I take this box car, to have and to hold, to cherish and protect, for better and for worse, for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health, 'till rust do we part. Â A Pan shotmore)
The unique hogger's office of the BN1.
Shatner on the Shore Line. Much of the filming for the 1979 ABC-TV movie 'Disaster on the Coastliner', set in California, actually took place in Southeastern Connecticut. Here, a disgruntled eng... (more)
Southern Pacific DD35 9902 is one of three rostered by the SP. Originally 8402, it was later renumbered 9502 (in 1965) and then 9902 (in 1969). The DD35 was designed as a booster for GP35s, and ... (more)
The 8444 pulled a special from Portland through the Deschutes Canyon to Bend and return (two days). UP 6085 helped. UP has trackage rights on this line. Note the two tone gray paint job on the ... (more)
B&O #52 backs to it's train in the Communipaw terminal trackage. Ansco color/color corrected in P/S. I believe that this unit was originally an EMC EA built in 1937 but appears here as an EMC E6... (more)
John's year-end PRR foray with his railfan friend the late Bill Rosenberg of Long Island, N.Y., moves from Hagerstown to Harrisburg and he immediately puts his Argus C3 to work. P5A 4769 poses wi... (more)
Almost one year ago, Colorado was hit by one of the most destructive floods in state history. Thousands lost their homes, lots of loss in property damage. In Longmont, the BNSF Buck Local power si... (more)
Crispy... BNSF 7889 is set out at La Plata, MO, after catching fire not far from town.
The Black Fog of Blossburg is very evident as this MRL WB roars out of Mullan Tunnel. The smoke had been billowing from the bore for over a minute before the lead unit broke back out into the ligh... (more)
Every year the city of Anchorage hosts a two week long celebration called Fur Rendezvous...or Rondy as it's known. This is a winter carnival and the city's biggest celebration of the year. The f... (more)
Every five years, in Amsterdam an event happens, called 'Sail'. From all over the world, tall ships come a few days to Amsterdam for a big happening. In 2005, for 'Sail 2005', NS decided to do som... (more)
Welcome Home! - The Alaska Railroad's last active steam locomotive, #557, has returned after a 46 1/2 year hiatus in the lower 48. #557 is a Baldwin Locomotive Works class S-160 2-8-0 Cons... (more)
JLCX now HZRX 8542, 8534 and 8555 have been parted out and handed over to the scraper and will soon meet their demise. A fourth 90 was cut cut a few weeks later.
After the Head on near Franklin , VaCranemasters gets help with clean up
LMS pacific no. 6233 Duchess of Sutherland heads The Welsh Dragon at Broughton, near Chester. At the rear of the train, nearest the camera, is ex-Royal Train loco no. 47 798 Prince William. Abou... (more)
SP #6390 had arrived in San Fransico earlier that morning with "The Lark" from LA. To the right is #3005, now preserved under its original number of SP 5623. To the left, three FM "Train Masters" ... (more)
Now here’s a view you normally don't see. Train #298, with GE ES44AC 8769 in the lead, is seen after pulling into Murray Siding to meet a fleet of westbounds. NOTE: The camera and tripod toget... (more)
The sun is just rising and some fog hangs close to the ground as a westbound CP freight train rumbles toward Belgrade, MN.
Amtrak 90224 shows off her new hood ornament after a semi failed to clear the crossing at Russell Rd.
"Sunrise with the J": N&W #611 breaks the early morning silence outside of the Verdant View Farm as the sun just barely breaks over the hills to the East.
Holding at Ontario for westbound traffic to clear, UP 4884 and train along with 4014 wait to continue the trip to West Colton.
March 28, 1976 was troublesome day along D&RGW's Subdivision 6 in Utah. A westbound freight went on the ground at the west switch at Gilluly, a control point about 10 miles west of Soldier Summit.... (more)
UP's DDA40X, 6936, sits in CPT for one more night with Chicago's Sears Tower looming overhead. What a shiny locomotive it is!
Little Train - Great Land! A pair of SD70MACs lead the short little northbound Saturday Winter Aurora passenger train out of the end of the road village of Talkeetna and into the w... (more)
In the aftermath of an August 2000 derailment of a coal train, someone with a sense of humor, or perhaps some kids having fun, decorated the spilled coal load of Rio Grande 100-ton quad hopper No.... (more)
Scenes like this used to be common on the MAW, but may not last for long on the new ND&W which is attacking decades of deferred maintenance with two track gangs working constantly to chip away at ... (more)
Union Pacific SD24 411 leads a GP20 and three SD40's westward through Meadow Valley wash near Elgin, Nevada on April 11, 1976. Crew change at Las Vegas is still some 100 miles ahead.
