Extra 2884 flying the white flags brings in a short consist of cars. The morning loads had already arrived and were being delivered to customers. The 2884 plus caboose will return to Macon later i... (more)
East Broad Top 16 smokes out the farmlands neighboring the Long Fill on a sunny October afternoon.
Southern nights. A night hostler spreads a film of fresh oil on the cross-head guides of the Rio Grande Southern's veteran T-19, 10-Wheeler #20 as he makes his rounds in the company's yard ... (more)
Betwixt the slumbering beasts. A Rio Grande Southern night hostler makes his rounds in the yard at Ridgway, CO, tending to a pair of simmering locomotives that are scheduled for an early mo... (more)
Newfangled Transportation. The FEC 148 rests while the engineer talks to the driver of a Thomas Flyer that was authenticated to have been part of the 1908 Around the World Competition
A pair of veteran Alco units, the C420 of Monon origin and the RS-1 appearing to be of NYS&W origin, wait for their next assignment.
Originally built for the Monon, then later painted in L&N colors, #1330 awaits its next assignment.
D&RGW PA1 6013 leads train number 10, The Yampa Valley Mail, near Plainview Colorado sometime in the 1960s. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
Amtrak's Winter Park Express Ski Train kicks up the snow as it runs through Arvada, Colorado on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
The head end brakeman is unlocking the switch, while his westbound freight led by three E units waits on the main just east of the Broad Street interlocking tower, in 1975. The C&O is visible in t... (more)
BNSF 9264 (SD70ACe) shoves a loaded coal train towards storm clouds as the train runs west on the Brush Sub through Keenesburg, Colorado.
Durango & Silverton 493 sits on the Durango Turntable on a cool May night.
Amtrak engine #71 (P42DC) leads the California Zephyr into downtown Denver, Colorado.
Two SD70ACUs shove hard on the rear of a loaded unit trash train.
I thought that I should pay homage to Otto by submitting this one hundred year old photographic capture that he took in Kansas City Missouri on June 6th 1924, 100 years ago today. Otto Conrad Perr... (more)
