Canadian National train No. 102 curves through Swan Landing near Brule, Alberta, on the afternoon of July 15, 2013. The CN main line here skirts Brule Lake, with scenic Jasper National Park provid... (more)
Move over 1943, Here's your UP Lab LOCO! This franken-ALCO was a graveyard smash! It was spotted at the Bluffs in the Summer Of Love prior to being traded in to EMD in '68 for it's own 'monster m... (more)
A pair of EMD 710 prime movers sit on the shop floor. One came from locomotive No. 2269, the other from SD70M 4988.
Kicking up some of the 2+ feet of snow received this week north of Two Harbors.
Following Winter Storm "Nemo", operations on the New England Central Railroad were shut down through Saturday afternoon, when a 'Driftbuster' light engine move was dispatched out of St. Albans, Ve... (more)
Freight train with double traction E.436 from Piombino to France for transporting steel material. The locomotives belongs to the company "Captrain Italia" branch of SNCF-Fret. ... (more)
On my way home from South Dakota I spotted a headlight in the distance. As we approached the headlight stopped and there was a cloud of dust. Reaching the location, we discovered that the train ... (more)
4 New and shiny GP-60B's sit in the yard awaiting delivery to their new owner.
Optical illusion or marvel of engineering? The notable difference in grade between tracks 1 and 2 is exaggerated in this shot at Newcastle, as 5583 descends track 1 in a cloud of brake smoke and ... (more)
An F59PH has been painted for the proposed new Detroit area commuter service to Ann Arbor, Michigan. As of late 2010, start up is uncertain.
Loaded grain train 303-600 with CP's "Navy" military themed SD70ACU 7022 on the point is stopped at Stephen as empty sulphur train 608-015 passes by on the south track with CP's "Ar... (more)
Considering there were only 10 BQs in existence, I seemed to run into them fairly often. CSX's original blue and gray paint scheme was probably the best look for these units - the yellow nose mad... (more)
The deck of the CN Barge as well as the CN tug just prior to beginning the loading process. This barge is a bit unusual as it actually contains a switch on the deck. The CN Barge makes a round tri... (more)
Foreshadowing of things to come? Is it so bad the vultures are circling UP? Probably not, but this bird might make some worry like the Snows of Kilimanjaro. Kinda cool when you can combine two ... (more)
Ready for the big move. NW Y6a #2156 rests out its final week at the Museum of Transportation on a beautiful fall morning. Sometime very soon, it will depart the museum for a long trip to t... (more)
At dusk, Union Pacific No. 1204 leads the southbound Santa Cruz Local along the central California coast near La Selva Beach (also called Manresa). The March 2005 image was captured just moments b... (more)
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All morning I had been wondering why there was no traffic in the Tehachapis. This was what I found in Bakersfield. I don't know any details, but I figured since there were freight car trucks in f... (more)
Photographer- Unknown at this time- possibly R. Hartman. Original 35mm Kodachrome slide Purchased from R. Palmer. Here we find the last Southern Rwy Ps-4 sans tender in Alexandria, VA after ... (more)
Looking out the back of a passing train, we see the PRR Erie-built 9458 on a freight. These were too big to build in Beloit, so FM contracted the work out to Erie after hiring famed industrial de... (more)
Once "Pride of the Fleet", J Class 611 returns to her birthplace for an employee open house.
Southbound coal train passes the remnants of a wreck. Two light-rail and two freight tracks have been blocked here, with just one more open for use.
The crown jewel of Steamtown's collection, the UP Big Boy.
Built as GE AC4400CW No. 205, CSX-rebuilt AC44CM No. 7225 is the solo head-end leader of a unit coal train from the mines of eastern Kentucky, seen here eastbound through Marmet, W.Va., on CSX's e... (more)
Union Pacific's east coast tour with their office car special train, led by Supporting Veterans unit, UP 1943 and 9082, is westbound on the NS Southern Tier Line (aka NJT Bergen County Line) on Su... (more)
Two C44-9Ws lead Military Tanks out of Longmont as Thunderstorms continue to build and deliver a good amount of precipitation as they roll Northeast off the Colorado Front Range Foothills.
After nightfall it will be "lights, camera, action". Headed up to the Clinchfield from northeast Georgia for the weekend I made the usual stop at Dillsboro to check out GSMR's operation.... (more)
Looming over the Mahanoy Creek Valley, the old Saint Nicholas breaker of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company is still relatively intact in this January, 1992 view. Built in 1932, old S... (more)
ALTOONA, Pa., April 22, 2016 – In keeping with a strong tradition of safety, Norfolk Southern today rolled out a new educational train and website to help first responders across its network res... (more)
An F3 and a GP7 pull a shot train through Donnelly, Idaho. Photo taken by Jack Pfeifer.
