Ever so often, something very bad would happen on the Santa Fe transcon. The main would get blocked, and Santa Fe was forced to run it's hottest trains over the Union Pacific. It was an awesome tr... (more)

AM At Armourdale | Forty minutes past sunrise on a windy Saturday, April 6, 2024, a westbound manifest train approaches Union Pacific's 18th Street Yard in Kansas City, KS. Having just cros... (more)

Back when they were brands new. Union Pacific SD70M's 4734 and 4733 make their way through Lakepoint, Utah. The Oquirrh Mountains have been layer with fresh snow over night. UP 4734, 7433 could po... (more)

Eastbound coal loads. Trailing units are SD40-2 3255 and C30-7 8004.

Tunnel Time: CSXT 4729 leads a loaded Herzog train eastbound out of the Wasp Run Tunnel in Buchanan, Virginia, along the CSX James River Subdivision.

Union Pacific ALCO FA1 1610 and B unit mate lead 114 cars east at 55 MPH near Alda Nebraska in 1958. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

GP60 4028 leads SD45B 5502 and EMDX SD40 6501 on an eastbound.

SD70 2522 leads a northbound freight.

Norfolk Southern 21st Century Steam program's The Commodore Vanderbilt Employee Special passes through Dunlap, IN on its way east to Bryan, OH and return to Elkhart.

Another of Brightline's colorful 8 different paint schemes crossing over the Brightline/FEC drawbridge at Stuart from above

Another of Brightline's colorful 8 different paint schemes crossing over the new replacement Brightline/FEC drawbridge at Jupiter.

Eastbound about to enter the canyon.

The BDZ normal gauge shunting locomotive 52-003 is getting some maintenance in the Septemvri shed. This shed is handling both narrow gauge and normal gauge locomotives.

An ALCO A-B-A set awaits its next assignment at Cheyenne Wyoming in 1956. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

One of the great things about the Santa Fe was the potential for variety in a lash up. This afternoon westbound doesn't disappoint. Lead by a B40-8W, F45 5963, SD45-2 5853, FP45 96, GP39-2, and a ... (more)