Down the Rocky Branch Rare move these days, Rocky Local returns after moving some cars north.
Wayside Wig Wag. Santa Cruz, Big Trees & Pacific (SCBG) CF-7 locomotive 2641 is seen leading the Beach Train down Chestnut St in Santa Cruz, passing the wig-wag signal on Lincoln St. Th... (more)
Just minute after sunrise, UP 4014 is warming up and steaming to life in preparation for a journey north on the Greeley Sub back to homebase in Cheyenne. The rising sun in golden hour shines throu... (more)
There is a lot to see at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. But, if you're lucky enough to get into the old Central Pacific/Southern Pacific shops nearby, there is even more to s... (more)
Santa Fe diesel servicing area at Clovis, New Mexico, a Division Point eight miles west of the Texas border. Several freight trains operated between south Texas and California including the ... (more)
Little Joe at Avery Round House For more 1970's https://www.railpictures.net/album/8659/
The Big Hill 2.4% A shiny new CPKC locomotive leads an eastbound stack train up the 2.4% section of Canadian Pacific's original "Big Hill" at first light. The original line reached a stag... (more)
Taken sometime in the 1950s. Otto Conrad Perry photo, my collection.
Southern 8099 and Wabash 1070 lead NS 956, an Office Car Special filled with NS executives, across High Bridge as they head for an overnight stay in Danville
NS 289 flies over a tall trestle at sunset with one of the few remaining “white face” dash 9s leading.
Santa Fe five-unit F7s 305 (A-A-B-B-B) was on No. 1 the streamlined SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF on July 3, 1970 during the Belen, N.M. servicing stop. One hundred and two years of Santa Fe passenger... (more)
Southern Pacific train 131 departs San Francisco. My 70's photos https://www.railpictures.net/album/8659/
A string of fresh HBRY SD60Ms await their fate in The Pas, MB. They haven't turned a revenue wheel since arriving.
Inside the cab of Cotton Belt GP30 #5006 at the Arkansas Railroad Museum in Pine Bluff.
DGNO loaded rock train derailed and put 40 cars on the ground.