Another unspecified passenger train looking good with the Warbonnet leading the way. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Never numerous, less well known that the Fs and generally assigned to secondary trains, the Es were IMHO the height of elegance in the Warbonnet paint scheme. Here a passenger train waits to depa... (more)

Chicago, 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Manicured ballast, tell-tale poles, and The Capitol Limited, at Chicago in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

One Night Only. On the evening of Friday, June 17, 2021 BO 51 (EA, EMC, 5/1937) was on display at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland along with AMTK 100 (P42DC, Midnight Blue) ... (more)

Grand Canyon MLW FPA4 6793 rests at the railways depot at the south rim Of the Grand Canyon in the summer of 1998

Modern Power At Strasburg. On Sunday, June 14, 2015, Norfolk Southern F9A 4270 (née-BO 937, EMD, F7A, 1/1952), was trailing as it was towed across Ronks Road in Ronks Pennsylvania. Along w... (more)

ACWR's freshly repainted E9 leads their passenger train consist at Pinehurst.

A pair of EMD E9A units sit in the historic roundhouse in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Hopefully one day we will see these beauties back on the rails.

Chicago and North Western 411 puffs along as it warms up on a frosty morning during the museum's 'Cabin Fever' event where equipment is run during the winter season. As you could expect, such an e... (more)

Cab units set up side by side for Railfest.

ACWR's OCS boards passengers at Pinehurst on a pleasant summer morning in the Sandhills.

Just about everything in this image either doesn't exist anymore, or is no longer located in the state of Oregon. The unlikely combination of an F40, a PA-1 and an RSD-5 sun themselves on a spring... (more)

El Capitan, AT&SF train 21, is seen descending on the west side of Raton Pass near Lynn New Mexico, on January 16th 1944. Note the wartime headlight visor on E6 13. Otto Perry photo, from my colle... (more)

The Beachball In Context. On Friday, June 9, 2023, MTA Metro-North Railroad P32AC-DM 208 (40th Anniversary, 'Beachball Heritage') led train 1860 from Grand Central Terminal in New York, New... (more)