A San Diego & Arizona Eastern freight arrives in San Ysidro (pronounced san ee-sidrow), near the border between the United States and México. Operated by Kyle Railway, the SD&AE operated ... (more)

A Santa Fe side-door wooden caboose was photographed in San Bernardino, California, by an unknown photographer in what appears to be the 1940s.

From time to time, some railroads get rid of surplus power, and other railroads pick up other roads' locomotives. In the 1980s, Illinois Central Gulf had excess GP38ACs and the Missouri-Kansas-Te... (more)

Southern California's Orange County features two narrow gauge railroads in daily service - One at Disneyland and the other at Knott's Berry Farm. The railroad at Knott's, the Ghost Town & Calico,... (more)

Amtrak train 48, the eastbound Lake Shore Limited, originated in Chicago the previous day. Traveling along the shore of Lake Erie much of the way (thought Ohio, a sliver of Pennsylvania an... (more)

So Much Has Changed in 38 Years (from Today!)

An eastbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe piggyback train stops in San Bernardino for a crew change. This train, most likely symbolle... (more)

Santa Fe's depot at Los Nietos (technically west Whittier), in southern California, is seen in January 1961. The station was no longer in service at this time, and would be razed before too much ... (more)

Completed in 1887, the imposing Union Pacific passenger station looms large in Cheyenne, Wyoming's downtown in October 1958. The station is built from blocks of sandstone quarried and transported... (more)

Switching passenger cars in Seattle is Amtrak SW1200 (SSB1200) 565. Built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe SW1200 2439 in June 1959, this locomotive was reb... (more)

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Delaware & Hudson painted two locomotives in a patriotic red, white and blue paint scheme: U23B 1776 and RS-3 ... (more)

BNSF ES44AC 6075, one of the railway's ten 25th Anniversary engines, leads train Z-NYCLAC through eastern Anaheim, paralleling Orangethorpe Avenue near Kellogg Drive, as the sun rises on December ... (more)

Sunning itself outside the enginehouse in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, is Sand Springs Railway SW9 100, one of three SW9 rostered by the SS. The railway is a 32 mile long class III railroad hauling pr... (more)

Lamoillle Valley Railroad RS-3s 7801 (the former Delaware & Hudson 4068) and 7803 (ex-D&H 4071) were photographed by Ed Robinson in Morrisville, Vermont, in June 1983. (Craig Walker Collection)

A fan trip behind Bangor & Aroostook BL-2 557, built in April 1949, crosses a bridge in Caribou, Maine, on June 1, 1980, to show off the diesel's new paint job. John W. Held photograph,... (more)

Northern Pacific Railway FTA 5401A, built by Electro-Motive Corporation (EMC) in March 1944 as NP 6001A, was photographed in Sumas WA along with an FTB, a GP7 and another A-B set of FTs. Sumas is... (more)