Penn Central train 72, a Buffalo-New York Empire Service run, gets underway for Grand Central out of the original Albany-Rensselaer station behind a pair of E-units. Tired-looking E7 4030 is an ex... (more)

Train 8, The Creole A Roger Puta Photograph

Southbound #1 The Limited crossing the Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway and passing Ridgely tower in Springfield, Illinois. Its October 04, 1959. Photo taken from my slide collection, No photog... (more)

Northbound #4, The Limited, is making its station stop at Springfield station on August 16, 1968. No photographer listed on photo, from my slide collection.

Built in 1945 units 100-100A/103-103A were originally Alton R.R. locomotives with the same numbers. No photographer listed on slide, from my collection.

Northbound Gulf, Mobile & Ohio's train 4 The Limited led by EMD E7A 100 and E8A 100A, makes a stop at the Granite City station, Illinois. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer list... (more)

Excursion thru Niles Canyon and over Altamont To Sacramento with SP's first passenger Diesel/

639 waits at Blue Island engine terminal.

Passenger E's wait at the Blue Island Engine Terminal

By August of 1977 the three remaining Penn Central E7s in North Jersey Coast Line service were real railfan favorites that everyone was trying to shoot. I, being 15 and using the commuter trains t... (more)

Amtrak by this date, but still GM&O equipment.

Rio Grandeā€™s Denver roundhouse and shop complex at Burnham are gone now, demolished early in 2016 in the name of progress. But on an afternoon visit back in June, 1962, the photographer encounte... (more)

Pennsy E7 strikes a pose at the railroad museum of Pennsylvania.

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)

In its day, Train 8, the Rocky Mountain Rocket, was a class operation, not as fast as its Union Pacific and Burlington competitors but a luxurious and comfortable. ride from Denver to Chicago. But... (more)