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)
Rock Island 649 and two other E8s lead a couple road switchers on a head of an eastbound freight approach the Santa Fe/ICG diamonds in Joliet, IL on the way to their Chicago Blue Island yard. Like... (more)
Burlington Northern EMD E9 No. 9907 sits alongside two of its replacements—Metra EMD F40PHM-2 Nos. 189 and 191—at Hill Yard in Aurora, Illinois, on February 22, 1992. Metra bought 30 of these ... (more)
For a special charter, known as the "Oneida Clipper", the F Units, coal hoppers, and a caboose make their way up the grade for a photo run by for passengers.
The Aberdeen, Carolina & Western dinner train sits overnight in NoDa in Charlotte with the newly acquired ex-NS F7A and B #271 and #276.
D&RGW F7A 5691 and mates are seen after emerging from tunnel 29 near Cliff Colorado, with 68 cars in tow, on December 31st 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
D&RGW EMD FT 544 leads three mates and 59 cars westbound near Plainview Colorado, on August 29th 1943. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
Southern Belle in the Dead of Night | Returning to Shreveport after Friday's merger celebrations in Kansas City, the CPKC Southern Belle FP9s cruise across a bridge just south of Watts, OK ... (more)
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.
CB&Q F3 162 leads a westbound 76 car freight near Smithboro Illinois in June 1951. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
A fast Santa Fe 16 car mail train is seen west of Florence Kansas on July 1st 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
Union Pacific ALCO FA1 1608 and mates lead a westbound freight near Brady Nebraska in 1958. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
ATSF train 101, the Centennial State, is seen leaving Denver in 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
Rolling out of Union Station, two bald PRR E8s 4255 and 4297 leading train 22 the Manhattan Limited on its journey to New York on June 19, 1968. Photo by photographer's name not listed, from my... (more)
Brad Esposito and Dave Domitrovich discuss the day's excursions after East Broad Top 16's first run of the day.