Starting the day from Chicago Union Station, CSX's P001 is seen passing through the bascule bridges spanning the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal about 100ft north of Ash Street interlocking.

CLOVIS NM Jan 22 1984 — A light snow sets the scene as ATSF SDF45 5956, SD40-2 5041 and SD45-2 5633 sit at the west fuel racks. EMD built the unit (s/n 34042) in December 1967 as ATSF 1906 and d... (more)

Westbound, east of Columbus, OH on the Pittsburgh, Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis line, a trio of Pennsy units handle it.

Prowling in the street during the early morning hours, a YN2 pair leads 88 coal empties bound for Bailey Mine in Pennsylvania for loading and to eventually return to New Haven Power plant along th... (more)

During the mid-1950s, cab units ruled Southern's main line as seen in this November 1955 view near Austell, Georgia with Train 153 rolling east with a quartet of F7s in charge. Photo by R.D. Sha... (more)

Located in Albia, Iowa, the Monroe County Historical Society has a small museum that includes a railroad display with an Alco HH660 and a caboose painted for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railr... (more)

EMDX 7215 at the former EMD plant in La Grange.

Amongst the sea of widecabs ready and waiting in Grafton, the sole C40-8 on the roster (that isn't Pan Am) is front and center. This throwback GE was a very nice sight to see.

ATSF train 4, the California Limited, is seen approaching La Junta Colorado at 50 MPH on September 16th 1934. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ICE trains of various types and Austrain long-distance trains are stored for the night just west of Munich Main Station, at a location that is known as Vorstellgruppe Süd.

On a sunny morning in Chicago's south side, HZRX CF7 #1500 shoves a short train of scrap gons into one of the mills at South Shore Recycling. This unit was built as a Santa Fe F7A and has been wor... (more)

Lift And Separate. After bring moved to the Wells Road crossing on Sunday, November 12, 2023, on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, the locomotive was lifted off of the tracks and placed on 3 sepa... (more)

Steamtown cosmetically restored their Big Boy in 2021. I captured it separated from its tender shortly after painting was complete.

Susie-Q arrives to Syracuse Armory Square in the rain.

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