Union Pacific Challenger 3985 sits inside the UP Steam Shop with her smokebox door opened, giving a rare view of the inside of her smokebox.
Almost daily, Seaboard operated No. 88 in 2 (or more) sections. No. 88 was a workhorse on the Virginia Division handling interchange traffic with connecting railroads and setoffs and pickups at v... (more)
Big Boy And The Big Easy. On the afternoon of Friday, August 20, 2021, Union Pacific Railroad's 4-8-8-4 4014 (Big Boy) crossed the Mississippi River over Huey P. Long Bridge with the city o... (more)
Norfolk Southern dynamic brake slug RPU6D #890 tags along with SD33ECO #6213 to work a cut of cars at the north end of Brosnan Yard. The RPU6D slug provides additional tractive effort as well as d... (more)
Canada's "Rosie" After spending an afternoon making her CN Mogul look pristine, this Canadian "Rosie" takes a minute to enjoy the warm evening light that's bathing the T... (more)
Westbound train #45, The Tennessean, about to make its station stop at Glade Springs, VA on a snowy, yet busy February day in 1962.
Alcos A9108 and A9104 head on some tank cars on the way to the oil refinery. This train runs every 20 days about.
Snow continues to fall as Monty, the BNSF dispatcher, informs the crew of this heavy eastbound that they will be waiting in the siding at Scenic to allow Amtrak #8 to "Run Around." About an hour l... (more)
CP 9756 + CP 9159 pull 87 cars with ease breaking a fresh trail on the rail.
Alaska Railroads first passenger train of the morning is about to cross under the highway to Seward as the train itself makes its way to Seward. Interestingly the railroad is physically shorter th... (more)
Like a restless bull, she waits for the highball in the snow, rain, and steam.
Rolling North to Chicago after a 7:30 AM departure from Saint Louis Union Station. These units are now powered by 16-645Es and have D 78 traction motors. 949, 951 and 963B were UP units that went ... (more)
Has left Ann Arbor Ferry yard. AA RS 1 # 21 has crossed the diamond and is now backing up and getting onto the old abandoned EX NYC Ypsilanti branch here at Pittsfield Jct. The former depot sa... (more)
Whether you consider this vandalism or an urban expression of art, there is no disputing that the tag on UP 2187 (SD60) is bold. Many of the engines sitting in the Dead Line at the Burnham Shops ... (more)
Transitioning on a beautiful spring day over Norfolk Southern's massive Inman Yard. Also in the frame, above and to the right, is CSX's Tilford Yard. Special thanks to Chris Starnes.
It’s 11:45 a.m. and we’re running a couple hours late, meeting and passing through plenty of BNSF freight traffic in Iowa aboard Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr on November 7, 2018. Cru... (more)
UP 6904 leads the deadline at Yermo. 25 of her bretheren were reseurrected for one last go round hauling trains before they were all shut down permanently with the exception of the 6936.
An unidentified Erie FT A-B-B-A set leads a westbound freight at Hancock. The eastbound semaphore signal has not yet cleared from the freight headed by the F3 set.
NSHR 44 makes its way through the snow by the Rupert Covered Bridge.
Severed—forever?In early March 2014, a 30-foot boulder came crashing down the mountainside above Minturn, slamming onto the Tennessee Pass main line below while breaking in two and de... (more)
Several Montana Rail Link locomotives line the backshop of MRL’s Livingston Shops on May 7, 2012.
Amtrak 5801 and 5601 (deceased) in the Carrizo Gorge
Who said you can't see the end of a rainbow! Look at the cart near the center of the photo...looks like the end to me...however, I didn't see a pot of gold! A huge storm front just passed over the... (more)
The weekly Pan Am Southern Bellows Falls, VT to Portland, ME limestone slurry train is seen rolling through the New England Central Railroad Bellows Falls tunnel with MEC ex-CSXT B40-8 5933 and 59... (more)
A Richard Beal photo: While riding a fantrip behind the CN 6167, a stop in Stratford finds Richard shooting the deadline, here we see two of the same class of CN 4-8-4s, the 6200 unstreamlined ... (more)
A lone rafter floats down the Colorado River as a westbound BNSF manifest freight rumbles through Tunnel’s 39 and 40 in Little Gore Canyon west of Azure, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 4, ... (more)
The 6:15 p.m. outbound Northstar departure rockets across the Mississippi River bridge on a rainy January night.
