Three Amtrak SDP40F hood units hardly two months old yank Train 3 the combined Super Chief - El Capitan up Raton Pass near Gallinas, Colo. on Sept. 2, 1973. AT&SF wound up buying some of the SDP... (more)

As VIA Train 1 departed Calgary headed for the best scenery, it got a bath leaving the depot. Budd built observation car Glacier View is about to clear the rack.

Two Mitsubishi-built diesels -- 1013 and 1021-- of the Empresa Ferroviaria Andena S.A., FCA, have a heavy ore train under control at Avaroa, Bolivia en route to Chile for export, two containers pe... (more)

The year I shot this photo of Black Mountain 4-6-0 No. 1, it had been bequeathed to the city of Erwin, Tenn. to mount in a park (snapshot date Oct. 28, 1955). The 45-toner was built in 1882 for ... (more)

Two days later (than the previous photo) as seen from the engineer's viewpoint VIA's Train 10 also has a clear train order board and will sail by Kwinitsa without stopping on Aug. 5, 1981. Nos.... (more)

Still lettered Ferrocarril-Huancayo-Huancavelica, Japanese railcar No. 31 was formerly narrow-gauge and had just recently been converted to standard gauge by Ferrovias Central Andina (FCCA) when p... (more)

Three Geeps hustle Rock Island tonnage westbound over Union Pacific traffic rights at North Topeka, Kansas as Santa Fe’s local from Atchison with a Fairbanks-Morse road-switcher also arrives tow... (more)

Two Rockdale Sandow & Southern Alco RS-3s idle outside their shop at Marjorie, Texas on March 10, 1972. The Alco's boxy marker lights are a tip-off that they came from the Missouri Pacific.

A GE U-28-CG, an FP-45 and two F-45’s tow the 19 cars of Santa Fe’s combined El Capitan / Super Chief Trn. 17 up Raton Pass near Starkville, Colo. on August 1, 1970. The first car is a steam ... (more)

UP’s northward local out of Las Vegas with 2 GP35’s nears Dry Lake, Nevada as a cab-hop on Oct. 12, 1974. Ironically-named Dry Lake was the location of UP’s ample water supply for drenchin... (more)

After a layover at Grangeville, Camas Prairie’s regular train with UP 246 in the lead returns to Lewiston, Idaho over Lawyer’s Creek trestle near Craigmont. One of the largest steel structure... (more)

Five-year old Southern GP7 2196 has returned to Knoxville, Tenn. yard after servicing its customers on June 28, 1957. What is right of the nose-mounted bell — a siren?

Santa Fe local Trn. 184, with FM 539, on the Leavenworth Branch has a heavyweight coach for excursionists. The branch has been abandoned for decades.

Seven leased Oakway SD-60s lead an empty coal train from Amarillo around the curve on Colorado’s Joint Line where it enters U.S. Force Academy property. The train is headed back to the Powder R... (more)

Also the remnants of a sugar plantation 3-ft. ga. line, the Kauai Plantation Railway operates five daily trips, 40-mins. each, at Kauai on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.