Dodging lightning bolts on a photo charter is not the best of activities, but this shot would not have been possible without doing so. I figured the umbrella I was holding would help properly grou... (more)
Western Maryland 1309 performs a runby at West Helmstetter's.
The 1949 fall harvest season was winding down when a group of friends went to visit Altoona on a warm November weekend. On a whim we decided to check out the Everett Railroad's daily local from Ho... (more)
Here is a new railroad for Railpictures, this 2-8-2 number 601 was built for the Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a... (more)
The Super Chief, ATSF train 17, is seen west of Trinidad Colorado in 1946. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.
ATSF train 17, the Super Chief, is doing 40 MPH with nine cars near Dalies New Mexico in 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.
UP 5716 (ES44AC) and the special Hospital Train takes a sweeping curve as it heads towards Sidney, Nebraska.
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)
ATSF 90 and mates lead train 101, the Centennial State, out of Denver with 7 cars at 30 MPH in 1951. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.
A pan shot at 1/20th second of Norfolk & Western "Queen of Steam", J-Class steam locomotive #611.
A four unit EMD FT set, led by ATSF 106, takes 83 cars east doing 30 MPH, just west of Dalies New Mexico in 1946. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.
ATSF F7 311 leads 15 cars at 50 MPH on the Joint Line, south of Castle Rock, in 1951. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.
A four unit EMD FT set leads a south bound freight, south of Castle Rock on the Joint Line. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.
ATSF EMC 1 is in charge of the Super Chief at Los Angeles California in 1936. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.
An EMD FT set leads fifty one cars at 25MPH, on the Joint Line south of Castle Rock. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.