One can see the old grade for the branch line that ran from Waukon Junction out to Waukon, IA. That line was built in 1877 as a 23-mile narrow-gauge branch. In 1880 the MILW acquired the line from... (more)

MoPac F7A 814 leads three more F-units and a GP18 on the T&P near Shreveport, Louisiana on January 4, 1968. MoPac F7A 814 was former International Great Northern (IGN) nos. 595, built 09/49. Ph... (more)

DGVR train BLOC-4 slows to a stop at Roaring Creek Junction to do switching in the siding. The line in the foreground was B&O’s coal branch to Coalton and Mabie, but is now only used to store ca... (more)

A pair of Rock Island E7's leaving downtown Chicago with a commuter train.

I like those spark arresters and that horn. The F was slipping away almost 50 years ago.

Union Pacific train number eighty five, the National Parks Special, is seen near Henderson Colorado in 1953. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

NS 956 (OCS) at Trenton

Seaboard E7A-B set with 3041 in the lead heads the southbound train, the SUNLAND through Aberdeen, North Carolina on June 6, 1960. Photo by Wiley Bryan, from my collection.

Two Louisville & Nashville E7's leading train 8 The Pan American, are getting ready to leave Louisville Union Station for the last time on May 01, 1971. Photo by Louis Marre, from my collection... (more)

Hoem and servicing location for the executive train in those days.

NS 956 (Masters OCS) at the Vaucluse pond

A shabby looking Missouri Pacific F7A 808 with F7B and a GP18 leads a ballast train near Omaha, Nebraska in October 1963. Photo by M. Nierdieck, from my collection.

Grand Canyon Railroad 6776 prepares to lead its train to the Grand Canyon.

MoPac F7A 834 with GP7, F7B and F7A is on the lead of a hopper train at Sargent Yard in Memphis, Tennessee on November 19, 1967. Phil Gosney photo, from my collection.

AT&SF EMC E1 number five departs Albuquerque at 10 MPH with a five car El Capitan in 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.