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)

NS 9646 is seen here at Juniata Locomotive Shop awaiting either scrap or rebuild after being involved in the July 2022 Columbia, SC derailment

SP 4449 and SP&S 700 sit side by side at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, OR.

All about depth perception... Flying a couple of hundred feet above track level we see the 15-car Durango bound 464 wrapping itself around Horseshoe Curve before exiting the High Line and making a... (more)

Trona Railway's "Daily Run" crosses Searles Station Rd on it approach to Searles, where the crew will interchange with the Union Pacific before returning to Trona.

CN's latest Dome Car, the CN 119, heads to sweet home Homewood on the tail end of Z 149. In Fresh CN business paint the former Amtrak 10031 "Ocean View" has a new life on CN. The car is... (more)

As passenger trains were cancelled everywhere a few classy looking units could still be captured. By the time I got to Wichita Falls later that year they were gone. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, fr... (more)

Union Pacific GP35 762 is an interesting locomotive. Recently repainted in North Platte NE (on September 18, 1974), this locomotive was not purchased new from builder EMD. Built as EMD Demonstra... (more)

Lehigh Valley Rail Management's AM job departs Iron Hill Yard on a rainy morning with a transfer run to NS behind a trio of ex-L&N/CSX switchers. This was once a booming location in the midst of B... (more)

A quartet of grimy Southern Pacific SDs roll through the Devil's Garden. This area is a lava flow created by eruptions of nearby Mount Shasta.

ATSF 2-10-2 1696 is seen helping EMD E6 number 15 with a ten car Super Chief near Morley Colorado in 1942. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Two ex Erie Lackawanna SD45-2s help an intermodal train up the grade nearing the famous Horseshoe curve. It was a fine autumn day and the fall colors were great. April 1st is Conrail's 48th birthd... (more)

Locomotives really are washed once in a while
A Union Pacific EMD SD9043MAC gets a thorough cleaning before heading into the main shop for an overhaul on Track 2 at the east side buildi... (more)

Sacrificed for structural testing, derelict VIA Rail equipment sits at CAD. At left is more ex-VIA Rail equipment - a testbed built on an LRC-3 frame.

Factory Fresh!

As the sun appears over the San Bernardino Mountains, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway train Q-NYLA (Quality Network [TOFC/COFC]; East Coast [CR Connection in Ch... (more)