Looking like the Morning Hiawatha, MILW E9 35C gets a wash job at its station stop at North La Crosse with Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha. No Super Dome of Skytop obs, but it did have a BN Dome coa... (more)

BN-3 pulls the Nebraska Zephyr at IRM.

BN E9 3 pinch hits on the point of the Nebraska Zephyr during Labor Day weekend.

BN E9 3 leads a A-B-B-A set of wagons into station track 2 at the IRM.

Now under mostly sunny skies after a morning of rain, the "2017 UP Museum Special" heads back to Omaha on the UP Columbus Sub. on the inbound leg of its round trip running as UP Train P... (more)

To help celebrate Nebraskas's 150th anniversary, UP ran the Nebraska 150 Express around the state August 4-6 with the Governor and two Nebraska celebrities, former Coach Tom Osborne & former astro... (more)

Inspecting the Western Pacific before purchase. A Roger Puta Photograph

An excursion sponsored by the Pacific Limited Group rolls southward along the Deschutes River. The Portland - Bend roundtrip covered the Columbia River Gorge and the Oregon Trunk.

The Forgotten - A former MARC E unit sits in tall weeds at an industrial park in Bensenville, IL on 7/23/17.

An excursion on the Oregon Trunk to Bend is spotted at the old passenger station, awaiting departure for the return to Portland in the morning. Today, an expressway occupies the foreground, and th... (more)

What started life as Milwaukee Road 202A in 1956 has worn many different paint schemes for many roads. Some of those include Alaska RR, Amtrak, Milwaukee Road as stated above, and the short lived ... (more)

After barnstorming through the Northwest on Operation Lifesaver specials, two of UP's three E units head home. The green hillsides will not last much longer.

A Roger Puta Photograph

New York Central E-9 #4096 is seen at the C&O Heritage Center in Clifton Forge, Virginia. Originally built as a demonstrator unit and later used by the Union Pacific Railroad, this unit was repai... (more)

NS 950 has made the trip all the way from Bellevue, Oh. to Williamson, W.Va. within seven hours. Popping out of Williamson Tunnel, the trains enters the small town and continues on east for a tie-... (more)