A ride through the ex-Erie Bergen Tunnel in an ex-Penn Central GP38-2. Note the Penn Central logos.
OH BOTH! That is what people were yelling as both SP 4449 and UP 8444 showed up at the same time at Tunnel #1 on Cajon Pass. We could see the smoke plume from SP 4449 as it came around the corner... (more)
The eastbound Rockwood Turn exits the Walden Ridge Tunnel on the former Tennessee Central. From here, its another five miles to the NS interchange at Rockwood.
The westbound MNYGJ rolls through the meadows out of tunnel 1 near Coal Creek Canyon and Plainview on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. Delightful storm light from severe warned storms populate the h... (more)
A passenger goes to board his Hiawatha train in the 50's, or a film crew member takes a stroll to complete his task? 261 waits for its closeup before filming of "Public Enemies" under the shed at ... (more)
It's Alive! Looking a bit like something out of a sci-fi movie, Nevada Northern's 100-Ton Wrecking Crane A swings into action at the site of a minor yard derailment, during the 2010 Winter ... (more)
No, it really is not a model railroad! Consolidation #40 was leased in 2000 from the Georgetown Loop to celebrate the WP&Y centennial. Here, she powers a special photo freight.
In Potrerillos, near Diego de Almagro town in northern Chile, the sun has been hidden between the hills of the Andes mountain, the night has already begun, and trains of FERRONOR railway continue ... (more)
UP 9926 finds the morning light in the depths of the Feather River Canyon for the first time today as it leaves the Honeymoon Tunnels behind and passes the Rock Creek Dam - a popular focus point f... (more)
Emerging from one of the many tunnels that defined the Pacific Extention, a Joe has tonnage moving west along US12 and the Clark Fork River nearing Alberton on this dreary September 1967 day.
A birds eye view from Maryland Heights as an eastbound Capitol Limited eases past CSX MOW track equipment forces working on the Shenandoah Sub. The two subdivisions join inside the Harpers Ferry t... (more)
Wrapping around Lake Superior's Mink Harbour, CP 5982 WEST exits the famous 110' Mink Tunnel.
Opened on November 30, 1867, after two years of blasting, Tunnel 6 at Donner Pass was used continuously for 130 years by the trains of the Central Pacific, and Southern Pacific. The Chinese worked... (more)
Late afternoon finds the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada's glowing in the finally rays of a September day. The quiet calm enjoyed by hikers and mountain bikers today was once the scene of great... (more)
Eastbound tonnage pops out of the tunnel at Winston into the glorious October colors. From the Nelson notepad: #107C is the trailing unit, #192 is the symbol, 6 units, 138 cars.
Budapest Déli station (Hungarian: Budapest-Déli pályaudvar, lit.?'Budapest southern station'), known to locals and foreigners alike simply as the Déli is one of the three main railway stations... (more)
EJ salutes the flag before waving to the crew on westbound intermodal train 23M as it exits the tunnel at Gallitzen on Track 3. Photo by Casey Thomason. For more information, visit more)
West Portal Cascade Tunnel; What sometimes looks like a worm hole straight out of Star Trek or a time travel portal is the powerful headlights of a westbound locomotive highlighting the con... (more)
Having passed through North America’s 4th longest tunnel (6.2 miles), apparently the brakeman was going back to check an engine problem. Inside Moffat Tunnel D&RGW 5515 East crested the highest... (more)
Early morning sun, a tunnel and classic power with a frosty nose. Does it get any better? (Canon EOS20D, 16-35mm f/2.8L USM)
An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train loops over the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon between Plainview and Clay, Colorado, on the afternoon of July 5, 2003. Leading the train are two GE ... (more)
East Portal of Tunnel 7 - Carrizo Gorge - Tunnel 7 collapsed at some point after the Goat Canyon Trestle was built and and before 1949 (the dates on the track). Instead of clearing and r... (more)
A CSX empty hopper train rolls into Norfolk Southern's Natural Tunnel.
