With E8 653 and a passenger Geep, Rock Island's mail Train 39 "Imperial" with one coach leaves Topeka, Ks. on a dreary Nov. 5, 1966. At Tucumcari, N.M., Rock Island will hand the train over to SP... (more)

Led by an F and two E units, Rock Island's "Golden State Limited" rushes into Topeka, Kansas where it will cross the Kansas River and enter Union Pacific trackage rights for the run to Kansas City... (more)

Three Santa Fe former passenger F units with stainless steel sides are among the consist of a southbound (RR East) freight train leaving Temple, Texas on March 16, 1973, almost two years after bei... (more)

Four hoods from ATSF 6300 U-boats makes handy and instant sheds at Argentine Shops, Kansas City, Mo. Feb. 16, 1980. Conrail unit 3683 at left will be headed back home.

Westbound BN Train 25, former “North Coast Limited,” was cresting Homestake Pass, Mont. on March 21, 1971, next stop would be Butte. Two ex-NP F units have been painted BN.

In Santa Fe’s home city of Chicago, the mechanical car washers were sometimes frozen in the winter and cleaning had to be done by hand. Four Big Domes are visible in the company’s 21st Stree... (more)

Penn Central’s 2-car Train 354 to Detroit is leaving a bit late as GM&O’s Train 1 “The Limited” follows it (and will turn to its right) out of Chicago on Feb. 27, 1969. GM&O E unit 103�... (more)

Alco RSD-12 512 and RSD-5 802 are in charge of Ferrocarril del Pacifico's Train No. 1 running northward up western Mexico. After an overnight 504-mile run from Guadalajara, this stop at Culiaca... (more)

Amtrak NorthCoast Hiawatha Train 9 behind four former NP F7s negotiates Jefferson Canyon near Sappington, Montana headed for the headwaters of the Missouri River at Three Forks.

SL-SF hostlers are handling 5204 FA-1 and three F3's at Frisco's roundhouse area at Kansas City, Mo. on April 17, 1965.

Apache Railway was not going to be left out of the nation’s Bi-centennial in 1976, so it painted its diesels red-white-blue too. Five Alco RS-11’s were dragging the substantial interchange fr... (more)

Small power for a big road. Santa Fe GE 44-ton switcher 467 didn’t have drawbars but rather steel plates for shoving 2-axle buggies of green cross ties into pressurized creosote cylinders at t... (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).

Unfortunately Rock Island’s jaunty paint scheme on these 3 GP-38-2’s rushing its train west to Denver on U.P. trackage rights was not enough to save the railroad which a bankruptcy court order... (more)

BCR 724 North at Creekside, B.C. Motors are 5-yr. old 3000-hp Montreal Locomotive Works M630W's.