Retired Power Pack. LI 3100 (né-WM 304, FA-2, 1/1951) had already been retired, but after conversion served as a cabless HEP generator/power pack. During an Electric Railroaders Associatio... (more)

Resting in the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) Coney Island Yard during a snowstorm on January 13, 1982 are 35-ton locomotives 11 and 10. The locomotives were built by GE in 1959 and were ... (more)

A forty nine car southbound freight is seen at Fresno California in 1938. Otto's speed estimate was 8 MPH. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Seaboard Air Line SDP35 1114 sits on display in downtown Hamlet next to the Seaboard era depot.

Lease locomotive 400 is being set out on track one at the end of it's hard work day.

Sitting off to the side, two E8s painted in New York Central have an uncertain future. I'd heard they have been inoperable for over a decade, and recent passenger excursions have run with GVT fre... (more)

CSX duo idle at Oak Point Yard on Friday morning.

CN ES44AC 3981 pushes CN's Jordan Spreader 50939 westbound onto the Alberta Coal Branch.

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

The Atlanta-McDonough turn passes the home of the Atlanta Falcons.

CSX's "Family Lines" heritage unit leads M60216 south through Rebecca, Georgia, on St Patrick's Day.

Superfleet scheme ATSF 553 hurries a stack train eastward toward Chicago just north of Ancona, IL on their double track speedway across Illinois, passing under a classic ATSF cantilever signal wit... (more)

In VMV's heyday, they'd get a unit, slap VMV or PAL on the slide and assign it to PAL until the unit was sold, rebuilt or failed. The only trick was finding a PAL train running in the daytime. Th... (more)

Quiet Warm Day in the Yard. On a 70-degree November afternoon, all stands quiet in the yard, with three GE's awaiting assignment and one intermodal stacking to the left.

Southerners Headed Home NS 8099 and 1069 lead a Georgia-bound Office Car Special through some not-so-ideal weather. In a few days, they'll arrive in Augusta, GA, where Norfolk Southern exe... (more)