As UP 1616 starts to head for the switch to the mainline, Polson Logging Co. #2 heads back into the gates at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center.

A Southern Rwy scale test car sits in the Wheel Balancing Shed at Spencer shops, NC. The shed, built in 1944, houses a set of eight Fairbanks scales connected to the tracks where steam locomotives... (more)

DRGW in the Royal Gorge Deep in the Royal Gorge, Rock N Rail with UP 1989 on the lead. Made for a delightful morning in the canyon.

Amtrak Pennsylvanian Equipment Deadhead still operating as train 42 knocks down TRAFF as they roll east to Harrisburg. They’re passing Amtrak P42 118 stored on the Turtle Creek Industrial Track ... (more)

With the building of the University Commons shopping center, Gulf and Ohio was able to build a new station for the northern terminus of the companies "Three Rivers Rambler" tourist train... (more)

Santa Fe U30CG 8000 former nos. 400, U28GC 7908 (#358) and U30CG 8005 (#805) all ex-passenger locomotives that was on freight service on May 25, 1971 at Galesburg, Illinois. After the Amtrak t... (more)

Union Pacific 2-10-2 5514 and 4-8-2 7024 lead train 818, the Los Angeles Challenger, at Caliente Nevada in 1940. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

On December 12, 1962, an unusually heavy No.1 headed around the curve at Palmer Lake with PA-PB and two F7A's. The train size that day would appear to be occasioned by Christmas season mail, a... (more)

Seaboard Baldwin DRS6-4-1500 baby-face styling numbers 2700-2702 operated mostly on Florida secondary runs. Zipping along at 65MPH, train 8 with #2700 is near Coleman, Florida on this November ... (more)

Westbound works the yard

As the Northern Lights are dancing in the sky over Northern Ohio shortly after Midnight October 11, we have one of the two Dwarf CPL's at South Deshler still standing their guard.

On March 15, 1969, GN F7A 309C leads an F7B, a GP9 and another F7A with more then 200 ore cars, totaling around 15,000 net tons of taconite pellets into Minneapolis. The Great Northern usuall... (more)

NYC RF-16 3817 was idling at Detroit enginehouse on August 2, 1962. Baldwin RF-16 "Sharks" A units 3804-3821 and B units 3702-3709 were the only such models on the New York Central r... (more)

Seaboard E4A #3009 is working train 4 in this January 12, 1960 view from the Raleigh Tower at Raleigh, North Carolina. Seaboard EMD E4A's were built between October 1938 and November 1939, numb... (more)

Uncertain Future. The CN 102 and CN 103 sit in shrink wrap behind the Woodcrest shops. An era of change for the CN Business fleet. Now primarily powered by the CN 3309. The E-9's were donated. Th... (more)