Inside Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Alliance Diesel Shop is a group of hard-working coal-hauling EMD SD70MACs on July 21, 2003.
The Empire State Express rolls under a rather unique signal gantry at Rochester's depot trackage. For more views of the action that day see GodfatherRai... (more)
2 UP SD70ACe's sandwhich NS research car #32, on the point of a 995 test train. The train is pulling across the ex-Virginian diamond into South Yard. Another SD70ACe and 2 brand new GE c45ACCTE'... (more)
Eclectic Mix- WC,BCOL,CN,GTW & IC power sit out the summer of 2011 with an uncertain fate. Woodcrest Shops, South Lot.
Now departing on Track 1... There's one of these saved in Baltimore. Ansco color/color corrected in P/S
A more than impressive shelf cloud precludes normal switching activities as a severe thunderstorm rolls into Kansas City. There was at least a 60 MPH wind gust associated with this a few minutes ... (more)
Wampum, Pennsylvania: A small town of 717 residents - the hometown of a former infamous Major League Baseball player, a current National Hockey League defenseman, and is mentioned in the 19... (more)
After sitting for two weeks after bringing in an empty train the Pennsylvania Railroad heritage unit is finally receiving some attention. The CP hopper ahead of it was a bad order set out from an... (more)
"Just a bit to the left!" NN Steam Crane A prepares to set a flat car back on the tracks.
After a rebuild at Norfolk Southern's Juniata Shop in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and restoration into its original Southern Railway paint scheme at the Chattanooga locomotive shop, Southern SD40 #3170... (more)
Passanger train Ryazanovka - Krivandino near Shatura city on Meshchera Lowlands. Meshchera is one of the most spectacular places in Moscow Region.
What a sight! Two Soo Line SD60s together with the St. Paul skyline as the backdrop. This very short freight heads through Dayton's Bluff back to Pigs Eye Yard. Dayton's Bluff is a natural funnel ... (more)
FEC crews check out two jackknifed doublestack cars that are resting on top of the main line after FEC train 226 north derailed coming out of the north end of the Pineda siding. To the right, anot... (more)
Waiting for a downhill train, this eastbound stack waits at Sky.
A grimy East German 118 (former V180 type) diesel-hydraulic is about to depart for the Ost Zone with the 09.29 Munich to Dresden and Gorlitz D train. The DB 220 that brought the train from Regensb... (more)
With only seconds to spare, the window presented itself with a clear view of the drivers and the rods down in this *** Triple Header Pace *** photo featuring (2) former Jito... (more)
From a negative in my archive by an unknown photographer, NYC Hudson No 5217 gets a mail train rolling out of Marion, Ohio.
Traffic in Georgetown encounters an unexpected delay as the "Edwin Brazelton Snead" heavyweight passenger car is moved at walking speed for roughly three miles. This car was formerly the Missouri-... (more)
Soo Line tested the Burlington Northern SD60MACs in 1993. Nos. 9500, 9503 and 9502 lead Soo Line train No. 430 up 2nd street in downtown Bellevue, Iowa, on October 17, 1993.
I spent a good many hours here that day and watched plenty of repair truck heading down the line towards Invermere. Fed up I headed north only to be met by this train heading south after about 30 ... (more)
This the Kalama Export Grain facility, with the Columbia River in the foreground and the BNSF Seattle Sub just beyond the ring of grain cars. The New Legacy has arrived and crews are getting her... (more)
Does this count as street running? PRR Class K4s.
At the entrance to the Lehigh Gorge State Park just outside of Jim Thorpe, one can still see what's left of the impressive original CNJ track alignment from White Haven to Jim Thorpe - amazingly c... (more)
Heading east via the MRL.
The westbound SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF sits in Amarillo behind a set of A-A-B-A Alco units.
Passing through remarkable Sheep Canyon is BNSF’s Cowley turn returning to Greybull, Wyoming, on June 22, 2016. Two recently reactivated EMD SD70MACs power the southbound train that is following... (more)
BNSF's 2019 Employee Special rolls west though Cloquet on the Lakes Subdivision after boarding passengers at Carlton.
Northern Pacific #7012A, now owned by the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad, joined Polson Logging Co. #70 on an excursion to Tacoma for the opening of the LeMay Auto Museum. Here the locomotive is seen... (more)
An EMDX SD70ACe, SD60MAC, and SD90MAC-H sit at the EMD LaGrange plant in McCook, IL. In the background you can see a former SP tunnel motor, a BNSF SD70ACe, and a KCS SD70MAC.
