SP's one and only E8 heads train No. 99, the Coast Daylight, through Burlingame at something close to 79 mph. Well, after checking some special instructions maybe it was only 70 mph. But it was fa... (more)

A westbound train climbs Track 1, the original Donner crossing, toward the summit. Track 1 was later removed and is today a MOW road.

One of Southern Pacific's magnificent cab forward articulated locomotives awaits its fate in a South San Francisco scrap yard. The tender has already been cut down to its frame, and the locomotiv... (more)

A Silverton-bound chartered mixed train enters the spectacular Highline.

The 8444 pulled a special from Portland through the Deschutes Canyon to Bend and return (two days). UP 6085 helped. UP has trackage rights on this line. Note the two tone gray paint job on the ... (more)

Among my oldest slides, this Anscochrome was faded but brought back to some semblance of life by Photoshop. A Santa Fe tug and barge pick up the Santa Fe's share of the NWP's interchange traffic ... (more)

On the Cape-Natal branch GMAM 4074 climbs the steep grade between Ceighton and Donnybrook with a mixed train in early morning light. The round huts (rondavels) are typical Zulu homes. Steam Loco... (more)

Heading west for Cumbres from Antonito. A flanger and spreader train is clearing the line ahead of them. The rear of the train can be seen Railroad: Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-2
Location: Antonito, Colorado, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: December, 1961

No. 10 headed toward Tuolumne with one of the last trains of logs. In a few days the railroad would routinely shut down for the winter, but never reopen. This is another old Anscochrome slide th... (more)

One can wait hours if not days at Joso bridge for a train. Here comes the UP (with warbonnets), then there was another noise. Unexpectedly the latest operator of the former Camas Prairie showed up... (more)

SP 4449 heads north from San Luis Obispo with a helper to Santa Margarita, looking very much like the original Train 99 Coast Daylight except with an SD40 for a helper rather than a 2-10-2. This ... (more)

This is one of my favorite rotary shots. That is C&TS veteran Earl Knob carefully watching the progress of OY. Soon he would be starring at us through the snow trying to figure out what these idio... (more)

SP Track One over Donner Pass, the original Central Pacific route, dramaticaly showed what the CP was up against when it built over Donner in 1866 with hand tools and black powder. But being on a... (more)

On a bitterly cold early spring day Strasburg 90 (newly acquired from the Great Western) and High Iron Company 127 (ex-CPR 1278, later of Gettysburg Railroad boiler explosion infamy...thanks for c... (more)