The gray gloomy sky's really set the scene for this image. All but four of NJ Transit's ALP-44O, E, and M electric locomotives are seen here on the Lackawanna Cutoff in Port Morris awaiting their ... (more)
Milwaukee had an interesting critter that was used as a shop switcher in Deer Lodge, MT. It operated by means of an extension cord connected to the roundhouse. During operation, they occasionall... (more)
The sounds of GE prime movers echoes off the walls within Big Hormady Cut as the Cowan pusher shoves heavy mixed freight train Q580 up the nearly three percent grade at Tantallon. Big Hormady Cut ... (more)
Various power sits around the Roanoke turntable including a couple of Dash 8.5 rebuilds.
A light engine move past the invading diesels grabs John's attention away from the shop overview shots he'd been taking on this July morning 60+ years ago. The 2-10-0's were the heavy haulers on ... (more)
C&K Metal crews are almost finished with the scrapping of former Canadian Pacific C424 4240 at the M&E's Morristown shop. The cab and nose have been loaded onto a low-boy trailer former movement t... (more)
After the derailment the previous week, several autoracks lay on the desert floor in Newberry, California. Through one of the wrecked autoracks, another one can be seen.
The steady hand of an operator from Westside Shearing & Demolition rolls a tankcar on its side so scrapping can begin. A broken rail caused a 9 car wreck just south of this location on P&W's Norwi... (more)
Inside a Canadian National Dash 8-40CM. Much better than the interior of a Norfolk Southern Dash 9-40CW. The conductor's side has on the left a writing area with light, the center portion has th... (more)
The 16-cylinder 7FDL16 from Union Pacific GE AC4400CW 6704 sits on the shop floor after removal from the locomotive. It pretty obvious which cylinder or two had a defect or problem as much of it i... (more)
The 2513 Express to Guwahati gets an all clear signal from the guard manning the level crossing. The train is led by a WAP4 class 25kv AC passenger locomotive from the Lalaguda depot. These machin... (more)
With storms building to the west, the last glow of the evening begins to dissipates as an eastbound priority train glides through Mesita.
Grain Train in the Sky! 70 former ATSF and BN hopper cars rest on stilts at the Muleshoe Pea and Bean Company along the BNSF Slaton Subdivision.
Siemens shows off the new Charger locomotive in Amtrak's 30th Street Station in Philadelphia.
Alco/Westinghouse boxcab EL3A #105 resting at Roanoke, VA in this Feb. 1957 scene. Bob Drake photo, photo collection of Tom Sink.
AMTK 84, Train #21, pulls into Joliet in the special Toyota Tundra paint scheme, with a red pick-up. On the back, it has "The Powerful Toyota Tundra". It then headed to San Antonio, TX and then ca... (more)
A set of red cars roll by Franklin Field. The boxcars in the yard below are assumed to contain newsprint for the Philadelphia Bulletin. This train is a Army-Navy football special enroute to the M... (more)
It's all-L&N at the tail end of this northbound freight, with a scale test car and home-road boxcar tucked just ahead of the bright red cab.
Wouldn't you rather be on the train? Amtrak 237 has just left New York's Penn Station on the evening of Thursday, February 14, 2019. The traffic on Manhattan's West Side Highway makes one think th... (more)
The third of three fuselages on the KICKPASS passes over the Union Pacific. BNSF plans to spend 90 million dollars on a double track project that includes this elevated line through Grand Island.
#52 and comrades get serviced. John was too preoccupied with a warbonnet PA to snap off a shot of that engine on the left, new and unique to the SF, a FM H12-44TS, one of three purchased that yea... (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)
The Railjet is a high speed train of the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), which was introduced with the timetable change of 2008–2009. The railjet is the premier service of the ÖBB and operate... (more)
Saint LouIs-San Francisco Train 139 has come down from Oklahoma on June 24, 1978, 68 cars, mostly grain hoppers, tank cars for the Gulf, seven empties and a caboose, all behind GP38-2 685. Rattlin... (more)
Railfanning is all about luck, and today... luck was definitely on my side. After getting pelted by heavy rain and hail for a few minutes, the sound of the RBBB Circus Train could be heard and the... (more)
Virginian 1069, Norfolk Southern's fourteenth Heritage Unit, poses in the morning sunshine outside the shop in Muncie. For more information, visit more)
Norfolk and Western 8103, Norfolk Southern's fifth Heritage locomotive, is seen here just before it received its first rain-rinse in Altoona. Casey Thomason photo, copyright Norfolk Southern Corp... (more)
Smoky old yard goat last spotted wandering through fields of gold! In reality, it's just an old Rio Grande SW1200, towing a long train of box cars and petroleum tankers along the former D&RGW Ogde... (more)
Merry Christmas Amtrak. The first meaningful release of new cars from CAF in Elmira, 18 new Viewliner baggage cars, roll NB on the D&H on one of the gloomiest days possible. The cars had just com... (more)
Youngster is more concerned with hooking a big one than the SD40-2 howling in full dynamic crossing beside him.
