The Rotary train passes the photo charter participants.
Inspired by a photo from David Honan and the "star wars" effect shows the classic C&O pole signal at Indian displaying a rather odd and rare "double approach" indication as a heavy snow falls from... (more)
TEP70 diesel locomotive with passenger train "Kostomuksha - Saint - Petersburg" goes along Hitolanyarvi lake near Kulikovo town. That day in Karelia come first frost. Lake left already covered wi... (more)
BR Britannia Pacific No 70013 Oliver Cromwell with a return Cathedrals Express to Lonodon Waterloo passing through a series of bridges and tunnels alongside Sidney Gardens, Bath
When looking inside the cab of a Big Boy, one can see how challenging it must be to keep this beast of a steam engine running. The men who ran these monster steam locomotives were certainly a ski... (more)
This is probably Southern Pacific's Cascade crossing south over Steel Bridge in Portland.
The LV had 3 locations in the NYC harbor area where they conducted car float operations. #1 and #1A were in Jersey City. SW #108 was built in 1937-38. Here it shoves cars onto a LV barge with the... (more)
The view from the Cab of FEC 100. Thanks FEC for inviting railfans.
A historic photograph by an unknown photographer showing the LMS 'Coronation Scot' train on show at Hartford during its tour of the USA in 1939. The locomotive is actually No 6229 'Duchess of Hami... (more)
The Napa Valley Lunch Train trundles back to Napa, passing a beautiful bunch of wine grapes at the Rutherford Grove Winery. Unfortunately for the wineries, but fortunate for me, the recent frost h... (more)
Freightrain from Belarus to Polish border station Siemianowka crossing the bridge onto the lake causeway.
K-36 #481 crosses the Animas River on The "High Bridge" South of Tacoma
The H-Riverbank-Pasco 1-22 crosses the first of two bridges over the Deschutes River and is about to enter Tunnel No. 2, then onto another bridge.
The shortest Amtrak Cascads trainset, made by Talgo in Spain, waits to someday be used in service. The purpose of this trainset is for spare parts, as it includes a Bistro, baggage, and generator... (more)
ARR 4003 round new alignment 15 miles north of Anchorage. For many more new Alaska Rail photos see www.loco-photos.net
Making our way back down the mountain at 8MPH, WM 6 passes Lower Gum while a teenage girl enjoys the sights of beautiful Appalachia.
The Big Boy, number 4014 is nearing the end of its journey home to Cheyenne, WYO at Terry Ranch. Blizzard conditions with drifts covering the right of way and just a kiss of late afternoon sun hig... (more)
Merry Christmas, everyone! A westbound Union Pacific coal train led by EMD SD90MAC-H No. 8202 and two more SD9043MACs approaches Crescent, Colorado, on a very snowy April 23, 1999. Union Pacific 8... (more)
On August 17th, the NS 8020 lost the #6 traction motor while being the trailing unit on a coal train to Belews Creek Steam Station. The unit sat on the siding at Watkins until this date for a crew... (more)
Coal loads from Ohio Valley Coal's Powhatan #6 mine are seen here headed to a transloading facility on the Ohio River as they pass through one of the cuts on the scenic Captina Secondary.
APA 81 and 5 other Alcos leads a manifest, along with an embedded cut of blue coal hoppers from the Blue Looper coal train, over the top of the hill at Milepost 30. From here it is downhill to Sno... (more)
The very bad contition of the line derailed the passenger train to the south. It was full of people nad grafities...
After nailing a Strawberry truck.
As the final trace of daylight saturates the lingering clouds over the summit of the high Sierra Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr passes through Soda Springs, just west of Norden. Even running... (more)
I drove 700 miles from St. Louis, Missouri this weekend so I could both experience Horseshoe Curve for the first time and capture this beautiful steam locomotive in this fantastic setting. The wea... (more)
Union Pacific no. 5294 and SD60 no. 2210 lead a rail train to Oxnard. They will run the engines around to the northbound end and couple up the Hezog Rail Unloading Machine to the south end. Lots o... (more)
Minnesota - A Union Pacific northbound became stuck in a drift south of Ellendale, MN and rescue engine also became snowbound. The crews were extracted by emergency personnel. Late on 2/26 Hulch... (more)
A rare NS visitor makes its way up the Detroit Lakes Sub. Since the line leads to Canada, CP units normally lead here, but with this train terminating south of the border, these non CP units can ... (more)
CN 303 roars though Morris after recovering from an Emergency a few miles earlier. Note the CP Westbound train (CP 9124) in the siding at Thompson to the right of the frame.
