My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)
Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 whistles as it meets an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe double-stack train at Casa Blanca, four miles west of the Riverside Amtrak/Metrolink station. The steam engine i... (more)
ATSF 2-8-8-2 1793 is seen on the west side of Raton Pass, near Lynn New Mexico, during WWII in 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
A Northbound West Point Route freight heads past the depot in downtown Auburn, Alabama lead by A&WP 425 in July of 1952. Photo by J. Parker Lamb.
N&W 1218 with an empty hopper train on the middle pass track at Walton Virginia.
They Restored It, and It's Entering The Main Line Having her restoration completed, the Santa Fe 2926 enters the main line of the New Mexico Rail Runner / New Mexico Department of ... (more)
High plains drifter. An Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe local rolls across the high plains of eastern Kansas, just east of Abilene, at sunrise.
This image depicts AT&SF 3415, a Class 3400 P... (more)
When Eras Collide - As the sun rises upon Downtown LA, the 1927 built ATSF 3751 begins its two mile shove movement along the Los Angeles River from Amtrak's north yard to Union Station for the 202... (more)
Santa Fe All The Way. On August 5, 2016, Amtrak Train 4 (Southwest Chief) was approaching the station in Albuquerque, New Mexico with AMTK 144 (P42DC, GE) leading when it passed under the f... (more)
The Farrail-Photo-Special-Train is passing the Modder River bridge near Perdeberg station on a freight train to Bloemfontein
I stumbled onto a photo freight at Helmstetter's and just happened to catch 734 coming around the bend before the sun dropped below the mountain.
AT&SF train number 10, The Navajo, is seen arriving at Belen New Mexico on December 5th 1937. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
ATSF 2-10-4s 5034 and 5030 lead a 62 car freight, east of Belen New Mexico, in 1946. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
The first run of the Southwest Chief from Chicago after a brief cancellation due to a BNSF derailment in Williams, AZ wastes no time leaving Las Vegas, NM behind. Note the Santa Fe inscriptions st... (more)