Rock Island's GP-7's were not equipped for suburban service, and so 1217 must be functioning as a switcher or pilot rather than the motive power for the whole train. That duty is probably going ... (more)

At the Amarillo train station, Rock Island F-M H15-44 #401 powers No.21 the Memphis-Amarillo-Tucumcari Mail and Express train, with only a chair car was operated for the few passengers on March ... (more)

In the late afternoon of a long career, E6 12 was still handling Nos. 11-12 between Kansas City and Dallas in December 1964. 12 had left EMC in April 1940 and worked until it was damaged in a Ju... (more)

NYO&W FTA-B 801 units with F3B-A 821 at Mayfield, PA engine yard, awaiting better times on March 23, 1957. The New York, Ontario & Western Railway operated from Oswego, N.Y. on the shore of L... (more)

Southern Pacific GP9's 3593 and 3598 rolling by Portland's Amtrak Union Station with their consist of box cars and hoppers on November 14, 1971. Electro-Motives GP9 became the SP's basic four... (more)

More efficient passenger power was needed as the PA's and E-units began to rack up the miles, and in the spring of 1967 the SP began taking delivery of ten new 3600 h.p. SDP45s from EMD (3200... (more)

On August 8, 1967 Southern Pacific FP7 6455 and a B-unit arrived with a nine-car No. 99 the Los Angeles-bound Coast Daylight, crossing the ATSF tracks at Mission Junction near the Los Angeles... (more)

C&EI power E7A 1100, F3B 935 and E9A 1102 backing up to connect to it train for a late afternoon departure from Dearborn Station with the combined Georgian/Humming Bird on September 7, 1967. ... (more)

The morning of August 19, 1967 found Santa Fe E8Ms 86 and 82A booster unit at Dallas Union Terminal after a 644 mile overnight trip from Kansas City on No.11 the KANSAS CITIAN. Photo by Hol ... (more)

A four unit consist of F-units headed by Santa Fe F3A 262 and three F7Bs moves No.31 on the grade at Larkspur, Colorado. Only 8.6 miles remain to the Palmer Lake summit, as the diesels are in... (more)

A quartet of ACL E-units, led by E6 520 is slowing down as it rolls through Rocky Mount, N.C. on March 26, 1960. The train is number 88, the Florida Special. Photo by Felix Brunot, from my c... (more)

The Trona Railway locomotive roster in 1993, 1 SW1200, 1 SD9 and 6 SD45-2 (rebuilt by Alstom as SD40-2M) numbered 3001-3006.

Diesel locomotive set 5405D-C-B-A is awaiting a new crew at Missoula, Montana on July 29, 1955. The Northern Pacific unlike most other roads, kept the drawbar coupling between their FT cab an... (more)

On March 15, 1969, GN F7A 309C leads an F7B, a GP9 and another F7A with more then 200 ore cars, totaling around 15,000 net tons of taconite pellets into Minneapolis. The Great Northern usuall... (more)

MoPac F7A 814 leads three more F-units and a GP18 on the T&P near Shreveport, Louisiana on January 4, 1968. MoPac F7A 814 was former International Great Northern (IGN) nos. 595, built 09/49. Ph... (more)