BN 9790 pokes its nose out of the diesel shop at Auburn, WA, a former Northern Pacific facility located between Seattle and Tacoma. A close look shows that this former BN passenger F7 still wears ... (more)

AT&SF 4-6-4 3456 leads train 2, The Scout, at Wichita Kansas in May of 1940. Note the clanging bell, and rods down, at 25 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

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)

The engineer on Santa Fe 5350 proceeds very slowly on the north track past the derailment site located just north of Highway 138 in Cajon Pass. Heavy rain storms caused track damage and ATSF 3338,... (more)

Quiet morning at Ferrosur Puebla Yard, as the shift change occurs, Popocatepetl volcano wakes up with the now usual, daily volcanic ash fumarole.

US Steel SW8 #1247 is seen moving a cut of bottle cars around the USS Granite City Works.

AT&SF train number 10, The Navajo, is seen arriving at Belen New Mexico on December 5th 1937. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Situated at the east end of the yard in Waterville, Maine is the roundhouse of Pan Am Railways used to support work on the locomotive fleet. Pulled out on the turntable is SW1 007, utilized as a s... (more)

Power stored at BNSF Galveston Yard awaiting an uncertain future.

SP train 26, The Owl, is at Glendale California in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

The ADBF 1751 just clears Beaver Street as it shoves an empty Gondola south on the Old Town Spur for Friedland Industries. An extremely rare move as this spur sees only this action Once a Year. Th... (more)

The Chief is seen at Raton New Mexico in 1938. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

On April 17 of 1977, I was at Princeton Junction, NJ when this coal train (I presume empty, and I presume a coal train) came by making quite a racket. The second unit was an ex Jersey Central SD35... (more)

NS 911 on the turn table as NS COO Paul Duncan speaks.

CSXT came through Decatur, and I knew I was going to have to follow it for a while to get photos and video. I made my way as far down as Cullman, where a Christmas event was taking place next to ... (more)