No work in Auburn on this day, so the local is really rolling. Looks like a pretty big train (common in those days), so the old EMD probably had a tough go on the 12 mile climb from the Tallapoos... (more)
The old West Point Route has never been a big coal conduit, but it used to see at least a few unit trains like this one, likely headed south for the export coal terminal at Mobile.
Heavy train in heavy fog.
A Roger Puta photograph.
A Big Boy heads east past Dale Junction over Sherman Hill. It's about this point the climb starts downhill.
An A-B-B-A set of GP9's pulls a train over Sherman Hill. Photo by Jack A Pfeifer.
"Double Fairlie" 0-4-4-0 T "David Lloyd George" is rounding the spiral in Dduallt with an empty slate wagons train bound for Blaenau Ffestiniog, while 2-4-0 STT "Linda&quo... (more)
UP's only coal turbine electric makes a test run as many officials look on. This locomotive was an experimental and didn't run very much as it was deemed a failure. A set of diesels was always in ... (more)
Crowd is waiting for NKP 759. A Roger Puta photograph.
A pair of MILW FM's led a westbound transfer headed to Santa Fe's Argentine yard near the old KCT roundhouse.
A Roger Puta photograph
Streamliners at... Winslow??? Three cab units line up for a portrait during a railfan event on the Southern Railroad of New Jersey. In addition to SRNJ's own ex-Bessemer & Lake Erie F7 No. 727, th... (more)
A mixed freight pulls into the Cedar Rapids station with farm supplies.