WP 's last hurrah F7s running down the Altamont pass en route to Oakland

A good day chasing this passenger special with the Galveston Museum F7 units.

Photographer unknown, from my collection.

After nearly 60 years of control, parent Louisville & Nashville merged the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis on August 30, 1957. Photographer Henry Libby, photo from my collection.

Bessemer & Lake Erie’s Western Allegheny job reaches its “interchange” with the B&LE main line at Queen Junction, Pennsylvania. The four-track yard indicates the large amount of coal that th... (more)

Wabash 1189 passes searchlight signals pulling the NS Santa Train.

In the last light of an October day, Bessemer & Lake Erie’s Western Allegheny job approaches he small community of Troutman, Pennsylvania. The two F7’s are now on the Reading & Northern roster... (more)

One of the excursions that was part of the 1979 NRHS convention was a farewell to the Western Maryland F-units. The round-trip from Washington, DC – Martinsburg, WV is seen on the Baltimore & Oh... (more)

Another from the archives -

Back in the day, when you could still find the B&O running EMD F units daily, in West Virginia, there was a guy who was working on a technique called the " more)

A B&O F unit leads a freight over the Sycamore trestle in Old Fields, WV, on the South Branch. Captured during a Lerro Productions photo charter (yeah, you heard right, Lerro Productions ran a more)

Baltimore & Ohio F7, No. 722, former Bessemer & Lake Erie 722, leads a small freight over the trestle on the South Branch at Sycamore, WV. The locomotive was built in 1952 and spent its life haul... (more)

Digging way back into the archives here...

Relegated to branch line freight, a B&O F7 leads a small mixed consist through the rurals of Romney, WV, along the South Branch. Actually, thi... (more)

Trips to Brockville, Ontario were always fueled by the desire to shoot the last active Alco/MLW cab units in service. Getting an F7A on an eastbound train was not a bad second prize.

Five NC&StL F7's in the lead of a long manifest, preparing to leave Memphis, Tennessee on February 15, 1959. A Hugh Comer photo, from my collection.

Under a Full Moon, Fillmore & Western F7A no. 100 stops at the Semaphores in Santa Paula to load passengers for a trip to Santa's Village on the North Pole Express.