Amtrak Train 72 races south along the beach at San Clemente, Calif. on Sept. 4, 1976 as hundreds enjoy the sun, sand and salty water when the track was still owned by the AT&SF Ry. and there were ... (more)

Five ATSF F units (two with stainless steel sides) zip a northbound freight toward Temple, Texas (6 miles away). Former passenger unit 338 wore a blue warbonnet on May 5, 1973.

Southbound WP&Y Train 2 with three specially-built GE units (Nos. 98, 97, 92) is now in Alaska and USA territory and exits the only tunnel on the 110-mile line twenty-one miles after leaving the 2... (more)

Would you say it was high time to run the brush sprayer? Note the barely-visible pole line crossarm, adjacent to the two Rock Island GP-7s 1347-1337. Borax contractor brush sprayer was eastboun... (more)

The westbound Rio Grande Zephyr passes Hideaway Park at Winter Park, Colo. headed for its next stop at Fraser. The date was May 16, 1970, just two months after the discontinuance of the famous Ca... (more)

Arriving Kansas City, Mo. at Sheffield Tower, Rock Island’s 328 West heads for its terminal across the river in Kansas City, Ks

Three D&RGW SD40T-2's (with 5398 up front) lead a westbound through dramatic Rock Creek Canyon near Crater, Colo. on the Craig Branch on Sept. 27, 1989. Near the end of this canyon, out of sigh... (more)

CRR 806 F unit has emerged from the paint shop without its yellow breast, and is being refueled at Erwin, Tenn. before taking a coal train south on Jan. 8, 1965.

Four GM&O F-3 cab A units bask in the sun at Kansas City, Mo. awaiting their call back on duty on Oct. 29, 1965. The old warriors were not quite 20 years old but were showing their age.

A 26-year-old Baldwin switcher was removing a new caboose from an inbound Frisco train at Kansas City, Mo. on Aug. 4, 1968.

A single KCS GP-30 has five F B units MU’ed as they tow northbound traffic through DeRidder, La. in the morning sunlight on Nov. 26, 1969.

A ubiquitous BNSF coal train from Powder River, Wyo. crosses the Missouri River between Mandan and Bismarck, N.D. on a very frigid Feb. day when the highest temperature reached was minus 16. Not... (more)

On its maiden run out of the paint shop, SD45-2 5703 leads eastbound Super C at Java, Calif. headed for Needles. Four SD45-2s were on the hotshot when fuel oil was obviously cheaper.

42-in. gauge Newfoundland 941 East with four GMD NF210's running normal long-end first towards St. John's at Glenwood, July 25, 1984. The trees don't grow very tall because of thin soil on the r... (more)

A weed sprayer train on the P&LE, shoved by an EMD switcher, pauses to check its equipment as three Monongahela Baldwin 1200 h.p. S-12’s 404, 408, 412 pass at Brownsville, Pa. April 14, 1961. ... (more)