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.

Two ALCOs getting mechanical attention. Taken with permission of the property owner.

5 unit light engine move Southbound on the River Division behind ex-New York Central U30B 2847.

Planes, Trains and Tractors......The Sugar Express pulls out all the stops for the photo charter. Rebranded locomotives, check, Crop duster, check. John Deere tractor, check.

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)

The elements have not been kind to the 603, the sole Amtrak E60 in preservation.

One of the few remaining CSX jeeps in YN2 paint leads the L148 across the Little Kanawha River leaving CSX’s Parkersburg yard.

Early Morning Steam. Dressed up in FEC garb, the beautifully restored U.S. Sugar Light Pacific 148 does a runby early on the morning of a photo charter hosted by the railroad.

With the next loaded train spotted at the Alicia dumper, the N&W heritage unit sits quiet awaiting for empties to return to the mine for another load.

Western Pacific 4-8-2 171 is seen at Oroville California in 1938. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

On a rare visit to the Kansas City area, a quartet of GM&O SD-40s have uncoupled from their train, likely #91, and are headed back to the engine house. The SD-40s were purchased by the GM&O to ha... (more)

Local Delivery. New York & Atlantic leaser locomotive GMTX 2204 idles on the Bushwick Branch with train RS-40 as a man on an e-bike crosses the tracks on Morgan Ave in East Williamsburg... (more)

A fifty eight car freight is westbound near Eads Colorado in 1950. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

The CN&W use their Oelwein Shops til May 31, 1994. The line from Oelwein from Marshalltown was severed in 1987-88 due to the construction of the highway thru Waterloo. The CNW then used the IANR t... (more)

Back Alleys. New York & Atlantic SW1001 no. 101 is seen moving train RS-40 through Long Island City, Queens as it serves industries along the Lower Montauk Branch. Overhead is the Green... (more)