Returning to Scranton from Tobyhanna and Mt. Pocono with empty grain and propane cars.
G577 exits the south portal of Ridgetop Tunnel. At 4,621ft Ridgetop Tunnel was the 2nd longest on the L&N system.
For two weeks now, the nostalgia trains between Davos Platz and Filisur and vice versa have been running twice daily through the Zügen gorge, with beautiful historic carriages and open observatio... (more)
Approaching the short tunnel at Dayton, the pride of the NY&LE heads north to Gowanda with a chartered train. This tunnel was constructed in 1865 by the Buffalo & Southwestern Railroad to cross un... (more)
Westbound SP 8350 pokes its nose out of the old wooden snowsheds that protected the west end of summit Tunnel 41 on Track 2 over Donner.
Running for the siding at Lasha to clear a pair of westbounds, CN 5357 has work train 906 strung out through the tunnel at the Rainbow Canyon of the Thompson river
SD40 8487 leads a manifest headed for the LA Basin into Clear Creek Ravine.
Train with two SD-40-2 at trestle.
CSX Q584-24 is seen cresting the top of Raccoon Mountain at (inside) Whiteside tunnel.
Mountain Thunder roars into Brush Tunnel on a cold winter day.
The driver of the "Allegra" ABe 8/12 # 3512, running the "Engadin Star" service from Landquart via Klosters to St.Moritz, is greeting his collegue on a oncoming train inside the 19 kilometer long ... (more)
The westbound Capitol Limited approaches its stop at Harpers Ferry with a Siemens Charger in trail. The Charger, IDTX 4632, is in Amtrak Midwest service but went all the way down to Florida on the... (more)
A southbound UP local pops out of one of the twin tunnels at Kyune.
Returning west on home rails, the N&W and NKP heritage units emerge from the Huger tunnels to push another train east up the Elkhorn Grade. Photo taken with permission.
The engineer on board IC 6251 handles the controls while the conductor sits in his little shack keeping tabs on the action and looking for problems trackside as the mine employees working the crus... (more)
On a cold rainy day, a BNSF baretable train bound for Tacoma, Washington exits Tunnel 32 and crosses the world famous Keddie Wye. The old searchlights currently protect the wye are soon to be repl... (more)
Just coming out from the 5.5 km Tai Lam Tunnel and is running towards Tuen Mun. The track with the train wash facilities is going to the Pat Heung Maintenance Centre.
Three SD45s pound the air with their throb of their 20-cylinder prime movers as they blast out of Newcastle Tunnel and roar up No. 1 track.
A south-bound Northern Line train made up of 1995 Tube Stock arrives at Borough station.
GE Locomotive U18C number 20 entering a unique tunnel in Indonesia with a few holes in the side
From high atop tunnel 29 we catch westbound empties grinding up the grade at Pinecliffe, CO.
CP #2317 is minutes away from Steamtown and heading towards Moscow, PA on a sunny summer day.
On June 16, 2001, a quartet of BN/BNSF SD70MACs leads an empty coal train out of Tunnel 1 just east of Plainview, Colorado. In conjunction with Utah Railway, BNSF operates occasional coal trains f... (more)
A French Alstom Prima leads an international freight upriver through the vineyards in the Mosel valley.
One of the best ways to see a long gone rail line is by bike and southwestern VA has two N&W branches that serve as two of the finest rail trails in the country. The New River Trail offers a ride ... (more)
Train just exiting westbound bore of the Spruce Creek tunnel.
A UP westbound lights up the right of way as it pierces tunnel 9 in the Feather River Canyon.
Tunel #46 , the ''TUNELÃO'' with 8.645meter of extension.
Ski Train exits the Moffat Tunnel slowly, preparing to stop at Winter Park Ski Resort.
Centennial No. 6927 leads an OME through the tunnels just below Keddie.
"Blue Arrow" BCFe 4/6 # 736 of the BLS on a journey over the Lötschberg mountain line for the Railway Touring Company from GB, entering 107 meter long Schluchi tunnel near Hohtenn.
QJ 6577 and 6763 emerge from tunnel 1 running downgrade. The train is about to pass over the well-known Simingyi viaduct.
