Originally a N&W high hood unit this one got tasteful nose job from MRL. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

A pair of Dash9s lead an SD60M and 40-2 with an eastbound intermodal train at Suwanee, NM., about forty seven miles west of Belen. Fuji Velvia.

AT&SF train number 3, the California Limited, is arriving Los Angeles California with smog present in the atmosphere, on August 1st 1940. Stare at that bell long enough and you can almost hear it ... (more)

Former Norfolk & Western 8039 leads a westbound empty hopper train past an eastbound loaded coal train at Bluestone West Virginia.

SP 9 waits at the Owenyo trainorder office for its last orders. It had been filling in while diesel SP 1 was in the Bakersfield shops, but the diesel is back from the shops and soon will take ove... (more)

Rock Island train number 509, The Rocket, is seen at Wichita Kansas in 1940. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

BN 8116 leads an empty coal train across the North Platte River in Guernsey, WY in May of 1991.

An eastbound loaded coal train rolls under Hwy 52 at Eckman West Virginia lead by former Norfolk & Western 6075. When photographing a primarily black & white railroad in the winter time in souther... (more)

“Where There’s Smoke…”
A CSX track geometry train, symbolled as a passenger extra, kicks up fresh ballast fines as it approaches the intermediates at Harberson Walker* [sic] at m... (more)

Former Norfolk & Western 8565, leads an eastbound loaded coal train at Bluestone West Virginia on a cold March day.

Former Norfolk & Western 1382 and Slug, lead an eastbound loaded coal train near Coopers West Virginia.

“Constant Flow Rate”
Yet another in the never-ending stream of coal drags departs Brunswick, eastbound, on Sunday afternoon, December 6, 1987 at 14:52. With CSR/C&O SD50 8574 and B&... (more)

The day's first northbound (westbound?) Amtrak San Diegan, train 771, makes its stop in Fullerton, the last stop before Los Angeles, at 9:00, two hours after departing San Diego. This trai... (more)

There is often a wide variety of other railroads' power in the Belt Railway of Chicago's Clearing Yard. On this day, there was power from Chicago & North Western, Cotton Belt, Denver & Rio Grande... (more)

Union Pacific train number 22, the Pacific Coast Limited, is seen near Cheyenne Wyoming in 1934. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.