N&W 518122 was at one end of a string of about 6-8 wooden cabs shoved onto an unused track in the 'back' of the yard at Radford. Only had a few minutes so just grabbed a couple of shots. Came ba... (more)

Two Nickel Plate Alco PA's 181-183 Blue Birds, meeting a smoking Rock Island Alco RS-3 494 near Chicago's La Salle Street Station in August 1961. Photo from my collection, Photo by Van Dusen.

A shabby ex-B&O E8A (assisted by a leased SCL E7A) is on the headend of the Floridian during its stop at Montgomery's equally shabby Union Station.

Milwaukee Road Fairbanks-Morse Erie Built 13A 2000-hp built in 1946, with A1A-A1A wheel arrangement. Photo by J.Bailey, from my collection.

The southbound Seaboard "Silver Star" rolls through Chester, Virginia behind E7(A) 3046, E7(A) 3035 and E8(A) 3051. From my slide collection, Photographer Wiley Bryan.

A matched trio of Southern Railway GP50s hurry a hot shot freight up the Washington Division on a bitterly cold mid-winter morning. The undulating terrain of the Northern Virginia Piedmont is clea... (more)

Three SP F7's A-B-A set wearing black widow paint scheme, on helper duty at Truckee, California in January 1955. Don Hansen photo from my collection.

A gleaming set of C&O F-units in their high-wave paint scheme, on lead of the Chicago Division's freight train in this 1960 view at Hegewisch, Illinois. Photographer E.L Huddleston, from my colle... (more)

The roundhouse at Conrail’s Conway Yard is mostly empty, but the outside turntable tracks are teeming with six-axle Alco Centuries assigned to drag freight service. Colors of the Lehigh Valley, ... (more)

NC&St.L F3A 806 with F7B 842 are being eased onto the turntable at Atlanta in November 1955. Photo by Henry Libby from my collection.

Five NC&StL F7's in the lead of a long manifest, preparing to leave Memphis, Tennessee on February 15, 1959. A Hugh Comer photo, from my collection.

Tennessee Central Railway Alco FA-1 801 at Nashville Yard on April 8, 1966. Photo from my collection, no photographer information on slide.

Visits to Lamberts Point, Virginia in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s usually were rewarded with veteran Alco locomotives of several types working around Norfolk & Western’s coal piers. Fir... (more)

GTW SD40 5924 built 1970, with GTW GP38AC 6207 (former DT&I 207) at Moline, Ohio in April 1987.

Burlington Northern SD9 6124 in hump service at Pasco WA July 1972. The 6124 was built as Great Northern 597 in April 1958 and retired in October 1983. Vincent Porrecca Photo from my Collection.