In a view from my campsite off the old Denver & Salt Lake Railway’s grueling, long abandoned route over lofty Rollins Pass is Union Pacific MGJNY exiting the 6.21-mile Moffat Tunnel. It’s 8:45... (more)
A pair of Boeing 737 fuselages take a ride west over Bozeman Pass.
A westbound Union Pacific coal train traces the Colorado River through Tunnel’s 39 and 40 in Little Gore Canyon west of Azure, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 21, 2014. Tunnel 40 in the for... (more)
A Loram Rail Grinder puts on a light (and noise) show for the residents of Tacoma and Ruston, at the site of the form Asarco Smelter. Tunnel #1, just under 400' long, is the lesser known tunnel i... (more)
FCCA 1011 leads a La Oroya bound train across the steel deck/truss bridge over the Rio Rimac at Rio Blanco. This is the only mode of transportation moving up the valley here at Rio Blanco. Just of... (more)
Out of the Maw Winter Dreamscape - Part 2 The prior Saturday I got this amazing image at State Line Tunnel: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/680266/ ... (more)
Still plenty of snow in the riverbed of the Reuss, when "Taurus" locomotive (Siemens ES 64 U2) of Austrian Railways (OeBB) with the Railjet trainset is leaving Wattinger tunnel and crossing lower ... (more)
Union Pacific 8766 leads the five day old MNPRV out of Tunnel 39 at Cisco. Feet of Sierra Snow covering Tunnels 4 and 39 are evidence of recent winter storms. Those storms caused washouts along th... (more)
From the I-80 Rest stop at Emigrant Gap, I was shooting my last shot of the day which was for the 2009 "A Day in North America" issue of Railroads Ill. The storm clouds from a passing storm parted... (more)
Continuing its jounery west toward Ogden, the UP 4014 pops its head out of the Hermosa tunnel just outside of Tie Siding, WY.
Konkan Railway is one of the most scenic railway routes of India, especially, in monsoon season. In this photo, 24 coach long Mandovi express is crossing Shastri river bridge after exiting 2.6 Kms... (more)
In November 1984, UP Big Boy 4012 was relocated from Bellows Falls, Vermont, to Scranton, PA. The locomotive is shown here, exiting the Belden Tunnel, on its way over the D&H between Oneonta and B... (more)
A southbound BNSF intermodal train begins looping itself on a weather/picture perfect day in May. No haze, no clouds, light wind, 55 degrees. The plane and its pilot were chartered at the Tehach... (more)
The "Rhaetian Crocodile" stretches its brown nose out of the 450 metre long Wiesen I tunnel. The bridge over the BrĂĽckentobel stream is only 10 metres long and leads directly into the 9... (more)
Welcome to Whittier! - Two of the last three GP40-2s to wear their 1975 as delivered black and yellow paint march a 6015 ft train out of the 13,338 ft long tunnel and into the town of Whitt... (more)
For the past 20 minutes, we've been watching a tiny speck of light, some 7 miles away, gradually grow into a beacon illuminating the last of the exhaust still billowing out of the west portal of t... (more)
World record:longest passenger train in the world with 25 four-car Capricorn units like celebrating 175 years of Swiss railways. This is also longest narrow gauge personal train. Location for ph... (more)
An empty ore train exists Cramer Tunnel on its way back to the mine. F9 4213 would be destroyed in a run-away at Taconite Harbor two years later.
Modern Day RDC? - At first it seems a bit ungainly and dare I say ugly, but after a bit it really does kind of grow on you. I imagine this is how fans felt in 1949 when they gazed at the f... (more)
The Turn Hole Tunnel: Constructed in 1866 by the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad, this tunnel eventually became part of the CNJ and carried the line's two track main into Railroad: Central Railroad of New JerseyLocomotive: N/ALocation: Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, USALocomotive #: N/ATrain ID: UnknownPhoto Date: July 04, 2010
The waiting game...
