The freshly painted "Spirit of the Union Pacific" departs the unveiling ceremony held at Sunset Station in San Antonio and will soon begin Union Pacific's Salute to the Military Tour. The locomoti... (more)
Another shot from the filming of Unstoppable, on the great stone viaduct in downtown Bellaire.
Q368 with a helper ahead...unfortunately...heads eastbound around the Horseshoe at Mance under the peak of fall colors.
Baltimore & Ohio no. 6708 at Camden Station in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 15, 1964. The H-16-44 class road switcher was built in 1957 by the Fairbanks-Morse Company. During 1989 construction b... (more)
Dozens of narrow gauge hopper cars sit and rust after being seemingly abandoned for nearly half a century. Note the trees growing through the cars! The Earth reclaims. I've always wanted to get... (more)
Heavy fog, quiet countryside, distant horn, the bells start to ring and the gates come down as the red flashing lights glow in the fog to protect the grade crossing. The horn blows loud as the sce... (more)
When the weather turns cold, the track has alot of strain put on it with the contracting steel. Many joints can come apart, as is the case here at MP 269.9 on the CN Dubuque Sub. The 1st real cold... (more)
Awaiting departure for Toccoa
Random sighting in a UP manifest on the Cajon Summit. I do not like graffiti on railway vehicles, for me, this is vandalism. But here I can see an artist at work.
Extreme snow fighting is BACK on The Hill! After a 13 year hiatus (not counting the March 2007 "training" run), Union Pacific was finally forced to bring out the SP Rotaries the last week of March... (more)
The Southwest Chief has just completed its journey through the frostbitten Raton Pass and is now moments away from its stop in Raton, New Mexico.
Usually rolling at night, a late running CN 369 crosses the St-Ursule Falls on a cold & crisp winter morning
Damaged Dash9! CN 2684 (the DPU on CN 308 which derailed in Plaster Rock, New Brunswick on Jan. 7th 2014) is heading to CAD (Canadian Allied Diesel) in Lachine, Quebec for much neede... (more)
UP 6900 has just been repainted and is awaiting being moved to the new display at the new Kenefick Park in Omaha Nebraska.
A humbling, and unreal site was on hand as we get a good look at one of the two surviving big New York Central Steam Locomotives. NYC 2933 is the only surviving L-2d Type Heavy Mountain built by t... (more)
A brand new Hudson Hornet crosses in front of Norfolk & Western/Southern train #151/41, "The Pelican," while the N&W J that brought it into town retreats in the background. FP7 #6144 was delivered... (more)
Things have progressed nicely for #425 since December, 2007 when she had her first break-in run. Now in full paint and well traveled, I was compelled to come full circle and catch her again, this... (more)
The NKP signals stand guard at dawn in Townwood, Ohio, on a misty summer morning. No trains came through during the two hours I waited here. This location is an old farm crossing, and with two fee... (more)
A pair of SD70M-2s speed east at track speed, just east of Swan Landing with M304's train.
Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-6 No 1629 was built by the Lima Locomotive Company in 1944, one of 25 Alleghenies in the third order of these locomotives. These H-8 Class single-expansion articulateds had... (more)
Above Willsboro Bay at the "Red Rocks", Amtrak 68 briefly breaks the silence as it rolls along the shore of Lake Champlain
14 Export engines , Cats , and tractors , plus trucks on flats for engines notice the trucks on flat car are narrow gauge trucks a of very different type entering Enola yard. Engines may be exp... (more)
Welcome to Omaha. The first thing you see after crossing the Missouri River in Nebraska on Interstate 80 is this display on the hill above the highway. Union Pacific Big Boy 4023 and Centen... (more)
An eastbound Keystone tries to outrun its own wake as it flies through Princeton Junction.
On August 13, 1990, the Santa Fe Railway operated a special train on Cajon Pass for the filming of a promotional film for one of their large shipping container customers, A.P. MĂžller â MĂŠrsk A... (more)
The site of the Q380 derailment plus three days. CSX had hoped to have had at least one track open by this time, but as you can see, it will be Sunday before anything can get moving.
A Canadian Pacific grain train traverses Black Canyon of the Thompson River west of Ashcroft, British Columbia, on June 25, 2006. One pair each of General Electric ES44AC and AC4400CW locomotives ... (more)
I arrived in Bluefield in the middle of August when most coal mines are shut down for vacation. So a cut of over 20 cabooses was laid out in front of me. So go ahead choose your favorite.
Canadian National #3254 at speed in a Railroad: Steamtown National Historic SiteLocomotive: Steam 2-8-2Location: Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania, USALocomotive #: CN 3254Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: October 04, 2008
The objects in this scene doesn't particularly give a clue that it's April of 2020, but we're in the cab of 1948 built Clinchfield F3A 800 and social distancing in Blair, Tennessee at the Norfolk ... (more)
A BNSF helper makes it way back west for the next loaded coal train as the sun rises over Theodore Roosevelt National Park near Fryburg, North Dakota.
