Last Of Its Kind Ex: Norfolk Southern Nº 1580 is at the display yard at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum waiting for it’s time to be moved to the East Chattanooga Shops t... (more)

ALAMOSA CO Oct 21 1977 — The last vestiges of the below-the-horizon sun illuminate Rio Grande GP40 3077 as the moon climbs skyward at right. My photo.

Southern Pacific train number 43, the Californian, is seen at Los Angeles with ten cars in 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

N.C. & St. L 576 still under restoration at Nashville Tn

Empire Builder Eastbound Empire builder crosses Nason Creek while sliding down Steven's Pass in typical Cascade Mountain weather. This location has been popular with railroad buffs for ye... (more)

"First Train Over"

On the afternoon of July 29th, 2023, "glass out" Amtrak MP15DC 539, leads a loaded stone train over the Warehouse Point (Connecticut River) Railroad Bridge into Enf... (more)

Santa Fe employees and their families enjoy a day of train riding on the Santa Fe mainline between Joliet & the Chicago area. Here engines 105 & 104 are running around their special train and will... (more)

It’s 7:11 p.m. on June 21, 2023, as the Deseret Power Railway coal empty returning from the Bonanza power plant in Utah approaches milepost 17 and Midway, Colorado.

Aberdeen Carolina & Western 200 in Aberdeen

Gone But Not Far. Recently, the former 1939-1940 World's Fair Railroad Exhibit lights were removed from the Norfolk Southern Altoona, Pennsylvania Yard. The 100 foot tall lights were brough... (more)

A former Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway baggage car, demoted to Maintenance of Way service and renumbered ATSF 205998, sits in Devore, and the base of Cajon Pass. (Devore, California – Marc... (more)

Sitting in what was called "the field" ready for assignment is one of the best looking locomotives repainted into this scheme, a former Clinchfield unit. For an earlier photo see 44793... (more)

OKLAHOMA CITY June 13 2023 — Oklahoma Railway Museum SW8 OKRX 84 has just switched the experimental hydrogen-powered HH20B OKRX 1205 to the long hood end of the SW8 in preparation for the next d... (more)

Run-8 with SD9s! Hard to believe a 66 year old locomotive is still lugging tonnage up 1% grades in blistering heat, but in Washington State this happens 5 days a week. The Columbia Basin r... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)