New York Central train 12, the Southwestern Limited, is seen at Mitchell Illinois in 1951. Otto Conrad Perry photo, my collection.

Two NYC E8s led by 4049 and 4069 power train 35 the Iroquois (Boston-New York-Chicago) at South Bend, Indiana on April 29, 1961. Photo by Louis A. Marre, from my collection.

Crossing the IC diamond at Pana, Illinois, is NYC's Southwestern Ltd with E8A 4041 and one passenger car in November 1965. The New York, NY to St. Louis, Mo Southwestern Limited was one of New Yo... (more)

NYC GP7's 5764 and 5795 leads train 406 to Chicago at Kankakee, Illinois on February 28, 1958. Rated at 1500hp each and having a heavy train it was hard for the Geeps to maintain track speed. Man... (more)

New York Central E8(A) leads an E8(A) - PA - E7(A) consist on a passenger train in Chicago in the 1960s. My father surely wished the PA was in the lead at the time, but it was an interesting cons... (more)

A Harmon, a passenger train led by E8 4083 rolls into the station. This engine is wearing the railroad's new experimental "Century Green" livery.

The morning mist still hangs in the Hudson Valley as a quartet of Penn Central E8s hustle a southbound Flexi-Van mail train towards the ex-NYC yard on the west side of Manhattan.

After a group of people had gathered for their annual celebration in Cheboygan there were so many folks wanting to go home that an extra coach was required to handle all the passengers. Since the... (more)

When NYC night trains #202 and #207 between Detroit and Mackinaw City were discontinued they were replaced by Budd RDC 3 cars which ran in the daytime. Here we see the morning Bee Liner about to ... (more)

The night train from Detroit is ending its run in Mackinaw City behind a Lima Mohawk. As you can tell by the cars visible in the photo, train 207 carried a large amount of Mail and Express to the ... (more)

This shows the TIMBERLINER, a summer weekend train which would leave Detroit late on Friday afternoon, arriving at Mackinaw City around midnight. It would return to Detroit late Sunday afternoon.... (more)

I was a California boy, and I had seen stuff like this only in pictures. When Uncle Sam gave me an all expenses paid trip to the East Coast, it was like a whole different world. The GG-1's were ... (more)

The 20th Century Limited A Roger Puta Photograph

The "Twentieth Century Limited" gets underway westbound behind diesel power at Harmon, after exchanging the P-motor electric that brought it out of Grand Central Terminal for a pair of E... (more)

Westbound "Empire State Express" passing the Tappan Zee Bridge in the background on a misty morning.