Chicago to St. Louis Abraham Lincoln with UP coaches

Rock Island's GP-7's were not equipped for suburban service, and so 1217 must be functioning as a switcher or pilot rather than the motive power for the whole train. That duty is probably going ... (more)

Southern Pacific GP9's 3593 and 3598 rolling by Portland's Amtrak Union Station with their consist of box cars and hoppers on November 14, 1971. Electro-Motives GP9 became the SP's basic four... (more)

On March 15, 1969, GN F7A 309C leads an F7B, a GP9 and another F7A with more then 200 ore cars, totaling around 15,000 net tons of taconite pellets into Minneapolis. The Great Northern usuall... (more)

Built for the Rock Island by EMD as a lightweight passenger train. The three trainsets produced were deemed a failure and train set number 1 was scrapped in 1966. The two others were donated to mu... (more)

Fort Worth & Denver 752-A leads four unit set of F's on the Colorado & Southern southbound freight through Altus, Wyoming with the help of C&S steam engine 2-10-2 pushing the train up the hill ... (more)

Louisville & Nashville FP7 652 leads passenger train The Gulf Wind at Pensacola, FL on August 03, 1963. The Gulf Wind was a joint operation by the Louisville & Nashville and the Seaboard Railr... (more)

As leading Wabash F-7#660 with two F-7B's approached the passing siding, it passed westbound train 89 with four F-7's on the point hauling auto parts cars at Chapin, Illinois at milepost 457 on Fe... (more)

On December 12, 1962, an unusually heavy No.1 headed around the curve at Palmer Lake with PA-PB and two F7A's. The train size that day would appear to be occasioned by Christmas season mail, a... (more)

In 1941 B&M ordered three A-B sets of F2's for passenger service for the lower speed operation in the hilly territory. At the diesel shop in October 1958, idled 4226 A&B now painted in one of th... (more)

The Autumn Glory Special, running between Baltimore and Oakland, Maryland via B&O’s Washington, Metropolitan, Cumberland and Mountain Subdivisions, was sponsored by the Baltimore Chapter/... (more)

Seaboard Coast Line E6(A) 522 (Shovel nose) leading the SouthWind and L&N E7(A) 791 heads train 15, both being refueled and watered at the Louisville Union Station on April 04, 1967. Photo by L... (more)

Missouri Pacific E7A-B pairs 7016 resting between runs of the Colorado Eagle at D&RGW's yard in Denver, Colorado on June 10, 1960. The 7016 was part of an order for four A-B pairs delivered in Jun... (more)

CNJ, Central Railroad of New Jersey RS3 1550, rest in Kearny, New Jersey. February 12, 1977. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©

The National Limited, Baltimore & Ohio train 2, is departing Washington D.C. in 1939. Otto Perry photo, my collection.