No Pictures Please – I guess I am in the minority with regard to track side contacts with LEO’s regarding the photography of rolling assets belonging to the railroads and their facilities. Wh... (more)
The last operational ball signal in the United States shows stops at the Boston & Maine/Maine Central diamond in Whitefield, NH as a National Historic Site. The signal was built in 1875 according ... (more)
UP 3985 makes good time up the Spine Line seen here in a zoom-out-pan just north of Castle Rock on her way to South St. Paul.
Somebody missed a red light!
A one-of-a-kind paint job on Amtrak 4316 (ex-PC nee-PRR) captured by Roger Puta in Harrisburg, PA in August 1971. The story goes that Amtrak needed something for publicity with its newly refurbish... (more)
Two sets of FL9s and commuter cars rest out the weekend at the classic New York Central Poughkeepsie station. These were among the few Penn Central engines with any color to them, having been pain... (more)
Early morning silouette. Taken Sunday heading North on the "dark side" of Smith Road low to the ground and underexposed by a stop or two.
Interior view of the Great Northern's original Cascade tunnel. This tunnel was abandoned in 1929 when the 7.8 mile tunnel was completed. View is looking to the east from approx. 250 feet inside.
Thunder over Palmer Lake A Santa Fe GP20 on a weedsprayer train waits out a storm over Palmer Lake, Colorado. I don’t remember the exact exposure of this photo, but I set the lens to ... (more)
More photos:http://www.railpictures.net/photos/temuulenb/ Around 7 am on Aug. 13 at a railway crossing near the ski r... (more)
UP 4411 glides through Boca as the clouds begin to clear after a serious of heavy storms.
A confused elderly man exits a Mercedes Benz that was fouling NS's Hall Running Track. The man was extremely lucky that the car was not on one of the Mon Line's very busy main tracks. Moments ea... (more)
This was power for the Lafayette, Illinois, coal train. GP9s 1331 and 1332 bracket F7Bs 13, 10 and 12. All the units carry the brilliant red and yellow "billboard" scheme which was usurped by "B... (more)
It’s not a good sign when one is waiting for the next subject to enter his viewfinder and it turns out to be a derrick work train. That assuredly indicates the line is blocked with a derailme... (more)
PA #58 and a companion booster, lay over at Fort Worth on April 01, 1961 between runs on Nos. 77-78. This Alco PA-1 was built in October 1948. Photo part of my collection, photographer Edward... (more)
Ever wonder what the new GEVos look like inside? The ENTIRE cab?
UP 7236 leads a loaded coal train eastward through Bailey Yard, surrounded by standard cab EMDs, including snoot-nosed SD40-2R 3310, SD40-2R 3691, ex-CNW UPY SD38-2 808, CEFX SD40-2 2811, and UP S... (more)
M303 is passed by the Skeena, VIA 7 at Moose Lake, as viewed from the Skyline car
A BNSF train lost its air brakes and turned into a runaway train that ended up in CP's Pig's Eye Yard.
In the winter of 1980 The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) abandoned almost two thousand miles of track west of Miles City Montana. The abandonment of the “Pacific... (more)
just like a model railroad this is what happens when you pull with too much power on a sharp curve. The phenomenum is called "stringlining or straight lining". The MWARBAR had been separated at a ... (more)
Canadian National's Gladstone, MI to Green Bay, WI freight makes its way through a perfect winter landscape in Powers, MI. Snow, followed by rain, more snow, ice, and snow managed to coat nearly e... (more)
A new 737-800/900 fuselage is being transported to the Boeing plant in Renton. It has come all the way from Kansas and is on the home stretch as it nears the top of Stevens Pass.
International tourists train Trans-Siberian Express ZARENGOLD. Welcome to the Trans-Mongolian Railwa... (more)
She's gonna need a new shirt. If you didn't know you were in Tiger country at TrainFestival 2009, there were plenty of blue and orange reminders, like this girl wearing a Curtis Granderson ... (more)
Arranged at very short notice due to high fire risk on the Montagu Pass, GEA 4023 crosses the Malgaarten river between George and Mossel Bay.
