The ladies are lined up for a late afternoon shot...my goodness, it looks like 4418 "pooted"
NS train 38T rolls eastbound along the Canisteo River behind brand new ES44AC #8852.
It's just another day at work for the engineer aboard one of the Maumee & Western's two former Santa Fe GP7U's as he carefully guides his train over the poorly maintained mainline near Okolona. Th... (more)
I hope you have your hearing protection on. For additonal views of #51 on this day, click "UP 51" above. This unit was the first production turbine. Number 50 was a double-ended demonstrator.
Storage line of SD40 , SD40-2 , and C39-8 locomotives.
It's 6:18 am in the Hawks Nest Gorge as westbound coal empties work their way through Ansted and points west during a beautiful morning glow.
The Lake Superior Railroad Museum helped celebrate the gold spike anniversary today as well as the 30th anniversary of the museum's operating arm the North Shore Scenic Railroad. What a fun was to... (more)
In 1941, three of Southern Pacific's Baldwin-built P-10 4-6-2 "Pacifics" were streamlined with skyline casings and side skirts, looking very much like a "baby" GS-4s. Engines 2484-2486 were used t... (more)
The Death of a Boxcar! This car and the tanker in the background, were involved in the 10/17/2007 derailment at Steilacoom. Photo of the pile up - Railroad: BNSF RailwayLocomotive: n/aLocation: Tacoma, Washington, USALocomotive #: n/aTrain ID: n/aPhoto Date: November 19, 2007
The man standing by the pole lower left later jumped onboard the slow mowing freight train.
On a dark and gloomy morning, BO-1 delivers two loaded boxcars to the last remaining Boston area customer: Boston Paper Board. The last known switch for this customer was back in 2012!
Mohawk #3001 poses for the first night photo session put on by newly created Milepost 25 Productions at the National New York Central RR Museum in Elkhart, IN. A fog machine and boxfan were rigged... (more)
A BNSF train lost its air brakes and turned into a runaway train that ended up in CP's Pig's Eye Yard.
A steam powered suburban train emerges from the C&NW's Chicago passenger terminal (now Metra's Olgilvie Transportation Center) in this 1952 view by photographer Wallace W. Abbey. Courtesy of the <... (more)
Home Free and Kira Isabella are mid-performance while the CP 2249 idles in the calm cold evening air during Canadian Pacific's Holiday Train stop in Minot.
Where SD40s no longer tread. A view taken inside the DW&P's curved 520-ft tunnel in far western Duluth. Blasted out in 1912, this rugged line into Duluth was abandoned in 1984 when the Peg started... (more)
A bird's eye view of the test track showing Maglev entering Ogatayama bridge. On the right hand side is the power sub-station.
Conway Scenic Railroad Extra 573 crosses Willey Brook Bridge in the first revenue freight run over the former Maine Central Mountain Division since 1983, as a Public Service of NH helicopter tags ... (more)
...and the Florida East Coast was changed forever. One of many new GE ES44C4 locomotives that now belong to the FEC. Some may not be a fan of the new motive power, but no one can argue about the... (more)
UP4430 east descends Solider Summit in a colorful Price River Canyon. The heavy manifest was pushed up the west slope by a manned helper out of Helper, UT. The helper units are still clinging on... (more)
A trio of Union Pacific SD7s and SD40-2s await an assignment at UP North Yard in Salt Lake City. It appears there must have been a big rain shower earlier in the day.
N&W 382 has just paused into position on the turntable at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. An additional museum piece sits on display, making for a good comparison of two generations of locomo... (more)
Descending on the old south track in Cajon Pass, the Rio Grande heritage unit passes Stein's Hill and approaches SR 138 in the late afternoon sunlight.
A eastbound coal load is racing a gust front from a line of thunderstorms on a warm summer evening west of Hebron,ND 8/10/07. The field of sunflowers in the foreground are in full bloom, and are f... (more)
Late on a very hot summer afternoon, an eastbound loaded coal train is in the charge of a half-dozen big GEs working hard up the 1% grade out of Woodside. The massive Book Cliffs loom in the dist... (more)
Nickel Plate Road 765 and NS/NKP 8100 lead train 958, the Harrisburg Division employee excursion, across Rockville Bridge as the F units lead train 956, a deadhead business train, eastbound. For m... (more)
Previously owned by Canadian National, but now owned by Norfolk Southern
CP's new military themed SD70ACUs head to be positioned for public viewing on Remembrance Day at the Ogden Yard in Calgary. You may be wondering why the decals aren't applied to the conductors sid... (more)
The secret is out, the Heber Valley is the place to be for winter steam photography! It's warmed up and the beaver pond has melted enough to reveal a great reflection!