Freshly painted GP9 7042 heads for Dubuque long hood forward
The daily Andover-Frisco run with coal loads for Eastman in Kingsport passes through Natural Tunnel.
In an unusual visit to the west slope of the Wasatch Mountains, Union Pacific’s LJP45 local exits Thistle Tunnel on the long climb to Soldier Summit on May 5, 2004. Three Rio Grande SD40T-2 “T... (more)
Amtrak 5 comes out of Tunnel 1 between Clay and Plainview in its climb up toward Moffat Tunnel. Kodachrome 64. Nikon FM.
Two SD40-2's are westbound north of Lytton beside the Thompson River with grain and sulpher loads.
Remnants of one of the first RR Tunnels in Eastern Kentucky still serves the inhabitants as a roadway as seen here. Originally constructed as part of the Chatteroi Railroad, this line was conceive... (more)
A former Conrail painted Dash-8 leads tonnage train Q373 west through a light snow fall in the historic town Of Harpers Ferry, WV.
Coming from Aristobulo del Valle Tunnel to Retiro Terminal
An eastbound unit tank train approaches the tunnel just west of Glenogle.
Here's a slightly wider view of the Tunnel 4 area, also known as Good's Curve, just east of Belton, MT.
Santa Fe 5919 is still sporting the solid blue paint scheme as it exits tunnel 1 on Cajon Pass.
The engineer of Sounder #1505 throttles up as his train plunges into the darkness of the 106-year-old tunnel under downtown Seattle, appropriately passing a billboard for the Sounders. Dominating... (more)
A heavy westbound BNSF Denver-Stockton trackage rights train labors up slick rails, amid a very heavy snowfall, exits Tunnel 17, and then quickly enters Tunnel 18.
300 mm shot across Anderson Lake. Depending on elevation and other factors, there can be heavy snow or none at all in the BC mountains.
CSX juice train K651 eases west on 2 through the tunnel at Grays Ferry on the Philly Sub at Eastside Yard after picking up these intermodal cars on a bright afternoon.
Weyerhaeuser Woods Train with the WTCX #312 and #309 are about to enter the Weyerhaeuser Ostrander Tunnel that is approx. 875' with today's wood products for the Weyerhaeuser Mill in Longview Wash... (more)
Alco's survive in service well into 2011 as part of an all Alco roster of the DL. A set of Alcos can often be found hauling freight along the former DL&W main from Scranton to Harvest States Grai... (more)
After a two mile hike and a hour worth of climbing a mountainside, we were finally rewarded with a Westbound exiting Tunnel 42 on a July morning. Donner Lake rests in the background, and behind th... (more)
The dynamic brakes of a heavy Eastbound doublestack echos off the granite mountains after exiting Tunnel 41. The train, a Lathrop to Global 1 K train, will be riding the dynos for the next 40 mile... (more)
Canon PowerShot G3, 1/30, f3.0, taken from the railfan window of an MNR M-1 going southbound
Amtrak #6 The California Zephyr gets a Highball to enter the shed at Norden
Lights from the Harpers Ferry Station define the west portal, while the headlight of a Helm SD40-2 brightens the east portal (circa 1896).
"Crocodile" Ce 6/8 II # 14253, built in 1919, is leaving the 15 kilometer long Gotthard tunnel in Göschenen with the "Erlebniszug San Gottardo" (adventure train San Gottardo) from Bodio/Lavorgo t... (more)
"NYC Babbling Brook at NYP" Private Varnish "Babbling Brook" sits on Track 8 in New York Pennsylvania Station after just completing a 959 mile journey from Chicago on the rear of Amtrak's L... (more)
On 1st june 2016, the world's longest railway tunnel, the 57 kilometer (about 35.8 miles) long Gotthard Base Tunnel between Rynächt (north of Erstfeld, Uri) and Pollegio (south of Bodio, Ticino) ... (more)
PG&E's Hydroelectric infrastructure often dominates the scenery of the Feather River Canyon. Producing some of the cleanest energy in the country, PG&E's dams, powerhouses, tunnels and conduits ca... (more)
Patrons on a Clinchfield RR special climb back on board at Rocky after a photo runby. The East Tennessee NRHS chapter had arranged with the Clinchfield to charter a single coach on a southbound sp... (more)
The DPU on BNSF's westbound QDVPVJ 07 (Denver - Provo trackage rights manifest) is about to duck into Tunnel no. 29 just east of Pinecliffe, Colo., on Apr. 08, 2015.
