A westbound wayfreight with A-B-A F-units passes the eastbound home signals to the junction with Rock Island's mainline to Kansas City. The CRIP and MILW ran on joint track between here and Musca... (more)

A "detour" train photographed during the rebuilding of the Belden Hill Tunnel in the fall of 1985. The steep connecting track between the now-abandoned D&H Penn Division under the viadu... (more)

Got IT! Conrail Block Operator Jim Largent has successfully conveyed a Form D to Conrail conductor Mike Quigley at Derry Road in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The Form D authority would take the ALPI-0... (more)

Brand-new 1977 model-year automobiles head to showroom floors, rounding the Horseshoe Curve on an ex-PRR tri-level auto-rack.

Ban-Lon slacks were the order of the day for men in the mid-70s, as the operator returns from hooping up the flimsies to CR 6547 East. Traffic was heavy that afternoon, with the "American Fr... (more)

A Roger Puta photograph.

Steam makes a pretty good smoke screen in the winter time making for poor visibility. 4020 is almost completely engulfed in steam as smoke exhaust rises very high.

A Big Boy pulling a string of reefers rolls through Harriman on the new line.

The power for today's South Paris local is CV/GT's contribution to the Bicentennial, GP9 1776 (renumbered from CV GP9 4450). The shade of blue on 1776 seems to match the color of that car parked ... (more)

The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.

Two friends and I took a long weekend trip to Mingo Junction, Ohio in search of six-axle Alco Centuries. We found a lot of our desired quarry was in the engine terminal, but very little on active ... (more)

Water, fuel, sand –- essential to keep the wheels rolling. Here on an October evening one of a handful of workers at the Argentine engine terminal service rack supplies water to a Santa Fe PA-1 ... (more)

Never the same from one day to the next, Santa Fe’s Fast Mail Express, train 7 and its eastbound counterpart, train 8, were obliged by contract to carry all the mail the U.S Post Office presente... (more)

Even though putt-putt motorcars had mostly been replaced by hyrail vehicles, on March 30, 1985 a D&RGW section man chose to use his putt-putt to reach switch cleaning duties after a snowfall at Cr... (more)

Minutes out of Denver Union Station, Burlington 9988A sweeps past the 38th Street yard office with Number 10, the Denver Zephyr. It’s mid-January, 1965, and though the sun has barely set behind ... (more)