Rio Grande opted not to join Amtrak (but reluctantly did about 13 years later) and ran its own Rio Grande Zephyr between Denver and Salt Lake City, over one day, back the next, except on Wednesda... (more)
I cant even remember the last time this happened, LITERALLY On a foggy morning in Cass, WV Shay's #4 and #5 sit in the Cass yard. This is the first time that both former Mower Lumber Co. en... (more)
Passengers get a brief glimpse of the mountains as a late "Canadian" VIA #1 approaches Swan Landing, AB in the very last light of the day.
A somewhat rare early November snowfall along with the last of the fall foliage creates a unique scene at Poplar, NC as a loaded grain train works uphill on the south end of the former Clinchfield... (more)
Here, we see W&W 58 fighting the grade into Wooddale, Delaware. This cut is basically a tunnel without a roof and is a very tight fit. Hopefully they don't have to butter up the train.
Red at night / Photographer's delight: One more photo from that incredible moonlit, snowy, magical night in the Cascades two years ago. I find it remarkable how reflections from the icy cr... (more)
Prior to the week of filming to take place in Bellaire OH, Wheeling and Lake Erie crews switch out the power and rolling stock of the Unstoppable movie train. The patches visible on the locomotiv... (more)
One of CP's monster 12000 f.t 110's grinds its way up the ruling Heron Bay sub grade at Neys and the train can be seen over 2 miles away along the steep rock bluffs overlooking Lake Superior.
Considering its remote location, one would have never thought Falls Cut Tunnel would have become a trouble spot. Such was not the case. In the early 1980s, the excellent swimming hole below the ... (more)
On a pristine, yet unusually wind free day on the southern edge of Glacier National Park in October, Amtrak train #8 rolls eastward by a remarkably glass-like pond, just west of Bison, MT, at a lo... (more)
Seasons Greetings from Maine! In a scene sprinkled with a picturesque dusting of snow, WW&F Ry No 10 pulls a capacity trainful of Victorian Christmas riders across Humason Brook Trestle. www.wwfry... (more)
607 with the "Powhatan Arrow" lies on her side after a derailment resulting in the death of the fireman. Cause, failure to obey automatic block-signal & entering turnout at excessive speed (77 mph... (more)
The problem with summertime photography in the mountains is the long maintenance shutdowns. I think this was worth the three hour wait.
Manufactured in 1922 at Inland Steel, A 9020 Rail showing a little wear.
844 & 3985 are passing the Bonneville Salt Flats in the background, en route to Railfair in Sacramento.
BNSF 5852 and KCS 4614 with westbound coal loads head through the Columbia River Gorge on Cooks Siding, passing a rail train.
Christmas cheer lights up a dreary evening on Stevens Pass as a BNSF stack train rolls through Skykomish, WA toward Seattle. Inclement weather closed neighboring Snoqualmie Pass for part of the da... (more)
One more shot of the cleanup of the Broker derailment showing a ripped tender loaded onto a flat. Ansco color/color corrected in P/S
A sign of the times, dozens of locomotives are sitting in Roanoke yard sidelined. Between the implementation of precision scheduled railroading and the decrease in traffic from COVID 19, the amoun... (more)
6 brand new locomotives billed for the Saudi Railway Company (SAR) were in Taschereau Yard in Montreal this week-end. THis one are numbered EMDX 3006, but the locomotive are numbered 4004 under th... (more)
Night Shift at Barrow Hill, train crew preparing locomotives
On what turned out to be a very cold day a buddy and I drove the 212 miles from Anchorage to Cantwell where the Alaska RR snow fleet had tied up for the night. With a 0600 call time we knew we wou... (more)
Another angle on Photo ID 438475. Heavy overnight December summer rain resulted in the Amanzimtoti River coming down in flood and eroding into the supporting bank of the line down to the KwaZulu ... (more)
You've seen the outside of the beautiful 311 - well - the interior is seen here as we moved the unit into position along the Lake Champlain waterfront. One of the VRS 'family' is seen at the thro... (more)
With the sun setting after 11 PM in July there isn't much chance for fireworks in Alaska. However if the day is nice one can shoot a few passenger trains returning to Anchorage late in the evening... (more)
SP's PRGVR 'Elberta Turn' meets UP's CSRLA (Sharp, UT - Los Angeles, CA) export coal train at the Payson trestle in southern Utah County. The UP train had stopped briefly for a red signal at CP C7... (more)
Heading back to their namesake yard, the Kelly Lake local knocks the snow off while rumbling across the large steel Missabe era trestle along the CN Keenan sub with 6 cars in tow after serving the... (more)
Susquehanna #142 makes it's way over the grade crossing as this 1953 Packard stands idle. I'll leave this one to your imagination!
