Santa Fe 306C heads up a cluster of F units for the Super Chief at Archer Avenue in Chicago. As seen to the left this is the early Amtrak era, and some of the former Santa Fe passenger cars sport ... (more)

Six Santa Fe F units are lined up at their Archer Avenue passenger engine facility south of downtown Chicago. The units are under Amtrak operation at this point and are being readied for an outbou... (more)

Two FPA-4's lead the early morning train from Quebec City to Montreal across the Richelieu River.

The sun has just risen as the morning commuter train from St. Hyacinthe to Montreal meets an eastbound manifest. The vintage pair of MLW's consisting of RS-3 3900 and FPA-2 6750 were assigned to ... (more)

Santa Fe FM 557 handles switching of former Santa Fe power for Amtrak at Archer Avenue Yard south of downtown Chicago. Amtrak acquired a number of Santa Fe F unit relics to help them take over San... (more)

Following the Empire Builder, the North Coast Hiawatha rolls into North La Crosse for its station stop. As with the Empire Builder, which came through earlier, this train will receive a windshield... (more)

The Empire Builder led by a BN E8 and two former GN F7Bs slows to a station stop at North La Crosse a year into Amtrak. In addition to handling passengers and baggage, a hostler will wash the fac... (more)

In Amtrak's early days, the Floridian was generally short enough to be handled by a single E, like this B&O hand-me-down getting its windshield cleaned. The train would grow for a couple years, t... (more)

Two years into the BN merger, X-CB&Q GP30, BN 2252 still shows off its Chinese Red color scheme, complementing the green of other nearby power at the X-GN Harrison St. roundhouse in Minneapolis, M... (more)

MILW F7A no. 49-C and a B unit get a bit of attention as an employee readies them for their next assignment out of La Crosse. Note the blue MILW company ice reefer.

A CNJ westbound with RS3 1548 - GP7 1526 - RS3 1549 storms through Bound Brook station. As usual, I was out with my father this day, and seem suitably impressed with the passing train. R.T. Stein... (more)

Set of power MKT Parsons engine facility

Southbound MKT freight train Paola, KS

Although all Frisco mainline freights were usually identified as Extra's according to the lead engine number, this particular train, to the operating personnel, was called #37. Only a few miles i... (more)