Electro Motive A vintage quartet of EMD power run towards Searles to pick up a coal train off the Union Pacific interchange. The power is moving along the edge of an ancient lakebed that ... (more)

A Saturday evening in Burlington, Iowa finds the Burlington Junction Railway's unique Alco C415 tied down in the railroad's yard north of town, awaiting its next assignment on the shortline. This ... (more)

Scrapping 2023. Former CDOT FL-9 2023 (née-New Haven 2057) is the 3rd to last F unit built by EMD. The FL-9 order was a custom design for the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad and... (more)

The "storage" lines at Waycross sit quiet awaiting their fate.

The daily St. Paul to Kansas City freight rounds the curve at Reno on the CPKC Marquette Sub. This is about the only place I saw north of Harpers where water was a problem. The CP dump rock thru h... (more)

Wet Premiere: Remnants from Tropical Storm Ophelia couldn't keep people away from seeing the URHS's spectacular unveiling of their repainted and externally restored U34CH. The locomotive is... (more)

A colorful passenger engine lashup, consisting of ex Illinois Central 101, ex Alaska RR 30, and ex Iowa Pacific 540, sit outside the Aberdeen, Carolina & Western shop in Candor, North Carolina. Wh... (more)

Classic Crescent Winter temperatures at minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit with all the splendors this most beautiful of a view in the morning sun after a winter storm.

Two former Illinois Central Paducah rebuilds are spending their final days pulling loaded soybean hoppers around the massive ADM facility in Valdosta, Georgia. A testament of EMD quality is on ful... (more)

The Portland Section of the Empire Builder crosses the causeway at Horsethief Lake.

A three unit FT set leads a 52 car southbound freight near Littleton Colorado in 1951. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

With some surprise to the Locals in the area ADBF 1751 shoves across Cesear Chavez Ave to its destination at Friedland Industries. Each crossing is protected by Employees on the ground as all the ... (more)

Lots going on in this Minot North Dakota scene on July 11th 1956. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A San Diego & Arizona Eastern freight arrives in San Ysidro (pronounced san ee-sidrow), near the border between the United States and México. Operated by Kyle Railway, the SD&AE operated ... (more)

An eleven car eastbound freight is seen leaving Denver Colorado on the Union Pacific line sometime during the 1950s. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.