On August 8, 1967 Southern Pacific FP7 6455 and a B-unit arrived with a nine-car No. 99 the Los Angeles-bound Coast Daylight, crossing the ATSF tracks at Mission Junction near the Los Angeles... (more)

A class act in whiskey country in the Bluegrass State. After running around their train the F-units are preparing to head back to Bardstown. The old distillery was still in use and its aging war... (more)

Newly Restored Reading 902 at its new home, the Woodstown Central Railroad.

CGW FP7 116-A sits on display at the museum in Oelwein on a cold night with snow showers.

The daily Verde Canyon Railroad excursion crosses SOB Canyon Trestle as it climbs up from the Verde River on its return to Clarkdale.

DGVR train BLOC-4 slows to a stop at Roaring Creek Junction to do switching in the siding. The line in the foreground was B&O’s coal branch to Coalton and Mabie, but is now only used to store ca... (more)

Louisville & Nashville FP7 652 leads passenger train The Gulf Wind at Pensacola, FL on August 03, 1963. The Gulf Wind was a joint operation by the Louisville & Nashville and the Seaboard Railr... (more)

A beauty deserves a portrait in their best outfit and IMHO it didn't get no better than this one.

Beside a new shelter the nicely matched dinner train looks ready to depart for faraway places instead of a runaround a few scenic miles away.

CSX 118-119 with an eastbound CSX OCS is past the crossovers at Drakestown and about to enter Confluence, Pennsylvania. October 13, 1987. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

For my money the best combination of motive power and passenger cars that Amtrak ever managed to assemble. Photo by E Forest Hadley. From my collection.

Western Maryland had no FP7s but Canadian Pacific did and because of that we can see what a Western Maryland FP7 might have looked like, well, minus that round tank and ditch lights etc. In any c... (more)

Once sitting nearby rotting in the weeds, #1400 is on display with #29 in Ogden, having been relocation from the Pavilion downtown.

Lots going on in this Minot North Dakota scene on July 11th 1956. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

BN 9794 has been set out from the North Coast Hiawatha during its station stop at Livingston, MT. The passenger train has just departed the station and is starting to climb Bozeman Hill, and will ... (more)