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)
A rare daylight appearance by the Barstow to San Diego manifest as it winds its way along the Pacific Coast on a beautiful Summer evening.
Chesapeake & Ohio GP7 5843 switches next to Baltimore & Ohio E9A 1457 leading Amtrak #50, "The George Washington," as it stops for passengers at Charlottesville, VA in September 1972.
About two weeks ago a program aired and discussed about how many derailments CN seems to have, here is another. About 32 cars went off the track. The cause is not yet know but I suspect one of the... (more)
EBT number 15 has finished the days chores and is blowing down in the roundhouse at Orbisonia during a Lerro Productions charter.
The Bear Mountain bridge shines brightly amid a sea of fall foliage as a southbound CSX autorack crosses Popolopen Creek on its way to Newark, NJ
CNW's only DL-109, 5007A awaits scrapping in the 40th Street Yard in Chicago, IL in 1954. Russ Porter photo from my collection.
A westbound Amtrak headed across the Rock Island diamond en route to St. Louis in July 1972. Shot taken from Joliet UR Tower.
This is the quintessential picture of industrial siding railroading in 1960’s New England. The Wrentam Branch freight from Readville is switching the Shoe Carton siding. At one time there would ... (more)
The GLC OSTN rolls south of Byron, MI. through a forest on fire with color.
An eastbound coal drag behind Y6 2129 and class A 1216 pull upgrade near the summit of the Blue Ridge grade. I met several other railfans on this trip and one of them must have been Jerry Carson ... (more)
September 2013 marks the 50th Anniversary of operations at Lamberts Point Pier 6 in Norfolk, VA. To mark the occasion, NS applied a special paint scheme to coal hopper number 146313. The car was... (more)
The brand new One World Trade Center has taken it's place in the ever-changing New York City skyline. At 1,776' it has grabbed the title of tallest building in New York City from the 1,250' Empire... (more)
The Great Reunion. This was the unique occasion in steam preservation when 4 A4 Pacifics 60022 Mallard, 60019 Bittern, 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley and 60009 Union of South Africa lined up at the Natio... (more)
A light snowstorm near sunset leaves fresh snow to be kicked up by eastbound empty potash train #672, led by still new GEVo 8946. In the darkest depths of the Canadian winter, a golden glow linger... (more)
Well hidden near a grain elevator at Galt, Illinois, are the remains of Grand Trunk Western 0-8-0 8305, which last saw service as Northwestern Steel & Wire 05 in nearby Sterling. Her future is un... (more)
As the sun sets behind the Wasatch Mountains, the constant battle against gravity continues as a train struggles up the 2.4% grade to the summit. Even with four big units up front and a DPU at the... (more)
The Malad Local rambles along the old pond at Watery Lane in Brigham City on May 9, 1995.
Sotteville Yard contains well over 100 stored locomotives as a consequence of the down turn in traffic, the introduction of competition and the introduction of new diesel locomotives.
Dakota Southern President Alex Huff shovels out a grade crossing as the 4427 makes a rare move on this lightly used line.
In extreme cold and icy conditions, a northbound heads thru Dead Ox Hollow on the Rathole. The ice formations made quite a sight in the many deep cuts along this stretch.
Pan Am Southern's BFED-26 train is rolling through the Bellows Falls tunnel on New England Central Railroad's Palmer Subdivision with Maine Central heritage GP9 (ST #52) leading the southbound tra... (more)
F59PHi number 450 gets a bath which forecasters swore wouldn't happen. It's ok, we needed it desperately... Just next time, please don't dump on me while I'm photographing!
Damage from the electrical cabinet fire was heavy. With SD70ACes on the way, I am sure I witnessed 216's last run.
Never a dull moment. On August 25, 2008 we were told to remove a string of six older interplant boxcars from the coal track for scrap. They'd been in there for several years and the track was comp... (more)
The Steam engine manufactured by Baldwin was housed at the National Rail Museum (Delhi).It has been restored and being run as a heritage train between Mysore and KR Nagar.A Distance of 30 odd kilo... (more)
What better way to travel on the tracks of 'The Estate' than in a 1913 BSA-bodied inspection trolley?
A series of "Freightliner" export locomotives wait for departure from Motor Yard on 14N. Their ultimate destination will be Britain.
Canadian Pacific's Holiday Train makes it's way across the impressive Kootenay Landing trestle on their way from Creston, BC to Nelson, BC. This section of the Nelson Sub rarely sees trains in the... (more)
Stupidity has no age barrier.
