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)

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)

Union Pacific train 717, the Los Angeles Challenger, is seen in Los Angeles at Pasadena Junction in 1940. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

8402 was one of five Alco RS-2's delivered to the CPR in 1949 as part of the dieselization of its lines in Vermont. Twenty years later it is in front of the St. J station. It was scrapped in 198... (more)

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)

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)

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)

Colorado Railroad Museum Engine #20

AT&SF 2-8-8-2 1797 awaits its next helper assignment on Raton Pass near Morley Colorado in 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Otto's speed estimate for SP train number 7 was 35 MPH at Edgerly Louisiana in 1936. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF 2-6-2 1874 leads a freight east of Pueblo Colorado in 1945. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

NYC FM CFA16-4 6601 leads a freight near South Bend Indiana in 1954. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

SP 4-8-2 4364 leads Second 23, the Beaver, at Gerber California in 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Wet and Wonderful. While a powerful nor'easter drenched New Jersey to the bone, NJ Transit Arrow III no. 1326 is seen making its station stop at South Orange Station. These three cars m... (more)

Backing down to run around its train is Strasburg Railroad 2-6-0 89. This Mogul was built by Canadian Locomotive Company in February 1910 as Grand Trunk 1009. It was later renumbered GT 911, and... (more)