"Change Is Coming:" A little before 8 AM, the Frederick local (D786) runs wrong main through the Point of Rocks tunnel, preparing to make his run up the Old Main Line. Although work... (more)
An eastbound reefer block passes through the remnants of a tunnel portal at Applegate.
Amtrak P030 over the Potomac River is about to enter the tunnel at Harpers Ferry with an unusual consist containing a P32-8W in the third slot and 5 Virginia Railway Express passenger cars for del... (more)
A "windmill" train rolls up the loop. At the time of day this was the only possible spot to get any type of interesting photo. I tried.
UP tank train (I do not know what is the load that transports) emerges from the underground section of ACTA Alameda Corridor - 10 miles Mid Corridor trench section, view from Artesia Blvd, city of... (more)
Doubleheader of two german "Pacifics" 4-6-2 express train steamlocomotives on the Gotthard mountain line. Blasting out of the 1476 meter long Pfaffensprung spiral tunnel with a 7 car train of the ... (more)
The overhanging cliff fascinates me. And why didn't I wait until the engine was between the two poles. It never bothered me when I looked at the slide, but these digital images make one more pic... (more)
At the west end of the South Shore's Burnham Yard with the Illinois Central Kensington Tower on the hill where the South Shore leaves the IC Electric. This is one of the GE motors were ordered by ... (more)
On February 8, 2005, the dirt train power assigned to Helper, Utah, went west to Kyune on the Price River grade up Soldier Summit to pick up a bad order hopper car set out there. After fetching th... (more)
Remarks: CN 5350 and CN 2408 elephant style make their way through the rock sheds at Lasha (White Canyon) on the CN Ashcroft Sub, Oct 22, 2006 towards the Pacific Coast.
Another cold day in the High Sierras draws to a close but the action is just beginning for the Union Pacific Railroad. Throughout the day, the Truckee-based Jordan Spreaders were working to clear ... (more)
This "Bat Mountain" is one of Chinese rail fans' resorts.
A pair of Conrail SW1500 units burst out of Black Rock Tunnel with a short train. Hopefully the fishermen in the boat are having some luck !
A clean ES44 brings up the rear of this UP grain train while a BNSF pig train waits in the distance.
Something Like a HO Scale Model! Pickens' Belton Job heads back to the Norfolk Southern Interchange to pick up its loads to take back to Belton after helping the Anderson Job retrieve its l... (more)
CC20340 just popped out of the fully colored tunnel portal on a trip to Surabaya.
As his helper watches and shields his eyes from the bright flame, a welder repairs the switch points on the west switch of East Portal siding in front of the imposing edifice of the Moffat Tunnel.... (more)
Remnants of a Bygone Era : Deep in the woods of the Steep Rock Preserve, sits one of the few remaining landmarks of what once was the Shepaug Railroad. The Shepaug Railroad was chartered i... (more)
Montana Daylight.
Northbound FEPASA train load with cellulose and empty chemical tanks, crosses 12 tunnels on a beautiful coastal stretch. This area is known as "Fuerte Villagrán de Lota", the train afte... (more)
Moffat and Rollins- With eastbound coal snaking out of the 6.2 mile long Moffat Tunnel, one can't help but marvel at the sheer size of the mountains here. With the former grade of the lin... (more)
An empty trash train hustles west along the Columbia River, on it's way back for another load of Portland or Seattle's finest.
A fierce snow storm pounds the mountains around Pinecliffe, Colorado as UP 3027 (SD70AH-T4) exits Tunnel 29 and heads towards Denver.
NW cabooses 555089 and 518585 west, enter the tunnel at, Roderfield, WV. 5/10/1988
Honeywell MX 24mm lens; Kodachrome
Roseville Tunnel - Abandoned Erie Lackawanna Cutoff
Emerging from the dark of the upper spiral, a westbound grain train screeches through a curve into Yoho
Rock Creek CanyonRight in the gut of rugged Rock Creek Canyon on Rio Grande’s Craig Branch, an eastbound coal train exits Tunnel 45 between Crater and Volcano, Colorado, on September ... (more)
Amtrak’s Vermonter exits the Bellows Falls tunnel as heavy snow falls with another foot forecast by Saturday. The Vermonter has the Amtrak commemorative P42-9 #184 leading the southbound train.... (more)
In little more then one year, the 57 kilometer long Gotthard base tunnel will officially inaugurated. So the Re 460 098 of the SBB got a white publicity paint scheme "Gottardo 2016", with small si... (more)
Shidu Tunnel, Jingyuan Railway
First in the series of shots of this train entering the Columbia River town of Lyle, seen here just poking out of the tunnel heading west.
