Entering Newhall yard with a string of open auto racks.

A nice gathering of power is lined up at Missouri-Kansas-Texas’ Glen Park Yard in Kansas City, Kansas, and brighten up a dreary and cold December 8, 1985. All EMDs, Nos. 601, 624 and 629 are SD4... (more)

Early on a beautiful January morning in the City, SP FM No. 2355 switches bilevels for the leisurely weekend commute schedule.

Locomotives wearing paint schemes from two different mergers are seen at the Brooklyn Yard engine servicing facility.

SP 4449 south running as Amtrak 955 near Lyle, WA 6/25/17

SP4449 heads back west towards portland on it's way back from it's trip to Bend

This engine also was assigned to Galveston in 1987. Of note the original SP Double Stack cars behind engine.

Although General Electric power reigns on the Shasta Route today, it was exotic once upon a time. The first freight train I ever saw on the Black Butte Subdivision that had a solid set of GEs clim... (more)

Missouri Pacific EMD E8(A) No.35 leads train 12 The Colorado Eagle at Colorado Springs, Colorado in July 1964. The 35 is a former Texas & Pacific unit. No photographer name on slide.

Missouri Pacific Alco RS-3 982, and MP GP7 235 at Lees Summit, Missouri in September 1964. No photographer's name on slide.

Exiting the Tunnel. A Roger Puta Photograph

One of the few areas on the Siskiyou Line where trains could make 40 MPH were the long tangents between Grenada and Gazelle. The caboose of a westman zips through the Shasta Valley.

Set of power MKT Parsons engine facility

The Missouri Pacific Colorado Eagle streamlined passenger train used to split these signals at lightning speed 812.0 miles west of St. Louis. On the unused Pueblo Line today, which was known as th... (more)

A Fairbanks Morse Train Master. A Roger Puta Photograph