Oiler #211581.

NKP 526 was built in March 1958 and became N&W 2526 and then NS 1456.

WM FA1s 301, 302, 303, and 304 plus SD40 7434 passing F7A 59. A Roger Puta Photograph

The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.

The RDS-15 was nicknamed the "alligator" for its long snout. Slide is Kodachrome ASA 10.

Crowd is waiting for NKP 759. A Roger Puta photograph.

This morning dozens of commuter and intercity trains should have run through here to Chicago but not this Friday. The night before a freight train made a mess of the Q's three-track Aurora to Ch... (more)

N&W E8A 1008 with Train 111, the domeliner Banner Blue arriving next to Train 1, The Wabash Connonball. A Roger Puta Photograph

Amtrak tested the Swedish X2000 tilting train in 1993.

An E7 and 2 E8s elephant style, eastbound in the morning.

Switching Empire Builder and North Coast Limited cars on Union Station south leads. This is Photo 974 in this database. What do I get when I hit 1000?

A Roger Puta Photograph

This was when the Rock had a piggyback yard all the way downtown at the south edge of the Loop next to the LaSalle Street Station Leads. Baldwin Locomotive Works made 63 S-8s (54 A-units and 9 B-... (more)

The first of two inbound commuter trains from Valparaiso, Indiana. The diamonds in the foreground are with the Rock Island.