The Grand Canyon A Roger Puta Photograph

The Super Chief - El Capitan A Roger Puta Photograph

A one-of-a-kind paint job on Amtrak 4316 (ex-PC nee-PRR) captured by Roger Puta in Harrisburg, PA in August 1971. The story goes that Amtrak needed something for publicity with its newly refurbish... (more)

CN SD40s 5122 and 5119 are part of a trio parked at Boston Bar, BC waiting to head west on a unit coal train. The pair are from a group of SD40s equipped with dynamic brakes for coal train service... (more)

Fernwood, Columbia and Gulf SW working for ICG in ICG's Mc Comb yard.

DWP 5850 and 5853 stop at the west end of their yard on Duluth's west side with a transfer brought up from downtown Duluth. After switching the traffic will head northwest to the CN at Ft. Francis... (more)

A reminder of the old Moffat Road, Rio Grande Train 9, the Yampa Valley, climbs through the curve at Coal Creek on its way from Denver to Craig in far northwestern Colorado. On the last day of Jan... (more)

Rio Grande GP30s 3004, 3003, and 3014 were called on December 5, 1987 to assist with a minor derailment cleanup at Welby Yard in West Jordan.

Nearing the end of its descent from Soldier Summit, an eastbound Rio Grande mixed freight passes Utah Railway Junction as it approaches Helper. The diverging line is, of course, the Utah Railway t... (more)

Westbound LN transfer job using EL trackage rights Pullman Jct south side of Chicago

At dusk, a pair of SD45s and an SD40 rumble south through Greeley toward Denver.

Caboose 23512 tags along behind an SD45 helper set, westbound on No. 3 Track. The 23512 is a Conrail Class N-8B, created when the Penn Central modified their ex-New Haven Type NE-5 cabooses. The... (more)

A brace of D&H power comprising four Alco’s and a GE threads its way out of the East Binghamton engine terminal.

A GP9 still in its Penn Central paint scheme heads east through Lancaster's station on the center main line tracks. Today, the two center tracks are gone, but the two platform tracks have been up... (more)

A pair of Reading Geep 7s, as seen in a scan of an Ektachrome slide from the collection of the late Hen Westenberger. No. 633 was built in October of 1953 and was renumbered as Conrail No. 5835; ... (more)