The Capitol Limited is shown at Grand Central in slide #1 of the three posted here recently. They were all taken on an August day in 1964, at about 9am, as the tower clock reveals. This land tod... (more)

The crew on the set of power give the railfan a curious look. The SW in the background waits for a path forward to grab onto a consist.

With the start up of Amtrak and the loss of jobs I ended up back Hostling in Milwaukee on the Milwaukee Road. All was not lost as I got to run these old GM&O E7's as the Abraham Lincoln(Prarie Sta... (more)

Now N&W instead of Wabash Train 211 from St. Louis arrives CRI&P Jct. at Council Bluffs, Iowa on May 8, 1965 behind E units 1017 (E-7) and 1003 (E-8).

Pennsylvania Railroad's classy 5 stripe E7(A) sits at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania as an example of not only the once mighty PRR, but also as the last remaining E7 on the planet. Earlier m... (more)

Its 567s already removed for transplanting into a pair of RS-1s, 101A will soon be towed to West End Yard, where it will spend a few weeks before heading to the scrapper.

BN 9900 was the only E unit owned by the SP&S and was numbered 750 with that railroad. It teams up with an FP7 to lead tr. 22, the Portland connection for the EMPIRE BUILDER. I rode the sleeping c... (more)

More E7 units were built by EMD than any other E-unit model, and yet only one survives (Pennsy 5901 in the museum at Strasburg, PA). L&N 792 from this distinguished group of such units is on the p... (more)

The southbound Sunshine Special glides through the cut north of Sixth Street in Austin. Diesels had replaced the Pacifics which were the previous power. The cut was removed during the constructio... (more)

After leaving its last stop at Topeka, Ks. with three E7s, Rock Island's Train 4 Golden State Limited is eastbound passing by "Calhoun Bluffs" on Union Pacific trackage rights en route Kansas City... (more)

Seaboard Air Line passenger, mail, and express train No. 3 is working the passenger station at Raleigh, NC in February 1966. Two road grime covered E7's are in charge of the train today awaiting ... (more)

It's February 1958 and the Pennsy is borrowing power from it's southern connections to augment the GG1 fleet on the corridor as a freak snowstorm a few days earlier had crippled the fleet. Here a... (more)

Nineteen miles west of Missouri Capitol Jefferson City, MoPac Colorado Eagle eastbound No. 12 with three E7s is about to snag a bag of USMail at McGirk. E7A 24 was originally numbered 7014 and w... (more)

Battered and bruised #5851 bends into view with a train at Marysville. PRR Class EP20. This is the eastbound Broadway Limited, taken on or near 21 June 1965 at about 5:50AM.

A former Maine Central E7 with little lettering and visible number leads KCS Southern Belle south out of Kansas City to begin its 870 mile run to New Orleans. Apparently a SP sleeper is deadheadi... (more)