For "Work Train Service Only" on the former New York Central Chicago Line in 1978.
A quartet of "Big Blue" motors brighten the scene on a dismal day as they take a manifest freight east through the grit and grime of heavily industrialized Northwest Indiana in 1979. See... (more)
The Super Chief, AT&SF train 17, is seen west of Ayer Colorado in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
A four-unit FT set is seen near Mitchell Colorado with 54 cars and two helpers, 3615 and 3414, on August 1st 1948. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
SP 4-8-8-2 4101 leads 69 cars of the first 813 west with SP 4103 helping, at Los Angeles California, on August 2nd 1940. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
Rock Island train number 509, The Rocket, is seen at Wichita Kansas in 1940. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
A neat looking A-B-A F7 set is seen at the Handley West Virginia yard in 1953. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
East bound on the Pennsylvania Railroad Chicago-Fort Wayne line, in 1963, at Valparaiso Indiana. A purchased photo from my collection. Photographer was Dennis Schmidt.
A GP18 leads a rather unusual lash-up on the former Nickel Plate line.
A three unit FT set leads a 52 car southbound freight near Littleton Colorado in 1951. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
An 88' 10" General Electric freight motor is seen working a switching move on the South Shore Line at Goff, around 0900 hrs.
SP 4-8-8-2 4117 leads train 60, the West Coast, through Los Angeles California on July 27th 1937. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
An eleven car eastbound freight is seen leaving Denver Colorado on the Union Pacific line sometime during the 1950s. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
A 2-10-2 and an EMD FT set are leading 99 cars, east of Belen New Mexico, in 1947. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
East bound on the PRR Chicago-Fort Wayne line at Valparaiso Indiana. From my collection, a Dennis Schmidt photo, purchased several decades ago.