In the Middle of the Night; I say this with a big smile on my face, but I think I saw my friend Dave Honan do this once. A light snowfall provides the Star Wars effect. Funny thing is, sta... (more)
Baltimore and Ohio A-B-A units pull eastbound coal at Knoxville, just east of Harpers Ferry.
Five Boeing fuselages entrained on a westbound BNSF intermodal train climbing Mullan Pass on Montana Rail Link on June 30, 2019. The train is crossing Austin Creek Trestle just west of Skyline, Mo... (more)
The brand new snow blower X rot mt 95403 of the RhB in action in Ospizio Bernina. Shoving is dual system locomotive Gem 4/4 802 (electric/diesel). The new snow fighting system from Zaugg/Eggiwil i... (more)
An empty ore train is pictured at the West Portal of Cramer Tunnel as it returns to the plant site from the dock. Power is an A-B-B set of F units plus a GP38 and a C420. F9A # 4211 was delivered... (more)
Former Reading T-1 Northern class steamer 2102 enjoys the afternoon sun during the R&N 20th Anniversary Open House.
All four of the unstoppable AC44's are coupled together just before being split up the day before filming began in bellaire Ohio.
Amtrak long route formation - No. 8 Empire Builder - comes to great Chicago, crossing the N Canal Street and enter to Union Station in dowtown Chicago. In background, Metra trains performing servi... (more)
While driving on I-81 I'd noticed a white E unit for quite some time. One day when I had some time, I decided to wander around and see if I could get closer to find out what it was. To my surpri... (more)
A 3-unit Great Northern Railway F7#308 A-B-A are leaving Minneapolis with a westbound manifest as they meet a Burlington Route (CB&Q) freight in Chinese Red powered by EMD's second generation d... (more)
After meeting a northbound M-HKETB at Joso siding, an 18,000 ton potash train rumbles slowly across the massive Joso Bridge in southeast Washington, soaring nearly 200 feet above the Snake River.
"Close Clearance" H-81, the Croxton based local, maneuvers through some close clearance on Seamans Lead in Carlstadt, NJ, almost taking the bumper and grille off of a C... (more)
U-man delivers supplies to a set of helper power, 1953 style, as a steam powered train enters the scene from the right. Pennsy designated helper diesels with a yellow band on the cab door. For a... (more)
In the early morning of the last day of the year CN manages to derail this GP9-Slug combo and an additional 6 cars, three of which have already been rerailed. Not only was this in an awful spot to... (more)
6" of fresh powder, a freezing fog and sub zero temps overnight turned potions of northeast Illinois into a winter wonderland. Shortly after 8am, the Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern is seen ... (more)
Carrizo Gorge Railways (CZRY) F7(A) #100 on Goat Canyon trestle
BN plow units rest with the rotary snowplow in Havre in May of 1990.
This was somewhere around Alamosa, CO. I was vacationing in the Midwest and happen to spot this from a local road, maybe half a mile away. It was on a very rarely used segment of track, possibly a... (more)
Montreal-New York Amtrak 68 races south amidst the first winter storm of the season
Bound for White Pass! The White Pass & Yukon's Steam Rotary Fleet claws its way from Inspiration Point past the now derelict Bridge 18A, en route to the White Pass Summit and a battle with ... (more)
Yes it did look like and sound like an airplane. At the time of this picture security on the Penn-Central was very lax on the right of way. The photographer in front of me is obviously in a danger... (more)
1996 sits ready to lead the "El Centro" eastbound on the Sunset Route as the last rays of the day paint the sky. Today's train features an all EMD consist, as does the 'hauler' next to it, and on ... (more)
A streamlined Pacific GS1sas leads The Crusader, train #614 (the afternoon eastbound) past the Skillman depot. I'm told by a fellow who enhanced the pic that this is the #117. In 1947, the Crusa... (more)
What took all winter to capture. I finally got the consist and light I wanted last week as two of the newer additions to the CN roster haul M304 near Solomon, AB with the Brule Range providing the... (more)
3 B&M units are in charge of D&H train NE-84 as it passes the Cobleskill Coal Company building. Note the D&H Coal sign. This train often had run thru B&M power between Oneonta & Mechanicville.
Alco's largest diesel engine. Only two A's and one B unit were built. All for UP. This loco had an output of 5500 hp which could have given an edge over GE's 5000 hp U50 and EMD's DD35. But Alco's... (more)
Pere Marquette #1225 leads a hot shot early morning westbound freight just before sunrise under a dramatic Michigan sky. Taken nearly four years back, this is one engine and a fine crew that I mi... (more)
Houston, we have a problem.