A pair of mlw with empty ballast train approaches the longer bridge of Kifera village
Springtime in the Rockies Amtrak train No. 5, the California Zephyr, climbs up the 2 percent grade between Tunnels 8 and 10 west of Plainview, Colorado, on the morning of June 8, 2013. ... (more)
A true difference of decades - the trailing GE is nearly four decades younger than FL9 #486.
NW 611 blasts out of Montgomery Tunnel with the second of two employee specials operating between Roanoke and Walton, VA.
Tennessee Pass—1985 Rolling over the very top of Tennessee Pass after helping an eastbound Rio Grande freight up the 3% grade out of Minturn are four SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors—the engin... (more)
Snoqualmie Tunnel in the Cascade Mountains of Washington was completed in 1914. It served the Milwaukee Road for 66 years hosting everything from the Olympian Hiawatha to the "Dead Freights" of th... (more)
This is PR ARPW20 3830 emerging from summit Tunnel at Kolpur, at 1800 meters above Sea Level on the Mushkaf Bolan Pass section of Pakistan Railways. This (once highly strategic) line with its 1:2... (more)
CSX Local B721 runs right through the middle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Brain Research Center in Cambridge. The train is crossing over the "Grand Junction" which was originally... (more)
After a fresh snowfall overnight CSX E792 marches across the Potomac River at the confluence with the Shenandoah and with the snow covered Blue Ridge Mountains serving as the backdrop during a bri... (more)
Steam locomotives 3526, 3642 and 3830 race the NSW Rail Transport Museum "Illawarra Highlander" special out of Otford Tunnel, and into the daylight near Stanwell Park. The special train was en rou... (more)
It had been 17 years since an operating steam locomotivce had crossed Donner Pass as the AFT 4449 headed East to meet the rest of the Freedom Train in JUne of 1975. Seen at Yuba Gap on the #2 main... (more)
A look into the dark, dirty and gritty tunnels that are part of Toronto's underground transportation network. The northbound and southbound University line tracks are pictured on either side of th... (more)
Alameda Speedway entrance from approach to LAX. This is apparently Butte Street Junction. Two (looks like UP) Gensets are visible in the southwestern (photo upper) section of the yard.
CBR 1203 leads the first revenue train westbound out of Tunnel 14 on the Coos Bay Rail Link main line. Other than a work train in September 2011, this is the first train over this line since Sept... (more)
NS 593 emerges from the Allegheny Tunnel as it heads westbound through Gallitzin PA on a rainy and cold October day. The train is passing a former Pennsylvania Railroad Caboose that sits at the G... (more)
In the northeast part of Denver, Brighton Boulevard goes under the Brush Sub track. As you can see from the damage, it is not uncommon for trucks to get wedged under the overpass due to low cleara... (more)
Having cut off of its train it had just brought down the Highline, F7A #913-A is passing thru the tunnel which is on the leg of the Keddie Wye. It is heading to the Keddie Yards.
With the door left open, I got a rare look inside the 7.8 mile long bore of the Cascade Tunnel. Note how the grade descends inside the tunnel.
In October 1995, late in the afternoon on Donner Pass, two big GEs hold back tonnage as they come down the mountain with a manifest in tow. If you look carefully, you can see where the downhill ma... (more)
How about this view? A westbound grain train crawls down the hill at 15MPH, overlapping itself in the Lower Spiral Tunnel. The train is just about to emerge in a cloud of exhaust and brake shoe sm... (more)
CP Presidential Train 40B is wasting no time as they head down the hill for St. Paul Yard. The BNSF westbound visible below on the St. Paul Sub is stalled out, and the conductor is in the process ... (more)
An arsonist is suspected of setting the timber-lined Douglas Tunnel ablaze in the early morning hours of Sunday April 27th. Douglas is on the busy former C&O (ex B&O) Sandy Valley & Elkhorn Subdi... (more)
Dwarfed by the Rocky Mountains, the Rocky Mountaineer passes through the Mount Stephen Tunnel approaching the concrete snowshed and avalanche diversion channel.