The 945 just passing under the Eads Bridge, which was completed in 1874, southbound and heading into the tunnels in front of the Gateway Arch.
310 and 957 head eastbound through Wadi rum towards the town of Disi, with a train for the most northern mine at Al-Abyad, some 130km south of the capital Amman
It was a good day at Copper Creek
On Sunday, August 21st of 2016 Canadian Pacific train 235 collided with 118 at the Howland crossover in midtown Toronto just after 5am. CP 118 (taken away at time of the picture) was crossing over... (more)
Emerging out of thick morning fog, an eastbound BNSF freight rumbles across Noxon Bridge over the Clark Fork west of Noxon, Montana, just after sunrise on October 2, 2014.
G&W owned Genset makes it's way south from the Owens Corning plant in Brookville through the tree tunnels north of Cedar Grove, Indiana.
Sometimes railfans don't get sun - especially when a railroad company runs an OCS, or a museum displays a restored locomotive alongside for a killer photo-op runby. Enroute from Chicago to Atlant... (more)
SP MP15DC 2690 was rebuilt by National Railway Equip. into a "Truck Engine Switcher" (TES) or GS14B. A pair of Cummins 700hp truck engines are under the hoods. This engine was repainted a few ye... (more)
Taking over from an electric locomotive from Grand Central station, a NYC Niagara starts her run to Chicago.
On the evening of October 10, 2013, southbound CSX stack train Q156 experienced air issues after stopping on the main track at CP 43 in Fort Montgomery, NY. Southbound L004, following behind, woul... (more)
Among my oldest slides, this Anscochrome was faded but brought back to some semblance of life by Photoshop. A Santa Fe tug and barge pick up the Santa Fe's share of the NWP's interchange traffic ... (more)
The only word I can find to describe this scene is "surreal." Indeed, a bright three-quarter moon lighting up the Cascade Range forest during a blizzard could only be something imagined in one's ... (more)
Schaffhausen is a border station of SBB and DB. 218 249-1 derailed while construction works. At the same day "Crocodile" Be 6/8 13302 is on the way with a special train.
Train AM-1, with 74 cars and interleaved C420's and RS11's, passes the New Jersey Zinc Company's west plant in Palmerton. The zinc company was by far the largest employer in Palmerton, but the by-... (more)
With Chessie 7610 running at track speed, was barreling down on this women with two small children in the VW Rabbit. ( You can see them in the passenger window) I was amazed that she would take a ... (more)
The Rio Grande Zephyr train No. 18 is a few minutes from its regular station stop at Helper as it passes Castle Gate on Dec. 17, 1978.
A CWR train with one of CN's C40-8s idles at the east end of Jasper.
A westbound RI freight passes under the 7th Street viaduct in downtown Des Moines. Doing the honors, and all decked out in the newer blue and white color scheme, are slug-set 298-284-297. It is ... (more)
Cambria & Indiana RR coal cars are in the consist of a train rolling by on the main. C&I was nowhere near Indiana, the state, but revenues per mile of track for the small RR were the greatest of ... (more)
600mm view of BB 12 clearing the line after a major snowfall. The code line charm of this former C&O line will soon be gone, as new signals take hold.
Monon F3(A) #82A on train #6 rolls down the middle of 5th street in Lafayette, IN. 35mm slide taking from my collection, photographer unknown.
Union Pacific's "Missouri Pacific" Heritage painted EMD SD70ACe is on display at the UP's "Heritage Celebration" Event in Omaha Nebraska.
The aftermath of crossing the tracks where there no crossing and almost on a curve. No injuries just a totalled truck and six plus hours of the main line between Yermo Ca. and Salt Lake tied up. ... (more)
Just Happened Tonight
You should have heard these monster "chug"
Pipeline in the morningFog rolling off the Clark Fork dissipates into the warmth of a rising sun and swirls around Montana Rail Link’s westbound day gas local arriving at Pipeline at ... (more)
Canadian National train No. 104 crosses Prairie Creek Bridge at Hinton, Alberta, on the morning of July 19, 2013.
With some donations to the museum, I bet it could get TLC and some paint.
