Santa Fe had visions of a company museum, and was wise enough to hang onto a variety of locomotives with that in mind. It never happened, of course, and the collection was donated to the Californ... (more)

AMTK 408 gets serviced at its station stop at North La Crosse, WI on the point of the North Coast Hiawatha. The E9 was built as MILW 31A in April 1956.

Amtrak Empire Builder power sits at Harrison St., Minneapolis between assignments. AMTK 101 is former BN 9774, originally NP 6508C built in April 1949.

Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad's B&O F7A No. 722 pauses on the bridge over the South Branch of the Potomac River in Moorefield, WV.

The "Georgia Express", on display along the Columbus riverfront on Georgia Southwestern trackage, during its statewide tour in May of 1991.

Amtrak FL9 No 484 heads north along the Hudson near Breakneck Ridge with the Niagara Rainbow, in the Fall of 1992.

One of the few occasions I got out of my technical school to do some railfanning. Here the "Crescent" is on its way to New Orleans back when it went by the multi-road route. Shows how ... (more)

S312-S311 with an empty SSR grain train from Appleton Dock to Tottenham Yard.

Amtrak's California Zephyr consist includes cars whose letterboards read Union Pacific, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Burlington, Amtrak, and California Zephyr. SP FP7 No. 6456 and two other... (more)

KDLX BL2 52 sits outside the engine shop at the HVRM. This unit was recently restored to operating condition and does pull HVRM's excursions trains some weekends.

Power for the Boron local about to begin switching duties at Boron.

“Five Day Work Week”
Four of the five F9PHs rostered by the Maryland Rail Commuter Service (MARC) are laying over for the weekend in the yard at Brunswick, late in the afterno... (more)

A couple of Little Joes and a box-cab at the beginning of the Montana electrified Milwaukee mainline. E-78 has the EMD cab, unlike the rest of the Little Joes.

Sometime in the late 1960s a couple of units in the original "Southern Belle" scheme share duties. KCS 25 was a "rebuild" of an E6A which had apparently been wrecked. As I un... (more)

In UP territory this set of power was for an unknown train. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.