Just before 10:00 AM on Tuesday, March 10th, 2015, the trucks on a 2-Bay GraniteRock Open Hopper failed and completely fell off causing the last car of this train, the LRM36R out of Milpitas, to t... (more)
NS 2423 on display during "All Aboard Altoona". This is a prototype rebuild from a MP15DC with a turbocharged EMD 12-645E, heavily modified carbody, and an upgraded cooling system this thing is aw... (more)
Sometimes when you are trackside you see something that can't be... like this NJDOT E8 on the old CNJ Main. Conrail did not use E8s on this line, and even though they were maintained at Elizabeth... (more)
A familiar scene can be found most nights on many of the Chicago elevated station platforms. A scene of many different people from young to old, hip to traditional with one common link between all... (more)
On a stunningly beautiful Autumn afternoon, hill-run job No. U85 struggles upgrade across massive Garwood Trestle along the former Virginian Railway east of Mullens, W.Va. The scenery in this terr... (more)
While I have taken more than a few shots from this location of passenger trains this is the first freight I have managed to catch crossing one of the most iconic bridges on the Alaska RR. And it a... (more)
Built by Electro-Motive London, Ontario, Canada. Santa Fe GP60M #156 & 157 are ready for delivery. From my slide collection. Dave Stowe Photo.
Built by GE in 1949. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Joe_(electric_locomotive)
East Siding Switch - I found this siding listed as "Carrizo Gorge Siding" on an old topo map of the area and it is not referenced in my copy of the Altamont California Region Tim... (more)
Classic 1500 HP "Santa Fe" F7 # 347C in the beautiful red/silver "Warbonnet" paint scheme, one of the many highlights of this outstanding railroad museum. The locomotive was bu... (more)
Andover Yard crew making a shove move toward Crossbrook
Ex BAR F(3) A unit original number 44 renumber 502 has been stored for years at the Derby Shops by several railroads including BAR, IronRoad, MMA and CMQ is finally moving to a location that is un... (more)
Regional train Messina-Palermo
A minivan stuck in the grade on the tracks misses being struck by NS 37Q with only yards to spare. The quick acting crew put the train into emergency and managed to stop before hitting the vehicle... (more)
Alliance's snow plow was wye'd and moved to the 600 tracks for special service work this week putting it in the sunlight. Normally its in the north shadow of the Diesel Shop stored for snow plow o... (more)
The Storms over the Palmer Divide Sun pockets galore and vibrant storm light fill this scene with drama and action. Shot on Mavic Pro 2.
Flooding from the Mississippi River has left fields in Arkansas covered in several feet of water. Here, BNSF 5209 leads a southbound manifest across the diamonds on the BNSF Thayer South Sub, whil... (more)
General Electric is doing high altitude testing on Qinghai-Tibet Railway's new C38AChe model at East Portal
This is one serious-looking piece of machinery. I'm taking an educated guess it's a snowblower on steroids, no doubt quite handy during our recent blizzard. This must be the modern-day incarnation... (more)
The Northbound Denali Star crosses Riley Creek on a nice steel trestle and arrives on time at the Denali Park station. This is one of the last runs of the daily train as staring next week this tra... (more)
CSX is testing two EMD demonstrators on Q573/Q574 between Cincinnati and Nashville. They are EMDX #1609 & #1610, There first run was on Q573 on Monday, Today they make there first run north out of... (more)
In April of 1983, the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad yard and the small town of Thistle, Utah became victims of of a landslide which dammed the Spanish Fork River. Residents of the small tow... (more)
The Ice Kingdom. With ice covering everything, a beautiful sight was 4 NSM SD40's chugging towards Silver Bay with a cold shortened train. Truly was sight to behold.
The Southwest Chief rolls into Princeton to make a station stop on its way west.
The largest steam locomotive in the world. Is framed with the largest mountain on Utah's Wasatch mountain range. Mount Nebo 11929 FT Taken from Nephi, Utah.
An Amtrak Pacific Surfliner makes its way along the sandy beaches of San Clemente.
The Monday after Super Bowl Sunday finds an odd sight along the tracks. With no crossings anywhere near here, a car managed to find its way onto the tracks from the parking lot above after being s... (more)
Another day, another viaduct. Perfect afternoon lighting shone on the freight which was chartered by a British group.
This locomotive and 2-10-4 ATSF 5021 are sitting in front of the old SP Sacramento Locomotive Works boiler shop building. Eventually they will be restored for display.
The end of a short rail spur in tiny Hensler, North Dakota, on BNSF’s Zap Subdivision branch line out of Mandan has an unique end-of-track bumper. I’ve never seen one used this way, and I’m ... (more)
Not something you see everyday A rare SP GE U50 # 9950. The SP had only 3 of these Monsters. A lot of People thought they were ugly but I thought they were neat. This one along with Some U28C ... (more)
CN has assigned a number of horsepower payback BNSF and UP AC units to northeastern Minnesota on the former DM&IR. Here two BNSF units power a crude (unprocessed) ore train dumping at the Fairlane... (more)