A magnificant winter scene...as breathtaking as it is, if you look closely youll see the uP 585 working Eastbound on the #1 track. The low clouds, snow covered scenery and light snowfall make for ... (more)
Westbound N&W empty hopper train at track speed through Elliston, VA in February 1955. Bob Drake photo, Collection of Tom Sink.
A westbound freight emerges from the tunnel at Gallitzin
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Union Pacific's El Segundo Local heads east from its namesake town, passing a cement plant that is not railroad served. This job's power is left unattended during off hours and the local taggers h... (more)
An Erie built workhorse spooks a pair of local Amish workhorses (you can see the other just to the left of the barn) residing at a local farm just outside of Dalton, WI. The pair of horses had be... (more)
What was once a bustling yard at the north end of the L&N is now home to hundreds of stored rail cars. Some of these will be rebuilt by Progress Rail (buildings visible at the top of the photo), b... (more)
brand new csx unit and one of the first to be in the yn3 scheme for their new order
The hot Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z-train waste no time making track speed up the more than 2% grade of Tehachapi Pass as it snakes through the curves of Allard. This train had to stopped... (more)
The frames of either 755 or 760 lies in the yard of the BCR Workshops at Squamish in August 1985. Purchased new in 1980, both 755 and 760 were wrecked in June 1984 and were both retired the same y... (more)
Izaak Walton Inn`s newest form of accomodation has been lifted into position and is being readied for it`s first guests.
A former Grainbelt covered hopper damaged in a derailment several years ago now serves as an overhead feed bin on a farm West of Ringwood, OK. A closer inspection of what seems to be an otherwis... (more)
On the completely rebuilt feeder line from Solothurn to the new NBS (New highspeed line Mattstetten-Rothrist) near Inkwil you can find this special equilateral switch. The 164 meter long switch ha... (more)
"Welcome to America" ALP-45A 4538 has just completed its month's long journey across the Atlantic Ocean from Kassel, Germany to Port Newark, NJ and is being wheeled off the Atlantic St... (more)
In perhaps the only location in the world that you can photograph a train through a natural arch, Union Pacific’s Potash local heads north into Bootlegger Canyon on May 12, 2006. This train norm... (more)
On a gorgeous spring evening, two BNSF C44-9W's lead a northbound stack train across the vast open spaces near Norfolk, Colorado on April 9, 2018.
Inside the heart of a steam locomotive Well, maybe the boiler is the heart, but perhaps we can think of the firebox as where a locomotive gets her “life.†The famous Union Pacific N... (more)
BNSF 7421 leads grain loads around the famous curve at Home Valley bound for export at some Pacific Ocean port.
Hometown Hero At Hometown Trestle. With its restoration essentially complete and a few smaller test runs under its belt, the Reading & Northern Railroad decided put RBMN T-1 2102 (4-8-4) to... (more)
The proud owner of the "Spirit of the Conrailer", Douglas Woodard, watches a westbound CSX train roll through Berea. This truck was formerly the "Spirit of the Conrail 7", and used to be in CSX YN... (more)
When most people think of New England, quaint villages and fall colors are the first things that spring to mind. Go back 100 years and more, however, and you'd find a region filled with factories ... (more)
January 26th, 2:09 PM. Union Pacific steam locomotive 4014 is carefully backed into a storage track at West Colton California. All eyes of the crewmen are on the ridged truck frame of the massive ... (more)
After derailing while trying to back into the museum the evening before, just about every maintenance crew from Oakland to Truckee is on hand to make sure there aren't any more mishaps, before 844... (more)
On the Fallbridge Sub, a westbound coal drag, with BNSF 6337 on the point, exits tunnel 10 with coal hoppers strung out on the causeway at chamberlain Lake.
An eastbound New York Central freight passes through Teaneck in the morning with an F7 A-B F3 A combination pulling. The center tracks have recently been taken out of service and will be removed i... (more)
Season's Greeetings and Happy Harleydays to all railpictures.net contributors and viewers from the Godfather. This view is a sister image to this Railroad: Pennsylvania RailroadLocomotive: Steam 4-4-0Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USALocomotive #: PRR 1223Train ID: Holiday trainPhoto Date: December, 1966
A midday NJ Transit Northeast Corridor local bound for New York crosses the Passaic River on track 1 moments after departing Newark Penn Station. The impressive pair of movable bridges at DOCK i... (more)
Wabash train #111 The Banner Blue (Chicago to St. Louis)with Alco PA-1 #1020 and #1020A stopped at Delmar station 5.6 miles from Union Station. Photo taken from my slide collection, photographer A... (more)
Southern Railway SD40 #3170 rests outside the NS paint shop at sunset in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Within a few hours, it will be cranked up and running, being prepared for revenue service after ha... (more)
Troublesome Gensets MBTA's duo of gensets idle at the BET. These two units are plagued with engine issues and are rarely used for operations that aren't within a few miles of somewhere the... (more)
The eastbound California Zephyr crosses the Colorado River as it slows for a station stop at Glenwood Springs.