Originally built as MILW 189 in 1974, WE 7355 is currently being rebuilt by the W&LE. Several "AWVR 1206" panels from the movie Unstoppable... (more)
In Tehachapi Pass on a very hot day, long train of BNSF railway going down the slope of Bealville, CA. They can be observed both ends of the train.
Y6 2154 sits at Shaffers Crossing facing west.
Operating as NS train 958, the Petersburg-bound "Cavalier" excursion train crosses the curved trestle over Eagle Creek, east of Lynchburg.
It's sunset, and the Darwin Award candidates make their appearance again. This is one of the new Class 10M Metro trains, but despite the diminished clingon possibilities these guys still manage to... (more)
The 03.57 train for Paris St-Lazare waits to leave Dieppe Maritime after connecting with the ferry from Newhaven, England. To-day nothing remains of the railway in this harbour, the ships having b... (more)
The colors of dusk on the James River are displayed beautifully at Lyle as this grain train moves eastbound towards Richmond.
Back in the days of operating steel mills in Pittsburgh, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad served this mill and PAT streetcars on Route 64 passed by. One car was late, thanks very much for that bit o... (more)
BNSF 1993 leads the Pikes Peak Local through the post-hoar frost wintry scene in Palmer Lake, CO. Learn more at Joint Range R... (more)
Derailment at Tehachapi Loop. Happened the day before and the track has been replaced here with the first train due through the wreck scene in a few minutes. Loaded auto racks have been moved asid... (more)
This type is not legal to operate on the road so if you have an old jeep laying around you might want to try this. It worked pretty well.
Fresh out of the Plainfield, CT paint booth, PW 4005 is seen in the Worcester, MA shop on April 24, 2011.
The switch heaters work away on this snowy day as an empty CSX slab train slows to a stop at the EAS signals.See more photos on my Flickr site: more)
Lots of flavor in this consist as all 5 units are different. Leading is CSX 551 (AC4400CW), CSX 5443 (ES44DC), CSX 692 (AC6000CW), CSX 7382 (C40-8W) and HLCX 6312 (SD40-2) heading northbound into... (more)
SP 4449 steams east through the rock cuts at Lyle, WA during an excursion in May 2001.
VIA's stainless steel Chaleur consist crossing high above the beach at St. Therese amid Mother Nature's inventive Gaspe' weather at 11:29.
The newest coal mine in the US, built in 2009 is now loading upwards of 53,000 tons of coal a day for export. After the crash of 2015 and demand for coal softening, the future of this new mine was... (more)
An Eastbound manifest rounds the curve at Browning with a snow covered background, headed towards Havre with a large assortment of power.
Celebrity geep UP 1124 passes a WB Canadian grain and someones unfortunate automobile mistake. Just another day in North Portland.
The first train after the Christmas snowstorm encountered an iced over crossing just outside the small town of Rockville, MN.
LV 213 move the LV wreck train back to the Mechanical track. In 1975 this yard was very active, today only the main line next to the station is all that is left.
As seen from the cab of Western Maryland Scenic Railroad B32-8 #558, 1309 pulls in to Frostburg with the Trains Magazine hopper-train fall photo charter.
The UP E units cross the Joso bridge into Washington with a railtour.
Following up Monday's Green Mountain Railroad freight #263 snow moving venture through the Green Mountains, VRS dispatched GMRC's Russel snowplow, X106, Tuesday, to clear the rest of the line and ... (more)
Shortly before sunrise the 489 and a work train make a photo runby at Lava. In the background the San Luis Valley is covered by fog with a few hill tops looking like islands. Our train was heade... (more)
The grade has lightened up a bit as these two pusher locomotives coast in a light throttle as the southbound it is assisting rolls through the dip at Toms Bottom. The train has just completed a 7 ... (more)
Perhaps the first made from scratch SD70ACe is A&M 70. All of the hood doors were fabricated, the pilot sheet is new, but the inverter cabinet panels are coming from EMD. The trucks are just sho... (more)
What the hell is the man doing with his locomotive? What looks like a steam engine, produces the same noises with the help of loudspeakers and let escape some steam from the cylinders, is in reali... (more)
to the Creation I. A real workshop, not for visitors. The narrow gauge 492 requires a complete renovation. The 324 is waiting for the normal maintenance behind the boiler of 492. Significan... (more)
Amtrak Business Car Beach Grove on the Capitol Corridor inaugural run, Jack London Square, Oakland. Newspaper photog wandered into my picture - you have to live with that!.