Q CHILAC6-25 With BNSF 7455, BNSF 7441, BNSF 7442, & BNSF 7453 with 78 Loads, 7145 Tons 7882 Feet. All four look sharp as this is their maiden trip. Photographed at 15:33.
After a long hike in the sun comes out to illuminate CP 221-11 as makes its way along the scenic north shore of Lake Superior and through the Mink Tunnel.
My first time trackside in HF, I was lucky enough to meet local rail photographers Terry Tabb and Jack Toomey (two gentlemen - who gave me and another out-of-towner some great advice on angles for... (more)
Back in May 1950 the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club ran a charter on the D&RGW. For the occasion, the 489 was painted with a green boiler. In order to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the occasion ... (more)
In this early morning scene, CSX 5005 leads southbound G610-20 out of a tunnel in Haysi, Virginia, just having exited the Breaks Interstate Gorge. This grain train will make it to SE Delano befor... (more)
A pair of Western visitors cross a partially frozen Potomac River from Maryland into West Virginia after emerging from the tunnel at Harpers Ferry..
In the last light of the day (or at least falling on the bridge/tunnel), a westbound CSX empty coal train exits the tunnel at historic Harpers Ferry.
A rare BNSF, UP, CN consist is on a Stokton, CA to Willow Springs, IL intermodel train charges out of Tunnel 5 at Cliff as the Canadian National SD70M-2 puffs out a lot of smoke.
A summer edition of the Rio Grande Ski Train heads through Tunnel 29 just east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on the morning of August 5, 2000. A pair of EMD GP60s do the honors up front; Rio Grande Nos... (more)
"Platform Rehab at GCT"
On the afternoon of July 20th, 2022, Metro-North Railroad B&B crews are seen performing platform construction work at the southern end of Tracks 18... (more)
A visit to the cab of a parked train yields an Evergreen stack train as it emerges from the Cascade Tunnel [just out of view] as this empty grain waits for the green. [To protect the crew, I have... (more)
The westbound "Pennsylvanian" exits the Allegheny Tunnel on its way to Pittsburgh to connect with train 29 the westbound "Capitol Limited".
This C44-9W is almost as large as a mountain.
Summer Train Arbatax-Mandas moving beyond the gallery 'Palarana'. The 'Palarana' workes house known as punitive as it was intended for workers more unruly. It is located at a point so steep that ... (more)
With 4 passenger cars (about 160 tons) on the drawbar the "Elefant" is storming up the Areuse gorge (2.1 % grade). The train to Fleurier in the Travers valley is just leaving the 55 m short La Log... (more)
Gone Daddy GoneOn October 10, 1980, Santa Fe waycar 999009, the tenth caboose rebuilt into the railroad's 283 Ce-1 class cabooses in 1966, is about to duck into the first tunnel at ... (more)
Lit up cigar band on the lead and smoke all around for this quatro of units going over Stevens Pass as dusk quicky approaches
A Canadian National unit sulphur train crosses the Thompson River in rugged Black Canyon west of Ashcroft, British Columbia, on June 26, 2006. The Canadian Pacific’s parallel main line can be se... (more)
With four inches of Sierra Cement already on the ground, more snow continues to fall while a Westbound stack train prepares to emerge from the ten thousand foot Tunnel 41.
That's right, 10 EMD built motors lead westbound Q416 out of Maryland and into West Virginia at Historic Harpers Ferry. Consist is CSX 4718, 4712, 2786, 6455, 2339, 2279, 6492, 6280, 2795, and 857... (more)
Union Pacific 6929 is seen here as part of a long power set leading a coal train into the Moffat Tunnel. Because of the exhaust these units put out, the Moffat Tunnel needs about twenty or thirty ... (more)
AMTK 112 leads the westbound Reno Fun Train back to Oakland through tunnel 4 at M.P. 180
"Can I give you a hand?" The departing crew gets the remainder of their gear of the UP 5248 just before the new crew boards and takes this long loaded wind train down to Roseville. Newcastle is no... (more)
