Western Pennsylvania coal train bound for Edison's River Rouge power plant near Detroit, Michigan, led by PRR GP9 7253, PRR GP9B 3818 and Detroit, Toledo & Ironton GP9 990 rolling through Orovill... (more)

Rolling out of Union Station, two bald PRR E8s 4255 and 4297 leading train 22 the Manhattan Limited on its journey to New York on June 19, 1968. Photo by photographer's name not listed, from my... (more)

Curving out of St. Louis' Union Station the cavernous train shed, comes a pair of PRR E8's leading train 65 with 4 cars of mail, 2 bagage cars, and 2 coaches. In the background three Norfolk & ... (more)

NYC GP9 5985, and two P&E GP7's 5623 and 5613, leads the daily train 99 from Indianaoplis to Peoria, crossing the GM&O and Monon at Bloomington, Illinois on April 29, 1959. A subsidiary of the ... (more)

Two NYC E8s led by 4049 and 4069 power train 35 the Iroquois (Boston-New York-Chicago) at South Bend, Indiana on April 29, 1961. Photo by Louis A. Marre, from my collection.

Three NYC GP40's rolling with a general merchandise train, along the Hudson River at Spuyten Duyvil, The Bronx, New York in July 1966. The 3033 was one of fifty pre-production GP40's that the N... (more)

Westbound, NYC U25B 2569, leading NYC U30B 2838, CB&Q GP30 942 and NYC U25B 2562, leaving the Central's Detroit yards on September 24, 1967. Between 1964-1965, the Central accumulated the large... (more)

Not all DL&W switcher motive power was in the 600 to 1200hp range. In the fall of 1948, three 380hp 44-tonners were assembled at GE's Erie plant, for light duty switching operations on the Lack... (more)

Eastbound DL&W E8 811 and 817 leads train 6 the "Phoebe Snow" at Pocono Summit Lake, PA., on October 06, 1960. Photo by Al Holtz, from my collection.

Road freight dieselization started on most railroads with the FT and the DL&W was no exception. Known as "the diesel that did it", FT's started arriving on the Lackawanna in April 1945,... (more)

On a beautiful March Day in 1968, four WP Geeps, GP9 725, two high short nose GP20's 2001, 2010 and a GP7 710 are in charge of a 92 car west-bound freight through the grade at Altamont Pass. Once... (more)

An eastbound Rio Grande PA-1 6013 on the point of the standard two car consist, the "Yampa Valley Mail" in a Blizzard at Winter Park, Colorado on January 19, 1962. Photo by H.F. Wagner,... (more)

Nearly three years after the pair were delivered by builder Alco, wearing the Daylight paint, the St. Louis Southwestern's PA's 300 and 301 were well established at work in the Lone Star state... (more)

Of the seventy-five Santa Fe GP20s, only sixteen were merger painted.

Santa Fe M-160 Mail-Express Motor Car built in 1930, had a 400hp gasoline-electric power plant, it was replaced with a diesel-electric engine in 1949. The M-160 was assigned to pull Nos. 25-26... (more)