A pair of veteran Alco units, the C420 of Monon origin and the RS-1 appearing to be of NYS&W origin, wait for their next assignment.

There were many scenic views along route of Southern Crescent. This is not that, though water tank was landmark for many years.

CNW 6706 has just crossed the Goose Lake causeway and is about to duck under Hwy M-35 with an empty ore train in May of 1986. The train will soon enter LS&I tracks for the short trip to the Empire... (more)

D&RGW PA1 6013 leads train number 10, The Yampa Valley Mail, near Plainview Colorado sometime in the 1960s. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A fast manifest hustles east on the former Nickel Plate Road Chicago-Fort Wayne mainline, while the daily local freight waits in the yard alongside a Speno train, on a very hot, hazy, and humid Au... (more)

TULSA OK (April) 1985 — BN SD40-2 8128 lays over at the Cherokee Yard engine facility. This unit was delivered to BN in June 1980. At a later date it became FURX 8128 and was leased back to BNSF... (more)

The head end brakeman is unlocking the switch, while his westbound freight led by three E units waits on the main just east of the Broad Street interlocking tower, in 1975. The C&O is visible in t... (more)

An ex-Southern Railway SD45 is sandwiched by a pair of Southern Pacific SD40T-2s on a Shasta Route lumber drag in summer 1988.

BN 5544 rolls south (RR East) through the village of Manderson, WY. in the Big Horn Basin. This train originated in the yard at Laurel, MT. Ahead lies the scenic Wind River Canyon and Wyoming's 2n... (more)

Arriving at Decatur train 2 from St. Louis with combined Wabash Cannon Ball and Banner Blue on December 2,1962. At Decatur sections will be forwarded to Chicago and Detroit. Photo by Al Holtz,... (more)

NA JUNCTION CO (September) 1978 — A westbound Missouri Pacific train, with GP38-2 2023 in the lead, is a few miles east of NA Junction where it joins Santa Fe tracks in southeastern Colorado. EM... (more)

D&RGW 2-8-8-2 3554 is in charge of a fifty four car westbound freight near Plainview Colorado in 1943. Note the raised smoke deflector. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

D&RGW 5201 is leaving Denver Colorado with a westbound freight in 1957. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Louisville & Nashville train number 99, the Pan American, is departing Louisville Kentucky at 25 MPH in 1934. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

DALLAS TX May 27 1985 — Katy chop nose GP7 105 awaits work. EMD built the 105 (b/n 12063) as MKT 1515 in February 1951. After the Union Pacific merger the unit was never assigned a UP number and... (more)