Captured moments after sunrise, Amtrak's California Zephyr heads east through Spanish Fork Canyon just east of the ghost town of Thistle, Utah.
The northern Arizona region has been feeling the wrath of the El Niño storm the last few days as it has dropped a foot of snow within the last 24 hours. Here at Maine, a solids foot of freshly fa... (more)
One of the ten Baldwin Hudsons built in 1937 for the New Haven RR prepares to work the 155 miles to Boston in c1939. Photographer unknown scanned from a post card size negative.
11:12pm, 30 second exposure. A northbound BNSF approaches tunnel #10 and the loop.
Oops! The power of RS-97 climbed over the frog at a switch at Lincoln Park. Maybe that filthy Chessie engine liked dirt!
AWRR commenced operations on this line October 1, 2007. What a way to start out a contract.
The observation cars of the Royal Gorge Railroad provide splendid views of the Arkansas River as well as the famous Royal Gorge Bridge, which used to be the highest bridge in the world, towering 9... (more)
The war is over and the troops are gradually coming home. Here a couple are re-united on platform 10 at London's smoky Liverpool Street station. Other soldiers wait, siting beside or on their kitb... (more)
Chasing the setting sun, the Rio Grande Zephyr train #17 is minutes away from its regular station stop at Provo.
The sun rises over Bellevue and when it goes higher it changes the colors of the shining rails it touches, here a kind of coppery gold.
Union Pacific's steam crew makes final preparations to move Big Boy 4014 out of the Los Angeles County Fairplex facility just before Midnight on January 25th, 2014. Within just a few short hours,... (more)
Crew on SD40-2 NO.770 observes the charred remains of SD40-2 NO. 6600. Trains 909 and 910 had collided head on the previous day when 910 neglected to take a siding. Crews jumped before the collisi... (more)
One of the more bizarre rail incidents I can recall in recent memory occurred in San Pedro yesterday when the PHL daytime Yang Ming Switcher engineer decided to intentionally ram his unit through ... (more)
The Cummins QSK95 demonstrator, CECX 1919, is seen leading Indiana Rail Road train SAHW-01, Indianapolis Senate Avenue Yard to Hiawatha Yard, southbound through Bargersville, Indiana with INRD SD9... (more)
A pair of BLE Tunnel units and a CN SD40-2W lead this loaded taconite train into the north end of Proctor Yard past the scale
UP's hot NPLAT intermodal rolls west through Stockton, Utah with eight HOGX stock cars on Oct. 23, 1993. These 60 foot box cars were built by Gunderson in 1989 with adjustable louvers and three le... (more)
I had just cleared the track and was sitting having lunch when this Brown bear made an appearance on the other side of the tracks. We stared at each other for a few minutes and I told him he had b... (more)
Eastbound and Down! One of four Vale Mining ES58ACi's on the headend of 36A continues its journey to Norfolk and eventually Brazil. Thanks to TK for the heads up!
At the summit. Having broken through the 15-20 foot drifts at Canadian Shed, the White Pass Rotary Fleet proceeds north, entering a wide open stretch of track near MP 24, which is the actua... (more)
The unveiling of UP 1943 Spirit of the Union Pacific to Support our Troops at the Sunset Station near downtown San Antonio frequently called "Military City USA" The following is copied from ... (more)
Englewood Railway M.O.W. speeder and tool trailer clearing the main to allow the southbound Beaver Cove job to pass.
Introducing the latest in Norfolk Southern's DC to AC conversion technology: AC44C6CF number 8520. Originally built by General Electric in 1996 as Dash 9-40CW number 8946, the unit was recently ... (more)
to the Decay III. Vehicle is held for the purpose of renewal, the storage conditions are terrible and unworthy. 140 locomotives were built from the 327 series (4-6-0) in the early 1910s, an... (more)
It was a more innocent time⊠when a summertime swim in the Coal River might mean jumping off the railroad bridge at Sproul, and thatâs what the photographer found when he visited there on June... (more)
A 115-Car Worm Chasing It's Tail. Looking like something right off the set of your club's model train layout, BNSF 6513 along with four other GE's idlle quietly this morning on the large, f... (more)
The first of four P42DC units to wear a historic commemorative paint scheme prepares to make a station stop in Cumberland, Maryland. Amtrak 145 is painted in Phase III and the lead unit on train 3... (more)
A BNSF Railway coal train headed to Centralia, Washington, skirts Frog Pond, and the Clark Fork River west of Trout Creek, Montana, on Montana Rail Link's 4th Subdivision.
