I031 crosses overhead Pulaski Hwy as it arrives at Bayview.

Kicking off National Train Day 2024 at 0100, southbound iron ore loads wait for a northbound empty as they cross paths at Biwabik under some impressive aurora borealis taking place in the sky abov... (more)

An ALCO A-B-A set awaits its next assignment at Cheyenne Wyoming in 1956. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

BNSF 676 takes the lead of a LAUPAS coming into Ritzville, Washington. Peyton Boyd and Spencer Montgomery are seen trying to get pacing shots as we race it into town.

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

The 315 "yellowbonnet" was one of the 74 passenger F-units which had been leased to Amtrak for its trains operating on the Santa Fe. When the lease terminated, the units were converted... (more)

M434 slowly rolls into Selkirk yard with an SD70MACe leading.

An ALCO A-B-A set leads eastbound with 87 cars near Cheyenne Wyoming in 1955. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A westbound train of empties soars over the back road from Bluefield with an SD45-SLUG-SD45 combination in charge. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

A westbound intermodal kicks up the snow as it ducks under the former Western Maryland Keystone Viaduct as it works its way down the west slope of Sandpatch Grade.

Daylight Indoors. On July 9, 2009, Southern Pacific 4449 "Northern" GS-4 4-8-4 (Lima, 1941), the sole surviving "Daylight" locomotive had just arrived at the Friends of ... (more)

N&W train number 4, the Pocahontas, is seen near Bluefield West Virginia in 1950. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Back when they were brands new. Union Pacific SD70M's 4734 and 4733 make their way through Lakepoint, Utah. The Oquirrh Mountains have been layer with fresh snow over night. UP 4734, 7433 could po... (more)

During the mid-1950s, cab units ruled Southern's main line as seen in this November 1955 view near Austell, Georgia with Train 153 rolling east with a quartet of F7s in charge. Photo by R.D. Sha... (more)

Bnsf 4329 Takes a rack train east over the KCT high bridge.