Chicago & Western Indiana Alco RS-1 259 performed switching services at Chicago’s Dearborn Street Station, as it was doing on Oct. 12, 1967 when Santa Fe’s Train 23 “Grand Canyon” awaited... (more)

How could a day of shooting get any better — after capturing the California Zephyr at this spot, behind it came the “Yampa Valley” Train 9 headed 231 miles (from Denver) to Craig in N.W. Col... (more)

Power-short Clinchfield leased more F units from the RF&P, and a couple of the units were on this extra south at Barrett, the yard at Johnson City (Tenn.), on Nov. 20, 1963. The mainline no long... (more)

Here she is, the last E unit built (delivered by EMD in Jan. 1964) standing ready at Cheyenne, Wyo. on April 24, 1971, one week before the birth of Amtrak. Many Union Pacific E units went to Am... (more)

MILW Little Joe E-72 relaxes under the sanding tower at the Avery, Idaho roundhouse, Aug. 6, 1973.

Santa Fe’s eastbound Mail Train No. 8 was leaving Emporia, Kansas on April 11, 1965.

With paired operations west of Ogden and Salt Lake City between UP and Western Pacific, UP 3563 leads its westbound train around WP's Arnold Loop near the eastern edge of Nevada on April 18, 1980.... (more)

Clinchfield's only boiler-equipped F7 for passenger service (which ended in 1954) No. 200 leads a northbound freight over the South Fork of the Holston River just a couple miles from Kingsport, Te... (more)

With two FP45’s Santa Fe’s westbound combined Super Chief-El Capitan Train 17 has just left La Junta and is rushing by the west switch at Benton, Colo. Of course a shovel was always necessary... (more)

Three B&O Alco FA-2 units (No. 4030 on the point) have eastbound tonnage rolling on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie RR by trackage rights, passing Mesta Machine Works.

With three F unit pushers on its rear, southbound coal Train 26 is clearing the north siding switch at Barrett Yard or Johnson City, Tenn. to allow Extra 817 North to proceed.

Going out to war to help a neighbor, Union Pacific Rotary snow plow 900080 is on UPs former Coalmont Branch from Laramie to Colorado, now operated by the Wyoming Colorado RR. Their leased Mountai... (more)

After making a set-out at Berry, ATSF 5638 West, with two Alco Alligators in its consist, gets underway in throttle 8 to climb up up and over Getz to drop into Kingman and on down to the Calif. bo... (more)

VIA’s Train 69 awaits the conductor’s highball to depart Montreal’s Bonaventure Station on Oct. 11, 1982 for its 335-mile run to Toronto — Canada’s largest cities. EMD units 6523-6621 ... (more)

A year before DRGW declined to join Amtrak, its Rio Grande Zephyr was running with just six cars as it was on this day about to leave Byers Canyon heading west. By this time of year, too, the spr... (more)