A Roger Puta Photograph

ATSF Alco PA-1 No.61 lead unit on train #1 the SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF at Amarillo, Texas. No photographer listed on slide.

EL RENO OK April 13 1980 -- Rock Island GP7R 4539 sits on one of the engine facility leads awaiting its post-bankruptcy fate. My photo.

DALE Junction WY Oct. 19 1977 -- Union Pacific SD40-2 3356 has just crossed Dale Creek Fill on its way west with a covered hopper train in tow.

The pressure valve on its steam boiler just popped. A Roger Puta Photograph

In the days when a casual stroll through an engine terminal was still possible – and interesting -- the line-up at Southern Pacific’s Bayshore near San Francisco on a September afternoon in 19... (more)

The coolest shortline there never was (this version, at least-- see comment below). I wish I had better photo skills (and the will to photograph trains somewhere outside of Bennett Yard and SY To... (more)

Never the same from one day to the next, Santa Fe’s Fast Mail Express, train 7 and its eastbound counterpart, train 8, were obliged by contract to carry all the mail the U.S Post Office presente... (more)

The classiest profile in railroading in late 1965 was still Santa Fe’s four Warbonnet-wearing E6As. Built by EMC in the early years of World War II, by the mid-1960s they were assigned to servic... (more)

The one-of-a-kind 10,000 hp EMD GM10B is waiting on a crew at the west end of Manor Siding. Both the locomotive and siding are long-gone, and most of the freight has been moved to the NS Harrisbu... (more)

Notching it out and smoking it up on the former NKP in 1985.

An ABB set of E units move past Canal st. in Downtown Chicago. Photo taken by James D. Hediger.

NC&StL F7A-B #831 on train the 'Dixie Flyer' at Whiteside, Tennessee on August 2, 1954. After nearly 60 years of control, parent Louisville & Nashville merged the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Loui... (more)

KCS E8 27 was looking a bit ratty as it led a tiny 3-car “Southern Belle” out of Kansas City Union Depot at Tower 6 on Feb. 12, 1969. Trains 1 and 2, the “Southern Belle,” didn’t surviv... (more)

Santa Fe F7 38C leads the eastbound San Francisco Chief past the siding at Christie, California, on April 24, 1971. The train only has a week of operation left before the start of Amtrak. Fujichr... (more)