The overhead slide detector fences are ever vigilant as eastbound Rio Grande Zephyr Train 18 negotiates one of the most rugged canyons in Colorado — awesome Gore Canyon. The canyon was named a... (more)

White Pass & Yukon Train 2, consisting of containers, piggyback private vehicles and no-two-alike passenger cars, leaves Whitehorse, Yukon en route Skagway, Alaska on Sept. 2, 1978. Up ahead ar... (more)

Three Alco PA’s rush SP’s first section of Train 11, “Cascade,” past Canby where it met Extra 5349 in the siding, 25 miles out of Portland, Ore., on April 11, 1964. Tomorrow the train wil... (more)

Regular eastbound train en route to Craigmont over several spectacular trestles and bridges.

Two UP Century DD40A-X's are assisted by an SD24B and a GP30 up Cajon grade at Devore, Calif. on April 30, 1976. UP operates on AT&SF (new BNSF) trackage rights over Cajon Summit all the way to D... (more)

The 3 SDP40Fs are now in California, having crossed the Colorado River from Topock, Ariz. The train is essentially ex-Santa Fe Super Chief and El Capitan cars, and it was during this winter of 19... (more)

Santa Fe eastbound Mail Train 8 blasts through Stafford, Kansas without even slowing down, and the Agent appears to be looking down, not watching the action or the RPO clerk in the first car comin... (more)

With an E9 and two E7B units, the 17 car eastbound Golden State sprints at track speed across Arizona about 62 miles east of Tucson at Tully siding.

D&RGW Train #2, the "Royal Gorge," led by F-7 5574 near Cotopaxi has been reduced to two cars on it's daily run back to Denver from Salida, Colo. on March 12, 1967. The continental divide domin... (more)

N&W's Train 111 "Banner Blue" leaves Chicago's Dearborn Station headed for St. Louis on May 16, 1967. Don't know the heritage of E-8 3812 --- likely Wabash? Chicago & Western Indiana 254 Alco... (more)

Sharply on time at 10:30 a.m. on May 16, 1967, after idling most of the night two Erie-Lackawanna E8s crack open the throttle to move the 7-car Lake Cities Train 6 out of Dearborn Station for the ... (more)

It was bad enough arriving Peach Creek, W. Va. to find C&O’s steam operations had just been taken over by diesels in 1956, but the dismal, rainy, overcast Oct. 6th day didn’t help the enthusia... (more)

How about a hyrail school bus for your railroad? Before rebuilding a Santa Fe 4-6-4, the Abilene & Smoky Valley RR had one for its passengers, operating out of Abilene, Kansas.

Another AT&SF grain train derailment on rain-softened roadbed, this one 6 miles south of Silsbee, Texas on May 7, 1971 for grain headed to Port of Beaumont for export. It pours rain in southeas... (more)

The friendly C&S engineer waves as five SD-9s struggle to lift southbound Train 75 out of Walsenburg, Colo. on Feb. 25, 1968. No. 75 has just collected refrigerator cars full of San Luis Valley ... (more)