For the first time ever, the Illinois Railway Museum's resident GG1 poses next to Spaulding Tower as museum volunteers re-enact hooping up orders during the museum's "Shay it Forward" ev... (more)

The fire burns in the belly of the beast. UP 844 (4-8-4) sits in Denver waiting to take the Cheyenne Frontier Days train back to Cheyenne.

A rare occurrence as these units are rare to see leading. EMDX 7233 is part of the 10 unit order of SD70ACe-T4 canceled by NS and now on lease to Ferromex

Steamtown cosmetically restored their Big Boy in 2021. I captured it separated from its tender shortly after painting was complete.

ATSF train 4, the California Limited, is seen approaching La Junta Colorado at 50 MPH on September 16th 1934. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

HCXX 1001 at the now closed Hi-Crush facility west of Pecos, TX.

A view of Haworth station, the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway’s (KWVR) principal intermediate station. The KWVR is a preserved standard gauge line which joins the national railway network a... (more)

An ALCO A-B-A set awaits its next assignment at Cheyenne Wyoming in 1956. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

I031 crosses overhead Pulaski Hwy as it arrives at Bayview.

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)

Milwaukee Road 261 leads the North Pole Express equipment through Seventh Street, as they head for Saint Paul Union Depot. https://261.com/npe/

Woodstown Central Mannington Limited heads south across East Lake Rd.

It was a treat to see the F45 in the head end of the consist. It spent most of it's days sandwiched in the helper set. (Tom Ellis photo)

The 315 "yellowbonnet" was one of the 74 passenger F-units which had been leased to Amtrak for its trains operating on the Santa Fe. When the lease terminated, the units were converted... (more)

During the mid-1950s, cab units ruled Southern's main line as seen in this November 1955 view near Austell, Georgia with Train 153 rolling east with a quartet of F7s in charge. Photo by R.D. Sha... (more)