A steam freight chuffs out of East Ely yard, while the massive Nevada Northern shop complex looks on. Scenes like this easily take a visitor back to the early 1900s.
AT&SF train 12, The Chicagoan, is seen east of Newton Kansas on January 21st 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
H-6 Class Mallet 2-6-6-2 steam locomotive #1309 built by Baldwin in 1949 enters Brush Tunnel on its way to Frostburg, MD. She was re-lettered in the Chesapeake & Ohio livery for a series of charte... (more)
A four unit F7 set leads nine cars, south of Denver in the 1960s. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
ATSF train 90, The Centennial State, is moving along at 50 MPH near Castle Rock, on August 14th 1949. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
ATSF 4099 and ATSF 5029 are in charge of a 65 car freight east of Belen, on September 2nd 1946. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
ATSF 3815 and ATSF E1 number 6 lead train 22, El Capitan, east of Raton in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
Handy Dandy Railroad 310 brings a train of passengers through the last turn and onto the home stretch of their mile and a half fully contained railroad at Denton Farmmpark in North Carolina. The l... (more)
The Winter Park Express has gone through Big Ten Curve (the track in the background) and now rounds Blue Mountain as it gets ready to enter Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado.
AT&SF train number 6, the Colorado Express, is seen north of Castle Rock on June 26th 1932. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
ATSF 920 and ATSF 6 lead train 21, El Capitan, west of Starkville in 1938. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
Two icons of American railroading- the PRR K4s and NW 611, side-by-side at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
Two car Northern Pacific train number 264 is seen on the curved trestle at Dorsey Idaho in 1931. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
Western Maryland 1309 rounds Helmstetter's Curve as it moves its train to Frostburg for excursions later in the day.
Western Maryland 1309 works hard at Parkersburg on a cold December morning.
