BN 9900 was the only E unit owned by the SP&S and was numbered 750 with that railroad. It teams up with an FP7 to lead tr. 22, the Portland connection for the EMPIRE BUILDER. I rode the sleeping c... (more)

The southbound Sunshine Special glides through the cut north of Sixth Street in Austin. Diesels had replaced the Pacifics which were the previous power. The cut was removed during the constructio... (more)

After leaving its last stop at Topeka, Ks. with three E7s, Rock Island's Train 4 Golden State Limited is eastbound passing by "Calhoun Bluffs" on Union Pacific trackage rights en route Kansas City... (more)

Seaboard Air Line passenger, mail, and express train No. 3 is working the passenger station at Raleigh, NC in February 1966. Two road grime covered E7's are in charge of the train today awaiting ... (more)

It's February 1958 and the Pennsy is borrowing power from it's southern connections to augment the GG1 fleet on the corridor as a freak snowstorm a few days earlier had crippled the fleet. Here a... (more)

Nineteen miles west of Missouri Capitol Jefferson City, MoPac Colorado Eagle eastbound No. 12 with three E7s is about to snag a bag of USMail at McGirk. E7A 24 was originally numbered 7014 and w... (more)

Battered and bruised #5851 bends into view with a train at Marysville. PRR Class EP20. This is the eastbound Broadway Limited, taken on or near 21 June 1965 at about 5:50AM.

A former Maine Central E7 with little lettering and visible number leads KCS Southern Belle south out of Kansas City to begin its 870 mile run to New Orleans. Apparently a SP sleeper is deadheadi... (more)

CB&Q Train 20 arrives Kansas City, Mo. on Feb. 22, 1967 after its 4-hour, 195-mile run from Omaha. E-7 9928B hardly had to break a sweat handling the four cars. In this year CB&Q had three pair... (more)

As a CB&Q switcher putters in Burlington's coach yard, GM&O Train 1, "The Limited," with E7 103A and E8 100A, leaves Chicago on Aug. 1, 1968, taken from railfan's favorite overlook -- Roosevelt Av... (more)

The "Go Go" Sox of 1959 would end up meeting the Dodgers in the World Series. Meanwhile that summer a couple miles north of Comisky Park the Zephyr Pit cranked out a daily fleet of domed streamli... (more)

A set of NYC passenger power is headed to the station to pick up its outbound passenger train.

A southbound passenger train is stopped at the Dwight Station giving me time to get a roster photo.

Passenger power lays over at the 10th "roundhouse" just south of Louisville Union Station in this late-'50s scene by Tom Smart. L&N had abandoned this classic dark blue/cream scheme with orange tr... (more)

A set of C&O E units taken from the Roosevelt Road overpass on Kodachrome II film with an old Kodak Rangefinder camera. I was 17 at this time :).