Staged for Richmond NRHS Convention
Special Timetable Rule No. 1: "Eastward trains are superior to Westward trains, except as otherwise provided." But the westbound train in the siding with six F units is far superior in... (more)
In what I can say is one of the more bizarre train photos I’ve ever gotten….Westbound NS 19W crawls by the completely ablaze former Mingo Lime and Lumber building in downtown Williamson, West ... (more)
Heading into the setting sun, NN RS-2 no. 105 and RS-3 no. 109 bring a freight downgrade across Steptoe Creek. The haze in the background is smoke from steamers 40 & 93, switching the yard at Ely... (more)
This 1955 excursion via the PRR Schuylkill Branch into to anthracite region makes a stop at Carbon enabling the photographer a chance to get a shot of two PRR employees sharing a moment in this ... (more)
"A job that'd suit the devil as well..." Man-made lava on the slag dump. With only a matter of weeks left before the blast furnaces at Bethlehem Steel would fall silent and cold, I was fortunat... (more)
Norfolk Southern's "Honoring Our Veterans" unit, SD60E #6920, leads train Z85411 (P54) away from Washington DC after being on display for National Train Day on May 11, 2013. The Nation's Capital ... (more)
The great British Breakfast together with a view onto the approaches to Cardiff Central Station. Black 5s 45407 and 44871 arrive with the Heart of Wales tour on route to the Central Wales line and... (more)
Former Alaska Railroad steamer #557 is lifted into the air while the ARR flatcar is positioned underneath. #557 has been in possession of the late Monte Holm, who rescued it from a scrapper in Eve... (more)
There must not have been too much traffic on Kellogg Boulevard, as my father was able to record this going away photo of the Rock Island train from the previous upload (FA-1m 136, F7a 107, and Eri... (more)
Inside the cab of Marc 13.
UP 8664 west has stalled out right on top of the fly over at Frost. The Cajon dispatcher is running all westbound traffic around the stalled train on main 1 as BNSF 7502 leads a solid TOFC train u... (more)
A Roger Puta Photograph
45045, Coldstream Guardsman, had a heavy collision with Saltley viaduct while shunting the nearby Lawley Street freightliner terminal. The loco was withdrawn following this. The driver involved be... (more)
A regional train La Spezia Centrale - Levanto just departed from Vernazza, one of the UNESCO World Heritage listed "Cinque Terre" villages. The station is located in a tunnel. The open... (more)
Union Pacific was seldom an enthusiastic Baldwin customer; most of its modern steam power came from Alco. But in 1952, the road acquired six AS-616 road switchers from Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton. Valu... (more)
Out for a stroll; UP 4014 was out and about in the West Colton yard accompanied by the UP employees working on the program and #7885, which was providing power. The behemoth was run through the d... (more)
A Pacific Surfliner train strolling along the beach.
Framed by the Spring blossoms, the evening southbound manifest runs down 6th Street in Augusta.
As the sun sets behind the Wasatch, Union Pacific's Denver to Salt Lake manifest rolls west across the apex of Soldier Summit. Soon the train will be under the influence of dynamic braking for a 5... (more)
They used to be called sun kinks, and now known as a "thermal misalignment." This had occurred in the siding at Orsa, Colo. as an AT&SF passed on the Joint Line southbound main, Sept. 9, 1988.
While Y'all were getting yer steam on in the Midwest and Texas chasing UP 844, not to be outdone, we in the Pacific Northwest had a little steam show of our own. The Friends of SP 4449 operated t... (more)
BNSF's freight from Superior, Wisconsin to Minneapolis (Northtown yard) crosses over the Net River at Holyoke, Minnesota. Along for the trip was the Lake Superior Railroad Museum's former Soo Line... (more)
AWVR SD40-2 engines #7375 and #7346 rest on the rails just outside of Milesburg during the filming of 'Unstoppable' released in November 2010.
I was a teenager railfan on the loose at Altoona... PRR Class FF16.
GE Evolution Hybrid demonstrator 2010 on static display near Erie Bayfront Convention Center during GE Annual Shareholders' Meeting 23 April 2008.
Jingle all the way! Not seen in the still photos but on my video is the horns being played to the tune of Jingle Bells, as Amtrak’s Christmas Day Vermonter train 57-25 uses track speed! Seen a... (more)
Southbound coal loads headed for the dock at Seward pass Gorilla Rock on a glorious end of winter day.
Thanksgiving dinner is about to be served as the non-stop parade of BNSF trains roll pass our Crozier Canyon homestead. Here, a westbound double stack train for the ports of Los Angeles meets an e... (more)
Two new Union Pacific SD90MAC-H #8523 and #8522 built 4/99 at Electro-Motive Canada London, Ontario sitting in Canadian Pacific yard May 22, 1999 . Photographer Pierre Ozorak. Photo taken f... (more)
A line of 18 U33Bs awainting dispostion and the backshops is about all that remains of Rock Island's main engine facility and the important Silvis classification yards. A red RI caboose can be se... (more)
GM 70 and 73 lead eastbound coal under a threatening sky.