The Hopi Buttes provide a backdrop as sunrise catches a westbound Z climbing the Arizona Divide while in the distance a eastbound rolls downgrade toward Winslow.
The Wengernalpbahn may be the world's longest cog railway, but it looks like a toy up against the imposing cliffs and mountains that loom over the small Swiss village of Lauterbrunnen.
Nestled within Fort Lee, VA, is an ordnance museum inaccessible to the public. Within this museum sits a German Krupp K5 railgun, named Leopold. It took every bit of a 14mm lens to get the full ... (more)
Built on the banks of the New River, the former C&O South Side Subdivision (correct me if I am wrong) is falling apart and slowly being reclaimed by mother nature.
Hurricane Katrina severed the CSX main line in several places. Here the bridge over Bay Saint Louis was washed out leaving only the supports. Sections of the trestle can be seen in the water. N... (more)
The End of Dubbers Spur - The end of a set of five (5) former Chicago Northwestern (CNW) commuter cars that were acquired by Chicago Metra (METX) and later sold as surplus sit with an old S... (more)
A report of a leaning load, kept this train tied down in Gold Bar for more than 24 hours. After, which the crew had quite a tough time getting it moving again. Heavy snow fall didn't help their ... (more)
Amtrak's Adirondack rides D&H rails from Montreal, Canada to New York, NY.
Sunrise at the Pass Lake trestle.
Santa Fe's westbound SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF negotiates a "shoo-fly" around a freight train derailment at Dunmoor, New Mexico, on November 28, 1969. A SD24 and three GP35s were involved in the mishap,... (more)
Washout caused this derailment with serious injuries to both crew members. Because this location is so remote, it took nearly five hours to cut one crewman out. UP SD9043MAC 8185 was brought u... (more)
Conrail was just around the corner. Who would have guessed that the EL would cease to exist in 60 days? View is EL wreck located in downtown Waverly.
No. 10 headed toward Tuolumne with one of the last trains of logs. In a few days the railroad would routinely shut down for the winter, but never reopen. This is another old Anscochrome slide th... (more)
In the woods of upstate New York remain the last active rails of the long abandoned New York, Ontario and Western. Emerging from the fog is the CSX local out of Fulton with two cars to be spotted ... (more)
Santa Fe GP9 2929 (ex-729) sits in the morning sun at San Bernardino, California, waiting for an eastbound that will take it to its first assignment following its new Yellow Warbonnet paint job.
An officer's special from Pocatello, Idaho, zigs and zags through UP's Silver Bow, Montana yard on Oct. 9, 1993.
The 10.40 London Waterloo to Paris Nord Eurostar service is about to enter the Channel Tunnel at Cheriton as a Brush Bo-Bo-Bo brings up the rear of a lorry shuttle from Calais.
Soon after the UP-SP merger, many former D&RGW SD40T-2s returned to home rails. Here a matched quad of EMD 'tunnel motors' lead a 44 car RODVM (Roper, UT - Denver, CO) through Price Canyon at the ... (more)
The spectacular slag dump at Baotou steelworks as seen with SY #1676. At one time, Baotou had dozens of steam locomotives in daily service, but by this point in 2008 only seven SY 2-8-2's remained... (more)
The tail end of The eastbound Canadian sweeps past the emergency power at Jasper station
UP's newest and last heritage unit, SP heritage 1996 is dwarfed by the large trees and the massive rock formation Castle Crags on its second revenue run on the SB MPDWC. Much credit to Andrew Robb... (more)
After a long evening of rain the moon shows its self as a heavy EB stack train makes its way out of the fog on a very cold winter night in Southern AZ
UP 4014's articulation is on full display as it rolls around the wye at 7th Street. The train will get on the UP's Altoona Sub at Westminster, and head east to Altoona.
Derailment on the Scenic Sub at what use to be Everett Jct. Ten cars on the ground, and as you can see, one is in the drink. Note the rail in the water with it.
The mighty 'General' P36 0120 passes under a bridge at Maryina Rosha as a track maintenance gang watches. This particular 4-8-4 was built in 1955 at Kolomna Locomotive Works and was retired in 1... (more)
Brand new SD70M-2's wait forwarding from Nashville to Jacksonville
Q317-23 pulls onto the approach to the Little Kanawha River bridge as the Belpre Industrial Parkersburg Railroad transfer job leaves the Low Yard to go back to the High Yard.
Wizz Air demo flight over the center of Budapest.
Nevada Northern Railway’s official machine shop cat, lovingly named “Dirt”, will rest comfortably over the next few evenings while locomotives #40 and #93 cool down inside the confines of th... (more)
