SP 4414 is captured with rods down while traversing the crossovers in Los Angeles. This is Southern Pacific train number two, the Sunset Limited. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Union Pacific train number eighty five, the National Parks Special, is seen near Henderson Colorado in 1953. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

AT&SF EMC E1 number five departs Albuquerque at 10 MPH with a five car El Capitan in 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Santa Fe train number three, the California Limited, is seen with twelve cars in Apache Canyon, near Las Vegas New Mexico in June 1947. Otto Perry's trusty 1935 Ford V-8 sedan is partially visible... (more)

AT&SF train number twelve, the Chicagoan, is departing Emporia Kansas at 10 MPH on March 4th 1939. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

The Bond Street crossing in Wagon Mound, NM was a very cluttered place at the turn of this century. Railroad hardware installed much earlier in the 20th century barely made it into the 21st. Thi... (more)

The eastbound "Sunset" is departing with three "pooches" in the lead. They sounded magnificent.

The "Southwest Chief" is preparing to leave with all that old equipment but at least it all appears to match somewhat after six years. Photo by Gary Zeitler. From my collection.

Baltimore & Ohio E7(A) 1421 and E7(A) 1424 with train 8 the eastbound SHENANDOAH, at Youngstown, Ohio on September 19, 1965. Photo by Dave McKay, from my collection.

An early UP passenger train leaves Denver, probably for Omaha.

Illinois Central E6 4003 and E7 4007 are leading train 51 The Green Diamond near Springfield, Illinois on March 7, 1955. The Green Diamond covered the 294 miles from Chicago to St. Louis in 4 ... (more)

A combined Milwaukee Road and Union Pacific train comes into Chicago. At this time the UP preferred the use of the Milwaukee Road tracks to come into Chicago versus the C&NW.

Amtrak Train 286 from Niagara Falls to Penn Station heading through Ardsley-On-Hudson.

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)

The Green Diamond makes a station stop. In the full size scan there appears to be a GP9 coupled to what looks like a baggage car on the rear.