RTA 148 and an Illinois Central painted mate make a station stop on ICG's mainline at Homewood, IL, south of Chicago. The early RTA repaints pretty much matched Illinois Central's delivered paint ... (more)

Southbound thru Linden, NJ

Laramie was once a busy terminal, where eastbounds picked up helpers for the climb over Sheman Hill and westbounds dropped them off. But four years after the last Union Pacific steam engine tied u... (more)

A view from a time before the BB operated a LOT less trackage than they do now. In just a few years, the BB would go from a sleepy branchline operator to the largest shortline operator in Virgini... (more)

White flags in place. a work extra clumps across the Western Railway of Alabama mainline at Opelika on a hazy summer day in Alabama nearly 40 years ago. In the background, a Southern caboose with ... (more)

CNW train 408 from Duluth to Chicago passes by the Merrillan, Wis. depot and is about to cross the Green Bay & Western diamond.At this time, CNW also had a junction with their line to Marshfield, ... (more)

Forty years ago a DB E40 Einheits lok waits to leave Cochem (Mosel) with the 17.37 Koblenz to Trier personen zug.

PA-1 602 smokes it up as it accelerates across Sand Creek near Sandown Junction, Denver. Ellis, Kansas - Denver 369, one of Union Pacific‘s last mixed trains, originates in Kansas City as number... (more)

Southbound SCL train on exACL main Callahan

The Alco PA on D&RGW’s Train 10 Yampa Valley had to have a little assistance to make it into Denver Union Terminal in the long evening light of June 4, 1967. GP-30 3020 was more than willing to... (more)

Looking like it's missing it's two front teeth, a westbound EL train was about to cross PC at Kenton with the nose door wide open giving the crew a little relief from the hot summer weather.

Kodachrome EMDs climb the Arizona Divide east of Flagstaff on April 5, 1987.

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)

CRI&P E6A 630 posing also and a commuter train.

A rare daylight move on the western end of the TH&B, which usually operated under cover of darkness. When the steel trains started operating between Hamilton and Nanticoke, daylight runs became th... (more)