A Roger Puta Photograph

New heritage meets old as Penn Central heritage SD70ACe #1073 passes over the two Southern RR of NJ F7As, which have sat quiet for many years. NS 1073 is the second heritage unit to ever travel do... (more)

A one-of-a-kind paint job on Amtrak 4316 (ex-PC nee-PRR) captured by Roger Puta in Harrisburg, PA in August 1971. The story goes that Amtrak needed something for publicity with its newly refurbish... (more)

“Hey, when you go over to the east plant, can you take a couple of sheets of plywood along?” The New Jersey Zinc Company rostered a small fleet of Alco switchers to work within and between its... (more)

Southern Appalachia Railway Museum's recently acquired ex-SCL SD45 (2024) is on the head of a freight train bound for Blair and interchange with Norfolk Southern.

The typical power for the Santa Fe Local that worked most days between Richmond and Christie, California was a pair of Santa Fe GPs. (the Local still runs today as the BNSF 011 Local). However, o... (more)

This is a rare Baldwin AS16 built in April 1953. A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

Sitting forlonely in the Seattle, Washington, docks is Seattle & North Coast Railroad F7A 101, which was seeing little use 1982. Built in October 1950 as Great Northern 274B, with the GN-NP-CB&Q-... (more)

America's industrial past, in a scene scanned from a slide from the collection of the late George "Whitey" Nagle. The photo shows a hopper train on what is today's NS Harrisburg Line, p... (more)

Amtrak E-60 #603

From the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania's web site:
When Amtrak started operations on May 1, 1971, it initially relied on an inherited and aging fleet of G... (more)

Rebuilt by the C&NW from UP E9B 962B a with a cab. After the rebuild she was called a "Crandall Cab" after C&NW Assistant Superintendent of Motive Power M. H. Crandall who designed the ... (more)