Sitting in the deadline at Milwaukee Road's engine facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on April 5th, 1978, is Fairbanks-Morse H10-44 761 (originally MILW 1803, built in 6/45 at F-M's factory in near... (more)

Changing of the Guard. A set of Burlington F3 diesels pass through the Galesburg, Illinois, yard in October 1959, passing by a number of Burlington steam locomotives stored near the now-ob... (more)

Sitting in the Milwaukee Road's engine facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is GP9 312. Built in May 1959, this engine would later become Iowa Railroad Company 312, eventually being scrapped in the ... (more)

Sunning itself outside the enginehouse in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, is Sand Springs Railway SW9 100, one of three SW9 rostered by the SS. The railway is a 32 mile long class III railroad hauling pr... (more)

On a frosty December 1960 day, a Santa Fe westbound departs Gallup, New Mexico, with six F7 diesels, in an A-B-B-B-B-A configuration led by 232C, on the point. (Frank "Woody" Woodburn photo, Craig... (more)

Chicago Burlington & Quincy F3 diesels get washed at the road’s Galesburg, Illinois, engine facility in October 1959. Note the coupler cover on F3A 117-A’s pilot. (Frank "Woody" Woodburn photo, ... (more)

Southwest Portland Cement H20-44 408 (ex-SWPC 66, ex-Union Pacific 1366, nee-FM demonstrator 2000), is seen at the company's Victorville facility on October 16, 1981. (Timothy Dickinson photo, Cr... (more)

The Mojave Northern Railroad was constructed in 1914 to connect Victorville, California, with the large deposit of Portland cement clinker (calcium silicates) east of town. Eventually, the Mojave... (more)

By the late 1950s, there were just two places in the United States that still featured big-time steam operations: The Norfolk & Western in the Appalachias, and Union Pacific in Wyoming. Cheyenne ... (more)

Santa Fe 2-8-0 #1, the “Cyrus K. Holliday,” was originally Santa Fe 2-8-0 #132, built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in September 1880. In 1898 the locomotive was renumbered #912, and it was renumbe... (more)

Chicago Burlington & Quincy O-5-A 4-8-4 5632 is seen at Kansas City, Missouri, on May 29, 1960. (Frank "Woody" Woodburn photo, Craig Walker collection)

Union Pacific pile driver #03114 is under steam in Salina, Kansas in January 1960. This product of Industrial Brownhoist was probably built in the Teens (sister pile driver #03110 was built in 19... (more)

Completed in 1887, the imposing Union Pacific passenger station looms large in Cheyenne, Wyoming's downtown in October 1958. The station is built from blocks of sandstone quarried and transported... (more)

The roundhouse and turntable combination was railroading's unique solution to servicing steam locomotives in a relatively small area. Even a large roundhouse, such as this example at Santa Fe Rai... (more)

Southern California's Orange County features two narrow gauge railroads in daily service - One at Disneyland and the other at Knott's Berry Farm. The railroad at Knott's, the Ghost Town & Calico,... (more)