A limestone train for United Taconite departs Duluth while another train dumps its load of iron ore on Dock 6. The James R Barker is at the shiploader while the Roger Blough is on the east (right)... (more)
Street running? Not really... this is a movie prop for the new Leonardo DiCaprio sci-fi fantasty film, INCEPTION, which was on rubber wheels and could move at a pretty good speed. Wish I could ha... (more)
Just before sunset, priority mixed freight from Spokane, Washington to Northtown Yard in Minneapolis passes high above Lake Ashtabula behind a nice poker hand of 3 ACes.
A six-pack of Rio Grande SD40T-2s drift through Helper Yard prior to cutting into a 100 car coal train for the steep climb to Soldier Summit. In the group are DRGW 5390, DRGW 5342, DRGW 5373, DRGW... (more)
What is better then one No 7 train? A double decker No 7! With hundreds of tired commuters on board and many more behind me on the platform waiting to get on this train to go home, these R-188 car... (more)
A zoomed in view of Larrys shows too many cabs to count that are just sitting on the ground-SP, CR, WC, and even a VIA FL9 cab. Interesting to say the least, not to mention everything else in the... (more)
A pair of heavily modified SW1200s have dropped a train load of logs at the yard in Beaver Cove and have coupled onto a string of skeleton cars for the return trip back into the forests of Vancouv... (more)
New York Central E8 4063 and an E7B slide into Poughkeepsie with train 2, PACEMAKER, from Chicago. The NYC crossed under the New Haven's 212 ft. high bridge across the Hudson that was later close... (more)
First revenue run!
BNSF’s M-PVODEN (Provo, Utah to Denver manifest) curves around the hopper car windbreak at Big 10 Curve east of Clay, Colorado, on October 20, 2012. The city of Denver is 16 miles (“as the cro... (more)
Union Pacific 2190 & leased unit, HLCX 6336 slowly glide along the roadbed shelf. They are just above the Colorado River and will soon be climbing up and out of the canyon through the cuts and tun... (more)
Delivering a UFM to PP&Ls Martin's Creek Power Plant
The best apartments in Decatur! These folks get to see several NS and CSX industrial park turns pass right through their front yards every day, plus healthy traffic on the NS and CSX mainlines th... (more)
to the Nature I. The Csarna-valley section of the narrow-gauge railway was damaged by flooding in 1999. The rails and the bridges are slowly being reclaimed by the nature. Railroad: Kemence Forestry Museum RailwayLocomotive: N/ALocation: Kemence, HungaryLocomotive #: N/ATrain ID: N/APhoto Date: October 11, 2010
Southern Pacific U50 9951 takes a spin on the Taylor Yard turntable.
Winter has arrived, as my frozen feet can attest. A westbound CSX freight crawls past the site of a recent derailment in scenic (but freezing) downtown Kent.
On a fine autumn day in 1987, D&RGW train 665 crosses the Payson trestle with a trainload of Keigley dolomite for Geneva Steel of Utah. The wood pile bridge crosses both a local creek and Union Pa... (more)
Do not try to beat a train. Last night at 7PM a tractor trailer tried to beat this train acrossed the crossing and lost but caused extensive damage
4224's crew just died right on the mainline, but the trains kept coming. Crew change had just been completed and 4224 was off as another unit train started up the siding at rillito.
Crash at the crossing in Kamenný Újezd. The inattention of Ford Tranzit's personal vans driver caused havarii on the CZ 196 line. The ÖBB 1116 185-0 locomotive at the front of the personal trai... (more)
An SP eastbound roars up the grade out of Caliente toward tunnel 1.
Kirow crane (known as Kumbokarno Crane) evacuated a bus wreckage. The bus hit by Prambanan Express train from Solo to Yogyakarta at about 10:00 Am. Unfortunately 15 people killed at this acciden... (more)
On December 22 a plow train was called to clear the tracks between Hurricane and Cantwell. With a limited amount of daylight to work with, about 4.5 hours in total, I tried my best to capture the ... (more)
CSXT 4288 hit a log car back in December 2006. The unit is waiting to be scrapped.
The Texas Chief, Amtrak 16, is ready for its 12:20pm departure for Temple, Ft. Worth, and Chicago. ATSF F7 310C (ex-42C) was remanufactured to CF7 2531 by the Santa Fe at its Cleburne, TX s... (more)
The local taxi service decided to find a shortcut with out a crossing and became stuck on the tracks. Luckily no one was injured! We were waiting for this train about a mile away when it happened.... (more)
High Greens on 11th StreetAfter stopping for a red traffic signal, it is now all "high greens" for Chicago South Shore & South Bend GP38-2 2000 as it trundles down Michiga... (more)
A Military train with Bradley tanks heading to Port Hueneme is westbound through Burbank station.