With 1223 the only one that ever sees any kind of local regular duty these days, a five-pack of iron ore dust colored ex-Reserve Mining fleet of SD9s is still hanging on in the U.P. of Michigan at... (more)
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy's Nebraska Zephyr, having just departed Galesburg, IL, heads towards a late evening arrival in Aurora followed by a trek on the Racetrack before arriving back at Uni... (more)
One of the the Boxcars of the Guilford Derailment that partial went into the Penobscot River
Photo take from Summer Street Bridge looking North to the point where the tracks meet the water. Now a major convention center occupies this site and the tracks are gone.
A trio of Santa Fe GP60s (in two flavors; GP60 and GP60M) head a westbound intermodal through Abo Canyon, New Mexico. I remember many times I’d be disappointed because I didn’t get an all-Supe... (more)
A brisk Winter chill shares the company of Union Pacific's Big Boy #4012 as the 1.2 million pound giant sits poised in the yard awaiting her next assingment. The Turbines have taken the th... (more)
CP,s clean 39 Buick in front of Hays station ,it was acquired in 1939 to replace a 1929 Packard in the Ontario district.Apparently,it could do 72 MPH,had air brakes and the steering wheel was the ... (more)
The rear end helper on 671 shoves up, while further up the line the head end pulls like mad to get the loaded potash train up the hill. It's not often everything lines up like this!
Devastating flood waters in November of 1985, brought destruction to the Roanoke Transportation Museum, then located in Wasena Park. The force of the water pushed C&O H-8 Allegheny, 1604 under the... (more)
SP 4-8-8-2 Cab Forward 4294 was the last steam locomotive purchased by the SP, and the last of SP's unique Cab Forwards in existance. This is several years before the California State Railroad Mus... (more)
The beautiful Montana countryside is bathed in full moon light as an eastbound BNSF coal train streaks its way through Lombard Canyon and along the Missouri River on Montana Rail Link's 2nd Subdiv... (more)
Narrow Gauge White Pass 114 at CEECO for repairs. Damaged 9/3/06 in fatal accident near Skagway Alaska. Click Here to see it re... (more)
The extreme winter conditions have created the 'Abominable Pony' out of NS 8345. A crew member braves the horizontal snow to attend to one of the many switches that will need to be cleaned before... (more)
This was part of the making of the movie "Stay Tuned" using Fillmore & Western's 2-8-0 on the Copper Basin near Florence. This scene is at "Hellhole" as the Devil's Engine 666 hits a dynamite wago... (more)
A windmill standing out in the high plains of West Texas helps frame UP 844 as the sun is about to set behind the 4-8-4 on 11/2/11. The train was behind a westbound UP auto train, waiting for an e... (more)
A collection of characters waits by the main, as a typical WW&F Ry freight rolls past Head Tide Tank and onto points south. Actually it's the last set-up of the day during the museum's "Annual Pic... (more)
N&W Y3 class 2-8-8-2 #2045 awaiting its next work in Roanoke, September 1954 Photo by Bob Drake, Tom Sink Collection.
After the "Storm of the Century" (well, so far), Amtrak's Pere Marquette slams through a thick snowbank on an elevated curve en route to Chicago. For the video, click Railroad: AmtrakLocomotive: EMD NPCULocation: Fennville, Michigan, USALocomotive #: AMTK 90368Train ID: P371Photo Date: February 02, 2011
The well-publicized CRANDIC bridge collapse ... this, despite the railroad's best efforts to anchor it with freight cars. Most other area bridges survived (except IANR’s Waterloo Bridge) ... al... (more)
I've always said that rail fanning is 20 percent skill, 30 percent knowledge, and 50 percent luck. Well, today was nearly all luck. After having dinner in Peach Springs, my folks and I walked out ... (more)
End of the Line (continued). Chopped into thirds, the remains of Amtrak 902 wait to be hauled off to be further reduced elsewhere. While it's hard to believe these work horses are at the ... (more)
Heavy-hauler #4311 moves down the service lead as switches are lined in advance. PRR Class I1sa.
As darkness falls on Minneapolis, BNSF's Northtown yard is visible from above, with the tall buildings of downtown visible in the far distance. (Photographed with a Canon 6D from a helicopter ride... (more)
On a cool, crisp October 2, 2013, an eastbound BNSF coal train passes Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana. A campfire is finally showing some life after a pretty wet week in the Pacific Northwe... (more)
One worker discusses on the radio the state 6015 is in while another prepares to pump diesel fuel out. The 6015 and 6063 derailed when the axle on CP 6063 broke.
An EBT train still sitting where it was parked when the railroad shut down in 1956. The track is the ramp that leads up to the coal bunker for filling the locomotive tenders. All along the EBT mai... (more)
A westbound Rio Grande freight passes the site of Keeldar siding on the eastern approach to Tennessee Pass, Colorado, on May 24, 1991. The Continental Divide is in the background and still has an ... (more)
Sierra Railway #3 is just around the bend with headlight ablaze through a cloud of steam. This is approximately 150 yards east of the post office in Sonora.