This slide is almost 43 years old, I have no idea what train that was, I was 17 and on my first long trip alone. Note the old GM bus on the bridge and the raised NP on the B unit and the old RPO... (more)
Picnic at Camp Creek. A young couple enjoying a quiet picnic in the meadow below Camp Creek Trestle has their discussions interrupted by the passage of a Southern Freight, headed to a nearb... (more)
Four LTV F9's await the scrappers torch after derailing in January of 1997. The runaway train claimed units 4212, 4213, 4220, and 4221. The crew was injured but survived.
UP 5128 West, a long stack train headed for the West Coast, catches the intense reflection of sunset from one of the buildings in the Dallas skyline as it crosses the Trinity River Bridge.
Most, if not all of this will more than likely be scrap metal or razor blades pretty soon with the announcement of this plant closing up shop.
Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
Just after a hard rainfall, Q316-05 heads west to Grafton through the streets of St. Mary's, WV with two EMD Tier 4 demonstrators on the point.
Recreating the classic A.J. Russell photo on the 137th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike.
The "Riding Mountain Park" has been stored in New Orleans and is now on the rear of this evening's long CNO train to Chicago. The dome car is destined for Michigan to use in dinner train service.
BAR Geep and M-K TE 50-4S pause at the turntable. The BAR was testing this Sulzer engined unit; it can now be found on the Morristown & Erie.
According to the Union Pacific Railroad, "A grading crew of 30 to 40 men began work on California’s Bloomer Cut in February 1864, using primitive hand tools and blasting powder to remove 40,000 ... (more)
Still under CN control, an eastbound Turbo swooshes under the bridge at Norman St in 1977. Via rail had not yet officially started running Canada's passenger trains, hence the red 'CN' on the nose... (more)
A Canadian National empty coal train works upgrade on the Luscar Industrial Spur near Cadomin, Alberta, on August 8, 2016. The curious jog in the track 5 cars back is where a switch was once locat... (more)
In the days when a casual stroll through an engine terminal was still possible – and interesting -- the line-up at Southern Pacific’s Bayshore near San Francisco on a September afternoon in 19... (more)
Shortly after sunrise on January 30, 1966, here comes Rio Grande’s famous Ski Train, just past Rocky siding and ready to dig into the 2 percent grade that begins at Little Ten Curve. In the next... (more)
Slip-way Buczyniec is a only place in all over the world where is usable track to move ships and yachts in order to overcome the vertical distance between one canal and another.
F. Nelson Blount thought he had found a the perfect sight for his collection of steam locomotives when he set up the museum in Walpole, NH. Soon after this shot he found a better sight across the... (more)
Hulcher crews prepare to remove the head end of the Loram Railgrinder involved in last night's collision with NS 214. The underside of RG306 can be seen across the tracks.
Union Pacific northbound freight train about to enter the Ostrander Tunnel just north of Kelso, Washington, shrouded by bigleaf maple trees at peak fall color. The photo was made while heading hom... (more)
Odd to see so many CP units in Sandpoints little UP yard linking the UP to the BNSF and MRL. But look at this picture. Do you notice anything very, very wrong? (Don't point out whats actual... (more)
Trains Unlimited photo freight backed under rainbow created from opening 473's cylinder cocks. The 1950's era "Bumblebee" scheme looked sharp on the former Denver & Rio Grande Western RR K-28 Alco... (more)
Whilst resurfacing the platform an apprentice was left in charge of the roller and promptly dropped it over the edge, unfortunately right in front of a Southend-Liverpool St service.
In the shops for testing and familiarization before stretching its legs on the corridor. It even has that "new car smell." Photo taken on RR property with permission.
