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

The fire burns in the belly of the beast. UP 844 (4-8-4) sits in Denver waiting to take the Cheyenne Frontier Days train back to Cheyenne.

PRR 2-8-2 1319 leads an eastbound freight at 40 MPH near Stelton New Jersey on August 19th 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

SP 4449 and SP&S 700 sit side by side at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, OR.

Union Pacific 4014 (Big Boy) in Schuyler

Train 37, The Southern Railways Crescent Limited passenger train, lead by A&WP 290 kicks up dust as it accelerates passed Atlanta's McPherson neighborhood behind 290 in 1946 illustrates on todays ... (more)

Canadian Pacific 2-10-4 number 5913 leads 9 cars near Field British Columbia in 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

3526 and 3642 round the bend out of Georges Plains on a shuttle from Bathurst to Wimbledon. Taken: 10/6/2023

Southern Pacific train number 43, the Californian, is seen at Los Angeles with ten cars in 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

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)

Eighteen car SP train 56 is seen at Glendale station in 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

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.

SP 4-8-8-2 4101 leads 69 cars of the first 813 west with SP 4103 helping, at Los Angeles California, on August 2nd 1940. 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