As BNSF train Q-RICCHI6-08 (with BNSF Dash 9-44CWs 5215 and 683, along with KCS AC4400CW 4598 – and two more Dash 9-44CWs shoving on the rear: BNSF 5004 and 4960 – for power) climbs the Tehach... (more)

The Caboose Backs In | Freshly-restored Frisco caboose number 1291 eases into position at the Van Buren, AR depot on a cloudy Saturday, April 27, 2024. The pair of Alco C420s powering the t... (more)

The UP's Cane Creek branch is an amazing piece of engineering, carved out amongst the deep red rocks of southern Utah. A nice surprise on my first time shooting the branch was a former Western Pac... (more)

After taking on water, SOO 1003 returns to its train by stirring up fallen leaves as it passes through Schoeffler Park in the center of Brandon, WI.

CP 2816 approaches Blackfalds as it heads south on the Leduc Sub.

Embarking on a grand historic journey, the formidable Class 25NC No. 3437 and her immense freight train thunder with power along the quaint Karoo branch line to Douglas. Captured during a Farra... (more)

Just shy of five years after being pulled from San Bernardino's Viaduct Park, with her restoration nearly complete, Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 stretches her "legs" with some short runs on the C... (more)

The SAR class 26 #3450 better known as "The Red Devil" is leaving Kimkerley with a regular freight train.

AT&SF train number 19, The Chief, is departing Raton New Mexico at 10 MPH on March 26th 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 whistles as it meets an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe double-stack train at Casa Blanca, four miles west of the Riverside Amtrak/Metrolink station. The steam engine i... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1793 is seen on the west side of Raton Pass, near Lynn New Mexico, during WWII in 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A Northbound West Point Route freight heads past the depot in downtown Auburn, Alabama lead by A&WP 425 in July of 1952. Photo by J. Parker Lamb.

N&W 1218 with an empty hopper train on the middle pass track at Walton Virginia.