It Had that “New Locomotive” Smell!Just four days out of the factory, and not yet in service, Washington State Department of Transportation 1402, a Siemens SC-44 diesel-electric... (more)
I would say to take your pick, but I'm not so sure that's possible in this situation. When it comes to this mass gathering of locomotives from many different railroads, some have futures and some ... (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)
An interesting collection of locomotive models occupy the deadline at Chamberlain.
CC20154 leads a full load of tank wagons, leaving the Bumiayu Station to Tegal Station.
The 1206 rolls over Belmont Street as it brings up the rear of the Unstoppable train during a shooting session in Bellaire.
On November 25th, 1976, one third of Southern Pacific's big EMD and GE diesels are serviced at the railroad's Taylor Yard in Los Angeles, California. The Espee owned three U50s (represented here ... (more)
The expanse of The Big Ten Curves with three trains around the route. In the foreground a mixed freight waits for clearance eastbound at the Clay siding. In the distant background a westbound clim... (more)
Its been just over a year since I operated on the rails... Downsizing from a locomotive to a hirail bus, what a shame! Here an acquired Algoma Central bus brings up the rear of the tie gang over n... (more)
In an attempt to open its line from winter snows, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic operated a triple-header rotary snow plow train on May 3, 1997. Three mikados are shoving Rotary OY as they near the deep... (more)
Blasting through drifts on the Goderrich sub-
There is no fire…. yet! What are they doing? Southern Pacific ran a vegetation control spray train on its Cascade Subdivision to apply a herbicide to prevent growth of burdensome Bracken ... (more)
Not just an ordinary short freight limping along at Rollinsville, Rio Grande F7A 5724, two F7B units and a geep have been gathering up damaged cars at a derailment near Tolland, just east of the M... (more)
I'm no expert on motive power, but I think its pretty clear this GP60 won't be seeing any road service any time soon.
A typical midwestern scene -- Rock Island mail train No. 39 with a single coach on the rear leaves Herington, Kansas on May 31, 1965 to continue its run to Tucumcari, N.M. to be handed over to the... (more)
2141 reflects beautifully in Monty Lake, the cold air emphasizing her smoke and steam.
E8 shell wasting away at the Steam Shop turntable, presumable used for parts for the working heritage fleet E9s. The cab was in relatively good shape. However, the same cannot be said for the prim... (more)
Here JPBX 504 poses on Townsend Street in San Francisco, CA alongside the historic "Baker-Hamilton" building. This track is the Coach Lead, and is used to access storage & maintenance tracks.
The experiment that didn’t work out: Alco PA 607 was selected as the control unit for Union Pacific’s coal-fired gas turbine 8080B which was formerly Great Northern electric 5018. A Fairban... (more)
Three trains are seen in this view! SP 9179 heads West on the main at Canyon while SP 8561 waits at the East end of the siding. In the background, a Santa Fe train heads Eastbound on the North M... (more)
What is probably Erie Lackwanna's premier train from Jersey City, NJ to Chi, #1, The Erie Lackwanna Limited arrives at 21st Street.
Q316 makes a late evening run through downtown St. Marys after a rain and snow shower dampened my nearly two and a half hour wait.
A hot NYC mail train scoops water on the fly just over the Mohawk from Schenectady
ever wonder where locomotives go to die? here we see a line of many different road names waiting an unknown fate..
CN C40-8 2036 leads train Q102 through a winter wonderland on the Edson Sub just east of Swan Landing.
On August 31, with an invite to ride along and explore a 6-mile stretch of trackage not reachable by roadways (as they were completely washed away), a hi-rail trip revealed some serious damage. N... (more)
Steam still lives at The Cog. It's just not nearly as common as it once was. On the Sunday of Labor Day Weekend, New England was blessed with high pressure, clear, dry air and calm winds. ... (more)
Nevada Northern steam locomotive # 93, an American Locomotive 2-8-0 Consolidation built in 1909, is seen here in the locomotive engine house at the Nevada Northern Railroad. The event was staged f... (more)
This was a real working "Mixed Train." One photo runby was only concession to tourists that rode the train.
A variety of locomotives and parts await work at Norfolk Southern's Juniata Shops in Altoona. Pictured here is a C40-9 that will be rebuilt as an AC44C6M, an RP-E4C, GP40-2, SD40-2, and a switcher... (more)
The damaged cars are still at the site of the I35 bridge collapse that happened Aug. 1 2007.
