On an overcast day, we catch this old wore out soldier. PC, Penn Central 4233 E7, at South Amboy, New Jersey. March 1, 1980. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

The Jeffersonian (I believe) is poised to depart St. Louis Union Station.

Union Pacific train number 85, the National Parks Special, is seen near Henderson Colorado in 1953. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Penn Central, PC 4224 E7a, E-port shops, Elizabeth, New Jersey. January 27, 1979. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

New York Central train 12, the Southwestern Limited, is seen at Mitchell Illinois in 1951. Otto Conrad Perry photo, my collection.

During late 1976 and all of 1977, you didn't need the internet to know that there were three E7s still in service on Conrail's North Jersey Coast Line (former New York & Long Branch) between South... (more)

Just guessing, I'd say the C of G Es were off the SB Seminole while the IC unit is the NB Seminole or the City of Miami. I don't remember but it appears to be winter. That is a great old coaling... (more)

One of Pere Marquettes, E7 No. 107 resting at the C&O yard at Dearborn, Michigan on March 30, 1961. Photo by E. Goulash, form my collection. ... (more)

CofG E7(A) 801 with GP7 106 at Terminal Station, Atlanta, Georgia on October 19, 1961. Atlanta's Terminal Station served the Atlanta & West Point, Central of Georgia, Nashville, Chattanooga & S... (more)

The Galveston Railroad museum’s (https://galvestonrrmuseum.org/santa-fe-warbonnets/) two F-7 locomotives were built by General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division in 1953. The locomotives served o... (more)

BN 9908, X-GN 510, ends its career the way it started, hauling the Empire Builder. The loco is on the point of one of the last runs of the BN Empire Builder at Minneapolis, a week or so prior to A... (more)

GMO 103A heads up Amtrak's State House passenger train at Joliet, IL in May 1974. The venerable E7 was among the oldest of hand me down locos put into service on Amtrak at the May 1971 start up. H... (more)

Clinchfield 800 is seen exiting Willet Hollow Tunnel leading the Lhoist North America employee passenger train.

Boston and Maine E7 3801 sits at Springfield on a Saturday. My father had driven us there so that my sister could visit Mt. Holyoke College and dropped me off by the railroad, of course.

Chesapeake & Ohio E7A 4514 arrived at Detroit's Union Station at 10:30am with train 14 the morning "Pere Marquette" from Grand Rapids. Later after its arrival, E7A 4514 is making a ba... (more)