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)
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)
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)
Amtrak 5801 and 5601 (deceased) in the Carrizo Gorge
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)
Izaak Walton Inn`s newest form of accomodation has been lifted into position and is being readied for it`s first guests.
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)
"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)
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)
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.
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)
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)
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 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.
Chesapeake & Ohio 1309 is an H-6 "Mallet" with a wheel configuration of 2-6-6-2. It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1949 to haul coal from the fields in West Virginia. It only served ... (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)
Several Montana Rail Link locomotives line the backshop of MRL’s Livingston Shops on May 7, 2012.
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)
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.
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.
This Thomas is a real steam engine (built from a Porter 0-6-0). Nikon D70.
Not as elegant as a PA, but it was all we had...
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)
Time for a little snow to cool off!!!
Cab view of an ore train derailment.
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)
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)
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 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)
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.
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)
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)
"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)
Eastbound DRGW Ski Train exiting the Moffat Tunnel
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)
The eastbound California Zephyr crosses the Colorado River as it slows for a station stop at Glenwood Springs.
On a partly sunny day, a westbound 351 (and not the only one that day) overlaps itself on the way to Vancouver during the beginning of fall in the Rockies. At this point, the westbound train is he... (more)
Touring the system, the Big Boy blasts through the rural wooded landscape still covered in colorful fall foliage.
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.
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)
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)
M of W crews worked overnight to get the line open.
L&N 1315 in very fresh paint, belches out some of that famous Alco smoke during a photo run by
The cab of Train Simulator
A Niagara brings an eastbound into the Harmon station
During one of the worst central Illinois winters in memory, a northbound "slingshot" piggyback train, powered by ICG GP35 2501, became mired in snowdrifts south of Springfield. GM&O F3s 800B and ... (more)
Virginian 127, a General Electric EL2B Rectifier awaits the next call up at Roanoke, Virginia in this 1959 view.
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)
Miss Shirley, scanner in hand, waves to the crew of NS 211 from her backyard near mp 23 on the NS B-line. Nikon D70.
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)
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)
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)
An assortment of engines of all kinds are presented in this view of LTEX's locomotive shops.
UP units in storage stretches as far as the eye can see.
The cut must be in the right order. No chance here to move one car ahead of another without going all the way back to the main. Soon the freight is delivered, the consignee is happy and people al... (more)
Three P42DC's lead a slightly late-running Empire Builder through the sweeping curves at Maple Springs. The Mississippi River has provided plenty of moisture for overnight hoarfrost on the landsca... (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)
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)
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)
A standard design scale test car owned by the State of Minnesota makes even a short 24' ore car look huge. The Missabe converted this car to scale monitoring duty.
Preparing the Spreader
The end for Mongrel 1505 came when the roundhouse burned at Iron Mountain on June 12th, 1976. Here the unit is seen at Adams headed for scrap. Photo is in my collection with no photographer inform... (more)
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.
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)
Meanwhile, at the back of the train...
After a long day on the main, Christopher Brang, a conductor for the Western Maryland Railway, takes a moment to finish up some paperwork before cal... (more)
Built by Pullman-Brill in April 1929 then converted to Diesel, and scrapped iin '63. Ansco color/color corrected in P/S.
One of three SP Bicentennial diesels...
With five new rebuilds in tow from up north, this mixed freight heads towards Rice Yard in Waycross mere miles down the line.
My uphill hike to this location hampered by a deep puncture wound from a cactus, I arrived at the edge of the cliff just in time to get this shot of Dan Munson getting the shot of two KCSM Belles ... (more)
A Reading F7 leads an A-B-B-A set with a westbound train of hopper cars and ore jennies just before T-1 2124 showed up with the Iron Horse Ramble. This was during a trainmens' strike on the Pennsy... (more)
A beautiful ariel view of the West End of the Yard in Cumberland,MD
The latest addition to the roster at Utah State Railroad Museum at Ogden is D&RGW SD40T-2 #5371. The veteran EMD was donated to the State of Utah by the Union Pacific Railroad in August 2009. Othe... (more)
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)
Freshly Restored November 17, 2019 marked the unveiling of WCRA's 6520, freshly restored and released from the paint shop in the iconic 1961 CN orange, black and white paint sch... (more)
Central Virginia is well known for its ice storms. During the early morning hours of January 21, 1978, it rained and it froze on literally everything. By sunrise, the clouds and rain were gone a... (more)
Industrial-strength hair dryer parked at Dupo
20 seconds into my time exposure and this happened. A single bolt of lightning from a severe thunderstorm moving out over the Atlantic, fanned out across the entire sky. Brand new crossing gates... (more)
A trio of CN units is pulling uphill toward the Palmer Divide passing the often-photographed barn at Greenland.
UP 4141 rests in Proviso, IL while on display for employees.
The poster is not sure if this is commuter or coach yard move. www.thedieselshop.us claims that NYC 5765-5775 GP7's were numbered 5903-5913 "while in passenger service". This was a stop on a for... (more)
Note:You do not get the full effect from the thumbnail. On this gloomy and cold day Shay #11 doubleheads with Shay #4 for the last trip to Bald Knob of the 2007 season.
Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s two new MP2000NG diesel locomotives still sit, sans trucks, near the Durango, Colorado, roundhouse on August 30, 2021. These locomotives were acquired... (more)
Running along the Turnagain Arm between Anchorage and Portage, an Alaska RR coal train from Healy to Seward continues its journey south on a chilly March morning.
We have a saying in Britain..."You wait all day for a bus, then 3 come at once". Well, you`ve gone one better! 4445 and 9025 head a train of school buses through Rock Springs.WY.
