The Castleton: CSX intermodal train Q008-17 basks in the morning light as it crosses the renowned Castleton Bridge in Schodack Landing, NY on its trek east to the intermodal ramp in Worcester, MA.... (more)
The PRR St. Clair Ave. roundhouse was like railfan Disneyland in the mid '50's. Steam, exotic diesels, even imported Santa Fe 2-10-4's, and the fuel tanks they required since they were oil burner... (more)
CB&Q EMD E5 units, an E7A and an E8A back into the coach yard after having arrived on train 48, BLACKHAWK, on a Saturday morning.
A push-pull train from Davos to Filisur is crossing the Wiesen Viaduct.
The Burlington's eastbound "Journey to Yesterday" train with CB&Q 5632 stops at Omaha, Nebraska in June of 1959.
Heavy thunderstorms fill the sky across the Wyoming countryside as UP SD9043MAC #3663 and NS SD70ACu #7248 (an ex UP SD9043MAC) lead a westbound grain train down the grade and through the searchli... (more)
These passengers seem to have been caught off-guard by climate change as several Amtrak on-board personnel go all out to assist them in loading their ski equipment onto the eastbound California Z... (more)
The 261 is undergoing rebuilding the morning that the SP 4449 is hauling me from Minneapolis to Chicago on its way to Train Festival in Owosso, MI. At the time, the Friends of the 261 were under t... (more)
2-10-2 #5511 stored in the UP roundhouse at Cheyenne
My view from the fireman’s seat on this blustery Maine evening, included this apparent Annulum Ignis, or, “ring of fire†lighting effect, caused by steam and smoke wafting across the beam o... (more)
Snowplowing the right of way - all the way !
CP 2816 and Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261 are heading east from Minneapolis to La Crosse, Wis., along the CPR's ex-Milwaukee Road main line along the Mississippi River.
TerraTransport 926 (subdivision of CN in Newfoundland) was a 1200 bhp narrow gauge loco built by GMD in 1956-60 era. Sadly, the Newfoundland Railway ceased to exist in 1988 after more than 100 ye... (more)
Southern Pacific's famed "Coast Daylight" (known as the "most beautiful train in the world"), train 99, ascends the grade at Chatsworth as it heads from the San Fernando Valley northward (railroad... (more)
Eastbound NYC passenger train awaits departure from Albany on a rainy June morning.
Quick trip in and out of town. After covering the CSX Mohawk Division in record time, Union Pacific Railroad 1943 (Veterans Tribute, SD70AH) shoved CSX P900-22 (to become P901-22) around th... (more)
WOW am I ever lucky to live in the Northwest! From Cascade Green, to Santa Fe War Bonnets, to H1 B-Units; there is always something dramatic to see on the Scenic Sub. I hope you like.
Caboose being used for it's intended purpose when only one locomotive is available. Being pushed by the 3905, conductor slipped back in the warmth of the caboose as its leading PR-2 across Mendon ... (more)
My shot of the weekend, UP 5728 and 7527 along with a leased SD40-2 wind their autorack train out of Tunnel 35 and down the single track grade at Yuba Pass.
The Rio Puerco River was running muddy as Santa Fe Train 1, San Francisco Chief, crossed it westbound on Aug. 8, 1970, after leaving Albuquerque, about 34 miles back.
Two DPUs shove on the rear of a southbound manifest through Cliff, where the tracks cling to the side of the hills carved out by the Tehachapi Creek.
The Closest of Calls!: After building their train and pulling through the wye, the OCS train comes to a brief stop on a quiet portion of Sixth Street. As it sits in the street, a bold ... (more)
Union Pacific's nightly Oakland-Stockton IOAST crosses over Altamont Pass Road as it makes it's way from the Bay Area to the Central Valley.
Rio Grande narrow gauge K-27 464 before rebuilding to become new power for Knott's Berry Farm's railroad. Unfortunately, after the restoration the Mikado proved too large for their curves and, af... (more)
We're taking a look from inside the 1948 EMD built VLIX Clinchfield F3A Nº800 as engineer Lawrence Smoak does the honors on K25 at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Eight miles east of Cheyenne, UP‘s Archer Hill offers the photographer less variety but a more convenient vantage point than sprawling Sherman Hill to the west. On June 2, 1965, the temperature ... (more)
Pan shot of MRL 652 accelerating away from Dixon.
A Kansas City hobo catches a ride to Neff Yard
Engine 484 heads out of Chama with a full head of steam leading the 487 in the middle and 488 bringing up the rear. This train is part of Chama Steam VI.
Union Pacific SD70AH #1943 'The Spirit of Union Pacific' leads a Denver to Grand Junction officer special across the Colorado River along the ex D&RGW Dotsero Cutoff.
