Uncommon flatcar loads are heading west through La Porte Indiana. Photo by Jeff Stupar.

The Santa Fe Super Chief is seen at Albuquerque New Mexico in 1943. Note the wartime headlight visor on the EMC E6. Jack Delano photo, from the Library of Congress collection and my collection.

A classic example of a standard gondola's capacity. Seen here with a unique load as it is being shoved and set out on a siding.

Bad day at Broomfield, freight and passenger train collision in September 1958 involving CB&Q EMD E7 number 9936B and CB&Q EMD F3 number 700D. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A Southern Pacific freight is seen near Cougar California, with snowcapped Mount Shasta visible in the background, on July 26th 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SP 4110 is street running with a twelve car Tehachapi, Southern Pacific train 56, in tow at 15 MPH, in 1937. Otto C. Perry photo, from my collection.

Union Pacific train number 111, the City of Denver, is seen leaving Denver on its first westbound run, with ten cars at 35 MPH, on June 19th 1936. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

The 49er, UP train number 48, (8 cars 35 MPH) is seen near Echo Utah on October 23rd 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

AT&SF train 12, The Chicagoan, is seen east of Newton Kansas on January 21st 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Derailment Site. At approximately 11:30 am on Friday 3-8-19, for reasons unknown at this time, eight cars of fifty six car NS westbound train B08 derailed in rural La Porte county IN near milepost... (more)

A unique load on the Elgin Joliet & Eastern Porter Line in 1977. The placard reads "Do Not Hump".

A classy and colorful caboose is at the rear of a manifest freight as it rolls west through Griffith almost thirty nine years ago, just east of the famous Broad street tower. Gotta love those spru... (more)

Otto's speed estimate was 80 MPH for this 13 car train near Valparaiso Indiana, on the PRR Chicago-Fort Wayne Line, in 1946. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ALCO PA1 56 and mates lead Santa Fe train 3, the California Limited, west of Bernalillo New Mexico in 1947, with 13 cars at 25 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.

ATSF 90 and mates lead train 101, the Centennial State, out of Denver with 7 cars at 30 MPH in 1951. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.