WP 258 at Oroville, CA 1950. Unkown photographer from my collection.

Burlington Northern NW5 988 resting at Hillyard in October 1970. The 988 was built as GN 188 in December 1946 and was retired in April 1982. The NW5 was an unpopular model and only 13 were built w... (more)

Northern Pacific RS3 858 leads another RS3 and two RS11s at Bridge Yard in downtown Duluth July 1965. Tom Smart Photo from my Collection.

A pair of Conrail E44 electrics hum through Iselin, NJ, as they approach Metropark station with a northbound TrailVan piggyback train.

Getting 40 ready for the day ahead

The Shasta Daylight is burning up the Cal P near Elmira on a hot summer day in 1956. This image was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.

Southern Pacific FP7 6453 lead the Coast Daylight south near San Francisco, passing a commuter train heading into the city. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

An F9 ABBA helper set will assist a freight on its climb to Marias Pass.

An ABBBA set of F7s leads a train out of Dearborn Station in Chicago, IL. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

A solo GG1 heads up a short Penn Central freight gliding north through Monmouth Junction, NJ.

The CNJ didn't buy any F7s new, but ended up leasing them from both the B&O and N&W. Here, an example of each lead a rather unimpressive eastbound past an RS3 drilling Bound Brook. R.T. Steinbr... (more)

A four-car set of original Metroliners races south through Princeton Jct., NY, en route from New York to Washington. In late 1971 Amtrak was the operator of the train but the equipment still belon... (more)

For a couple years into the Conrail era, the Chessie System continued to use its ancestral Baltimore & Ohio trackage rights over the former Reading and Jersey Central to run freights from Philadel... (more)

As a Conrail piggyback train rolls by on the ex-PRR, a solo New Jersey DOT RDC running as a Bayonne-Cranford shuttle picks up passengers at the former Jersey Central station in Elizabeth, NJ. Thre... (more)