The sb Floridian is making its station stop in Montgomery. As I recall, the train was due around 'dinner time', but was often 2-3 hours late. That meant that - except in the long days of summer ... (more)

In the early days of Amtrak, the Floridian was short enough to be handled y a single E-unit. On this day, power is leased B&O 1446. The train will grow for a couple years, but then succumb to se... (more)

Today ex-Zephyr FP7A 805-D and two F-units are rolling a 58 car freight west-bound near Oakland, California on March 10, 1970. From my slide collection, no photographer's name on slide.

It might be impossible to make an E8A ugly, but PC and Amtrak came close with 275. It is - I believe - a little unusual in that it has an Amtrak number, but nothing about 'Amtrak' anywhere. PC's... (more)

Great Northern E7(A) 503 leads a five car train The Badger, leaving Saint Paul Station for Duluth, Minnesota in July 1961. Photo from my collection, photographer Dick Stoner.

N&W GP9 2465, NYC E8A 4050 and PRR E8A 5793 at East St. Louis, Illinois in May 1968. Photo taken from my slide collection, photographer Edward Brown.

The power for VIA train 2, the eastbound Canadian, is backing onto their train at Vancouver's Pacific Central Station. Today’s train has VIA FP9 1413 (ex-CP 1413), F9B 1962 (ex-CP 4474, ... (more)

Great Northern F3A-B 354C at Seattle's King Street Station in September 1963. Photo from my collection, no photographer's name listed

A westbound SP freight with a set of A-B-B-A F7's in Black Widow paint scheme , roared pass the photographer at Alhambra, California in July 12, 1957. Photo from my collection, photographer Rober... (more)

On May 1st, 1971, Amtrak’s first westbound Empire Builder flies through Duplainville, Wisconsin with a quartet of BN F units. This is the same train featured in Pentrex’s Empire Builders to Mi... (more)

CB&Q F3A 122-A with an F3 B-unit and a pair of F7's, combine to create a four-unit, 6000-hp locomotive consist. This train represents Burlington's fast freight service as it crosses the High Pl... (more)

Wabash E8 #1006 slowly accelerates out of Chicago's Dearborn Station with train 121 the Blue Bird for its run to St. Louis in November 1959. Photo by Al Holtz, from my slide collection.

A set of Jersey Central F3's lead an early morning coal drag through the fog in Mauch Chunck, PA, bound for the ports in NJ.

In actuality, lead unit No. 56 is Anthracite Railroads Historical S... (more)

Leading this southbound Monon freight is F3A #201, BL-2 #32, two more F3A's and an FM H15-44 #45 at Harrodsburg, Indiana on, Monon's Bloomington to Bedford Line in March 1965. Photo taken from my... (more)

Union Pacific's City of Portland leaves Denver headed west, as it passes four CB&Q E's which have just delivered the California Zephyr from Chicago to Denver, heading to the 23rd Street engine te... (more)