No HEP (head-end power 480-v.) here in GN’s Seattle coach yard where the cars are hooked to ground steam on rainy April 9, 1970 The Big Sky Blue didn’t last long as the merger creating Burlin... (more)

Looking like a diesel with a jawbone or tooth ache, in its final years UP Alco PA 605 wore a cast pilot from a 4-8-4. There is probably a story what happened to its original pilot, but it didn’... (more)

Two Great Northern F’s await their next assignment at Portland, Oregon on April 11, 1969. Portland’s Union Station Tower is in the background.

MILW Little Joe E76 powers up and leads three SD40-2s (3009, 3018, 3000) eastward out of St. Regis, Montana across the namesake St. Regis River on August 9, 1973. Following the river was the Nor... (more)

When Utah Transit Authority was building its new tracks between Salt Lake City and Ogden adjacent to Int.15 most of the way, it painted its ballast cars with its new FrontRunner red, white and blu... (more)

UP GE U50s 31 and 33 lead 40-ft. box cars west out of Topeka, Ks. at Menoken Jct. in pouring rain and head to Marysville and on to North Platte, Nebr.

Santa Fe’s famous warbonnet perhaps looked best on an Alco PA, as Mail Train 4 arrived Kansas City Union Depot with PA 74, Oct. 30, 1966. An ATS (Automatic Train Stop) shoe is on the 3rd axle ... (more)

Santa Fe’s premier train, eastbound Super Chief-El Capitan with two FP-45s, pauses at La Junta, Colo. for a crew change and accept passengers from the connector Train 201 from Denver, which arri... (more)

Blue Santa Fe units (4 Fs and 2 Geeps) among the Texas state flower Bluebonnets. ATSF 276C is southbound (RR East) at Landes, Texas, headed for Houston on April 4, 1971.

Santa Fe F7 229C leads a westbound freight (geographically southeast) around the curves in hill and dale country of central Texas at Rogers, Jan. 30, 1971.

At the fork in the ATSF mainline where one leads to Topeka and the other to Ottawa, two trains collided and sideswiped between Christmas and New Years Day 1967. Soap powder anyone... it really ... (more)

Northern Pacific F units on the local perform switching at Whitehall, Mont. on April 10, 1970.

National Railways of Zimbabawe Garratt steam locomotive #512 leads a special as it crosses the Zimbabawe River from Zimbabwe to Zambia, Africa. The mist from the famous Victoria Falls behind the c... (more)

With three EMD F9's, Northern Pacific's westbound flagship "North Coast Limited," Train 25, ascends the east side of 6,356-ft. Homestake Pass near Whitehall, Montana. Next stop is Butte.

Receiving a little attention at the engine shed at Kansas City, Ks. is Alco PA 621 while GP-7 1327 takes a spin on the turntable. The Alco was built in 1941, re-engined by EMD in 1953 and eventua... (more)