The first "official" 2-10-4 texas type built for the ATSF. "madame queen" as she became affectionately known, often hauled trains here in Texas, as well as assisting in helper service on the famo... (more)
Courtesy of my US Army MP Nephew in Mosul taken from the Humvee while on patrol, this Iraqi MOW Crew Is Busy Re-Railing The Flatcar Loaded With Rail.
A wide angle perspective of the #784.
The scrapping of a classic. I had the privilege of taking the last cab photo from this streamliner that made thousands of trips up and down the Hudson between Albany and New York City in its heyd... (more)
The Pennsy's summer train, THE NORTHERN ARROW, has just arrived at its destination, Mackinaw City. Michigan with sections from St. Louis, Cincinnati and Chicago. It is 1961, the last year of PRR p... (more)
Confirmed! New set of ES44AC's are prowling the Pokey, masquerading as pushers.
Shortly after sunrise a Historic Transport Preservation (Steam Specials) charter on the C&TS rounds the big curve at Lava, on its way to plow snow farther up the line. In the distance the San Lui... (more)
Apparently this has happened before, as the (former) GM's wife was telling us that this used to be a tunnel and it was daylighted but problems still occur. This was back when Ohi-Rail was under t... (more)
An oil train crosses the Serayu River on a beautiful morning near Kebasen, Central Java, Indonesia.
An eastbound WP intermodal train heads in at Hammer Lane siding for a meet with UP 3751 South. The conductor's on the rear platform of the up "pool" caboose, ostensibly to check out the ... (more)
A Canon City & Royal Gorge train is at one of the most famous spots on the old Denver & Rio Grande Western -- deep in the Royal Gorge. The eastbound train is approaching the famous "hanging b... (more)
Brand new BNSF SD70ACe 9375 awaits its final applications of paint.
Direct train to the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico derails between the limits of the city of Gomez Palacio and Torreon
This trestle once carried the Georgia Railroad's Athens branch over Trail Creek and Poplar St in Athens, GA. This section of the line was closed in 1997 and the rails were pulled up in 2000, the t... (more)
Three NS GE locomotives help hold back a 200 car loaded coal train as it descends the grade between Princeton, WV and the junction with the former N&W at Oakvale. The 100 foot tall trestle here ca... (more)
CVR's interchange train to the BNSF waits just east of the interchange at Boise City,OK on 3/13/08. A rainbow has formed, as the sun has just cleared the clouds from a passing thunderstorm. It was... (more)
Sunrise on the Colorado Plateau greets a westbound Z as it climbs the Arizona Divide with a manifest on it's block on the BNSF Seligman Subdivision.
A CP trackaged rights train is in emergency as an old lady attempts to beat the train. I wonder how long it took for her to see a bright red locomotive. The train ended up blocking every grade cro... (more)
An Indiana & Ohio Railways autorack train waits for permission to enter CSX's Queensgate Yard. Locomotives:HLCX 7014 SD40-2IORY 4070 SD40T-2
Plow Extra 5843 South with CP Jordan Spreader 402883, clears snow drifts on the Lacolle Sub.
1223 and 7002 double-head WDC Chapter NRHS trip, Mamiya 645 color negative
With DODX (radioactive material) train 057 safely stopped on the mainline at Kite, NS 9005 leads eastbound freight 38Q through the siding.
Santa Fe #76, the eastbound CALIFORNIA SPECIAL makes a station stop at Lubbock, Texas, on a cold February 20, 1964. The train ran between a connection with the SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF at Clovis, New M... (more)
#5034 gets readied for service on the Sandusky coal line at the St. Clair Ave. roundhouse. Note the extender rails and tender jutting out at the right. The buildings of the PRR 20th St. Shops ri... (more)
Timing is everything, and everything came together as three trains converged at CN (former DM&IR) Dock 6 while the distinctive Algoma Central laker John D. Leitch loaded ore. Great light and color... (more)
OmniTRAX switcher 1451 had been helping out at the Coors Brewery in Golden, CO. The switcher was being returned to Loveland, CO when the Longmont Turn derailed. The pileup behind the switcher is q... (more)
C&O 614 sit basking in the yard lights in Norfolk Southern's Reading Yard awaiting the o-69 crew who is inbound to pick her up & take her westward & then southward for her journey for the Virginia... (more)
Several minutes after the sun had set, the sky was still alive with color above Lake Pend Oreille as a westbound manifest rolled across the famous bridge over the lake.
Florida East Coast Railway train 226-24 had the new FEC LNG Fuel Tender in the consist of the train - FEC #300 - as seen crossing the San Sebastian River at St. Augustine, FL on January 25. The c... (more)
Looks like a well used challenger. No photographer listed on slide.
