The future emerging from the past, two-year-old Budd Metroliner 881 pops out of the 97-year old Baltimore & Potomac Tunnel, constructed in 1873 to provide Pennsylvania Railroad trains direct acces... (more)

UP has pared its once-famous “City” passenger fleet down to a handful of trains and so March 4, 1965, finds westbound 106-112, the combined City of Portland-City of Denver, north of Brighton, ... (more)

Where narrow gauge teakettles once simmered between runs, Colorado & Southern 634 absorbs the afternoon sun alongside the roundhouse at Denver’s Rice Yards. One of dozens of humble B-4R class Al... (more)

A puff of smoke indicates that former Spokane International RS-1 1221 has come to life at Union Pacific’s Marysville, Kansas, roundhouse, ready for afternoon switching chores. The stalls once sh... (more)

On March 27, 1966, CB&Q and D&RGW are pooling motive power west of Denver, which accounts for the presence of Q 953, a GP30 leading an all-GP30 consist, climbing into the Rockies at a location ass... (more)

Coming through the brambles east of Marysvile, Kansas, GP9 237, GP20 480 and an unidentified GP30 are eastbound October 13, 1965, with the daily freight on the 107-mile Marysville-St. Joseph, Miss... (more)

NdeM 7294 is one of a handful of diesels the road’s San Luis Potosi shops has cobbled together from bits and pieces of wrecked units and sent out to do useful work. Less than a year old on July ... (more)

The 20 cars and caboose trailing SW1’s 62/63 up Walker Hill on Great Western Railway’s Longmont line would not seem too great a burden for the combined 1,200 hp. But the short southbound grade... (more)

South Boulder Creek is frozen in the January cold, but the head-end crew of this eastbound is reasonably comfortable thanks to an EMD redesign that has made cab and hood on its new GP30 model snug... (more)

All in the family: Running on Santa Fe’s half of the famous Joint Line, Forth Worth & Denver F7A 751-A with 9,500 hp worth of EMD first-generation units lead a northbound Colorado & Southern fre... (more)

Sunset over the Sunset Route: Booming along east of Lawrence, Kansas, F7A 676 has a couple head-end cars, an RDC and a coach, the remnants of Train 40, a once-important secondary run on the Southe... (more)

Massive floods along Colorado’s Front Range ten days ago closed almost all rail access into Denver. And so June 17,1965, finds this Rock Island piggyback grinding up the just-reopened Rio Grande... (more)

In a meeting of East and West, workers at Burlington’s 23rd Street engine terminal in Denver couple up New York Central U25B 2535 and Q’s U28C 555 for the afternoon CB&Q-NYC pool train to Chic... (more)

Afternoon storm clouds are gathering as Union Pacific turbine 18 climbs Archer Hill out of Cheyenne with an eastbound extra. On June 22, 1965 the big blow is half way through its life on UP. One o... (more)

Leading First 103, the City of Los Angeles westbound, Union Pacific E9A 951 pops out of the cut at the west end of Hermosa Tunnel on June 18, 1964. The first section of this luxury liner handles e... (more)