With build dates stamped as 12-31-2015, Crandic's newest slug set is finally in transit for delivery. CIC 208 (L4-1500XD-M) and CIC 308 (S4-143) are the 8th set built new by Relco for the Crandic... (more)
During the sunset of yet another workday, the F train huffs and puffs into Brooklyn's Smith and 9th Station, which at 87', is the tallest on the whole New York City transit system.
I guess blondes do have more fun! Casa Grande local crew discussing how they're going to switch a cut of cars.
Iowa Interstate’s Rock Island heritage unit passes the 1893-built Rock Island/ Minneapolis & St Louis Railroad's Union Depot in Grinnell, IA.
CN 3023, CN’s EJ&E Heritage Unit, was close to derailing after its train picked a switch north of JB Tower in West Chicago.
For years, Central of Georgia had teamed with Illinois Central, Atlantic Coast Line, and Florida East Coast on Chicago-Florida passenger operations. CofG contributed equipment to the City of Mia... (more)
Bald eagle's view of the upper Mississippi River includes the Village of Bellevue Iowa and ICE 201 running right down Main St. Moments before an eagle actually did fly into the scene from a tree ... (more)
Freeport McMoran #63 accelerates up the steep grade out of Clifton, while three units wait in the runaway track for the train to pass. Soon these other units will head into Clifton to retrieve the... (more)
During the Fall of 1999 Metro North had repainted a pair of FL9 locomotives into the classic New York Central scheme as part of the 150th anniversary of the Hudson River Railroad. They're shown on... (more)
Among the confines of President's Island, UP 9184 and UPY 940 (the Little Rock Centennial locomotive) await the scrappers torch amid the remains of scrapped rolling stock at Progress Rail Services... (more)
A Milwaukee Road XL Special rolls westward along rock faces high above the St. Joe River near Steel Bridge, ID.
Nearly two decades have passed since the last freight train rumbled through this passage and polished the rails at the continental divide. Today the famous Tennessee Pass tunnel lies dormant with... (more)
This time, it wasn't JUST for the cameras. With his assistant carefully watching the alignment, Nevada Northern's Wreckmaster signals his crane operator to slowly lower a derailed hopper ... (more)
Remains of a truck vs. train accident. No one injured.
PRR E8s, possibly pulling the "General", pass eastbound through 21st Street, Chicago in June of 1959. For more of John's classic PRR color images, see "The Pennsy in the 1950's..The Last Great De... (more)
Two EMD's get a ride on the turntable built for large articulated locomotives. An uninitiated railfan asked me "What does ETY FIR mean." "Wait and you will see," I answered.
Monon's F3's #207 departing Dearborn Station with the 'Thoroughbred'. We also can see Chicago & Western Indiana RS-1 #254 busy switching Erie-Lackawanna cars in the yards. The Monon, at one tim... (more)
GTW #6325, rods down and drivers blurred. A Railroad: Ohio CentralLocomotive: Steam 4-8-4Location: Port Washington, Ohio, USALocomotive #: GTW 6325Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: June, 2002
Centerbeam Attacks Covered Hopper On the morning of May 21, 2010, the UP MPDPW manifest train derailed as it was arriving at Albany yard. An empty centerbeam, the 15th car from the end... (more)
Engineer Craig Willett is at the controls of F40PH No. 357 on Amtrak No. 8, the eastbound Empire Builder, at East Hastings, Minnesota, on November 9, 1992.
SP rebuilt SD40R has emerged from Tunnel #17 West of Newcastle on the #2 track. Three SD40T2's and an SD45 make up the rest of the lash-up.
