By the late 1950s, there were just two places in the United States that still featured big-time steam operations: The Norfolk & Western in the Appalachias, and Union Pacific in Wyoming. Cheyenne ... (more)

Santa Fe 2-8-0 #1, the “Cyrus K. Holliday,” was originally Santa Fe 2-8-0 #132, built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in September 1880. In 1898 the locomotive was renumbered #912, and it was ren... (more)

Chicago Burlington & Quincy O-5-A 4-8-4 5632 is seen at Kansas City, Missouri, on May 29, 1960. (Frank "Woody" Woodburn photo, Craig Walker collection)

Union Pacific pile driver #03114 is under steam in Salina, Kansas in January 1960. This product of Industrial Brownhoist was probably built in the Teens (sister pile driver #03110 was built in 19... (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)

The roundhouse and turntable combination was railroading's unique solution to servicing steam locomotives in a relatively small area. Even a large roundhouse, such as this example at Santa Fe Rai... (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)

A Santa Fe & Disneyland passenger train makes a stop at the Main Street station. SF&D 2-4-4T Forney #3 was built by Baldwin in April 1895. The 36"-gauge engine was rebuilt from Godchaux Sugar Co... (more)

A set of Santa Fe FTs (with 175C facing the photgrapher) sits in the Dodge City, KS, engine facility in December 1960. There are still a lot of holdovers from the steam-era here, such as the turn... (more)

In a scene from August 1958, Colorado & Southern O-4 class 2-8-2 809 (built in 1919 for parent Chicago Burlington & Quincy), shunts C&S caboose 10596 around the yard in Denver, Colorado. (Frank "... (more)

This wooden caboose, Kaiser Steel Corporation 1904, was found near the company's steel mills in Fontana, California, in April 1961. (Frank "Woody" Woodburn photo, Craig Walker collection)

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)