The Coahuila y Zacatecas was a Mexican narrow gauge (3-foot) short line that served a large copper mine and smelter at Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas. Its main line stretched 78 miles from a connec... (more)

e/b BM&LP empty hopper train approaches the loadout at Kayenta. When loaded, the train will head back to the power plant at Page, Arizona. Engine consist: NdeM EA034, BM&LP EA036, BM&LP 6006, NdeM... (more)

A northbound potash train holds the main at Portales, New Mexico, while a southbound sulphur train waits in the siding. Portales was on Santa Fe's Carlsbad Subdivision 17 miles south of Clovis. Th... (more)

C&O F7A 7034 at Western Maryland yard, Hagerstown, Md., August 14, 1965.

PRR E8As 4311 and 4316 on passenger train at Union Station. Train is probably the "Penn Texas."

Emporia-Kansas City local freight #162 is in the siding at Burlingame, Kansas, in August 1968, to let train #24 pass. U28CG 350 leads #24. Train #162 has just returned from a side trip to Alma, Ka... (more)

Union Pacific eastbound freight prepares to depart Topeka Yard after making a set out and pick up. Leading the train are passenger units E9A 910, B-units 957B-910B-955B-962B, and Geep 229.

Texas & New Orleans (SP) EMD F7A 356 at the San Antonio Shops

Texas & New Orleans SW1 11 at Hardy Street Shops

The winter blizzards in the Midwest in February 1977 wreaked havoc on the area's railroads. This southbound N&W freight became stranded in a snow-filled cut just north of Emington. It was rescued ... (more)

A southbound Duval sulphur train kicks up New Mexico real estate as train 785 speeds through Cameo, ten miles northeast of Portales, New Mexico, on the Carlsbad Subdivision. On the head end are 56... (more)

The Barstow derrick and a contractor's truck crane move ice reefer NRC 19693 to a position where it can be re-trucked. The reefer was part of a multi-car derailment in the Needles Yard, July 21, 1... (more)

You riding in the cupola of caboose 999272 on the rear of train #52, a mainline local, as it nears Engle, New Mexico, on October 20, 1968. The train originated in El Paso, Texas, and is en route t... (more)

GM&O 291 at locomotive service facility at Union Station

Train 204, the mainline freight from Port-aux-Basques (ferry terminal and yard on the southwest coast) to St. John's, passes the station at Notre Dame (formerly Notre Dame Junction) on the Clarenv... (more)