NC&StL F7A-B #831 on train the 'Dixie Flyer' at Whiteside, Tennessee on August 2, 1954. After nearly 60 years of control, parent Louisville & Nashville merged the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Loui... (more)

Wabash train #111 The Banner Blue (Chicago to St. Louis)with Alco PA-1 #1020 and #1020A stopped at Delmar station 5.6 miles from Union Station. Photo taken from my slide collection, photographer A... (more)

The Nickel Plate, officially the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company. NKP Alco PA-1 #189 & #182 (Bluebirds) on train #7 The Westerner, crosses the NYC (MC) tracks at South Gary, Indiana... (more)

Tenant Rock Island F7(A) #114, with F7(A) #127, and GP18 #1334 in full pin striped paint scheme, share North Yard space with D&RGW F7(A) #5604. Photo from my slide collection, photographer unknow... (more)

Monon F3(A) #82A on train #6 rolls down the middle of 5th street in Lafayette, IN. 35mm slide taking from my collection, photographer unknown.

Santa Fe F7 38C leads the eastbound San Francisco Chief past the siding at Christie, California, on April 24, 1971. The train only has a week of operation left before the start of Amtrak. Fujichr... (more)

Large arched roof train sheds such as this are common in Europe, but the only ones I can think of in the U.S. are Reading Terminal and St. Louis Union Terminal. Can anyone name others in the U.S.... (more)

A set of red cars roll by Franklin Field. The boxcars in the yard below are assumed to contain newsprint for the Philadelphia Bulletin. This train is a Army-Navy football special enroute to the M... (more)

Photographed at 7:10 a.m. MDT, Rio Grande's Railblazer train 103 accelerates to track speed departing a 40 mph speed restriction through Provo City on July 1, 1989. The 103 would arrive on time at... (more)

various power at Reading's Rutherford engine facility

Norfolk Southern heritage unit 8099 pushes coal loads through Welch, West Virginia.

Amtrak Train #4 , the SUPER CHIEF, rounds the reverse curves at Darling, Arizona, on April 16, 1972. Six F-units power the fast moving train. Darling is a crossover location about 13 miles east of... (more)

You're aboard Santa Fe Train 201 leaving Pueblo, Colo., en route Denver on the Joint Line, and looking out the windshield of the E unit between the engineer's shoulder and his speedometer you noti... (more)

The Capitol Limited is shown at Grand Central in slide #1 of the three posted here recently. They were all taken on an August day in 1964, at about 9am, as the tower clock reveals. This land tod... (more)

It’s Sunday, June 24, 1956, and Louisville & Nashville M-1 class number 1962—one of the memorable “Big Emma” 2-8-4s that worked the eastern side of the system, in Kentucky only—slowly ba... (more)