Chicago Great Western F7(A) 156 and CB&Q E8(A) 9942B at CB&Q's Omaha Passenger Station in August 1964. A Lloyd Keyser Photo from my Collection.

Only a month after it's demotion to a no-name train, Rock Island's train #7 gets ready to depart for Council Bluffs/Omaha. The photographer grabs a shot at the platforms of the depot in Davenport ... (more)

The last remnant of Rocky Mountain/Corn Belt Rockets, a month after being demoted to nameless train #7, departs Council Bluffs for the Omaha side of the river. The announced loss of it's primary ... (more)

An A-B-B set of E6's pulls one of UP's fine passenger trains at speed, and on jointed rail.

A mixed freight pulls into the Cedar Rapids station with farm supplies.

The Chicagoan. The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.

Santa Fe eastbound Mail Train 8 blasts through Stafford, Kansas without even slowing down, and the Agent appears to be looking down, not watching the action or the RPO clerk in the first car comin... (more)

Santa Fe's eastbound Mail Train 4 behind four Alco PA’s pauses at Wichita, Kansas before rushing onward to Kansas City.

Running a little late, E6A 15 speeds number 12, the Chicagoan, along the High Line between Holliday Junction and Kansas City on an October afternoon in 1965. The Dallas-Chicago train -- mostly hea... (more)

There’s not much revenue on Rock Island’s eastbound Train 10, Corn Belt Rocket, originating across the river at Omaha, Nebr. and now leaving Council Bluffs, Iowa with only two coaches and an e... (more)

Santa Fe’s northbound Train 12, the Chicagoan, is just south of Topeka, Kansas on its run from Dallas to Chicago on Nov. 6, 1966. Lead unit 15 is an E6 while the trailing cab unit is No. 11, an... (more)

You wouldn’t know it to see it today, but Train 39, westbound near Herington, Kansas, was once the Imperial, a secondary but important passenger run between Chicago and Southern California. But ... (more)

With mostly heavyweight cars behind 3 Es, CB&Q’s Trn. 12 Nebraska Zephyr pulls out of Council Bluffs, Iowa on May 8, 1965.

Rock Island Train 18, "Twin Star Rocket," barrels eastward out of North Topeka, Ks. on time on Union Pacific track en route to Kansas City where it will return to home rails. Operating from Hous... (more)

Led by an F and two E units, Rock Island's "Golden State Limited" rushes into Topeka, Kansas where it will cross the Kansas River and enter Union Pacific trackage rights for the run to Kansas City... (more)