A Rc4 Swedish test unit has finished testing, and sits at Port Newark for return to Sweden. The unit was nick-named the "Swedish Meatball" and stuck even with the AEM-7's. (The Rc4 was t... (more)

Three weeks into spring, winter still blankets the right-of-way along Colorado’s Joint Line as Fort Worth and Denver 751-A rumbles through Louviers, a few miles south of Denver. On April 15, 196... (more)

One of a kind locomotive 6000 HP GM6C, Conrail 1975, with TV-22, comes off the Columbia Port Deposit Road, on to the NEC at Perryville, MD. 9/23/1978

The curve at Palmer Lake had been a favorite with railroad photographers for decades, all the more so this June 27,1965, as traffic returns to the Joint Line after a massive series of floods wiped... (more)

Extraordinary circumstances have brought Rock Island 131 to Palmer Lake on June 27, 1965. A massive series of storms two weeks before swept away almost every railroad line into Denver. UP’s trac... (more)

All in the family: Running on Santa Fe’s half of the famous Joint Line, Forth Worth & Denver F7A 751-A with 9,500 hp worth of EMD first-generation units lead a northbound Colorado & Southern fre... (more)

Emerging from a cold winter fog is a southbound Illinois Central Gulf “slingshot” piggyback train led by Gulf, Mobile & Ohio GP35 No. 637. The train is rattling over the diamonds past BN Targe... (more)

Storming Archer Hill in a March snowstorm about to become a blizzard, U50 32 and a pair of GP30B’s head an extra out of Cheyenne for North Platte. Less than a year old in 1964, all three engines... (more)

ATSF’s Train No. 2, eastbound San Francisco Chief is nearing Dalies, N.M., and instead of turning north to Albuquerque and the Raton Pass line as most passenger trains traversed, it will continu... (more)

A westbound Rock Island suburban commuter train is arriving Joliet Union Station as a westbound F unit led Santa Fe freight train waits for it's turn through the interlocking

A PRR (Penn Central) E44 waits in Greenville (Jersey City) for a clear signal to take 3 cars and a caboose (er, "cabin car"!) to Newark. Kodachrome scan.

NKP 526 was built in March 1958 and became N&W 2526 and then NS 1456.

Extra 7005A-West, with four F-9's (A-A-B-A) between Livingston and Muir, Montana September 2, 1960. Photographer Ken Crist. Slide taken from my collection.

Southbound 752-A at Altus, Wyoming on December 31, 1956 working on the Colorado & Southern, with four F-7 units owned by the Ft. Worth & Denver. The Colorado & Southern and Fort Worth & Denver... (more)

Lehigh Valley's flagship passenger train The Black Diamond ran between New York City and Buffalo until 1959, when the LV's passenger service was reduced to (2) mainline trains a day. The John Wi... (more)