An eastbound Southern Pacific manifest freight grinds uphill climbing Tennessee Pass and crosses the Eagle River approaching Pando, Colorado, on August 2, 1996. Not only does the train have to fig... (more)
Interstate 8105, Norfolk Southern's seventh heritage unit, rests outside the paint shop in Chattanooga. Casey Thomason photo, copyright Norfolk Southern Corporation. For more information, visit ... (more)
Blowdown at Sunrise
Dead Lined..... Squirreled away on a little-used, overgrown siding off the C&O Durbin Branch, sits a rather rusty piece of machinery that I never expected to see as I hiked along the Greenb... (more)
In 1958 Athearn introduced an HO gauge flat car that included a scale cabin cruiser for uses as a boat load. Eight years later I discovered an exact duplicate of the Athearn boat and flat car mod... (more)
Westbound through Teays, a pair of DODX casks containing spent fuel rods operates as a W905 military train. The unique move will arrive in Russell, KY later this afternoon and from there, rapidly ... (more)
Five UP Control Car Remote Control Locomotives units await their next assignments at Mead, in the Los Angeles / Long Beach harbor area. CCRCLs are usually placed between two diesels to allow remo... (more)
GM&O DL-109's 272 and 270 at the engine service facility at Union station
Four eastbound trains are lined up at Boston Bar waiting for crews to depart for North Kamloops, BC. A pair of new GE C44-9Ws featuring CN's unique windshields, similar to GMDs, sandwich SD75i 567... (more)
GE standard-cab lovers rejoice in Bellows Falls, Vermont! Three separate Pan Am Southern trains are seen at Bellows Falls, VT on Monday, January 8. The local power, BF-1, is to the left with MEC... (more)
Having just rode over this track on the very friendly, 18 inch gauge, Steeple Grange Light Railway near Wirksworth in Derbyshire, I was amazed to see the track profile!
Combine harvesters from John Deere being delivered. Train Consisted of 35 loads and 2 spacer cars.
177-22 heads west along the calm autumn waters of the Bow River. There's snow on Sulphur Mountain by this time in September, and there was snow earlier on the ground that day. Railroad: Canadian Pacific RailwayLocomotive: GE ES44ACLocation: Banff, Alberta, CanadaLocomotive #: CP 8863Train ID: CP 177Photo Date: September 22, 2010
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Illinois Terminal 1072, Norfolk Southern's nineteenth heritage unit, rests outside the shop in Muncie at sunset. For more information, visit more)
UP 3952 glides over snowy Cienega Creek in Southern AZ
Cue the Jaws theme music...John found the shark-tank on the PRR at Canton, 9712 and 9588 in-between jobs, with several other sets in the pit. This is one of the Canton photos posted at more)
One of the many Rosie's that keep these berks running at night in between running fast freights across Michigan poses at the turntable shack with the 1225 in the background.
All six of Union Pacific's Heritage painted locomotives are displayed at the UP's SLCIT Yard for Company and public photos.
Cleanup of Q118's derailed at Junction City, WI, due to 10 inches of rain causing a washout.
The Daylight just begins to break....... The Surreal Erie feeling from the deep cloudy skies.......Fog.....Hiding some of the mountains.....A river crested high do to all the recent flooding and t... (more)
An amazing light show over the Susquehanna River. I have another shot with a train streaking through it but the lightning wasn't nearly so interesting.
HURRICANE/TROPICAL STORM IRENE DAMAGE IN NEW YORK: This was the scene along Pan Am Southern's freight main at North Petersburgh, NY in wake of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene. Shortly after... (more)
After a hard day at work, the 93 simmers quietly in the East Ely shop building as the late afternoon sun streams through the skylights.
These have to be the best looking Alcos in the world! These 4 lead a 95 car train as it slides across the vast Arizona landscape on its way to Holbrook to interchange with the BNSF.
Following the ice storm that has crippled Southern Indiana and nearly the entire state of Kentucky, a CSX powered coal empty heads North along EVWR tracks towards Illinois through fog and the ice ... (more)
Check out the string of reefers to the rear
While waiting for the east bound tank train,near the town of Vearing on the southern line, this add-hoc home made rail mounted motor bike went passed, ! these types of machines can be seen all ove... (more)
On Haivoron's narrow gauge railway the track inspection team rides in style. Definitely a one of a kind piece of equipment. It even has its own turntable. This motorcar was originally built as a ... (more)
Once upon a time, the HIgh Line connecting the Golden State Route at McFarland and the Omaha-Denver line at Belleville, Kansas, saw four passenger trains (including a Rocket) and a half dozen frei... (more)
From the cab of my SD70M-2 on the old BC Rail. Scenery like this is why I love my job.
Northbound Cedar River local works towards the next stop at St Ansgar as the sun peaks over the morning clouds. This job today has what getting to be an unusual consist for Iowa. IC 6201 has been... (more)
On a starry night in rural Willowtown, an eastbound silhouettes the classic N&W CPL's.
NS's first SD60E with the new NS-modified wide cab, built at Juniata Loco Shop
