Great Northern Railway passenger power lays over at the roundhouse next to St. Paul Union Depot in the early 1960s. The F3As and E7As pictured here were used on the GN's premier trains, including ... (more)

Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 no. 608 surrounded by freight cars in the yard behind Denver Union Station in 1958. Photograph by more)

Baltimore & Ohio no. 6708 at Camden Station in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 15, 1964. The H-16-44 class road switcher was built in 1957 by the Fairbanks-Morse Company. During 1989 construction b... (more)

Two Milwaukee Road SD40-2s lead an eastbound freight train across Peedee Viaduct in Idaho's northern panhandle on July 12, 1979. The bridge is between Plummer and St. Maries, part of the "gap" tha... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific freight train has just exited one of the Hermosa tunnels on Wyoming's Sherman Hill on August 17, 1957. Road power is 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" no. 4019, assisted by 4-8-4 no. 82... (more)

A steam powered suburban train emerges from the C&NW's Chicago passenger terminal (now Metra's Olgilvie Transportation Center) in this 1952 view by photographer Wallace W. Abbey. Courtesy of the <... (more)

An aerial view in winter 1965 of the Chicago & North Western roundhouse area at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Photograph by Wallace W. Abbey and courtesy of the more)

Cable car in San Francisco, California, in 1959 on the California Street Line near the intersection with Stockton Street. The California Street Line dates back to 1878 and Leland Stanford’s Cali... (more)

Westbound Milwaukee Road freight train climbing the grade up from the Columbia River at Doris, Washington, on July 14, 1979. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund and courtesy of the more)

Grand Trunk Western streamlined 4-8-4 steam locomotive no. 6409 leading an eastbound passenger train out of Chicago's Dearborn Station on February 2, 1952. Photograph by Wallace W. Abbey, collecti... (more)

Two Milwaukee Road Hiawatha passenger trains at Chicago Union Station, circa 1950. Leading the train in the background is F7-class 4-6-4 no. 102. Photograph by more)

On an overcast August day in 1962, an eastbound Soo Line freight train, led by two F-units and a geep, is crossing the St. Croix River high bridge between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Photograph by Wa... (more)

Rock Island E6 #630 switching at Chicago while E8 #660 rests in the background in this May 1973 scene. Photograph by more)

Five Milwaukee Road GP-series diesels rest on the garden tracks next to the turntable at the railroad’s West Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Shops in 1984. In the following year, the bankrupt railroad wou... (more)

Westbound freight train behind D&H 1216 at Waverly, NY in July 1975. Photograph by John F. Bjorklundmore)