Rock Island 649 and two other E8s lead a couple road switchers on a head of an eastbound freight approach the Santa Fe/ICG diamonds in Joliet, IL on the way to their Chicago Blue Island yard. Like... (more)

For a special charter, known as the "Oneida Clipper", the F Units, coal hoppers, and a caboose make their way up the grade for a photo run by for passengers.

D&RGW F7A 5691 and mates are seen after emerging from tunnel 29 near Cliff Colorado, with 68 cars in tow, on December 31st 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Southern Belle in the Dead of Night | Returning to Shreveport after Friday's merger celebrations in Kansas City, the CPKC Southern Belle FP9s cruise across a bridge just south of Watts, OK ... (more)

Bad day at Broomfield, freight and passenger train collision in September 1958 involving CB&Q EMD E7 number 9936B and CB&Q EMD F3 number 700D. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

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

Rolling out of Union Station, two bald PRR E8s 4255 and 4297 leading train 22 the Manhattan Limited on its journey to New York on June 19, 1968. Photo by photographer's name not listed, from my... (more)

In March of 2019 I was part of a group of volunteers from the North Carolina Transportation Museum that went down to the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, GA to help prepare one of the last s... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD E9 No. 9903 pulls a four-car commuter train into the station stop of Highlands, Illinois, on February 9, 1991. Highlands ended up being a great place to observe BN action w... (more)

AMTK 150, an F7B, gets a look over by BN Dale St. Shop workers in St. Paul, MN in March 1973. The locomotive was built as GN 462C in January 1953 and renumbered to BN 9754 before Amtrak acquired i... (more)

Rock Island 675 has completed its weekend commuter run to Joliet from LaSalle St. Station, Chicago. Shortly the train will load city bound passengers and head back into Chicago. The introduction o... (more)

BN 616 is former GN passenger F7A no. 365C/ 276A built in October 1950. BN apparently assigned it to freight service. F units primarily assigned to BN passenger service were numbered in the 9700-9... (more)

My favorite FP7 in the lead on the westbound Amtrak "San Francisco Zephyr" must be the result of some failure, mishap, or whatever.

Prominent in this photo is a once ubiquitous symbol we should have kept, and another.............

Curving out of St. Louis' Union Station the cavernous train shed, comes a pair of PRR E8's leading train 65 with 4 cars of mail, 2 bagage cars, and 2 coaches. In the background three Norfolk & ... (more)