Cape Cod Central's first annual Valentine Dinner Train operated out of Bourne on Valentine's Day 2024. In preparation for the 6:00pm departure, the train operated from Hyannis to Bourne with MC 20... (more)

Cape Cod received a few inches of snow as the result of a recent Nor'easter storm. Cape Cod Central ran their first annual Valentine's Dinner Train a day after the storm, resulting in my first pho... (more)

PA and PA in PA: An N-scale NKP PA poses next to the real thing at Steamtown.

C means it was the third unit of the 347 consist. I wonder where the others are now...

The C&O 4008 leads the Georgia Washington at Lee Hall, eighteen miles out of Newport News. We are now following the C&O on its westerly course paralleling the James River to Richmond, VA on Se... (more)

BN 9790 pokes its nose out of the diesel shop at Auburn, WA, a former Northern Pacific facility located between Seattle and Tacoma. A close look shows that this former BN passenger F7 still wears ... (more)

BN 1524, x-GN GP7, pokes its nose out of the Interbay roundhouse, sharing space with a GP35 & F9A. The stripes on the long hood identify it as the front, typical of all GN road switchers (as deliv... (more)

The Santa Fe Super Chief is seen at Albuquerque New Mexico in 1943. Note the wartime headlight visor on the EMC E6. Jack Delano photo, from the Library of Congress collection and my collection.

Raton New Mexico Super Chief station scene four days after Christmas in 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

MILW 60A, an FP7 built as 90A in June 1950, mates with an F7A and moves away from the MILW engine terminal at Pig's Eye Yard, St. Paul. After a career of handling Hiawatha's and other MILW passeng... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western's Rio Grande Zephyr is making it's station stop and crew change at Grand Jct., Colorado. Date is not known. Scanned from a color print.

Santa Fe had visions of a company museum, and was wise enough to hang onto a variety of locomotives with that in mind. It never happened, of course, and the collection was donated to the Californ... (more)

AMTK 408 gets serviced at its station stop at North La Crosse, WI on the point of the North Coast Hiawatha. The E9 was built as MILW 31A in April 1956.

Amtrak Empire Builder power sits at Harrison St., Minneapolis between assignments. AMTK 101 is former BN 9774, originally NP 6508C built in April 1949.

Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad's B&O F7A No. 722 pauses on the bridge over the South Branch of the Potomac River in Moorefield, WV.