Chicago to St. Louis Abraham Lincoln with UP coaches

Danville train arrives Chicago south of Dearborn Station

C&O EMD E7 4515 is in charge at Chicago Illinois in May of 1962. R. Steinbrenner photo, from my collection.

Midnight Special from St.Louis arriving Chicago.

C&EI power E7A 1100, F3B 935 and E9A 1102 backing up to connect to it train for a late afternoon departure from Dearborn Station with the combined Georgian/Humming Bird on September 7, 1967. ... (more)

A pair of Rock Island E7's leaving downtown Chicago with a commuter train.

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

Seaboard E7A-B set with 3041 in the lead heads the southbound train, the SUNLAND through Aberdeen, North Carolina on June 6, 1960. Photo by Wiley Bryan, from my collection.

Two Louisville & Nashville E7's leading train 8 The Pan American, are getting ready to leave Louisville Union Station for the last time on May 01, 1971. Photo by Louis Marre, from my collection... (more)

The world's only preserved EMD E7A in the museum yard alongside PRR M1b No. 6755 in the winter of 1976-77. (The PC 4201 was built in 1945 as PRR 5901.)

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.

Over one thousand feet below the Royal Gorge Bridge runs the EMD F7a and F7b engines of the Royal Gorge Railroad. They sound great pulling the long passenger consist through the deep Royal Gorge ... (more)

The Royal Gorge passenger train has reactivated their EMD F7a and F7b units. Here they pass a fisherman as the train moves to the western most area of the passenger line.

A clean looking elegant E7 gets serviced at a locomotive facility.

E is for elegance. These units graced the front of famous passenger trains once upon a time. A lot of thought went into the design of beautiful streamlining unlike today's utilitarian models. Her... (more)