Cambria & Indiana’s bicentennial SW9 idles with some sisters at the road’s Culver, Pennsylvania shops. C&I’s SW9’s may have been the earliest application of Flexicoil trucks on an EMD swit... (more)

Westbound Amtrak Engine #535 meets Eastbound UP 6923 at a siding outside of San Bernardino on the line towards Cajon Pass in May of 1979.

In May 1993, KCS had taken over, but there were still lots of MidSouth units around, with solid sets still fairly common. It appeared that perhaps there was some effort - at least in the early day... (more)

Amtrak's Empire Builder made its station stop at North La Crosse on a beautiful June day in 1972, and provided this opportunity for a faux Great Northern Big Sky Blue PR shot in the process. Dome ... (more)

The return leg of the Lafayette turn drops down into Opelika on CSX's Atlanta-Montgomery main using trackage rights dating back decades to Central of Georgia/Western Railway of Alabama days.

A westbound train passes ALTO tower in what is arguably my favorite Conrail photograph of all times. This photo does not typify my photographic style at the time it was taken, but I'm certainly g... (more)

A UP special runs around a Santa Fe freight through Hesperia. E9 960 will be retired in less then a year. Photo taken by Richard M. Panek

Wasting no time after a quick crew change on the former NKP main, a hot TOFC train smokes it up as it accelerates eastward with N&W GP40 1364 leading. The brakeman on the second unit gives a frien... (more)

WE SD45 1767 and 1769 move RP-E6R Slug 9950 (Was built from Erie Lackawanna SDP45 3637) at Brewster Ohio. Photo by G.E Lloyd, from my collection.

Boston & Maine F-3A 4228 is ready to start "The Ambassador" south to New York via Springfield. I had come up from Boston on the RDC train in the background and photographed some of the ... (more)

In memory of my father, Richard T. Steinbrenner, who passed on Friday, January 22nd, I am posting this picture. Many of you knew my father and many others are familiar with his books on Alcos and... (more)

When I began photography, the N&W, the SP, and the CP were still running Fairbanks Morse H-24-66 Trainmasters, but their territory was prohibitively beyond my range of travel. As a result, this is... (more)

The Delaware and Hudson caboose track at Whitehall, NY

Traveling westbound past Tonville, Colorado, is a Burlington Northern coal train on July 7, 1985. Five locomotives power the Denver-bound train on the Brush Subdivision, with a mix of three GE C30... (more)

Still in Family Lines colors