I was very lucky that time waiting at Larisa station to take the train 601 from Alexandroupoli to Athens. From the station's speakers we hear the announcement of the train arrival in the next two ... (more)
Members of the Bel-Del crew walk along the right of way to set up for the next runby as #142 reverses into position. At the far right is Pete Lerro, who was responsible for putting together the gr... (more)
A coal empty rolls downgrade along the Colorado River in this scene from 2008.
A Southern Pacific covered hopper awaits departure from North Yard in Salt Lake City for Ogden on July 30, 2016.
Eastbound Capitol Limited has just left the station and is about to enter the tunnel at Harpers Ferry.
The classiest profile in railroading in late 1965 was still Santa Fe’s four Warbonnet-wearing E6As. Built by EMC in the early years of World War II, by the mid-1960s they were assigned to servic... (more)
Photographer- my Father- Guy Lisowski. Amtrak's Boston to Washington DC "Patriot" derailed at 2:40 PM while traveling 70 mph 10 minutes after leaving 30th Street station in the southwest Philad... (more)
The valley of Quinnimont, deep in the New River Gorge sets covered in a blanket of snow after the first snowfall of 2012 and essentially the winter season left its foot print in the mountains of W... (more)
Engine 8154 leads a westbound freight over the Crystal Creek trestle near West Glacier, Montana.
As severe storms move across Northwestern Minnesota, I was able to get some lightning action while staying dry. The storms were moving SW-NE and brought some very strong winds. It took many atte... (more)
Perhaps the most perfect train in the world, the CP Canadian strolls along the Bow River in Banff National Park. Next stop: Banff. Then on to Calgary and points east. An FP7-FP9 combo have a seven... (more)
The fiery glow from the WAS Pence Springs in a heavy snowfall.
closer view of the cab area of NS's first SD60E with the new NS-modified wide cab, built at Juniata Loco Shop
On February 7, 2006, a freight powered by Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 approaches Snake Creek at Charleston, Utah, on a photo freight operated by Heber Valley Railroad.
The ill-fated Aerotrain crosses the Rockville bridge in what is believed to be early 1956, enroute to Pittsburgh, PA.
Santa Fe Corwith Yard, now under ownership of BNSF Railway, shot from my Toronto-bound Porter flight back in 2010.
Severe Thunderstorms at 10:35a blew 5 railcars and 11 40' containers over the side of the Huey P. Long Bridge. Railcars and containers fell about 60-70 feet to the ground. There is one railcar th... (more)
Argo Gede passing the bridge.
Brand new GEVOs for the Interstate await forwarding to Iowa City. A BICB train working the yard will grab these units on their way out of town and take them west.
With the afternoon's monsoons passed, and pelting a different portion of the plains, the endangered former AT&SF semaphores in the ghost town of Colmor, New Mexico, faithfully guard the Raton Subd... (more)
This rust-bucket is Rio Grande K-27 464, arriving for rebuilding to become new power for Knott's Berry Farm's narrow gauge railroad. The 464 spent many years rusting away in Durango, CO, before K... (more)
EMD's first production SD45, GN 400 Hustle Muscle, is moved at BNSF's Belknap Street engine facility in Superior. The SD45 is being moved to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth. Amazingly,... (more)
An EMD hulk rests on the ground at Mid America Car in KCMO
Union Pacific CHallenger No.3985 is disguised as Clinchfield 676 for the 50th Annual Santa Claus train
The Fireman on the westbound Empire State Express exchanges pleasantries with his fellow rails on an eastbound counterpart, lead by 4019.
This derailment occurred during the infamous 1955 strike on the L&N Railroad. On Saturday, April 23, 1955, engines 306, 238, 117 and 301 (two FA2 Alco cab units spliced by two RS3 road switchers) ... (more)
Awaiting software upgrades on a 6 degree morning, CSXT 4000, the first SD40-3 completed by CSX's Huntington, WV shops, sits at Russell, KY. This is the first of 10 SD40-2's to be rebuilt from the ... (more)
Unique rail equipment from around New England is beginning the trek to White River Junction, Vermont's 22nd Annual Glory Days of the Railroad Festival, set for this weekend, September 12-14. Whil... (more)
Oregon Sunset A Union Pacific manifest freight from Roseville to Portland Terminal heads north through Oregon's Willamette Valley under golden cloudy skies. The intent on that... (more)
Winding through the curves headed towards the west end of Shed 10
A Public Service of Colorado coal train climbs through Coal Creek Canyon approaching Tunnel 1 on Union Pacific's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. The 97 car train will load at the Energy mine on the Cra... (more)
Early in the morning of Dec. 6th 2009 a section of auto-racks on BNSF's MRICBAR straight-lined at Rowen while pulling off the siding. Later in the day UP's MRVWC passes the down autoracks & Rowen ... (more)