BNSF Coal threading the Flatirons Too good to pass up, Ferromex mid train helpers and all. The clearing snow storm from the previous night is giving way to the majestic Flatiro... (more)
Making for a very dramatic show at night, an SD70MAC leads slowly out of Pool Point Tunnel onto the massive bridge here on the GE dominated ex-Clinchfield trackage.
Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha pops out of a tunnel just west of the top of Homstake Pass, providing passengers with a stunning daytime view of the Montana Rockies on its daytime run across western... (more)
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Inside Claudius Crozet's famed Blue Ridge tunnel. Completed in 1858, the 4,273 foot long tunnel was abandoned in 1944 and at the time of its completion was the longest railroad tunnel in the world... (more)
With its bell caught on the upswing, L&N K-5 Pacific 266--a USRA design of uncommon visual appeal--rolls out of the tunnel at Latonia with the morning southbound Pan-American to New Orleans. This ... (more)
Number 33 waiting on Shenandoah Sub for Number 8 to pass, since track 2 out of service for maintenance.
KA 119 Sawunggalih Utama (Kutoarjo - Jakarta) entering Kebasen Tunnel...
Vertiginous! ... Tunnel No. 3, and abyss Montandon - Potrerillos line. For friends and members of the Rail Pictures community, you have a beautiful Christmas, an affectionate hug from Chile.
A trio of CN units at a location that's obviously not on the CN !
Operators view from HF Tower. Normally P871 runs on Friday's only to Brunswick, Maryland, from Washington, DC, but today being a holiday the train made a special run to Martinsburg, West Virginia.... (more)
"Bordentown Relic" Conrail BU20 idles under Farnsworth Avenue during the early morning hours of November 7th,2020. This historic tunnel was constructed in 1831 for the Camden... (more)
Tennessee Pass—2015 Like a grave site bouquet, flowers begin to grow between slag ballast and rusty 136-pound rails laid by Rio Grande in 1970’s, as nature slowly reclaims what is h... (more)
Amtrak 5 entering the Moffat Tunnel. Olympus OM-2n, 50mm f/1.4, Fujichrome Velvia
"Remains of the Original IRT" A northbound/ uptown local 1 train passes the old tunnel-way where the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line & the now 42nd Street Shuttle tracks connected. Normal "... (more)
On 1st june, the world's longest railway tunnel was officially inaugurated, the 57 kilometer long Gotthard Base Tunnel through the Alps from Erstfeld to Bodio. This is the first train for politici... (more)
One way to hide the diesel engine...
DR 01.5 Pacific No 01 531 leaves Honebach tunnel shortly after crossing the border from East Germany to the west with the 08.22 Leipzig to Monchen Gladbach.
BNSF coil train emerges from the tunnel enroute towards Bakersfield on a Summer afternoon..
With smoke billowing from the summit tunnel of Tennessee Pass, DRGW 5392 roars over the summit, and will soon throttle down and stop to cut the 2 sets of helpers out of the train.
After spending most of the day climbing the Rocky Mountains, Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr begins the descent down to Denver after emerging from the east portal of the 6.2 mile long Moffat ... (more)
Westbound Capitol Limited enters Harpers Ferry. Notice how low the Potomac River is, March was one of the driest on record. For more Harpers Ferry pictures click link in my profile.
While exiting the ex-Erie Bergen Tunnel, the NW 8552 does its best impression of a steam locomotive as the heavy cold rain pours on the hot radiators.
Two hundred loads of coal are slowing to a 10 mile per hour crawl at RB Cabin near Louisa, passing the abandoned tunnel of the original Chatteroi Railroad to which the CSX (ex-C&O) Big Sandy Subdi... (more)
Conrail B23-7s fill the yard in Selkirk as their days were numbered following the takeover by CSX and NS. Also visible are a pair of newly delivered CSX AC6000 engines 636 and 634 to the right. O... (more)
Bee Rock Tunnel frames the defunct Westmoreland transloading facility along with the abandoned ROW of the former L&N Cumberland Valley Division main line near Appalachia Va.
