Wet and Wonderful. While a powerful nor'easter drenched New Jersey to the bone, NJ Transit Arrow III no. 1326 is seen making its station stop at South Orange Station. These three cars m... (more)
Backing down to run around its train is Strasburg Railroad 2-6-0 89. This Mogul was built by Canadian Locomotive Company in February 1910 as Grand Trunk 1009. It was later renumbered GT 911, and... (more)
A mixed bag of EMD SD40's leads the Ohio Central's NKPA job as it cruises west through Pataskala, Ohio and out of a sag on the old PRR Panhandle Line. The train is bound for Columbus where it will... (more)
ATSF 2-10-2 1696 is seen helping EMD E6 number 15 with a ten car Super Chief near Morley Colorado in 1942. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
Santa Fe train number 4, the California Limited, is seen approaching Lamar Colorado in 1950. ATSF 3455 is coupled to EMD F3A number 24. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
Erie in the Snow. NJ Transit GP40PH-2B no. 4210 is on the rear of Pascack Valley Line train 2122, seen stopped at Oradell Station during the first snowstorm of 2024. This storm brought ... (more)
ATSF 2-10-2 1696 is assisting EMC E1 number 3 with train 17, the Super Chief, on rugged Raton Pass near Wootton in 1938. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
A three unit FT set leads a 52 car southbound freight near Littleton Colorado in 1951. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
A Westbound Central of Georgia Railway freight train no. 29 passes West Opelika signal in March of 1954. Photo by J. Parker Lamb.
With a mixed freight, Nevada Northern #81 approaches the yard limit at High-Line Junction
ATSF 3706 receives some TLC at Needles California in 1933. The 4-8-2 has an eight car Chief in tow. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
AT&SF train number 20, The Chief, is seen at Needles California in 1933. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
On a dreary, rainy, foggy fall evening, Reading & Northern #2102 departs from Port Clinton for the final leg of it's trip back to Reading
AT&SF train 21, El Capitan, is seen near Trinidad Colorado in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
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)