Rebuilt by the C&NW from UP E9B 962B a with a cab. After the rebuild she was called a "Crandall Cab" after C&NW Assistant Superintendent of Motive Power M. H. Crandall who designed the ... (more)
Bethlehem Steel’s Grace Mine in Joanna, PA provided countless trainloads of iron ore for the company’s main steelmaking plant in Bethlehem, PA. Joanna was located on the Reading’s Wilmington... (more)
Got IT! Conrail Block Operator Jim Largent has successfully conveyed a Form D to Conrail conductor Mike Quigley at Derry Road in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The Form D authority would take the ALPI-0... (more)
This was the very last F unit on the Rio Grande, where it lead the Rio Grande Zephyr passenger train between Denver and Salt Lake City from 1971 to 1983. In 1984 both of these units powered the Sk... (more)
The morning fog has not yet burned off as a bluebonnet F7 leads a sizable train on one of Santa Fe's many Kansas branchlines. Scanned from High Speed Ektachrome.
Minutes out of Rio Grande’s North Yard, Rock Island GP35 315 leads a collection of second-generation EMD and GE units on train 82 at Brighton Boulevard on Denver’s Belt Line, headed for the UP... (more)
The Reading's first Alco Century C630, christened as the "Rocket II" (with a nameplate below the cab) heads west in this scene scanned from a slide from the collection of the late Hen We... (more)
In steam days, Union Pacific was one of Alco’s best customers, turning to the Schenectady, New York, builder for the Northerns, Challengers and Big Boys that were the epitome of modern power. Wi... (more)
NS B32-8 #3546 and the Westmoreland Coal "Dump Train" at Appalachia, VA in Feb. 1992.
Ex-NYC SW7 Dead-in-Tow. A Roger Puta photograph
A Roger Puta photograph
Back in 1993, 5 feet 6 inch gauge ALCo No 1552 calls at Abrantes with a late afternoon passenger train.
Brisk north winds scatter dust and exhaust as Rock Island train 82 begins its daily eastbound trek out of Denver for Blue Island, Illinois. U28B 256 leads eight hard-working units that including a... (more)
VIA FP9A 6524 leads a CN RS18 on a westbound train past the station at Brockville, Ontario through the remnants of a summer evening thunderstorm.