Wabash EMD E8 1012 leads a seven car train at Thompson Missouri in 1953. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Southbound Northbound. New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) R160A no. 9502 (Alstom, 2005-2010) is the lead motor on a northbound F train seen departing south out of Coney Island-Stil... (more)

Museum Car Move. On Friday, January 13, 2023, Metropolitan Transportation Authority - MTA NYCT Subway/New York Transit Museum R-1 103 (ACF, 1930-1931) led an unusual 9 car train on a non-re... (more)

The St. Louis to Denver train 11, the 'Colorado Eagle" with MoPac's E8A 7018 and E7A 7010, sweeps into town westbound with twelve blue and gray cars to pick up passengers at the Kirkwood,M... (more)

The Southern Belle eases out of the KC terminal a few blocks into it's journey to the sunbelt, passing the old Municipal Stadium home of the A's for that final summer in KC before heading to Oakla... (more)

Train 212, The Tulsan. A Roger Puta Photograph

Missouri Pacific Alco PA-1 No.50 train 15 Allenton, Missouri July 15, 1965.

On a hazy, humid March morning in 1967, Kansas City Southern Train 1, the Southern Belle, is just ten minutes out of Union Station as it makes its way along Kansas City Terminal trackage near Van ... (more)

Two years ago Missouri Pacific asked the ICC for permission to drop number 16, the Missouri River Eagle. But on April 26, 1965, the train known to local railroaders as the “Bird,” is still fly... (more)

The Limited. A Roger Puta Photograph

The Colorado Eagle waiting to depart. In the distance is GM&O E7A 102 with Train 4, The Limited. A Roger Puta Photograph

Never the same from one day to the next, Santa Fe’s Fast Mail Express, train 7 and its eastbound counterpart, train 8, were obliged by contract to carry all the mail the U.S Post Office presente... (more)

The dwarf signal tells us that we are alongside Kansas City Terminal Railway tracks at Union Station, where nameless Train 15, formerly the Kansas City Rocket, is just rolling in from Minneapolis-... (more)

Frisco E8(A) 2018 and 2013 leads The Oklahoman passenger train which ran between St. Louis and Oklahoma City, seen here at Kirkwood, Missouri September 19, 1966. Photo taken from my slide colle... (more)

MoPac’s eastbound Missouri River Eagle has shrunk to three cars on Sept. 24, 1967 as it sails into Pleasant Hill, Mo., headed for St. Louis. Two T&P E-8’s have replaced the E-7’s; No. 34 ... (more)