A pair of Amtrak SDP40F diesels are in charge of train #53, The Floridian, stops at Union Station in Montgomery, Alabama, in October 1974. Montgomery Union Station was built by the Louisvi... (more)

Amtrak's train #13, the Coast Daylight, led by a pair of Southern Pacific SDP45s and consisting of just six cars, is seen at San Luis Obispo, California, in March 1973. The Daylight... (more)

On the last day of summer 2008, Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 (along with a trio of Amtrak P42DCs) is on the point of train A9572 1-21A, the 24 car AAPRCO special heading from Los Angeles to San Diego. (Od... (more)

Consecutive Numbers on Adjacent Trains Amtrak Pacific Surfliners meet in Rose Canyon, in northern San Diego, California. F59PHI 456 is leading train #774 (San Luis Obispo to San Di... (more)

British Railways 40 071 is an English Electric Class 40, 2,000hp diesel-electric built between 1958 and 1962 for Eastern Region passenger and freight work. Built as No. D271, it was renumbered to ... (more)

The Rock Island Railroad ceased operation on March 31, 1980, yet in May 1985, some five years later, the Union Pacific was storing some RI power (and some Western Pacific power as well) in North L... (more)

A trio of Norfolk & Western GP35s (223, 2910 and 204) trundle through the yard in Hagerstown, Maryland, in September 1975.

Illinois Central Gulf F3A 883-A, still in full Gulf Mobile & Ohio paint (as the merger is only a few months old), is seen here with GM&O E7A 101 (the former Alton 101). GM&O 883-A was built in Ju... (more)

Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner ascends the grade on Miramar Hill, near La Jolla a few miles north of downtown San Diego. Amtrak F59PHI 457 is painted to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Am... (more)

A railroad down the Delmarva Peninsula - from Wilmington, Delaware to Cape Charles, Virginia - was completed by Pennsylvania Railroad subsidiary New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk in 1884. This lin... (more)

A westbound BNSF Railway train threads its way through the curves at the "natural crossover" at Frost; just south of Victorville, California. Leaning into the curve as it crosses over the eastbou... (more)

Rock Island SW1 4801 (ex-Illinois Central 602, nee-IC 9016) works the coach yard in Chicago on Independence Day, 1976. This locomotive was built by EMD in December 1939.

Norfolk & Western C630 1131 was the only C630 to receive this paint scheme. It is seen here in yard service, coupled to a slug, at Norfolk, Virginia, on February 9, 1983.

Acca Yard was the southern-most point on the Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac, a Class I railroad that was a bridge line "Linking North & South" about 113 miles in length. The RF&P con... (more)