Monon 502 leads a Louisville to Chicago freight off the K&IT bridge and onto Vincennes Street in New Albany, Indiana where the train will spend much of the next two miles of its journey navigating... (more)

In Amtrak's early days, the Floridian was generally short enough to be handled by a single E, like this B&O hand-me-down getting its windshield cleaned. The train would grow for a couple years, t... (more)

Monon #5 passenger train pauses in Lafayette, IN on its southbound journey through Indiana during July 1961. From the John E. Troxler collection. Photographer unknown.

The head-end brakeman on the local switch job is dressed in the traditional classic railroader's garb of 1972. The mandatory wearing of bright colored safety vests is still decades away.

Three E units lead a manifest freight west through Griffith in 1975.

On a cold winter day, a loaded Western Maryland coal train arrives at Hagerstown, MD, behind an F7/RS3/RS3/SD40 quartet. Here the pusher set on the rear that assisted it uphill from of the Potomac... (more)

Our dedication was rewarded on this day. A Chessie run-through led by a B&O F7 passes Bound Brook station in a torrential downpour. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

L&N EMD E6(A) 771 and E8(A) 787 southbound with train 99 The "Pan-American" near Louisville, Kentucky. The Pan-American passenger train operated by the Louisville & Nashville from 1921... (more)

“Modus Operandi: N2A”
The St. Louis Trailer Train, powered by Chessie System/ B&O GP40-2 4137, CS/B&O GP40-2 4425, and C&O SD40 7562, in N2A configuration, is westbound on Track 1, c... (more)

The Monon owned nine EMD BL2s, a strange evolutionary step between cab units and GP7s. Some found BL2s to be hopelessly ugly; I always thought they were kind of neat because they were so different... (more)

Photographer unknown. Image scanned from a slide that was purchased at a Chicagoland train show in the mid 1970s. The scene appears to be from the early to mid 1960s era.

Rio Grande eastbound California Zephyr behind PA1 6001, PB-1 6002 and PA-1 6003 near Glenwood Springs, Colorado on July 18, 1951. Rio Grande PA's carried this silver and orange paint from late 194... (more)

Cumberland Furnace was a major producer of iron from the 1790's until its last gasp in 1942. The iron mines and furnaces here supplied much of the iron used by the US in the war of 1812. In ... (more)

In August 1972, BN E8 No. 9949 rests between assignments on the Seattle-Portland trains. The big E8A is sitting outside the shops at Interbay Yard.

Central of Georgia EMD GP9 164. Numbered (160-170) Photo from my slide collection.