The Mark Twain Zephyr is on the move again, but not on it's own power, after many years of being stored at the Joliet arsenal it was moved to the Relco Yard in Minooka, IL. Now Relco is moving to ... (more)
In a timely appearance by the crew, MM&A 710 drifts into Newport under a complimentary sky at 04:47! Wearing the Heritage paint of former owner BNSF, the little B23-7 glows under the flash lightin... (more)
A massive cloud of fugitive dust rises as an ore train dumps into the dock while the Canadian Steamship Line's vessel Rt. Hon. Paul J. Martin loads. CN does have a water deluge system on the appro... (more)
I found this old slide taken by my friend David DeVault. It's the color version of a unit I also photographed (in black and white) that same summer: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id... (more)
Mamiya 645 color negative
From the Amtrak Historical Society website: "Less well-known (then the X995) is X996, known at the time as the "French Fry". This locomotive's 1977 visit to the United States was m... (more)
Driving along Route 20 through Upstate we came across this Old New York Central E8A unit sitting outside some building, we did a backround check on this unit and found a picture of the unit going ... (more)
One of three EMD/BN Prototype SD60MAC's, BN 9500 leads an eastbound manifest train out of BN's Eola Yard, while Brand New BN coal hoppers head west for their first revenue run.
NS 145 leads a westbound train that includes 14 brand new units from GE's Erie, PA plant. The new units were 7 for Ferro Sur and 7 for Ferromex. The location is Lafayette Junction, Lafayette, IN. ... (more)
Conrail 6048 "Flames it up" as she throttles up to continue west at East Conway
Happiness is finding a string of bright blue Rock Island hopper cars in your hometown! ROCK 700193 and company are at Provo Yard, ready to be loaded with Utah bituminous coal on June 25, 1978.
A lady employee who's new to SP's Roseville engine facility turns to say something funny to her supervisor as she fuels SD9E No. 4403.
Winchester & Western's unique slug sits at the company's New Jersey base in Bridgeton. The unit started life as an Alco RS11 on the Pennsylvania Railroad, then was converted to a slug by Conrail. ... (more)
I'm not sure exactly what caused this incident, but judging by the damage I would say there was some rough train handling involved. Huron & Eastern's daily northbound road freight 701 was almost t... (more)
The Nevada State Railroad Museum unveiled its restored McKeen Motor Car to the public on May, 9, 2010, 100 years to the day after the car's original arrival in Carson City. The car was delivered n... (more)
Union Pacific's M-K-T, "Katy" inspired 'Heritage' painted SD70ACe locomotive is unveiled at Proviso Yard.
We ran across the southbound mixed train behind K2a 129 waiting at Luray on our way home from Roanoke. The mixed was in the hole for a northbound freight that sped through behind a Y6b. The soft l... (more)
Night is falling at 5.20 PM in the Albula valley, when "Allegra" railcar ABe 8/12 # 3502 is pulling the six panorama cars of the BERNINA EXPRESS (BEX 950) from Tirano to Chur over the 65 metre hig... (more)
While a Union Pacific manifest rolls by underneath, a BNSF grain peeks out of the Oregon Trunk's Columbia River crossing.
Situated at the eastern base of the Rio Grande’s crossing of the Wasatch Range is the appropriately named town of Helper, Utah. After making a sprint over the relatively flat line across the des... (more)
UP 4014's 23-car passenger train brings traffic on Interstate-15 to an almost complete standstill as folks, likely retuning home from a trip to Las Vegas, witness the only operational "Big Boy" st... (more)
During the final months of testing of the Advanced Passenger Train, a set is seen heading south descending from Shap
9011 overturned when K-959 hit K-960 head-on on 9/22/05.
A herd of zebras! Pacific Harbor Line's Pier A Yard includes their enginehouse. PHL is the first railroad in America with an all-"green" roster. Seen here, from left to right, are low-emis... (more)
UP 7605 the new GE Evolution series locomotive passes the remains of a water tower used first for steam locomotives and last for the west bound pig train on it's way to Long Beach
CBR 2448 leads its train bound for Eugene as it crosses North Tenmile Lake near Lakeside, Oregon on June 21, 2018. Photo by Dan. R. Scheidell.
While much of the east coast is covered in snow, snow and more snow, out in western Washington, it's no snow. Instead we get to enjoy the third spectacular sunset in a row on the Puget Sound. To... (more)
An Amish farmer waits patiently whilst Strassburg 90 passes with an early morning passenger train.
Train derailment in Esquel due to strong wind. We were the first to give assistance with forest wardens
On a beautiful summer afternoon in Erwin, Tennessee, two Generations of GE locomotives await assignment at the former Clinchfield Diesel Shop. CSXT 3251 is a new GE ET44AH, and meets all of the T... (more)
A summer '76 vacation in search of BiCenntennial locomotives found KCS's version among my least favorites none the less unusual to say the least. I believe they had a couple painted in similar pai... (more)