Erie F3 units 714-D,C,B,A sit alongside FT set 704 at Secaucus. The F3 set was purchased from the defunct NYO&W. Coincidence had it that a friend and I were there that day to photograph the NYO&W ... (more)
If memory serves, the turn between Eufaula and Ozark was down to three days a week by 1975, but I cannot remember if it was a roundtrip on M-W-F, or wb to Ozark on M-W-F, and eb back to Eufaula on... (more)
Slightly over three hours into the new month, a heavy loaded coal train slips on wet snow covered rail as it climbs the final of three stiff grades over the New River Subdivision from Gauley to Pr... (more)
Cable car in San Francisco, California, in 1959 on the California Street Line near the intersection with Stockton Street. The California Street Line dates back to 1878 and Leland Stanford’s Cali... (more)
Via's westbound Canadian is just minutes from a stop at Jasper.
GEVO 8711 heading up a hotshot 100 series intermodal train, glides downhill through Morant's Curve.
Former Union Pacific Chairman and CEO John C. Kenefick and wife Hani stand beside the UP Centennial 6900 as it takes a break from its move to its new home at Kenefick Park.
Q353 is in the middle of a parade of westbounds who had to wait for 2 eastbounds to clear J&L Tunnel which was having signal problems and all trains had to stop and proceed to get through. Dark s... (more)
A lucky break in the clouds catches the K1 on Glenfinnan viaduct in the last week of the Jacobite Steam Train season.
A few miles south of where I-90 crosses the Columbia River in eastern Washington is a quiet town called Beverly. Tucked against the slowly-drifting river in the shadow of the Saddle Mountains, Bev... (more)
It's May Day 1955, what better excuse for an excursion led by a PRR K4s? #7133, freshly wiped down by it's engineman, is ready to reverse back to the platform under the guidance of what is likely... (more)
After a long difficult climb - for the photographers - we are rewarded with this view of the eastbound California Zephyr. The scenery out here in the Utah desert is stark, and striking.
A view from an excrsion train is captured by John's camera, out on the mainline enroute to Pittsburgh. John rode a fantrip from Massillon, OH to Pittsburgh before riding the Pittsburgh & Shawmut ... (more)
The Stump Dodger in its element. Because of the extensive gold dredging along the Powder River in the early 1900s, much of the 5-mile right of way of the current Sumpter Valley Railroad is ... (more)
Jupiter was made in 1979 to replace the engine borrowed from "Hollywood" to celebrate the Centennial year celebration of 1969. Prior to this there was just a simple white, slanted monument with a ... (more)
A Santa Fe northbound freight passes through Cameron, Texas, on March 6, 1974, behind an A-B-B-B set of F-units. Lead unit 332L was one of seven former red/silver passenger cab units to receive th... (more)
A DMU IC to North, near Kalipefki station
An everyday scene at Jingpeng Pass, soon to be lost forever as the diesels make their inevitable march forward.
Royal Gorge train heads under what was once the highest suspension bridge in the world. A lot seems to have happened since my last visit here 8 years ago with many of the attractions on the side r... (more)
While there are many great lodging establishments that have a railroad theme and are close to active lines, the Izaak Walton Inn on Marias Pass is a railfan's paradise. Adding inspiration (as if o... (more)
A scene to never be repeated... NS 052, the final Air-products High-and-wide train to ever travel the Lehigh Line departs Bethlehem. NS 1069 was an additional bonus to this rare move, including... (more)
NS 12N derailed in Gary, IN on the morning of December 23rd, 2020. Reports said that a total of 20 cars were on the ground with no injuries. Will 2020 ever end?
The Mississippi River has caused alot of headaches in the Midwest with the railroads this spring. The river crested at Burlington, IA, (19 miles upstream) on 6-02 at the 3rd highest crest on recor... (more)
Canadian Pacific contracted Relco Locomotives in Albia to build at least 2 of these Herzog-esque self-propelled M/W trains. This units “A” end is powered, converted from GP38AC CP 3001 and car... (more)
A followup view to a shot posted earlier shows UP 4017's hogger leaning out the window looking for any obstructions to getting his train into the yard and finishing his run.
GG 1in shop several months after hitting a track car at Edison, N.J.
The Eastbound California Zephyr has emerged from the tunnel at Keddie and out onto Spanish Fork Trestle. FP7 805A is leading with an F3B and F3A in the lash-up. A steam generator car and a Great ... (more)
With a mode of conveyance seemingly quaint in contemporary railroading, a Rio Grande track patrolman awaits train 664's passage before proceeding on the Tintic Branch to Springville. D&RGW's trust... (more)
