Backing Illini Railroad Club fantrip over trestle north of Grand Ridge, IL A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

CBQ 4960 and 5632 double header crossing the Illinois Central and receiving train orders. A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

The Nebraska Zephyr departs off station track 1 for its last run of the day while BN1 hold down track 2 in the pouring rain.

Burlington’s Alliance – Casper train 31 behind E8A 9966 pops out of cool, dark Tunnel 1 just east of Guernsey, Wyoming, and into the heat of a mid-summer afternoon. The tunnel is one of three ... (more)

A fortuitous break in thick clouds allows sun to illuminate the classic lines of this dome observation car on the rear of the American orient Express as it heads west off Marias Pass. The dome pic... (more)

One of my favorites from the NCTM's 2014 Streamliners at Spencer event. I'd always wanted to see this most stunning of diesel locomotives. When they confirmed she would be there it clinched it f... (more)

A woman photographs a stainless steel visitor to Denver, Colorado, on the warm night of October 15, 2014. California Zephyr dome-observation “Silver Solarium” is seen on Track 5—this Burling... (more)

While not necessarily comparable to today's special vista dome Amtrak cars with the seamless curved glass windows, this 1948 dome feature was billed as "The Most Thrilling Innovation in Trave... (more)

The streamlined back end of California Zephyr CB&Q 377, named the 'Silver Solarium', must have looked like something out of a Buck Rogers movie when it was introduced in 1948. The car could accom... (more)