A veteran Rock Island E6 is stopped in Amarillo with train 22. This oddball train ran all the way from Tucumcari, NM to Memphis, TN.

CNJ GP7s 1532 & 1529 head north at South Amboy with a long hopper car train of sand. PRR K4s 830 was sitting behind me on the siding awaiting a train from New York. GP7 1532 was leading the commut... (more)

A lame 8444 sits in Cheyenne after having failed on an excursion at Lynch, WY prior to a photo run. The right cylinder valve cage was damaged but the Northern managed to limp back to Cheyenne.

The MP36PH-3C wears the bold and colorful image of the New Mexico Rail Runner.

ATSF Alco 52L sits with a B unit at Clovis.

Rock Island RS-3 486 departs Joliet with three cars for Chicago on a flawless, sunny June day.

TrainMaster 858 is departing the Paterson station with a five car commuter train. The Lackawanna's commuter coaches were very old-fashioned looking with open vestibules.

A Union Pacific GE U30C and two C30-7 units are all clean under a clear blue sky in Cheyenne.

The first of the class J 4-8-4s pulls upgrade with the overnight POCAHONTAS from Cincinnati and Colombus for Norfolk.

Reading T-1 2100 leaves Bethlehem with an Iron Horse Ramble for West Milton, PA on a beautiful spring morning. The Jersey Central engine terminal is directly behind the photographer. This was the ... (more)

The first NJ&NY commuter train of the evening stopped at Fairmount Ave. in wet snow. This was the station that I could walk to from our house about seven blocks away. My father walked to Fairmount... (more)

Pennsylvania E7 A-A units roll into South Amboy with one of the long morning commuter trains from Bay Head Jct.. A friend and I had to leave Hackensack at about 4:30 AM on the first bus to New Yo... (more)

K4s 830 waits for a train from New York in the afternoon. The caboose of a Jersey Central sand train running on the joint railroad is seen at the left.

Central Vermont N-5-a 2-8-0 471 sits idle on a Sunday at Palmer with the fans and sister engine 467 in the background. This was an excursion from New York to Amherst, Mass. behind electric, diesel... (more)

A real veteran, CNR U-2-b 4-8-4 6123, sits at Turcot after bringing a freight in from the west. The Canadian National initially called the 4-8-4 the Confederation type and these early locomotives ... (more)