CB&Q F3 162 leads a westbound 76 car freight near Smithboro Illinois in June 1951. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A fast Santa Fe 16 car mail train is seen west of Florence Kansas on July 1st 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Union Pacific ALCO FA1 1608 and mates lead a westbound freight near Brady Nebraska in 1958. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF train 101, the Centennial State, is seen leaving Denver in 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Rolling out of Union Station, two bald PRR E8s 4255 and 4297 leading train 22 the Manhattan Limited on its journey to New York on June 19, 1968. Photo by photographer's name not listed, from my... (more)

In March of 2019 I was part of a group of volunteers from the North Carolina Transportation Museum that went down to the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, GA to help prepare one of the last s... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD E9 No. 9903 pulls a four-car commuter train into the station stop of Highlands, Illinois, on February 9, 1991. Highlands ended up being a great place to observe BN action w... (more)

MILW 35A and an E9B have coupled on to Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha for its trip between Minneapolis and Chicago. The train is at the former Great Northern Station on Hennepin Avenue in downtown ... (more)

AMTK 150, an F7B, gets a look over by BN Dale St. Shop workers in St. Paul, MN in March 1973. The locomotive was built as GN 462C in January 1953 and renumbered to BN 9754 before Amtrak acquired i... (more)

Rock Island 675 has completed its weekend commuter run to Joliet from LaSalle St. Station, Chicago. Shortly the train will load city bound passengers and head back into Chicago. The introduction o... (more)

BN 616 is former GN passenger F7A no. 365C/ 276A built in October 1950. BN apparently assigned it to freight service. F units primarily assigned to BN passenger service were numbered in the 9700-9... (more)

BN F9A no. 818 sits in a roundhouse at all at BN's former Great Northern engine facilities at Harrison St. in Minneapolis, MN. This was an important facility for GN and early BN. This unit was in ... (more)

My favorite FP7 in the lead on the westbound Amtrak "San Francisco Zephyr" must be the result of some failure, mishap, or whatever.

Prominent in this photo is a once ubiquitous symbol we should have kept, and another.............

Fifty years prior to the other photos I posted today, MILW 35A posed at North La Crosse's station with Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha. The westbound train would stop at Winona and Red Wing, MN befo... (more)