UP M-10001 is in charge of train 2, the City of Portland (6 cars), at Cheyenne Wyoming on July 7th 1935. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Bridge 710, which has been out of service for more than a decade, looms in the background as CN train L512 is seen spotting cars at the Port of Chicago.

The newest member to The Prairie line railroad. Along with older Union Pacific Emd's.

Rolling eastbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision is a BNSF manifest freight passing through a wintery landscape at the edge of the Clark Fork and a frozen Frog Pond as it approaches T... (more)

Stormy Saturday Sunrise | A manifest train headed for Newton, KS has just left the town of Ottawa, KS behind as it heads west during a rain shower on the stormy morning of Saturday, July 13... (more)

Lehigh Valley Alco FA2 582 mated with an FB-1 and two EMD counterparts powers this NE-1 passing in front of the joint LV-RDG station with a pair of SW-8's working the locals on February 29, 19... (more)

X310 Crosses The Spuzzum Creek Bridge With A Colourful Consist.

Monon Shops, Lafayette, IN, 08/02/59. Original Kodachrome slide, photographer unknown, John E. Troxler collection.

D&RGW train 18, The California Zephyr, is seen at Dotsero Colorado in 1952. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SPS 866 has been parked in the NW Industrial area with other historical pieces of equipment for over a decade. After BNSF land locked the units by cutting switching in the area and lack of space a... (more)

Seattle's skyline, as seen from across Elliott Bay. A tug boat pulls a barge with rail cars upon it – bulkhead flats with lumber and at least one wood chip car – a not uncommon sight in these ... (more)

The Northern Pacific Railway continued to use FT's long after other railroads had traded theirs for 2nd-generation diesel locomotives. The Tacoma Division was the home of the remaining FTs in t... (more)

All lettering covered. Carrying export locomotives with trucks on heavy duty flatcars this high and wide was probably destined for Norfolk. As yet unable to determine where the locomotives are b... (more)

L&N/Family Lines System C30-7 #7067, which has been cosmetically restored is seen sitting alongside Norfolk & Western (former NS) SD40-2 #6162 at Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation in Ravenna, KY... (more)

When I walked into the Railway Service Contractors facility in Kansas City, Kansas, the last thing I expected to see was the Alco FA2 Western Maryland 303. I had last seen this engine in Barton, M... (more)