The slogan says "We Will Deliver", well they sure delivered all right. They just didn't say when, where, and how they would deliver this brand new Nissan SUV.
A NYC Hudson departing Bear Mountain heads south to Iona Island
Like the setting sun, the days for views like this for passengers, are fading fast. In the not too distant future, the Cascades fares will entitle passengers to views of Dupont, Lakewood and Sou... (more)
Standing on the rear platform of the caboose, the brakeman is going to be enjoying a beautiful sunrise in a few minutes. PM 1225 is hustling a northbound freight past Smith Rd.
With a smoky sunset aligned with Bridge 14, this UP Oil train tiptoes gingerly across the bridge, just in case.... The dispatcher just "talked by" the crew against a red signal, as the bridge is... (more)
A PRR H9s Consoladation switcher works the depot.
On the morning of July 3, 2020, BNSF’s Denver to Laurel freight enters Himes Canyon just north of Himes, Wyoming. Himes Canyon is located between the sidings of Himes and Kane along the Bighorn ... (more)
A unique scene of vintage railroading share the spotlight at Spencer, NC...many of these locomotives never shared trackage when they were in service.
Hanging around MILW's roundhouse at Deer Lodge, Mont. on Aug. 4, 1973 was Little Joe E76 at left, Little Joes E20 and E78 setting behind electric rotary snowplow X900212 and retired box cab E25A a... (more)
KA 37 a.k.a. KA Turangga, that means "Horse", came in from behind the hills in misty morning at Lebak Jero Station.
CSX U722-10, running under trackage rights on NS’ Appalachia District as KL01, exits the West portal of Natural Tunnel with CSX 911, the Honoring First Responders unit, in the lead, with 110 emp... (more)
Flit into the night under the red-hot sky.
Pennys dancing just prior to getting crushed.
Finally! I caught a second train in good light at this location. And this was the second chance, the first spoiled by the open door of a very late Cascades 516, featuring another P32, AMTK 509. ... (more)
Wilkes-Barre by Nightfall!
A late evening train from Allentown, PA arrives at Jim Thorpe, PA, taking pause before continuing on through to Wilkes-Barre, PA.
A Lerro Producti... (more)
Mini Freight train, crosses the 207 Km bridge, near Trachina
After a 2.5 mile hike up the tracks from Hampton, we reach the first bridge over the Doe River in the Gorge. Barely visible through the trees is the darkness of tunnel #4 across the river. Needles... (more)
As the CFMG Matane turn is heading toward Matane with the 5 QNSL units it hits snow at a crossing going up a steep grade.
After more than a few dozen visits to this same location since 1989, a 15-minute lunch break from other photo work on Friday, August 26, yielded my first ever over-under moving meet! The CN U7026... (more)
Beavers caused this! On a fateful night in September 1993, Algoma Central’s ore train with SD40 184 and GP7 102 was descending a heavy grade when it discovered the right of way just ahead wash... (more)
Conway turntable on Thanksgiving 2008.
An assortment of Western Pacific GPs idles at Keddie, California, in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. GP20 2001 is coupled to GP35 3013 and GP20 2006. In the background is the famous Keddie... (more)
Cab interior of locomotive on display for 125th Anniversary of the Cajon Pass
Diesels here! Get your BNSF Diesel here! We have SD75's,SD60M's. We have what you want! We also have SD45-2's and SD40-2'S. Dont' see something you like? We probably have it here somewhere. ... (more)
Early morning freight, northbound just out of Maldon.
CN locomotive 3009 is sitting in Goodman Street yard heavily damaged, with the cab caved in and no long hood. The locomotive is here due to a collision that happened on January 3rd, 2019, when an ... (more)
On the evening of October 6, CP 114 derailed here on the CP while entering the CN Bala (directional running zone) spilling a few containers.
"Welcome Home:" Montana Rail Link SD45-2 311 returns to home rails for the first time since 2008 when it was sent to CEECo in Tacoma, Washington to be repainted into Montana Rail Links newest sche... (more)
Another view from the air of the North Carolina Transportation Museum's roundhouse and many of the Streamliners at Spencer locomotives - including the New York & Greenwood Lake's Erie E8A #833 bei... (more)
Disrupting the silence in downtown Nitro at the early morning hour of 2am, a severe thunderstorm rolls across the Kanawha Valley, bringing with it an impressive lightning show. The single yard eng... (more)
On a stormy day UP 7631 passes under a double rainbow as it heads east into Palm Springs.
