Six months after Penn Central's takeover of the New Haven, Boston-Washington train #173, the Senator, emerges from one of the two short tunnels at East Haven, CT, behind an unpatched FL9 and an ex... (more)

An original Kodachrome slide from my collection; the photographer was note specified.

A dog peers up the steps of a locomotive in a consist of a outbound train waiting for a crew to go west over Mullan Pass at Helena, Montana, on February 7, 1997. He was persistent, going from loco... (more)

METX 308 and CNW 411 rest on the IRM wye next to the vintage Santa Fe sign that once rested atop the railway exchange building in Chicago.

After pulling its cut of boxcars and woodchip hoppers ahead for headroom, GTW 4616 and train pause on the ancient ex-C&NW bridge over the Fox River to wait for the conductor to throw back the swit... (more)

Pick your favorite model!

Steam locomotives "Lahaina" No. 1 and "Launiopoko" No 3 are on display at the site of the Pioneer Mill in Lahaina. Both locomotives once saw service moving sugar cane in Maui.

A former East Broad Top Railroad open top hopper car acts as a sign base at the Puukolii Station of the currently out of service Lahaina, Kaanapali and Pacific Railroad, at Kaanapali, Hawaii.

The locomotive shop of the currently out of service Lahaina, Kaanapali and Pacific Railroad, at Kaanapali, Hawaii. During the past few Christmas seasons the railroad operated holiday trains over a... (more)

The California Zephyr arrives in Denver and passes through the BNSF's engine servicing yard. An interesting visitor spotted in the yard is DOTX 221, a passenger car built in 1954 and now serving ... (more)

This beautiful Pullman private "Pontchartrain Club" car hitched a ride to Denver on the back of the California Zephyr.

In November '88, prior to ordering a batch of wide cab EMD GP60M's with desk top controls, a first for Santa Fe, the railway borrowed an CN wide cab SD60F with desk top controls for demonstration... (more)

Hot Steel Coming Through!

Cuyahoga Valley SW8 802 pulls a couple of cars of molten steel through the Jones & Laughlin steel mill in Cleveland. The long-gone Clark Avenue bridge, c... (more)

The California Zephyr leaves Denver Union Station, pulling the private coach GMO 50, “The Patron Tequila Express”. The passenger on the phone sitting in the rear will get quite the view as th... (more)

The KCS Veteran painted SD70ACe leads an empty oil train northbound on the Canadian Pacific between Montpelier and Buffalo, IA on the run to Winnipeg. The trailing CP engine would be added to the ... (more)