Alco RSD-5 2159 was one of the yard switchers on duty at ATSF’s joint yard with C&S at Pueblo, Colo. on Jan. 23, 1966.

Generally known as “white knights,” KCS’s highest numbered SD-40 636 leads two mates and their southbound train by the brick depot at DeRidder, La. on Feb. 15, 1973. The last KCS passenger ... (more)

Clinchfield SD45-2 3612 is in charge of coal empties returning to mines as the northbound extra crosses Rotherwood Bridge over the north fork of the Holston River, north of Kingsport, Tenn

All 47 cars of AT&SF's northbound Train 46 are in view as it bends around the first horseshoe curve near M.P. 796 at Blanchard, N.M. Four Alco's, with RSD-7 604 on the head end and three RSD-5's... (more)

On a brisk Dec. 21, 1963 at Chama, N.M., D&RGW 2-8-2 493 has another Mikado, 488, in tow as the two of them head for the wye to turn and then take a 3rd cut of cars up to Cumbres Pass summit, and ... (more)

After dousing the red marker lights, Amtrak Downeaster Train 683 behind P42 197 will ready to run north to Portland after a 35-min. layover in Boston's North Station. Two MBTA trains flank Amtrak... (more)

The fireman of BCL Mining & Smelter's 4-8-2 class LO #807 cleans his firebox grates at Selebi-Phikwe, Botswana (Africa) on a hot May 31, 2011. The camera could feel the heat.

FP-45 #103 and 3 "Kodachrome" units bring a hotshot "Q" train (they used to call them "Quality trains" -- pigs only) symboled EPKC -- moving from El Paso to Kansas City via Raton Pass and La Junt... (more)

CN 5241 West has an easy time of it controlling the westbound down the Thompson River Canyon and crossing swiftly-moving waters at Cisco, B. C.

Two "mother" or "master" CSX units, GP-40-2's 6416 and 6469 in the center, are flanked by slug units 2286 and 2332 (former GP35 and GP40 respectively) as they cross the Ohio River on former PRR's ... (more)

Two Sierra RR Baldwins, Nos. 40 and 42, have empty 50-ft. boxes in tow at Quinn, Calif.

UP’s Extra 723 with two GP30s and empty cattle cars is blue-flagged for inspection at Council Bluffs, Iowa on May 8, 1965.

UP’s nameless passenger Train No. 70, operating between Kansas City and Salina, leaves North Topeka, Ks. eastbound with 8 cars behind lone E9 902 on March 27, 1965.

Southern 6114 “south” emerges from Natural Tunnel (Va.) on Nov. 23, 1966.

Besides along Lincoln Avenue in Santa Ana, Calif., where else do trains run so fast so close to private homes? Here was former UP E9 No. 912 racing Amtrak Train 770 at maximum authorized speed o... (more)