AMTK 10004 (Viewliner Inspection Car) provides Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner a great view as the California Zephyr runs through Plainview on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

Awaiting the passage of a directors' special bound for Oregon, Southern Pacific's PTLAT train is parked in the siding at Mott, California.

With the Sangre De Christo Mountains serving as a backdrop, the AAPRCO San Juan Limited ascends the west slope of Veta Pass.

CSX's OCS, led by all three F40s, rolls south into Manchester for a crew change after coming off the Manchester Subdivision from Atlanta.

SW8 #11 is keeping busy this morning at Cleveland Cliffs in Riverdale, transporting ladle oxygenation cars back and forth between the basic oxygen furnances.

BNSF 2530 (GP39-3) takes the siding in Longmont, Colorado and will move some wood cars to a client in Superior.

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe train number 19, The Chief, is departing Barstow California with seven cars in 1933. Otto's speed estimate was 12 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Restored Roundhouse. A wide variety of equipment is seen within the roundhouse at the B&O Railroad Museum. The building was part of the railroad's Mount Clare Shops, founded in 1829, wh... (more)

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Eastbound manifest. Trailing units are SDF40-2 5252 and SD45-2 5823.

Union Pacific Railway GP40P-2 1375 first showed up in Anaheim in November 2021 with no graffiti upon it. Roughly two-and-a-half years later, it looks like this. Built by EMD in November 1974 as ... (more)

Union Pacific's Calipatria Local sits on a side track (with derail up) in the farming community of Imperial. The lead unit is (was) the last SP unit with Roman font lettering. Unfortunately the ta... (more)

If this iron horse was a real horse it would have a very swayed back. I've always been fond of the SD35 line and especially the SDP. Apparently at some point following removal of the steam gener... (more)

8711 leads UP SD60 6034.

It's hard to get much more Illinois Central than this. After an equipment failure in route with one of the trailing Amtrak Chargers, IC SD70 #1027 was sent to the rescue on this 7+ hour late City ... (more)