With freight train congestion ahead, a slick move by the BNSF dispatcher, at least for the passengers of Amtrak’s train 5, crossed the westbound California Zephyr over to the south track or Main... (more)

NOBLE OK June 4 1979 — Santa Fe GP38 3540 and seven other B-truck units handle train 185. EMD built the unit in August 1970 (s/n 36576) and delivered it in Bookends livery with blue body and yel... (more)

A warm summer evening sunset burns in the sky over the Mississippi Gulf Coast and CSX’s New Orleans & Montgomery Subdivision. Here CSX long distance local L800 is framed crossing the Pascagoula ... (more)

A pair of RCL Dash 9s lead the Union Job through Rollins Avenue as they head back to Northtown with cars from the Minnesota Commercial. This is a remote control job, despite basically being a tran... (more)

CSX M304 at Richmond Main Street Station

Boston & Maine #4266 leads the 470 club excursion across the famous Willey Brook trestle en route to North Conway.

UP 4014 heads west with the Home Run Express.

Acela from Boston flies through Astoria in Queens on its way to Penn Station.

The engines have been fueled at the terminal. A crew member climbs aboard and they will head to the yard to pickup their train and head to Butler.

BNSF Eola Yard (McClure Road) looking east toward Chicago. Remnants of CB&Q roundhouse at left.

Nothing on the slide but I'd guess around 1982 before much had been repainted.

It may have been Texas, no information on the slide but a timeless scene of the conductor greeting a train going the opposite way. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

KANSAS CITY Sept 29 1979 -- Rock Island SD40-2 4796 awaits its fate as shutdown of the Rock is only months away. This unit went to Illinois Central Gulf. My photo.

SP train 70, The Coaster, is on the move near Glendale California at 40 MPH, with 13 cars, in 1940. Otto's trusty 1935 Ford V-8 sedan is visible at left. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collectio... (more)

Reading and Northern Railroad's "40th Anniversary" SD40-2 #1983 debuted from the West Cressona paint shop today, wearing the "Blue Mountain blue" scheme worn by their CF7's fro... (more)