CB&Q F3 162 leads a westbound 76 car freight near Smithboro Illinois in June 1951. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A fast Santa Fe 16 car mail train is seen west of Florence Kansas on July 1st 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Union Pacific ALCO FA1 1608 and mates lead a westbound freight near Brady Nebraska in 1958. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Cruising Into The Future Night has fallen over Gravette, AR and just over three hours remain before the CPKC merger goes into effect as a northbound KCS grain train rides off into the nig... (more)

End Of The Day, End Of An Era The light in the sky is quickly fading on the evening of Thursday, April 13, 2023 while a southbound coal train heads up the grade into Gravette, AR on the Ka... (more)

An Amtrak Acela headed to Boston meets a regional bound for Washington while passing over the Gold Star Bridge at sunset.

Westbound BNSF coal loads pass some rapids on the Clark Fork River along Montana Rail Link's Fourth Sub. This location is very close to where the recent derailment of a BNSF manifest occurred whic... (more)

This is the new livery that has been adopted on class trains: ETR.700 former "Frecciargento" brand which disappears, and merge into the "Frecciarossa" brand to be used in the H... (more)

A Vossloh DE 18 diesel-electric locomotive is doing track shunting service in Parma, some locomotives like this have already been delivered to various Italian operators. The locomotive in the pho... (more)

High green ahead. A westbound Erie Lackawanna freight is approaching Broad Street interlocking tower at Griffith in 1975.

The eastbound Rocky Mountaineer catches the final day's sun on the outskirts of Banff National Park as it throttles into one of the few linear sections of Canadian Pacific main near Stephen... (more)

Older and newer depicted here sitting in the former NKP yard located in Frankfort, IN.

Coal Loads at Daybreak | Under a partly cloudy sky, a southbound coal train heads down the KCS mainline at Baron, OK on a warm Monday, April 3, 2023 morning. Just a few minutes north of the... (more)

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The legendary fast train ETR.250 "Arlecchino" built in the 60s arrives in Bologna Centrale in the late afternoon from Bari Centrale on the occasion of a journey across the peninsula organized by I... (more)