"A Stranger In Town" A CPRail Stone Extra, is seen at The South Portal of Bellows Falls Tunnel behind a pair of CP GP-9s on NECRs' Conn. River Line. at 05:17. Flash fill lighting down at track lev... (more)
Practise run with steamlocomotive C 5/6 # 2978, called "Elephant", a heavy 2-10-0 built by SLM in 1917 for the Gotthard line, leaving the short Muhren tunnel above Gurtnellen.
A NB SP manifest exits Tunnel 9 under Tehachapi Loop lead by two brand new, sequentially numbered, and spotless Southern Pacific SD70M’s . An old SD45 trails as the third unit. SP 9806 is the se... (more)
Flowers begin to grow between slag ballast and rusty 136-pound rails laid by Rio Grande in 1970’s, as nature slowly reclaims what is hers on top of Colorado’s Tennessee Pass on August 12, 2015... (more)
A night shot of the East Portal of the Cascade Tunnel. And at an extra bonus, the door is closed! [See my comment on what the door does]
Milwaukee Road's Afternoon Hiawatha exits the tunnel westbound. To compare this view to other eras, click on "Tunnel City" (above) for other shots in the railpictures.net archive. Engine 100C we... (more)
Cough, cough, wheeze.... what is this?? Something on fire in a tunnel? UP 2952 East with two SD40-2s struggles to get through a summit tunnel.
Ghost Railroading - Hawaii Style The Hawaii Consolidated Railway has been gone for nearly 65 years (abandoned in 1946 following a devastating Tsunami), but relics can still be found if one ... (more)
Eastbound crude oil exits the one of the most secluded tunnels on CSX. Bells Tunnel is tucked away on a large farm and miles away from public access. As such, photographs of it are very rare. A... (more)
A very long BNSF Z STOWSP8 22 demonstrates the engineering marvel of the Tehachapi Loop. The siding on the loop is named after SP Roadmaster W.A. Long.
An Engineering Marvel of its Time...and Today. You've all heard of it, with many making the trip from far and wide to see it - the Tehachapi Loop. Planned and executed by the Southern Paci... (more)
CSXT CW44AC No. 493 exits the only tunnel on RJ Corman's Loup Creek Branch with a cut of loaded coal cars for the CSXT-Corman interchange at Thurmond. This area of the New River Gorge is notorious... (more)
Whatever it takes. In the early 1960s, construction began on the Oroville Dam. Once the dam was completed, the resulting reservoir flooded the Western Pacific mainline east of Oroville. A new rout... (more)
The old and the new entrace of the Tauern-tunnel. The old "building" is a national monument, it was built in 1909. The new tunnel is 8370m long.
It's a tad eerie waiting in the underground Beacon Hill station, when no one is around and there's these weird looking sea creatures hanging from ceiling. It's also pretty quiet until a low whoos... (more)
Emerging from the bore in Bootlegger Canyon, the Potash Local rolls past the Corona Arch and its cathedral-like accompaniment of impressive rock formations on a sweltering Utah morning.
During the time that MK was converting the MK5000C to MK50-3's. A few MPEX unit were loaned to the Utah Railway. This train has two of them MPEX 5000, and MPEX 5356. MPEX is a one of a kind. And o... (more)
Heavily oil stained, 5 feet 6 inch gauge 3831 built in the 1950s as an ALCO DL500 leaves Kolpur with the "Chiltan Express", 1000 Lahore to Quetta. Kolpur is the top of the tortuous Bolan Pass muc... (more)
The southbound Vermonter pops out of the hole in the ground known as the Bellows Falls Tunnel. More photos at www.rr-roadtrip.com
A WINTER WONDERLAND! Taken during the Foamers NW trip to Pengra Pass.
A uniquely designed World War II tunnel sits abandoned in rural Coalridge along the old Conrail Hi-Top Branch.