Moisture in the air gives an interesting effect, making the SP patch job look like its hovering in the air, as a UP employee pressure washes the dirt and grime off the underside of the unit. On tr... (more)
More "common power" at the South Yard as seen from the Walnut Avenue bridge early in the morning. Left to right: 2736, 8455, 8971, 9318, 9742. The remains of the dilapidated former Virginian Railw... (more)
607 with the "Powhatan Arrow" lies on her side after a derailment resulting in the death of the fireman. Cause, failure to obey automatic block-signal & entering turnout at excessive speed (77 mph... (more)
A special visitor from the Union Pacific fits in perfectly with the DD40X #6930 and GTEL #X-18 at the Illinois Railway Museum. Big thanks to the UP for sending the 6936 to the museums 60th Anniver... (more)
First 2 of 10 BHP Aces on Test Track for Multiple Unit Tests. These units were originally BNSF units taken out of BNSF's 200 unit order and sold as is to BHP due to a power shortage on the Austral... (more)
Privately-owned business car parked in Belleville, IL
With Oregon's Mount Hood dominating the background (over 45 miles to the west) a BNSF loaded grain train snakes its way though the Columbia River Gorge near Maryhill, Washington.
The latest WSOR Model Railroader 75th Anniversary commemorative boxcar sits outside the paintbooth at Horicon.
The first train to head down the Amboy Secondary since the snow started falling the previous night, SA31 pauses on the Amboy Secondary in Helmetta for a few minutes.
580 has battled the stubbornness of Brantford drivers every Wednesday for years (and every Saturday in earlier days), so it would be realistic to think residents took extra care at this particular... (more)
Earlier this year former Duluth & Northeastern 2-8-0 number 28 (ex-DM&IR 332) was moved from Cloquet back to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth. Cloquet Terminal Railroad had started rest... (more)
Storm clouds are gathering high above the mountains as more coal slowly heads downgrade toward Denver.
Green Mountain 305 enters a ice filled rock cut in the Cavendish Gulf as a light snow begins to fall.
Locomotives congregate on a Saturday morning at Santa Fe's Bakersfield engine terminal and roundhouse.
Engine 7511 leads a westbound freight train along the banks of the Flathead River, skirting Glacier National Park's southern boundary.
#844 - an impressive sight as the UP steam crew performs maintenance on the drivers which tower over them during a planned stop at Santa Rosa, NM.
Didcot Shed, ex GWR 2-8-0 has it's fires drawn at the end of the day. 0-6-0 pannier tank 3738 sits by the combined coal and water plant.
Long term storage of sand hoppers due to the decline of Fracking Sand operations.
Norfolk Southern train 11V climbs the mountain around track three at Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, Pennsylvania. The entire train can be seen: Engines 8073 and 9311, 87 cars, and helper units 633... (more)
Scenes like this were all too common in the late 1980s and 1990s as railroads replaced their caboose fleets with end-of-train devices. Most of this gathering would be sold with a few being donated... (more)
Derailment of CSX Q539 drags and derails 6 cars, 5 of them are over the hillside taking out about 800 feet of rail & cement ties with them. The line reopened 4 hours after WO772-28 dumps ballast o... (more)
Norfolk Southern's one-of-a-kind to date AC44C6CF rebuilt DC to AC locomotive, #8520, is seen at Driftwood, PA awaiting eventual pickup from the Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad, where it ... (more)
This empty coal train is pulling out of the siding at Sully Spings. Over to Ryder will go the 8295 to meet the next coal train coming east. Track warrants issued this day were up in the 300's by 2... (more)
Fourth of July weekend in 1969 produced a healthy sized consist for GN's Badger/Gopher passenger trains operated between Superior, WI and St. Paul, MN. The consist was laying over between runs at ... (more)
A class 159 three-car DMU runs beside an angry sea on the 12.20 London Waterloo to Plymouth service.
After cooling its heels in the siding at Tolland to allow Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr to overtake it, a loaded UP coal train heads downhill from the divide along South Boulder Creek, swol... (more)
The cyclist is working hard uphill as MM&A 3613 West battles grades of Quebec's Eastern Townships
They are finally here! A new era begins on the FEC as the very first of 24 ES44C4's take 101 out for the first time. Departing right on time at Bowden.
TVR 610 co-stars in this scene with a Model 'A' Ford for the new movie Heavens Fall.
The 261 lives again. Under steam again for the first time since 2008 after undergoing its federal mandated overhaul on this 1944 Alco 4-8-4.
On the morning of June 17th, this Norfolk Southern intermodal train hit a tractor trailer that was stuck at a grade crossing. It derailed after the impact. Amazingly, everyone walked away with min... (more)