Don't try and beat a train! As the Finger Lakes Railway GS-2 approached Solvay, NY a motorist cut in front of the train at the grade crossing for a factory entrance. Luckily, the car escaped being... (more)
Renting a limousine is a common way to celebrate a wedding day, but renting a locomotive is a great way for the bride and groom to ride from wedding ceremony location to reception yard. (Dear So... (more)
Late fall along the Connecticut River Valley finds a normally lush, green landscape rather brown and barren. The leaves have largely departed from the trees and even though its not quite 3... (more)
A suspected Mohawk-led mail and express train, with 4 head-end mail cars, slows to stop at Crestline. It was scheduled into Crestline at 3:10 and did not carry passengers (1956 Ohio Div. TT). Du... (more)
While traveling down highway 70/84 between Texico and Lubbock, Texas, I hoped to see some BNSF trains along the route. Never did I expect to see Santa Fe hoppers that at first glance appeared to b... (more)
A former Texas Star Clipper (nee-CNW) F7A, acquired back in 2012 by NS originally to be rebuilt as a new unit for the OCS, now sits quiet and decrepit on the end of a pipe plant siding a few miles... (more)
In the early morning hours of October 30th, CN L501 departed Flint South Yard and headed west. While passing through town, 14 cars non-consecutively, all auto racks, derailed. One car tipped over ... (more)
Three SD70Ms lead the ZBRLC around the big curve at Warren, as it decends toward Mojave.
The Rio Grande Zephyr is nearing the tunnel district as it crosses Route 72 at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon. Over the next 15 miles, the train will make twenty-nine subterraneous forays before i... (more)
Track system in Zürich main station. Several hundred trains are daily hammering this rails and switches with 40 km p.h.
Amtrak's Pere Marquette speeds through the morning fog in rural west Michigan on its way to Chicago.
18 units head up the new eastbound alignment at Pantano. In a few miles these units, except the first couple will be stored on the old alignment and join nearly 150 units stored here.
The four CP units (9782, 9751, 9777, 9758) used in the filming of the movie "Unstoppable" have arrived in Louisville via NS and are seen here at the Paducah & Louisville yard. The units will soon ... (more)
A pair of CP GEs haul Canpotex potash loads across the Joso Bridge spanning the Snake River near Lyon's Ferry State Park, WA. The fresh paint on the two rebuilt AC4400CWMs contrast the dusty land... (more)
This strange machine is plinthed outside Windhoek station. Anyone know any more?
Pan Am Railways took delivery of five ex-QNSL SD40-2s this morning - lettered MEC 3400-3404 - but owned by GATX, at the Pan Am Southern East Deerfield Yard. The units are currently slated to be w... (more)
Two former ATSF SD45-2B's #6522 & #6523 along with three SD45-2’s #5701, #5703 & #5704, a BNSF Locomotive in the H1 paint scheme and a couple of H3 painted Locomotives all seen here sitting on P... (more)
Bearing the coal dust of a hard days work and strapped in, a worker cautiously releases the brake allowing a Top Gon to roll downhill under the coal loadout. In this modern day it's hard to believ... (more)
While on a business trip my father Robert Hedlund took this photo as he waited the trains arrival. Power WP FP7 804-D & two F3Bs.
The NYC Mohawk is now separated by 15' from the UP Big Boy, so the front end of the engine can be viewed.
It's the train they call the City of New Orleans. Amtrak 59, The City of New Orleans, begins its journey out of Chicago IL on a beautiful windy city evening.
It's been a while since this track was used. Simpson lost a bridge in 2008 and it was finally rebuilt in early 2010. #1201 is dragging a string of empty flat cars to the mill at Dayton. Off in the... (more)
Big Boy being moved to new location of Kenefick Park.
A very short train with a BIG load heading north. "Mammoet" specializes in moving heavy loads. I looked them up on www.mammoet.com.
A BNSF coal train bound for Boardman, Oregon, crosses Union Pacific’s bridge over the Snake River at Joso, Washington, on September 21, 2015. These trains use UP’s Ayer Subdivision (the Washy)... (more)
An abandoned Lehigh Valley Railroad signal bridge lies in the woods on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River. The LVRR bridge and trackage over the Delaware was abandoned by Conrail in favor ... (more)
The sun is rising on another day on the Mendota Sub near the small township of Meriden. These classic CB&Q signals litter this subdivision from Galesburg, IL, to Aurora, IL, on the 120 miles of th... (more)
Brand new Montana Rail Link SD70ACe, sporting it's fresh coat of paint.
