Battling some hazy/high clouds is the fully loaded KCS business train. The governor of Louisiana, CP CEO Keith Creel, KCS CEO Pat Ottensmeyer, Amtrak president Steven Gardner, and the head of the ... (more)

After a mostly cloudy day a small group of us gathered at the western end of the Kansas City Southern's Bonnet Carre Spillway bridge to shoot the outbound business train as they began their deadhe... (more)

When you begin meeting trains in New Orleans at one pm, and don't escape the confines of UP and CN at their various snared junctions, you tend to end up much later out of town than you thought. Su... (more)

Making their first appearance in WRJ since establishing trackage rights, the OCS is backing around the wye to turn south.

How quickly and suddenly things change. With the Pan Am no more & their OCS seemingly headed to Waycross on CSXT, what will become of them? Dialing it back a number of years, the OCS with their ... (more)

KCS B-KCLR has just stopped in the small town of Ashdown, Arkansas, to let a few people off, and is now floating along at 60mph leaving town. The combined KCS and CP business train was in the midd... (more)

Part of WP's scrap yard at Stockton

With the notable Castle Rock landmark in the background, Santa Fe No.200 rolls northbound on March 30, 1967. E8M #81 was rebuilt in 1953 from #2B, a 1937 model E1. Santa Fe owned the entire pr... (more)

A chartered excursion for the Lexington Group has arrived and is preparing to return north on a great Indian Summer afternoon.

The engineer climbs into Milwaukee Road 32A at St. Paul Union depot to start the night's duties. In reality, this was a night photo shoot at the depot as part of Train Days.

Showing some of its faded New Haven orange paint, Penn Central E40 4974 has been put out to pasture in the Harrisburg engine terminal. Sadly, none of these classic electrics eluded the scrapper.

The first EMD Streamliner locomotive to be built in Australia, GM1 is almost at its new abode of the Rail Transport museum in Bassendean, Perth, following its road trip from Parkes. Rail transpor... (more)

Lehigh Valley F3A 520, F3B 513, RS11 402 low nose and F7A 562 at Lehighton, Pa. in March 1965. Photo by W.J. Brennan, part of my slide collection.