Colorado & Southern’s Globeville Branch snaked through Denver to serve the historic Globe Smelter and the city’s extensive stock yards, both of which in January, 1959, still provided enough tr... (more)

Colorado & Southern 809 is rolling into Loveland with the local from Ft. Collins on a pleasantly warm November afternoon, 1958. The heavy U.S.R.A. 2-8-2 was, until recently, Chicago Burlington & Q... (more)

The profile is classic USRA but that fat stack says Union Pacific. Some 625 light 2-8-2’s were turned out for American railroads under control of the United States Railroad Administration during... (more)

Southern Ry. F7 4151 idles next to N&W’s roundhouse at Bristol, Va. where the two roads interchanged trains, especially notable passenger trains over the years.

Big Boy 4011 has cut off its train from Cheyenne and soon will head for the Laramie roundhouse, where workers will ready it for another trip over Sherman Hill. In 1957, UP steam has two more seaso... (more)

Just in from the east, Extra 3949 eases through the Cheyenne yards past construction of a new yard tower. A high-railer paces the train on the adjoining track. Soon, a Big Boy will take over for t... (more)

UP 4-8-4 836 and a set of E-units hustle across York Street minutes from Denver Union Terminal with Train 18, the in-bound Portland Rose, on one of the last regular passenger assignments behind st... (more)

Called out of storage to help with the harvest, UP USRA 2-8-2 2498 has been gathering sugar beets. Now, late in the afternoon, train and crew dash for the Great Western Sugar Company refinery at B... (more)

Ex-Erie EMD F3 and F7 units, Scranton, 1961. Erie and DL&W had merged less than a year prior to this shot. A few locomotives had E-L lettering applied. Taken with an old Vokar camera on Kod... (more)

Photographer- unknown- from my personal collection. 35mm Anscochrome slide. July 11, 1959 finds Y6b 2174 performing a photo run by at the giant Trace Fork viaduct on the Dry Fork Branch of the ... (more)

Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 no. 608 surrounded by freight cars in the yard behind Denver Union Station in 1958. Photograph by more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western K-37 2-8-2 no. 491 leading an eastbound extra freight train up Cumbres Pass at Windy Point, New Mexico, in July 1961. Photograph by more)

Army-Navy football specials are lined up in the yard next to (then) Philadelphia Municipal Stadium on the south side.

G's are stacked up with Army-Navy trains, laying over in the yard next to (then) Philadelphia Municipal Stadium on the south side.

Standby power lays over in the coach yard next to (then) Philadelphia Municipal Stadium on the south side.