D&RGW 3008, SP 7856, and DRGW 3015, return from Kennecott with the Midvale Tramp.

In a typical scene along US 30 in central Nebraska, a westbound empty set destined for the Coal Creek mine in Wyoming rolls along the center main departing Gibbon, NE. Quite a sight with all of th... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific freight heads out of Las Vegas on the UP's Third Subdivision of the Utah Division behind a trio of SD40-2s, led by UP SD40-2 3604. Bringing up the markers, when that wa... (more)

Union Pacific "Quality Manifest" train 1-WCKC-Q-(K)-17 passes through the Hinda Crossovers as it heads east from West Colton CA to Kansas City KS. Still early after the UP's acquisition... (more)

Rounding the famed Tehachapi Loop is an Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway piggyback train heading north to, most likely, Stockton CA based upon all the Bud of California refrigerated trailers, to... (more)

An intermodal train heads south on the Shasta Route in spring 1999.

SOO only owned 10 "Boats" so they were an oddity to find out and about. They looked nice and sounded great but by all accounts there were numerous reasons they had a lifespan of about 1... (more)

OKLAHOMA CITY (April) 1977 — Rock Island GP38-2 4300 and an all blue lashup lead a mixed freight westbound at Harter Yard. EMD delivered the 4300, named the Rock Islander, in August-September 19... (more)

Before the SD70Ms started coming on line with the expansive UP wings on their nose, the little postage stamp shield predominated for some time. UP's new nose treatment is similarly (and appropriat... (more)

SP cab-forward 4135 leads 61 cars westbound at 10 MPH, after exiting a snowshed in the vicinity of Donner Pass, on August 4th 1935. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SP Daylight, 2nd 99, is seen at the Third & Townsend Street station in San Francisco California on July 26th 1939. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SP cab-forward 4119 leads The Owl, SP 2nd 26, at Los Angeles California on May 4th 1934. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

AT&SF train number 74 is seen leaving Los Angeles California in 1934. ATSF 4-6-2 1342 is sporting some unusual looking marker light brackets as it leads three cars at 15 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry pho... (more)

British Columbia Railway MLW RS18 623 in very fresh paint rests at the roads shop In North Vancouver in the summer of 1980 Photo taken with permission

TULSA OK (April) 1985 — BN SD45 6502 lays over at the Cherokee Yard engine facility. This SD45 was delivered by EMD in June 1971 and was retired in February 1986. Wisconsin Central acquired it a... (more)