This MP caboose used on a Fife based UP local was involved in a collision with a Wood chip truck, after the driver's ill advised right turn. The caboose definitely won! Railroad: Union PacificLocomotive: n/aLocation: Tacoma, Washington, USALocomotive #: n/aTrain ID: s53Photo Date: May 16, 2008
Southbound 123 train crosses the North Fork New River in downtown Ft. Lauderdale.
New York Central's first J3a Super Hudson pulls a westbound through Oneida in one of my father's old shots. My maternal grandmother lived in Oneida and I think that this was taken during the summe... (more)
A railroad crews nightmare is seen as Norfolk Southerns “Southern†heritage unit lays on its side after striking a rock slide. No injuries to the crew. Crews are beginning the process of getti... (more)
DODX special car for carrying a reactor for a submarine or aircraft carrier. It is in the yard at Shaffers Crossing near Bridge Street. If the car were carrying atomic particles, it would be a... (more)
The reason why Britain has such a vibrant preservation scene. Five years after the end of steam on British Railways, withdrawn locos still stretch into the far distance at Dai Woodham's scrapyard ... (more)
The wrecks of SS4-0043. This locomotive encountered an in-tunnel derailment in Gansu Province when the Wenchuan Earthquake happened on May 12, 2008. The rear locomotive section (SS4-0043A) and the... (more)
Train D.16 at Tunnel 5, and railfans taking pics.
Amtrak Train #4 , the SUPER CHIEF, rounds the reverse curves at Darling, Arizona, on April 16, 1972. Six F-units power the fast moving train. Darling is a crossover location about 13 miles east of... (more)
A duo of A&M Alco C420’s slowly wade through the water that is covering their trackage in Van Buren after heavy rains hit the area. The job had just got done serving a few industries near town a... (more)
Ge 4/4 III 646, making publicity for the Bündner Generalabonnement (Büga), is leaving Celerina with the RegioExpress 1152 from St.Moritz bound for Chur via Albula line. The view goes toward Bern... (more)
A profile of Niagara #6014 during a midday station stop at Crestline. This was mostly a mail & express train, carrying passengers only as far as Galion. The interlocking tower is behind the loco... (more)
Two 0-4-2 locomotives from Barclay and from Fowler are performing the first runpast of the day. Unfortunately, very shortly after the sun raised, the clouds appeared and it started to rain. This w... (more)
An update as to what the end of the line looks like.
In memory of Richard Steinheimer. 1929 - May 4th 2011. An inspiration to countless photographers.
UP GP-35 762 guides two ugly-duckling GE 4500GETL 4500-hp units 60 and 60B eastward on a train into Cheyenne, Wyo yard as a C&S SD-9 crosses overhead ahead of the train.
NKP 765 poses as C&O 2765 for the New River Excursion.
A cab shot of C&O 5828 a EMD GP7 on display at the C&O railway heritage center.
Santa Fe's U28CG's arriving at Dearborn Station. Taken on Kodachrome II film from the Roosevelt Road overpass.
High Hood on a High Bridge. Led by a former SOU High Hood GE, the Lhoist limestone train heads east from Crab Orchard to Rockwood over this old and high wooden bridge.
When the station name comes off a station and is placed on a post, that’s a clue something is about to happen — Union Pacific’s station at Strasburg, Colo. was soon closed and moved away in ... (more)
Always a great place to see Lehigh Valley power, the old footbridge in the shop town of Sayre was the vantage point for this shot.
NKP 8100 leads train 651 west around Horseshoe Curve on track 3 as train 650 eases downhill on track 1. Casey Thomason photo, copyright Norfolk Southern Corporation. For more information, visit ... (more)
Freight cars slumber in the large departure yard at Boston Freight Terminal. To see switcher at work in this yard click more)
After a heavy overnight coastal snow storm, it's business as usual as the crew hauls up five loads on the slippery grade to downtown Hudson with war wagons CSXT 8849 & 8839.
