SP cab-forward 4135 leads 61 cars westbound at 10 MPH, after exiting a snowshed in the vicinity of Donner Pass, on August 4th 1935. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SP cab-forward 4119 leads The Owl, SP 2nd 26, at Los Angeles California on May 4th 1934. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

AT&SF train number 74 is seen leaving Los Angeles California in 1934. ATSF 4-6-2 1342 is sporting some unusual looking marker light brackets as it leads three cars at 15 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry pho... (more)

#261 made a trip without diesel assist to the museum in Duluth and is now heading back to Minneapolis. The frigid summer temps were most welcomed.

With the spectacular Maluti Mountains as the backdrop, Sandstone Estate's class NGG16 - No.113 - slowly trundles past a field of cosmos en route to Hoekfontein.

Atlanta & West Point #280 leaves Auburn, Alabama in October of '52. The A&WP owned two of these Lima-built Pacific's, the #280 and the #290, and while the #280 is long gone, the #290 still survive... (more)

Grand Canyon Railway 2-8-0 18 leads 2-8-2 4960 in the late afternoon on a fine summer day in 1998

Union Pacific 4014 (Big Boy) leading the Home Run Express by the Wagner Mills silo in Schuyler

In a scene that looks like it could of been taken in Cheyenne back in the 1950s, UP 4014 emerges from the steam as it begins to leave Prescott for Little Rock, Arkansas. It was a brisk 25 degrees,... (more)

SP 4-8-8-2 4117 leads train 60, the West Coast, through Los Angeles California on July 27th 1937. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF 3751 with the AAPRCO passenger special pulls up for a water stop in the Oceanside yard before heading south to San Diego

4501 takes a spin on the turntable at TVRM.

Photo by Howard Hutchison from my collection. Superior WV is approximately three miles east of Welch WV on the N&W Pocahontas Division. The railroad calls this Huger in the timetable. N&W Y3a 2060... (more)

Late afternoon in Laws. Southern Pacific 10-wheeler #18 sits at the south end of the little railroad yard in Laws, California, at the end of a sparking March day, awaiting her next call to ... (more)

Texas State Railroad mikado no. 30 passes by milepost 5 which is between Fairchild Hill and Maydelle Country Wines.