Burlington Northern EMD GP40 No. 3012 leads an eastbound BN military extra through Buda, Illinois, on the railroad’s Galesburg to Aurora main line on May 21, 1989.
Grain loads for Richmond head Eastbound at Buttons Bluff crossing the James River on a cloudy afternoon.
Flatback Electric. When the Pennsylvania Railroad was seeking to replace its P5a electric freight motor fleet, they looked at a number of options. The order for 66 of the General Electric E... (more)
The CPKC Holiday Train stopped for it's second show of the evening in the City of Mechanicville at Broadway & Railroad St. while the public gets into the holiday spirit observing the train it's br... (more)
A Shelby, KY to Newport News coal train passes the interlocking at Coney Island with the Richmond skyline in the background.
My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)
CP GP20C-ECO 2246 sits in downtown Davenport with the 2023 CPKC Holiday Train for its stop.
Waiting in the siding for southbound train I125, a clean rebuilt SD40-2 (transformed into a SD23T4) has command of this 3 car Geometry Train. The "friendly conductor" steps out and radios his loc... (more)
BN 9859 (Passenger number), an SDP45, is seen in freight service at Minneapolis' Harrison St. roundhouse. With the creation of Amtrak, BN was quick to pull SDP40s & 45s off passenger trains and mo... (more)
WCRR 9124 leads the Santa's Express out of the West Chester station.
AT&SF train number 20, The Chief, is seen at Needles California in 1933. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
Westbound on the Harriman Cutoff, near Dale Junction. Trailing units are SP SD40T-2 8246 and UP SD40-2 3677.
WB mixed freight with a former Southern unit in charge clatters across the CSX diamond at a place in The Falls City now vastly changed.
What's the 411? Cemex/SWPC (SouthWest Portland Cement) SDP35 411 (ex-Seaboard Coast Line 1962, exx-SCL 612, née-Seaboard Air Line 1111, EMD, 9/1964) sits at the Victorville, California fac... (more)
Former Santa Fe B40-8W 552 leads 452 South through North North Aurora.
