PRR 5901 glistens as the late afternoon sun shines on her lighting her up as she show of her fresh waxing in preperation for upcoming NS days 6/1 & 6/2. All the locomotives are starting to be pre... (more)

Looking out over the nose of L&N E7 760, this is the view from the fireman’s seat as train 6, the New Orleans-Cincinnati “Humming Bird” approaches its final stop at CUT in the Queen City. Th... (more)

Riding a Pitcairn local, an eastbound headed by an EP40 passes us.

This is a staged L&N p.r. photo. The young girl waving to the engineer is standing alongside the double-tracked main line to Nashville--a few miles south of Louisville--for no apparent reason. Thi... (more)

This slide has been in my collection for many years, though I regrettably do not know the identity of the photographer. The scene is L&N’s old Canal Street station in the “Big Easy”—New Or... (more)

Seaboard Coast Line passenger, mail, & express train No. 3 is making fast time approaching Franklinton, NC in February 1968. The consist of No. 3 has diminished considerably by this date and the ... (more)

On a summer day in 1959, we’re roaring down the L&N’s “Short Line” between Cincinnati and Louisville in the cab of E7 760. This wonderful photo by my long-time friend Charlie Castner was t... (more)

It's very late in the day as E7A 557 and another roll into Petersburg with the Birmingham-bound SILVER COMET.

It's 12:01pm at Raleigh, NC and passenger, mail, and express train No. 4 has just released brakes and begun it's northward roll towards Richmond, Va. E7 3034 leads an SDP35 and a typical consist ... (more)

A classic small town scene in Upper Michigan with a passenger train and REA trucks. I shot this on Kodachrome II film at the age of 15. Everything in this photo is now gone - the engines, station ... (more)

The Texas Special is southbound leaving Austin.

Southbound passenger train at the Station in Dwight, IL. Taken on Kodachrome II film with a Miranda G camera.

The southbound Sunshine Special had to cross the Colorado River. Yes, there is a Colorado River in Texas. The Austin skyline in 1947 was dominated by the University of Texas Tower and the dom... (more)

B&O E7 #74 at Cumberland, MD in July 1955. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.

Dallas Union Station was a busy place in 1948. One summer afternoon the north and west Texas section of the Sunshine Special leaves on its way to St. Louis. The train will later be known as the ... (more)