Here is a new railroad for Railpictures, this 2-8-2 number 601 was built for the Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a... (more)

A colorful passenger engine lashup, consisting of ex Illinois Central 101, ex Alaska RR 30, and ex Iowa Pacific 540, sit outside the Aberdeen, Carolina & Western shop in Candor, North Carolina. Wh... (more)

SP 4449 and UP 8444 are racing each other up Cajon Pass at Tunnel #2. The SP 4449 would stop just around the curve due to an overheated bearing, ending what was one of the best races up Cajon Pas... (more)

A winter storm is clearing the area as UP 2302 sits at the Larry's Truck and Electric facility in Lordstown, Ohio. Photograph taken with special permission from LTEX.

An unexpected cab ride was a great way to celebrate the 4th of July. The crew invited me up into the cab for a ride to the next siding. Traveling east from Mescal through Benson, SP 8035 is appro... (more)

Specially painted kodachrome ATSF 5394, which is sporting white lettering, yellowbonnet ATSF 5400, and kodachrome ATSF 5401 rest in San Bernardino yard. Later in the day, these three locomotives ... (more)

This beautiful 4-6-2, number 631, was built in June 1928 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, for the Southern Pacific Railroad. According to the specifications listed on th... (more)

Former Union Pacific 1381 and "road slug" CSX 2215 bask in the Georgia morning sun at the Locomotive Specialist / NRE facility, which is north of the CSX Rice yard and next to the CSX main lines. ... (more)

The engineer on the very dirty SP 9255 enjoys a smoke on his pipe as he and his brakeman wait patiently for helpers to come west from Palm Springs and tie on to the back of their train. After the... (more)

UP 3557, SSW 9398, SP 9246 and SP 8710 go over the top of their train on Tehachapi Loop. The four unit helper set has just cleared tunnel 9, and the sound of 7 EMDs and 1 GE U-boat in run 8 was a... (more)

UP 6937 is the first in a long line of stored DD40Xs in the Las Vegas yard. It hard to believe I took this photo 39 years ago. Photo taken with permission.

Santa Fe 3751 is getting closer to being pulled from Viaduct Park in San Bernardino, while another locomotive has arrived on the scene. I do not know much about this steam locomotive, number 42.

Former CN 7056 waits outside the Locomotive Specialist shop to go through a rebuild program. In the shop going through the rebuild program is CSX 1538. Both locomotives are now part of the Locom... (more)

A member of the team that is restoring Santa Fe 2926 climbs out of the firebox of the big Northern. The tender has already been restored and the society hopes to have the locomotive ready to run ... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)