Another sampling of a 10-day sojourn into the wilds of northern Quebec and Côté-Nord on some of North America's most disconnected rail routes... This shot required a 7-mile hike that was complim... (more)
Sections of the temporary panel track used to move the 4014 closer to the mainline are seen being disassembled here in preparation for re-assembly at the rear of the locomotive. After many hours ... (more)
The power - three SD40s plus three B367s - kind of tells you that is probably an important CSX train sitting just beyond the signal. That doesn't matter, as the Southern (well, ok... NS) long-ran... (more)
Amtrak's Operation Lifesaver locomotives rockets northward along the coast in Del Mar. This area of the Surf Line has the highest concentration of pedestrian traffic on the tracks, which are used ... (more)
The next unit over is 351A an F3A and the next is 370A an F7A.
The Norfolk & Western Big Three at the Virginia Museum of Transportation from left to right: N&W 2156, N&W 611 and N&W 1218. I had the opportunity to come down on my own and photograph the big thr... (more)
Back in 1995, the Union Pacific converted four tank cars to serve as diesel fuel tenders. The program placed a single tank car between two new General Electric C44ACs assigned to unit coal trains ... (more)
DPU on a westbound grain train in the confines of the lower Thompson River Canyon
Former GN SDP45 gets a new lease on life as a unique 7 axle locomotive in a test the BN and EMD worked on. Note the rare silver trucks, probably unique to this unit in the traditional BN color sch... (more)
The lone SD70MAC is outnumbered 3-to-1 by AC4400CWs on this southbound coal drag; a pretty remarkable feat considering the MAC holds a 7-to-1 advantage over its GE competitor on the BNSF roster! ... (more)
It's all-GP at Southern's Columbus yard in Spring 1975, but in a few years GE C-Cs will bump the dwindling number of geeps to support roles, and the turntable and 1922 coaling tower will disappear... (more)
With only minutes of daylight left, BNSF's Custer, WA to Everett, WA manifest rolls past The Chrysalis Inn & Spa in Bellingham, WA on May 14th, 2021 with BNSF 181 in Santa Fe paint leading followe... (more)
The east deadlines at NRE are still quite colorful despite the recent purge in equipment. In the foreground is an ex-IC Paducah rebuilt SD20, originally Southern SD24 6331.
A cold day on the SNC southend as the day starts off with a alot of switching in Saratoga as the SNC 8524 gets permission from the CP dispatch to be lined to the Adirondack Branch seen here with G... (more)
Not many things can make a UP Big Boy look small, but the Great Lakes vessel Joseph L Block sure does. The 4-8-8-4 was backing its train toward a wye in West Duluth as the Block unloaded limestone... (more)
Up and over! The FEC dispatcher has given a green light for the southbound intermodal hotshot train 107 as a Delta IV rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral at 8:59 pm. The dots at the to... (more)
With the low evening sun dropping into the San Joaquin Valley haze, the Rio Grande heritage SD70ACe rolls downhill through Cliff with a westbound manifest. Following this train over the pass on th... (more)
A parade of red leads a CP reroute over the picturesque Thornapple River bridge on this beautiful summer evening.
I believe this car is used as an inspection vehicle on the narrow gauge lines around Haivoron. It is seen at Haivoron with it`s own turntable.
One hopper hopped the switch, creating quite a mess.
The New Road and the Old. In the 1870's a trail through the British Columbia Wilderness was constructed to offer ranchers a way to move cattle from the interior near Lillooet and Pemberton... (more)
Even under cloudy skies PRR GG1 4879 looks splendid in the single stripe scheme.
Getting a huge locomotive back on the track can be quite the undertaking. Morning on a hazy, late summer day in September 1983, reveals a Chicago and North Western EMD SD38-2 laying on its side ne... (more)
Green Mountain 263 heads south-east for Bellows falls passing through the colorful Cavendish Gulf.
Sometimes you just get lucky. The snow fleet as it is known on the Alaska Railroad consists of Jordan Spreaders pushed by Geeps. Called to head south to clear the line between Portage and Seward, ... (more)
Western Maryland 734 navigates the Narrows during sunrise on a frigidly cold Sunday morning.
Probably the worst accident to happen on Santa Fe's Harbor District occured on November 11, 1973 when a switch into an industry was lined by vandals diverting the Wilmington Turn into the spur whe... (more)
A Cascade Range blizzard is in full effect as BNSF's daily M-EVESPO glides across the Skykomish River during twilight's gloom. (With apologies to Bob Ross for stealing a few thousand of his ether... (more)
A 4-12-2 speeds by with stock cars in tow. No photographer name listed on slide.
NS train 16T makes a quick eastbound move before continuing north across the bridge at Riverton Junction with a large cut of brand new Amtrak hoppers. #716
