Four Fs and an Alco FB get hotshot Rock Island 106’s train rolling south out of Omaha, Nebr. late in the day on May 8, 1965.

MKT 105 South, with two GP-7's and two re-engined Alco FA's, gets a roll on southbound freight 17 miles out of Kansas City, Mo. on Feb. 5, 1967. Those aren't MKT CTC signals between Lenexa and ... (more)

Two SD7’s took a break from their hump duties at Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard at North Platte, Nebr. after the country’s largest yard had been opened not very long on March 21, 1969.

VIA’s westbound Train 1 with candy stripe FP-9 1407 leading has just exited CP’s 5-mile long Connaught Tunnel at Glacier, B.C. on Aug. 12, 1981 (the day before the above two photos of Train 1... (more)

A set of SP F-7 units, with 6284 on the point, leads a westbound hotshot at Wheatland, Calif. en route to Roseville Yard. An eastbound, headed for Oregon, waits in the clear on March 17, 1964. ... (more)

Fifty years ago on the shortest day of 1963, D&RGW 488 makes a gallant showing as it climbs out of New Mexico into Colorado with the 3rd Cumbres Turn. At Cumbres Pass the three sections of frei... (more)

An all-Alco consist on the Monon, a RS-2 is sandwiched between two bigger brother DL-628s as they lug tonnage northbound at Mitchell, Indiana, Nov. 27, 1966.

“Got Mail?” This was a healthy mail train, No. 8, on Santa Fe’s transcontinental mainline at Ottawa, Kansas on May 1, 1965. The REA Express reefers on the head end were loaded with Calif... (more)

A steam-boiler-equipped Geep for passenger service heads up three other Frisco Geeps at Kansas City, Mo. Note the steam line on front pilot.

Alaska Railroad's daily train (Glacier Discovery) from Anchorage to Whittier is about to make a station stop at Girdwood on June 27, 2005. The train's passenger car windows are hand washed every ... (more)

VIA's eastbound Train 10, "Skeena," has been flagged for a stop at Kwinitsa, 46 miles after originating at Prince Rupert, B.C.

Marker-light equipped Southern EMD SW-7 switcher 6859 was assigned the passenger station at Knoxville, Tenn. when this image was snapped on June 28, 1957. The church tower clock says 2:28; the h... (more)

Still in original paint instead of "Perlman green," two Western Pacific GE's, and three BN units, restrain tonnage westbound down the Feather River near Tobin, Calif. The train came onto WP rail... (more)

Pretty clean dome car glass, yes? You’re on the Rio Grande Zephyr, Train 18, eastbound through Ruby Canyon just after leaving Utah, and the train is about to cross McDonald Creek which empties ... (more)

Rio Grande’s “Yampa Valley” Train 10, with extra coaches on the rear for skiers, is in the siding at Winter Park, Colo. to let a freight behind GP-35 3044 hustle on past so that it can pull ... (more)