

Southern E8A number 6901j is resting in front of Norfolk Southern's Roanoke shops as a heavy rain squall passes through the area. The unit belongs... (more)

Conrail's "Executive E's" are making track speed as they pull an office car special through Port Kennedy.

RTA #517 and train in the Kenosha yard before its morning trip to Chicago. The 517 was built as the CNW 5024A in July 1951 and retired on October 1, 1986

The Conrail office car train passes the still-operating Bethlehem Steel complex on a crisp December morning.

While touring NRE's Silvis facility with an escort and proper PPE, we were allowed to look inside the cab of former Metra E8 516. 516 was built as CNW 5029A and still has the CNW cab signal equip... (more)

The Rocky Mountain Rocket, almost exactly halfway on its 91-mile journey across the old Kansas Pacific from Denver to Limon, Colorado, passes beneath a cluster of cottonwoods, those ancient sentin... (more)

A little past 1 p.m. on a perfect May Day, 1965, the Rocky Mountain Rocket turns its back on the Rockies and heads east out of Denver behind two 2250-hp E8As. Though there are only five cars in th... (more)

Erie E8 on the Move

NS H02 is seen pulling ERIE 833 and its "dinner train" out of Port Jervis yard. While this seen may look promising, the train was only pulled from storage i... (more)