Steam completely envelopes the train engine as a pair of QJ's blast out of Tunnel 4 on the long slog up to Jingpeng Pass.
This was my first time exploring the heart of downtown Baltimore and the land of the late great B&O. I had always heard of this magical place where the Royal Blue once cooled her heals with the m... (more)
An eastbound vehicle train exits a tunnel that's been "notched" for high-cube double stacks onto the Keddie Wye in the early morning sun in March 1996.
The only rack railway of Europe with 75cm gauge. in the famous gorge of Vouraikos river.
Running through the Bergen tunnel in an SD70M-2.
BN 4366, 2543, 2545, and 2532 lead a Inside Gateway job somewhere on the WP in this slide from my collection. I traded for this one years ago, no legible photographer name on mount.
Amtrak’s California Zephyr, curves westbound through Tunnel 40 in scenic Little Gore Canyon west of Azure, Colorado, on August 21, 2014.
GCK Engines pose just outside of Brush Tunnel in what could pose as a set of helper engines in the 1970's heading up the hill to the summit at Deal, PA to fetch a stalled train. Lighting provided ... (more)
Here is the KCR West Rail colorful " Art Unlimited Art Train " . KCR East Rail has one " Art Train " too . The whole train including outside and inside are both custom painted interesting art desi... (more)
The California Zephyr climbs the Rookies on its westward trek. I lost my breath twice on this shot, first the hike up, and then the view from the rocks! For a just off the plane, flat-lander from ... (more)
As the sun gets low in the winter sky, 3118 and 3124 with the return Ski Train wait for their passengers to board at Winter Park, just outside of the west portal of the Moffat Tunnel, in February ... (more)
A waterfall gracefully flows down the hillside as UP 844 and her diesel helper exit Tunnel 26, and enters Tunnel 27 at the renowned "Honeymoon Tunnels".
The Full-Moon of August 27-28 casts its glow across the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers and the town of Harpers Ferry.
Crossing a tunnel on Kournovo mountain
On the left, merchandise by container from the west coast heads east. Through the southern bore, a potash train is picking up speed as it crests its summit off the Harriman Cutoff.
The unmistakable profile of an SD70M-2 as it prepares to enter Gallitzin tunnel during a heavy snowstorm.
Amtrak’s California Zephyr climbs out of Plainview, Colorado, passing through Tunnel 3 in a series of tunnels that penetrate the unique Flatiron rock formations during its westward journey from ... (more)
The "flyer" tiptoes out of this 1500 foot long "S" curved tunnel. Note the permanent 5 mph restriction due to extremely tight clearances.
"Guzzler Vac Truck @ NYP" One of two hi-rail equipped Kenworth Guzzler Vac Trucks sits on Track 5 at Amtrak's Penn Station. The crews are waiting for the last Empire Service train... (more)
The L&N company photographer has arranged to stop train 70 on a June morning in 1957 at the big trestle at Independence. Up front today is an A-B-B-A set of F-units (F9/F7/F3/F7). Lead unit 924 is... (more)
You know it is late in the day when the sunlight illuminates a train inside of Harpers Ferry Tunnel. The westbound Capitol Limited is arriving at the historic city in West Virginia's eastern Panh... (more)
The westbound California Zephyr plunges into the east portal of the Moffat Tunnel.
The American Association of Private Rail Car Owners (AAPRCO) special, operating as Amtrak 854, is seen exiting the east portal of Hoosac Tunnel around 18:40 hrs on Saturday, September 20, 2014. T... (more)
UP 3092 East passes through an abandonded tunnel portal at Applegate.
I was taking photographs of the New Haven RR painted northbound when I heard the Amtrak blow its horn to the north. At that point, I crossed my fingers and watched the two pass at the most perfect... (more)
Canadian Pacific's Toronto Yard, ON - Winnipeg, MB freight #421 eases through the Mink Tunnel on a restricting signal. A large chunk of ice (just infront of the locomotive) has fallen down and tri... (more)
Eastbound, emerging from Tunnel 1 on the way to St. Louis with 3 motors and 54 cars, the Missouri Rock is the photographic quest of the Nelsons on this particular weekend. Mission accomplished.
This picture is from my first attempt at California rail fanning. I crawled under a fence waited most of the day for the right light for this shot. I found out latter that the favored location for... (more)
