The Cumberland Subdivision was opened in 1842 as part of the Baltimore & Ohio’s mainline, following the Potomac River. In 1914 the B&O opened the Magnolia Cutoff, a more direct route through moun... (more)

Conrail SD40 6280 leads a train heading south across Iona Island, on the western bank of the Hudson River. (Stoney Point, New York – August 1984). Ed Robinson photo, Craig Walker collectionmore)

Amtrak train 48, the eastbound Lake Shore Limited, originated in Chicago the previous day. Traveling along the shore of Lake Erie much of the way (thought Ohio, a sliver of Pennsylvania an... (more)

BNSF ES44AC 6075, one of the railway's ten 25th Anniversary engines, leads train Z-NYCLAC through eastern Anaheim, paralleling Orangethorpe Avenue near Kellogg Drive, as the sun rises on December ... (more)

Exiting Factoryville Tunnel on the Scranton-Binghamton Line are Boston & Maine GP40-2 302 and Delaware & Hudson C420 415 (ex-Lehigh Valley 415) pulling a D&H train. This was originally the Delawa... (more)

Passing the Imperial Brewery is a Burlington Northern freight train, pulled by a trio of former Frisco GPs: GP38AC 2113 (ex-SLSF 636), GP38-2B 2600 (ex-SLSF GP38AC 660 and GP38-2 2290 (ex-SLSF 435... (more)

A pair of Santa Fe Railway’s finest, a bit battered and bruised after repeatedly operating for thousands of miles at a time, poke their noses out of the shops in San Bernardino. Built in June 197... (more)

CSX U30C 7263, still wearing predecessor Seaboard System’s colors, crosses Main Street and passes the old Baltimore & Ohio depot in Fostoria OH. The "U-Boat" was built by General Electric as Loui... (more)

Hartwell Railway Company 2 is a General Electric 44 ton locomotive built for the HRT in February 1950. (Hartwell, Georgia – June 22, 1974) - Lloyd Neal Photo, Craig Walker Collection

An interesting variety of locomotives, typical of the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad in the 70s and 80s, was found at the railroad’s yard in Hermon, Maine. Several mid-60s-built 80-class GP38s are h... (more)

On a sunny Spring 1948 day in Kansas, R. G. Janzen photographed a typical scene in Norton, Kansas. A Rock Island R-67b class Northern was captured as it passed eastward through town. Rock Island... (more)

Built by EMD in January 1969, Atlanta & West Point GP40 729 was photographed in Social Circle, Georgia, in April 1975. This locomotive would eventually become Seaboard System 6649, and then CSX T... (more)

Sitting at EMD's factory in La Grange, Illinois, is Southern Pacific GP9 5643. Southern Pacific assigned class DF-607 to this order of 104 diesels (SP 5643 was the eighteenth unit of the order). ... (more)

Western Pacific GP35 3019 was constructed by EMD in April 1973. This engine would go on to become Union Pacific 797 following the UP's acquisition of the WP. The UP would later dispose of it to ... (more)

One of Santa Fe's large 4-8-4s, 3782, is seen at the railroad's Redondo Junction roundhouse facility, just a couple miles south of downtown Los Angeles. The exact date, and the photographer, are u... (more)