Snowfighter. TGM6 locomotive clears railtracks during heavy snowfall in Moscow. The action take place on "Moscow coke and gas plant" ("MOSCOKS") railway. Part of "MOSCOKS" railway... (more)
Union Pacific Railroad's one and only high hood SD24 works the north end of Ogden's Riverdale Yard on July 24, 1980. The UP 448 was built as EMD demonstrator 5579 in July 1958 and was sold to the ... (more)
What you won't see in Trains Magazine in March of the Cumberland Maryland Locomotive Shops
While Union Pacific never painted a locomotive for the American Bicentennial, they did, however, loan E9A 951 to the Preamble Express, a special train that was to be used in the final plann... (more)
Mamiya 645 color negative
Is it a ghost or a real steam locomotive? Former EBT 0-6-0 #6 shows off her ancient lines - wooden cab, slide valves, etc. - as she slowly steams through the Connersville yard with a couple of St... (more)
Do you ever wonder how some rail lines seem to avoid the documentation of the railroad photographer? Denver & Rio Grande Western's Provo Canyon Branch did a remarkable job of doing just that for m... (more)
Relics like this slowly get consumed by mother nature. This bridge branched off the PRR/MGA/NS and followed the Monongahela River (Ten Mile Creek meets the Mon here under the bridge) down to the N... (more)
L&N entered the used locomotive market in 1963, picking up several models of Alco from the Lehigh & New England. With Alco FA2 #335 still in ex-L&NE paint scheme the units were pressed into serv... (more)
A wreck on the River Line shut the entire line down on January 27, 1979. What looks like a snow covered path in front of the auto carrier is actually the ROW. The tracks have been removed as part ... (more)
This Photo represents a bad day for this Train's crew.... After breaking TWO (2) knuckles on Crawford Hill, Just North of Alliance, NE this same train pulled the drawbar out of the first car. It... (more)
An early April morning finds a loaded ethanol train from the midwest stretched out on the sweeping curve at Klondike on BNSF's Needles Subdivision. This pretty well sums up my idea of railroading ... (more)
Not quite a diamond! The tracks leading to Exporail's main hall do not usually connect to an outside line. So when the Dominion of Canada was to be switched in and other equipment switched ... (more)
UP 6936 and UP 6900 (Retired) dual up to lead a passenger special in Omaha
ex C&NW GE C44-9W was involved in a fatal accident in Clinto Iowa. Two veteran railroaders lost their lives as a result of their locomotive running into the rear of another train.
Older EMD and GE locomotives sit at the east end of NRE’s Silvis facility. The units labeled “Lewis” are sadly destined for scrap.
In this picture, you see a set of bogies being lifted by a derrick. Its a study in RR employee hierarchy of the day...the workers in the foreground, and the bosses, who appear to be standing in t... (more)
"Through the mirror of my mind...time after time...I see reflections...of you and me..." -Holland/Dozier/Holland Jr. as sung by the Supremes 1968
Two classics. The P2a dates from 1929-30 and the S2 goes back to 1906. Honeywell Pentax H1a; Ektachrome
Steam seems to defy gravity on a cold winters day, and on this 10 degree day in Alna, Maine it wafts about effortlessly. WW&F No 9 and short freight consist are seen departing Alna Center station ... (more)
Brand new CW44AC's to RUMO LogĂstica, partnership with ALL.
In the consist of NS 13T is brand new NJT PL42AC #4011, fresh from Alstom in Hornell, NY.
Canadian National's new United Aircraft Turbo-Trains flashes by almost silently. Although loved by many, these trains were plagued by mechanical problems and were withdrawn from service for the f... (more)
In the dead line at Hollidaysburg, PA in 1964 are some Pennsy Baldwin Centipede types. Because of their 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement you might call these the 'Big Boys' of dieseldom. Only 55 were b... (more)
This ex-passenger unit is southbound on the now abandoned Santa Fe Sealy-Matagorda "Cane Belt" branch with a weed killing train.
Taking the high line! Cass Scenic Railroad #5 pushes hard towards Whittaker as Shay #4 sits before heading on down to Cass. Photo taken at the upper switch back.
The "runaway" train in the upcoming movie Unstoppable makes another trip back and forth on the old B&O bridge from Bellaire Ohio to Benwood West Virginia. Filming took place in Bellaire from Nove... (more)
Eastbound loaded coal drag, downgrade