One of the excursions that was part of the 1979 NRHS convention was a farewell to the Western Maryland F-units. The round-trip from Washington, DC – Martinsburg, WV is seen on the Baltimore & Oh... (more)

Baltimore & Ohio F7, No. 722, former Bessemer & Lake Erie 722, leads a small freight over the trestle on the South Branch at Sycamore, WV. The locomotive was built in 1952 and spent its life haul... (more)

Digging way back into the archives here...

Relegated to branch line freight, a B&O F7 leads a small mixed consist through the rurals of Romney, WV, along the South Branch. Actually, thi... (more)

Trips to Brockville, Ontario were always fueled by the desire to shoot the last active Alco/MLW cab units in service. Getting an F7A on an eastbound train was not a bad second prize.

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.

Ex Spirit of Washington F units at the small desert yard at Jacumba, on the now abandoned Carrizo Gorge RR.

The Spirit of Washington dinner train crosses the Wilburton Trestle near downtown Bellevue. For 1994, this was as close as you could get to a classic 1950s domeliner in the Northwest.

CN freight F7A no. 9168 has been assigned to help out with the VIA Super Continental and is making a station stop with the eastbound train at Portage La Prairie. The train is stopped at the CN sta... (more)

Former passenger F no. 9726 of GN heritage is mated up with NP F7A no. 756 at BN's Auburn Yard, located halfway between Seattle and Tacoma, WA on the former NP mainline. The yard was reduced in im... (more)

Alaska Railway EMD F7A 1530 prepares to depart the station in Anchorage for the Beautiful run to Fairbanks in June of 1980. The 1530 Is the Former Rio Grande 5654. This unit was wrecked in 197... (more)

A former Texas Star Clipper (nee-CNW) F7A, acquired back in 2012 by NS originally to be rebuilt as a new unit for the OCS, now sits quiet and decrepit on the end of a pipe plant siding a few miles... (more)

The Conway Scenic Railroad "Photo Freight" is seen passing Pudding Pond on the Redstone Branch. This line was once the famed Maine Central Mountain Subdivision. The train operated as an extra part... (more)

At first glance, this scene looks like it's straight out of the 1950s. However, the scene is from merely a decade ago, with Boston & Maine's F7 4266 sitting adjacent to the North Conway station. I... (more)

PC 1772 (F7A) leads EL 7902 (F7B) and Reading 5305 (C630) lead train HB-91 out of the fog at Delware Water Gap, PA, on May 27 1976.