ATSF train 21, El Capitan, is seen near La Junta Colorado on June 5th 1938. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Coming East Again. Famously acquired by Doyle McCormack after a lengthy career where it saw service for the ATS&F, Delaware and Hudson, and in Mexico, Santa Fe Alco PA-1 #18 is one of four ... (more)

Nashville to Nashville. The former Nashville, TN Broadway Dinner Train motor that later ran for the TCRY excursion trains is being prepped for Azalea Sprinter service in Nashville, GA.

Former Southern Railway FP7(A) 6133 sits on display at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in 2009. She was built in 1950 as Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway 6133. The CNO&TP w... (more)

Eastbound DL&W E8 811 and 817 leads train 6 the "Phoebe Snow" at Pocono Summit Lake, PA., on October 06, 1960. Photo by Al Holtz, from my collection.

Matched Set: Few things can beat a matched A-B-A set of cab units. It's a shame so few complete sets are still around these days.

In May 2014, the North Carolina Transportation Museum hosted a Streamliners Festival where E units and F units (and streamliners from other builders) all congreated at the museum in Spencer.
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The ever present helicopter circling the North Carolina Transportation Museum with select photographers like the kid who shelled out 50 dollars a pop.

B76 and B80 in the grain sidings at Kensington.

Road freight dieselization started on most railroads with the FT and the DL&W was no exception. Known as "the diesel that did it", FT's started arriving on the Lackawanna in April 1945,... (more)

A westbound Canadian Pacific Office Car Special curves along the Thompson River approaching Martel, British Columbia, on September, 2, 2007.

AT&SF mail train number 7 hustles at 70 MPH, with 16 cars, east of Newton Kansas, on August 21st 1958. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A four unit F7 set leads nine cars, south of Denver in the 1960s. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A neat set of EMD FTs lead an east bound freight in 1945. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

D&RGW FT 541 leads 55 cars west bound with D&RGW 3617 visible in the distance shoving, on August 16th 1942. Otto Perry Kodacolor photo, from my collection.