An ATN Grain Train heads out of Attalla on their way to the Tyson Feed Plant in Ivalee, AL.

Waiting to Work. It looks as if the engineer is ready to get to work. Taken during a night shoot at the Railway Heritage of Midwest America.

Westbound at Glendale California with thirty cars. Otto's speed estimate was 30 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Basking in the sun at Bakersfield while waiting for its next assignment. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Watching the Big Boys. The Jeddo Coal 85 poses during the night shoot at the Railroading Heritage of Midwest America while the group's two historic diesels rest closer to the historic shop... (more)

Lehigh Valley Coal Company 123 steams through the night at the Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine and Steam Train.

Big Blue Beneath the Bridge. NJ Transit GP40PH-2B no. 4208 is seen leading Montclair-Boonton Line train 1079 under the Freeman Pkwy bridge in Glen Ridge.

Nickel Plate Road 765 nears Edon with its train on a sunny summer evening.

Nickel Plate Road 765 departs Edon with its passenger train on a sunny June morning.

Head in the Clouds. Woodstown Central Railroad 0-6-0 no. 9 is seen enveloped in a cloud of steam as she is prepared for the next Easter Bunny Express run to Mannington.

Woodstown Central 9 works hard with its passenger train on the return trip back to South Woodstown on a damp April morning.

The local freight is seen leaving Los Angeles doing 15 MPH in 1937. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SP 4414 is captured with rods down while traversing the crossovers in Los Angeles. This is Southern Pacific train number two, the Sunset Limited. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

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

Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em! Woodstown Central Railroad 0-6-0 no. 9 is seen relaying around the consist at South Woodstown, with a particularly dark plume of smoke emanating from the stack... (more)