Sitting in Cedar Rapids is like taking a trip back in time, especially with a steam engine out the back window. The 261 has just lead another successful excursion and was spotted at the rear of t... (more)
Two years ago today (June 12th), the swollen Cedar River took down CRANDIC's downtown bridge and ... (more)
AMP does nice work, don't they? This former Canadian American F40 is headed to roam southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. This is a road slug to be mated to ex CDAC 459: the first of three ... (more)
Fresh out of the box, UP 7964 C45ACCTE wears a few banners proclaiming that it is the 5000th Evolution Series Locomotive built. This locomotive is coupled to the extra water tender that the UP 844... (more)
ATSF 2381 catches a ride on QTTX 131423 as it makes it way to the Pacific Southwest Railroad Museum.
MNNR 49 has reached the end of the line in Hugo.
The Apocalypse?!? Perhaps, for fans of the Reading Railroad. This was the view for engineers looking out ... (more)
Parked on a forlorn siding in rural Sanderson, TX sits a fine example of a former Southern Pacific fire car. Originally built in December 1942, it has had a long life and sits idle in southwest T... (more)
Extra 1225 West speeds across the Michigan countryside as the sun rises at the start of what would be a sunny, but cold, February day. This was the first runby of a long weekend on Historic Transp... (more)
The Name Says It All! - The aptly named Aqua Train is owned and operated by CN to provide interchange service with the Alaska Railroad. CN owns the barge and loads it at Prince Rupert, BC... (more)
East Millinocket Switcher hit a log truck going to Millinocket and derailed with 3 loads
CP 8917 and 8903 are westbound on the Laggan Sub between Calgary and the yard of Keith, about 10 miles west of the city. They are taking loads of sulphur to Keith to be weighed before heading wes... (more)
Big Boys 4003 and 4012 double head over the new Harriman Line.
For 2009, UP finally blessed us NorCal railfans with a return of Steam to Donner. It has been 10 years since UP Steam last crossed over SP's High Sierra route and today was a great example of a ni... (more)
Three BNSF engines in the front and one in the back take this frosty-looking consist through South Canyon. The leading engines have a bit of snow on them due to the Denver blizzard a day earlier.... (more)
At speed on the way to Philly.
Santa Fe 21C arrives in the early morning at Santa Fe Junction. See comments below for possible train ID..and thanks for the correction.
The photo that wasn't ... after busting through several snowbanks at track speed, the engineer of CN's 2008 Santa Train was forced to put the train in emergency to avoid an idiot stuck on the trac... (more)
Houston...err I mean Minneapolis "we have a problem". The last of an unfortunate string of events for the Soo Line in Upper Michigan occurred on Halloween evening 1984 when the Soo Lift Bridge bec... (more)
3 SD60Mac's provide dynamic braking for a SD70ACe on a high speed test around the track.
Gotcha! You can tell who's the railfan in this shot as a Photo Charter organized by Clint Renegar with a Southern and Norfolk & Western GP30 duo passes a couple enjoying a beautiful Summer ... (more)
Most days of the week you can find UP's switch job working the tideflats district of Tacoma. Headquartered in Fife, the crew works their way through Bullfrog Junction, crosses over the Puyallup... (more)
During the 1970's, the leadership of Tom Moore was less than stellar as far as track maintenance was concerned. As a results, scenes such as this were common, and cost the railroad a lot of money... (more)
Turbine 52 and diesel helpers 235,1400B and 1420 make a run on Sherman Hill. Photo taken by Jack Pfeifer.
This car is noted as being the first all aluminum open top hopper built in the United States by Alcoa in 1931. It was the prototype car and is lettered Monon to reflect the heritage of the rail li... (more)
A cold Ely sunset. With most of the sane photographers already headed back to their hotels for hot showers, I risk the loss of some critical anatomical hardware as I shoot Nevada Northern's... (more)
Early in the morning a heavy eastbound manifest rounds a corner at Cable Crossover with its power shooting exhaust skyward.
Unstoppable movie equipment sits on the wye at Warrenton
Golden hour at Miller's Wash. With the sun descending rapidly toward the horizon, our Grand Canyon Steam Doubleheader charges across the wooden trestle over the dry stream bed known as Mill... (more)
A Face Only a Mother Could Love. With smokebox mounted air compressors, and third cylinder hidden below, UP 9000 makes its presence known as it poses for photos during a photo shoot held... (more)
Making one of the ugliest trainsets attractive could be a really tough job in other circumstances, but not on this day, when photographers got help from passengers to accomplish the task.
CNW 8042 has really dug up the gravel because of a derailment in June of 1992. The derailment occurred at the junction of CNW's Old Line and New Line in St. Francis, WI. That bent rail looks like ... (more)