A Canadian National manifest exits a tunnel in Black Canyon and crosses over the Thompson River where it will run immediately parallel to Canadian Pacific to Basque where the two roads begin share... (more)
Yard Master takes time out to talk to a local and his boy who were watching the crew of Western Maryland 2-8-0 # 734 finish their switching. This action made Possible by Pete Lerro during a night... (more)
One of Santa Fe's unique U30CGs sits in the engine facility at Cleburne, Texas, on March 3, 1973. Originally purchased for use on the Santa Fe's passenger trains, the General Electric U30CG featu... (more)
7847 has seen much better days and may have seen her last as a result of her inadvertent use to stop a runaway welded rail-train W019... (more)
With U.S. Steel closing their Keewatin Taconite iron ore mine/plant due to the current soft demand for steel, the firm is supplying its Granite City mill with ore from its large Minntac mine. Keew... (more)
Three era's of Pennsylvanian Railroading in one photo. The stone column carried the railroad over the Conemaugh River until 1907, and a realignment and elevation increase necessitated a new arch ... (more)
Mohawk Makeover. Restoration at the Museum of Transportation is picking up. NYC 4-8-2 Mohawk type steam locomotive #2933 still has a long way to go in its restoration, but progress is being... (more)
END OF THE LINE for CR 6407! January 31, 1979- CR 6407 was the leader and CR 6377 was the trailing unit of a Buffalo-Enola freight that rear-ended a stopped Syracuse-Enola freight. Both trains wer... (more)
The sun has just risen behind the spray rising from Victoria Waterfalls. View from the Victoria Falls Hotel.
A former BN unit leads a lite engine set out of the Springfield Underground. This facility was opened as a quarry, for mining limestone, in 1946 on Route 66 and was served originally by Frisco. To... (more)
Farewell! Quite possibly the last cab photo ever taken of the 902, the rear third of the unit has been separated and sits at a slight upward angle directly on the ground as it is dismantled... (more)
Dawn at Omaha Shops As the Nebraska sky brightens to signal another summer day, the work at Union Pacific’s Omaha Shops continues on. Thirty-eight locomotives are visible in this view... (more)
While a lot of great things are happening on the old NWP Redwood Route, not all of it is shiny and new. Seen here is the Schellville dead line. These locomotives have literally been left to rot, a... (more)
Cleanup continues of this train vs big rock derailment on the Chuckanut.
GN 312A is westbound with an iron ore train and is passing a manifest in the siding at Floodwood, MN during the summer of 1969.
I was a California boy, and I had seen stuff like this only in pictures. When Uncle Sam gave me an all expenses paid trip to the East Coast, it was like a whole different world. The GG-1's were ... (more)
A number of stored former Reserve Mining SD9s mingle with Baldwin locomotives at E&LS's shop at Wells (Escanaba). Cessna 172.
A westbound Rio Grande freight drops down the steep 3% western grade of Tennessee Pass at Mitchell, Colorado, on July 20, 1990. Leading the train is EMD SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motor†No. 5349, which ... (more)
Smaller power on this year's CP holiday trains. Both the Canadian and American versions of CP's holiday train will have GP20C-ECO leaders, and here we see CP 2249 in charge of the American ... (more)
Looks like Hartwell had a not so minor mishap sometime this week. Crews are seen transferring the loaded feed cars into trucks before they are cleared of the ROW.
Brakeshoes smoke after descending the summit west of Altoona, the crew brought the train down the mountain safely and may run through. The coupler cover, still intact, is noteworthy. The station i... (more)
High speed train Valencia - Madrid running over 'Rabo de la Sartén' viaduct.
UP 1983 running across the Great Salt Lake
Thanks to some high tech info courtesy of David Honan (a new RP contributor) and his ATCS setup, we knew this train h... (more)
A variety of diesels are seen in the Santa Fe's diesel shop at San Bernardino, California. Front and center is F45 5918, and other engines (some wrecked) include a U36C, SD45 and an SD40-2.
LONG CABLE SHUTTER RELEASE WAS USED! BNSF 6111 flies over at 60mph as it makes it way down the Mississippi River. Shot with my 40d and 10-22 wide angle lens. I wish I could have used my XTi body f... (more)
EMDX SD70M demonstrators 7002, 7001, and 7000 along with an EMD test car drag U14415 up the hill into Manchester during a test run in May 1993, before the 70M was an everyday sight. For an update... (more)
Starry, starry night.       You say you'd like to see some diesels and perhaps fewer ... (more)
Down to his CB&Q cap and overalls, Roger was the engineer this day. The cab of the BN 9908.
On January 2, 2007, a westbound Kyle plow extra derailed on a icy crossing at Kanorado, Kansas, and fortunately no one was injured in the mishap. Kyle plow MWK 06 derailed at the crossing and head... (more)
In a view that the great O. Winston Link saw on a regular basis on the Abingdon Branch, N&W 382 passes through a snow bank as big as the engine as the engineer leans out the window checking the cl... (more)
NS and CSX crews working to rerail CSX 2541 after it and four other locos and several cars derailed when WSSB train 209 hit a stalled log truck. This is possibly the last assignment for the CSX b... (more)
Hurricane Michael brought devastation to Northern Florida and Southern Georgia with high winds and rain. Evidence of the aftermath is seen on the CSX Bainbridge Subdivision. Trees now line the t... (more)
