This was GE's first production locomotive. Originally painted in black with yellow chevrons, it eventually got repainted in the mandarin orange and white.

A warm day in early spring and the cab door is left open, but looks like the man behind the pilot is still wearing a heavy jacket. Only a few months away before the Burlington Northern takes over.

Illinois Railway Museum's Frisco #1630 smokes it up while passing one of their classic semaphore signals.

A colorful addition to the California Zephyr train leaving Denver was this private Pullman car.

Frisco 1630's engine crew, Engineer Andrew Ossler and Fireman Blake Bushue, during the IRM Steam Department Night Photo Shoot.

SLSF #1630 (Baldwin 2-10-0) and Public Works #7 (Baldwin 0-6-0T) during the IRM Steam Department Night Photo Shoot.

SL&SF, Saint Louis and San Francisco SD40-2 952-GP40-2 751-SD45 946-SD40-2 956, pulling into Cherokee Yard at Tulsa, Oklahoma. September 6, 1980. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Frisco, SL-SF GP40-2's 753-750-768-772, just out of Cherokee yard and headed west at Tulsa, Oklahoma. August 23, 1980. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

The E8A 2021 leads the Frisco passenger train the SOUTHLAND out of Kansas City bound for Springfield, Memphis and Birmingham on April 15, 1963. The consist is predominantly green cars, with th... (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)

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)

SLSF #1630 (Baldwin 2-10-0) and J. Neils Lumber Co. #5 (Lima 3-Truck Shay) are posed for a nighttime photo session at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Frisco 1630 receives further instructions via train order hoop as it departs from East Union with a late-night passenger train in tow.

Frisco 1630 fireman Joey Ferrito scoops coal into the locomotive's firebox while keeping the locomotive hot during the 2023 Steam Into Fall Night Photo Session at the Illinois Railway Museum.

This year's Showcase Weekend at the Illinois Railway Museum was unlike any other, as the museum opted to run trains all night between Saturday and Sunday in honor of its 70th Anniversary. Unfortun... (more)