Looking mighty forlorn due to extensive vandalism and site flooding. Thankfully, it was rescued by the Illinois Railway Museum and now resides in Union, IL.
Touring the system, the Big Boy blasts through the rural wooded landscape still covered in colorful fall foliage.
While the 822 was the star of the show more times than not, there were a few times the 406 was head out during the Exhibit Train's travels.
While riding the Verde Canyon Railroad, I had the opportunity to talk with the bartender, Kenna. She was a very nice person to talk to about railroading, and she enjoys working for the railroad. P... (more)
A glorious winter day is upon the Tehachapi Loop as a quintet of modern and classic power leads a stack train up the mountain toward Tehachapi, Mojave, Barstow, and points beyond.
Not as elegant as a PA, but it was all we had...
A Chesapeake and Ohio Mallet runs again! WMSR / C&O 1309 is fired up and takes its first steps outside of the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad's shops in Ridgeley. Constructed in 1949, C&O 1309 ... (more)
2.5hrs of logging roads and a 1 hour hike deep into the Northern Main woods will lead you to the remains of the Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad. The equipment of the isolated line was walked a... (more)
This Thomas is a real steam engine (built from a Porter 0-6-0). Nikon D70.
Coke out of the refineries in Billings is often run in unit trains to west coast ports for Export. Here one of those export trains crosses Greenhorn Creek.
The remains of Milwaukee Road E7(A)20B. That Milwaukee Road accident happened on the C&M sub, just north of Hwy 50, in Kenosha County (Truesdell). The passenger train rear-ended the stopped local... (more)
M of W crews worked overnight to get the line open.
The cab of Train Simulator
Time for a little snow to cool off!!!
Second view of a photographer's delight. A lashup in Vermont's beautiful Northeast Kingdom. A visit to St. Johnsbury was like a visit to a candy store in that era- so much to choose from. To the ... (more)
Virginian 127, a General Electric EL2B Rectifier awaits the next call up at Roanoke, Virginia in this 1959 view.
"40 Years Later, Conrail Still Lives in the Bronx" The Consolidated Rail Corporation, known to all of us as Conrail, was the Primary Class I railroad in the northeast created by the gover... (more)
An assortment of engines of all kinds are presented in this view of LTEX's locomotive shops.
Cab view of an ore train derailment.
Stearns, KY was roughly mid-way between Cincinnati and Chattanooga on Southern Railway's Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific subsidiary. A northbound local behind heavy USRA Mike 6319 (Souther... (more)
UP units in storage stretches as far as the eye can see.
SLRG 576 & 578 sit wasting away shoved off on a side track in Canton, MS. At one point Iowa Pacific intended to run a dinner train out of Canton with them; however, now that the line from Canton t... (more)
Eastbound DRGW Ski Train exiting the Moffat Tunnel
L&N 1315 in very fresh paint, belches out some of that famous Alco smoke during a photo run by
Downhill freight patiently waits 'in the hole' at Gala as a westbound charges past uphill. Both trains are headed by the standard configuration of a brace of QJs.
The Orange Blossom Special operated Between New York and Miami (with a section that served Tampa/St. Petersburg) only during the winter vacation season. The classic heavyweight consist had been eq... (more)
It's raining cats and dogs, it's pitch black outside; time to watch a movie with the girlfriend/wife... NOT! With the aid of Ziploc bags over the flashes, here is MMA #1 flying by at 30 mph toward... (more)
A Niagara brings an eastbound into the Harmon station
There aren't too many trains that traverse the line south of Portage in the Winter. One such train is the 110S seen here at Bird Point. As the Port of Anchorage is not ice free occasionally a barg... (more)
As seen from the flying bridge of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class USS McClusky (FFG 41). Built at the San Pedro Todd Shipyard, which closed in 1988, it was commissioned Dec. 10, 1983, in Long Beach.... (more)
