Invernal Clarity | With a light blanket of snow and bright morning sunlight covering the mountains near Noxon, MT, an eastbound train of empty coal hoppers cruises alongside the Clark Fork ... (more)

Purchased in the early 1960s to replace aging passenger power, Southern Pacific's SDP45s stayed in that service after Amtrak took over operating most of America's passenger trains. But after a de... (more)

On April 4, 1976, GP40 317 and its sisters are still working as they roll off the Tennessee side of Harahan Bridge. Although it's downhill to the Memphis yard, the bulk of the train still hang... (more)

Rock Island train 31 with F9AM 4153 ex-UP F9 515, RI GP7 4200, ex-Rio Grande 5101 and Pittsburgh & Lake Erie U28B 2809 is in charge of the Memphis-El Reno train this afternoon on March 23, 1973... (more)

AT&SF train number ninety three is seen at Amarillo Texas on April 17th 1937. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Santa Fe M-190 Mail Express Motor car built in 1932, had a 900 hp gasoline-electric power plant it was replaced with a diesel-electric engine in December 1949. The M-190 was assigned to pull no... (more)

While my trailer was being unloaded at Western Electric, I had a chance to bobtail to several locations to shoot the KCS, and the SP. Just after the sun cleared the buildings I catch SP, Southern ... (more)

For my money the best combination of motive power and passenger cars that Amtrak ever managed to assemble. Photo by E Forest Hadley. From my collection.

BN 9794 has been set out from the North Coast Hiawatha during its station stop at Livingston, MT. The passenger train has just departed the station and is starting to climb Bozeman Hill, and will ... (more)

BN 1524, x-GN GP7, pokes its nose out of the Interbay roundhouse, sharing space with a GP35 & F9A. The stripes on the long hood identify it as the front, typical of all GN road switchers (as deliv... (more)

MILW 60A, an FP7 built as 90A in June 1950, mates with an F7A and moves away from the MILW engine terminal at Pig's Eye Yard, St. Paul. After a career of handling Hiawatha's and other MILW passeng... (more)

BN 1726 leads a quartet of GP9/18s waiting for the North Coast Hiawatha to leave Livingston for Butte which it will follow with the daily freight. All units were NP, the 4th, BN 1998 was a GP18. T... (more)

Mixed consist going fast. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

OKLAHOMA CITY (October) 1975 — Rock Island GP40 355 makes its way through Harter Yard while a switcher works a cut of cars. My photo.

On a beautiful March Day in 1968, four WP Geeps, GP9 725, two high short nose GP20's 2001, 2010 and a GP7 710 are in charge of a 92 car west-bound freight through the grade at Altamont Pass. Once... (more)