Eastbound UP Train 10 City of St. Louis at M.P. 66 has just departed North Topeka depot and is en route Kansas City where it will be handed over to the N&W (former Wabash) for delivery to its name... (more)

Sharply on time at 10:30 a.m. on May 16, 1967, after idling most of the night two Erie-Lackawanna E8s crack open the throttle to move the 7-car Lake Cities Train 6 out of Dearborn Station for the ... (more)

No, this wasn't photoshopped. Apparently a shop laborer had a little time on his hands to modify UP's slogan on the side of Great Western's a-bit-worn GP-9. Note GW's jackrabbit herald in the ea... (more)

Two UP U-50's, a GP-7B and another Geep are in the siding at Aikins, Kansas to meet an eastbound, headed for Kansas City while Nos. 45 and 43 are going to Marysville and on to North Platte, Nebr.,... (more)

Rock Island F2 49 apparently had to have a face make-over once upon a time, and not having any extra headlights, the shop forces sheet-metaled over the nose. This is NOT a photoshopped exercise!... (more)

Oooops, someone forgot to set the derail and a handbrake on a roundhouse lead track at Santa Fe's La Junta, Colo. roundhouse. F7 247 rolled off into the turntable pit June 1, 1968, and apparentl... (more)

Receiving a little attention at the engine shed at Kansas City, Ks. is Alco PA 621 while GP-7 1327 takes a spin on the turntable. The Alco was built in 1941, re-engined by EMD in 1953 and eventua... (more)

This is the old Santa Fe line over Raton Pass. The line has not been used for freight since 2004. Amtrak leases the line and runs one passenger train a day in each direction. Semaphores are in op... (more)

Rock Island F2 49 apparently had to have a face make-over once upon a time, and not having any extra headlights, the shop forces sheet-metaled over the nose. This is NOT a photoshopped exercise!... (more)

Four E units dash Union Pacific's eastbound 18-car Train No. 10 "City of St. Louis" across the big fork in the road at Menoken, Kansas on July 10, 1966. Just ahead is the next stop at Topeka. No... (more)

Early on the morning of November 29, 1968, two freight trains collided head on just south of Hale Center, Texas, on the Plainview District. As a result, the 213L broke completely in half just behi... (more)

Santa Fe #93 rounds the east leg of the wye at Lubbock Junction approaching the Avenue Q overpass. Trains 93 and 94 ran between Lubbock and Amarillo, connecting at Amarillo with the SAN FRANCISCO ... (more)

Train #75, the westbound CALIFORNIA SPECIAL behind an A-B-A set of Alco PAs, speeds toward a connection with the SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF at Clovis, New Mexico. The train is crossing Avenue P and is ab... (more)

Early on the morning of November 29, 1968, two freight trains collided head on just south of Hale Center, Texas, on the Plainview District. As a result, the 213L broke completely in half just behi... (more)

Santa Fe #93 slows for a station stop at the end of its run at Lubbock, Texas. Trains 93 and 94 ran between Lubbock and Amarillo, connecting at Amarillo with the SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF. E8Am 80L was ... (more)