Burlington Northern SD7 6006 in hump service at Pasco WA July 1972. Built in May 1952 as Great Northern 556 and retired in September 1983. This SD7 has left its home rails on the old GN Mesabi Div... (more)

An ABBBA set of F7s leads a train out of Dearborn Station in Chicago, IL. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

Western Maryland F7(A) 238 and 61. No photographer listed on slide.

Many of these wooden bridges around the upstate of South Carolina have been closed in the last few years. This one over the former Piedmont and Northern has been a target for me since acquiring t... (more)

This crew is getting underway westbound on the tough Charleston & Western Carolina, but they have 18,000hp (three SCL SD45s and two Clinchfield SD45-2s) to ease their pain. I was led to understan... (more)

Second-generation B-Bs from EMD and GE team-up to take a freight south to Mobile.

Wish I had spent more time on the old B&O West End. A westbound hopper train is leaving M&K Jct. as it crosses the twin Warren truss bridges above Cheat River. In November of 1985, both bridges we... (more)

Monon 502 leads a Louisville to Chicago freight off the K&IT bridge and onto Vincennes Street in New Albany, Indiana where the train will spend much of the next two miles of its journey navigating... (more)

In Amtrak's early days, the Floridian was generally short enough to be handled by a single E, like this B&O hand-me-down getting its windshield cleaned. The train would grow for a couple years, t... (more)

Monon #5 passenger train pauses in Lafayette, IN on its southbound journey through Indiana during July 1961. From the John E. Troxler collection. Photographer unknown.

The head-end brakeman on the local switch job is dressed in the traditional classic railroader's garb of 1972. The mandatory wearing of bright colored safety vests is still decades away.

Three E units lead a manifest freight west through Griffith in 1975.

On a cold winter day, a loaded Western Maryland coal train arrives at Hagerstown, MD, behind an F7/RS3/RS3/SD40 quartet. Here the pusher set on the rear that assisted it uphill from of the Potomac... (more)

Our dedication was rewarded on this day. A Chessie run-through led by a B&O F7 passes Bound Brook station in a torrential downpour. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

L&N EMD E6(A) 771 and E8(A) 787 southbound with train 99 The "Pan-American" near Louisville, Kentucky. The Pan-American passenger train operated by the Louisville & Nashville from 1921... (more)