Santa Fe's eastbound Mail Train 4 behind four Alco PA’s pauses at Wichita, Kansas before rushing onward to Kansas City.

Six Alco RSD-15 "Alligators" lead Santa Fe's unit coal train from York Canyon, N.M. to Kaiser Steel Corp. at Fontana, Calif. around ATSF's horseshoe curves at Blanchard, N.M. on Sept. 15, 1968. ... (more)

More conqueror’s of C&O steam — Alco RSD-15’s 6802 and 6808 at Peach Creek, W. Va., brand new on Oct. 6, 1956.

Two EMD A units separated by an Alco FA, rush a MoPac red ball freight onward toward St. Louis on June 3, 1961. A weed sprayer work train on the Cotton Belt RR was in the clear near Paragrould, ... (more)

VIA’s eastbound Train 2 crosses Canadian Pacific’s famous Stoney Creek arch bridge on its descent off Rogers Pass on Aug. 11, 1981. The steel bridge replaced a wooden trestle in 1893 and and ... (more)

To show switching crews as well as shippers and customers how damaging coupling impacts at higher speeds can be, Canadian National rebuilt a 40-ft. box car with plexiglass and equipped with a big ... (more)

With five F7As and only one F7B, SP 6436 East enters the siding to meet a westbound as the brakeman from the westbound is prepared to give a rollby inspection. Holborn is 159 miles west of Ogden.

Before there were centerbeam bulkhead flat cars, lumber was nervously shipped aboard standard 40-ft. flat cars. The loads were always vulnerable to shifting and being set out and delayed to be co... (more)

The only reason I fished this one out is how many viewers have ever seen the top of a UP "Big Blow" Turbine where all that noise came from. (They were eventually outlawed from running in Sou. Ca... (more)

After making a set-out at Goldthwaite, Texas, Santa Fe Extra 283C throttles up to resume its westward trip to Brownwood and further to the panhandle on June 19, 1971. Goldthwaite agency was close... (more)

Having passed through North America’s 4th longest tunnel (6.2 miles), apparently the brakeman was going back to check an engine problem. Inside Moffat Tunnel D&RGW 5515 East crested the highest... (more)

Usually always coupled to an EMD diesel, SP's KM 9009 leads Train 663 west (south) about a mile from Junction City with a trainload of Oregon's most renewable resource, lumber. One of the few sun... (more)

The four SD-40-2s leading Milwaukee's eastbound freight come into view at the loop at Cedric, Montana as the caboose of the 120-some-odd car train sweeps by the camera in August 1973. Box cab el... (more)

The Borax brush sprayer is almost to the telephone pole on the Rock Island at Pleasant Hill, Mo. Aug. 28, 1965. Such work trains could disburse over 100,000 gallons of herbicides in a day. Then... (more)

When Santa Fe's F passenger units began wearing out, new steam-boiler-equipped GE U28CG's began service on the trains to Texas. Two U28CG's bring northbound Train 16, "Texas Chief," into Purcell,... (more)