Built in November of 1959, 752 an ex-Conrail 7527, PC 7527, NYC 5972 continues to be a work horse on the Winchester and Western roster in the Virginia Division. This and an assortment of other fir... (more)
NS train 058 heads from Bluefield to Roanoke with a single UP unit pulling 41 flat cars containing a total of 205 HUMVEE's. Note the touch-up paint on the UP 7535. The name is now "Union Paci"
TVA 3060, former TVA 24, built in October 1958 is reported to be the last surviving Baby Trainmaster, seen here at the TVA Gallatin Plant north of Nashville. (Thanks EMB!)
the results from a night-photo session in Meridian with the NS and KCS executive F unit sets.
Here we see the apron on the dock at the left being lowered to mate with the rails aboard the barge MANISTEE which is loaded with freight cars which have just been ferried across the Straits of Ma... (more)
First light over the Cascades as the parade of trains move over the double track mainline between Seattle and Tacoma.
I decided to spend the day fanning at the NH platform in New Haven. Little did I know that later that day President Truman would be making a stump speech for Adlai Stevenson at this location. ... (more)
Winters Rigging crews have positioned the 154-ton Amtrak P42DC #102 inline with the rails for a flatcar to be moved under the damaged locomotive at Northfield, Vermont. The 102 was the locomotive... (more)
Penn Central eastbound coal train passes Hunt tower as a pretty college student watches. Many students from the local college (Juniata) used the local train station located just east of the tower.... (more)
Let off some steam! The Big Boy isn't the only steamer that can whip up a crowd. From my surprisingly secluded spot, I watched the masses race along 2-lane highway 2 to follow 4449 on her unique t... (more)
View onto Zürich main station from the "Clouds" Bar Bistro on the 35th floor of Switzerlands highest building, the new 126 (hight corrected) meter high "Prime Tower". An ICN tilt train is leaving... (more)
Class A 1238 rolls downgrade at a good clip with a westbound freight bound for Roanoke. This is one of my favorite shots as the fireman has just begun to stoke the fire adding contrast to the stea... (more)
The face of two Texas-types, PRR and Santa Fe. One burned coal, the other burned oil and pulled coal. The Santa Fe engine is believed to be #5018 and was being shoved up to the water plug before... (more)
With the fall colors nearly peak, Amtrak Adirondack hugs the shores of Lake Champlain at Port Henry N.Y
UP 5123 is part of a Friday afternoon parade of cars and trains to use the Huey P. Long bridge. From the other end: Click here<... (more)
A lady crosses 6th Street almost unfazed that NS 191 is rumbling near less than a block away as it traverses the famous Augusta street. No worries though, it's only 10mph track speed! Boy, do I mi... (more)
The captured Krupp-built German railway gun, "Leopold," at the old US Army Ordnance Museum near Aberdeen, MD. The barrel is 283 mm (11.1") in diameter X 71 feet long, with a range of 40 miles. A... (more)
NS westbound getting ready to cross the double track CSX main at Selma, NC.
This critter caught my eye on the drive home, standing tall amidst CSX diesels. It turned out to be "standing" on a flat, perhaps destined for a rail museum...
With their work complete T25 swings through Mascot TN headed for Sevier Yard.
On a damp and dreary December night in downtown Cumberland, Western Maryland Scenic, 2-8-0 No. 734 boards passengers for the nighttime Polar Express trip to Frostburg. Each year, the Western Maryl... (more)
Santa Fe 2959, 3282 and 3338 are on their side next to the north track at the derailment site located just north of Highway 138 in Cajon Pass. Heavy rain storms caused track damage and ATSF 3338, ... (more)
Remote control locomotive ex-Mid South GP10 now used for Maintenance Way projects like ballast trains, tie replacement and rail trains.
Bang your head The lite power of today’s Z390 is almost at the rear of its own train where the conductor is busy gathering his thoughts for the next move as he patiently waits for the eng... (more)
Down in the man made canyon of the Coors Brewery, C997 goes about the task of shoving 6 tank cars into the complex.
The former Santa Fe PA gets a new coat of blue paint on its trucks.
Making it's way through the frosty Glorieta Pass, Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Cheif has just exited Apache Canyon, climbing toward Glorieta proper.
Ready to leave Portland for Seattle, it is one of the daily trains run by the UP, SP&S, and NP in the last months before Amtrak fell upon us.
Last light BNSF’s Ayer turn switches at Ayer, Washington, in the very last bit of sunlight on September 19, 2016. The train is operating on trackage rights over Union Pacific’s Spok... (more)
One of 5 SD70ACe's for QNS&L, nearing delivery time at Progress Rail's Tacoma facility. Progress Rail ( CEECO before) frequently has interesting equipment on site. In the background is Metra ... (more)
Early morning hot shot Boston to Lowell symbol BL1. with three RS 3's in New Haven colors hauling tonnage through the snow. This is the New, New Haven under Penn Central ownership
The Museum of the American Railroad new location in Frisco has the Doodlebug parked for perfect morning roster photo.
On September 21, 2015, Canadian Pacific AC4400CW No. 9620 leads a westbound Union Pacific grain train across the huge bridge spanning the Snake River at Joso, Washington.
PRR 7555 under steam at Shamokin. From railpictures.net viewer Toby Schwartzman, "I believe that..was taken..in the Pennsy yard, which is now occupied by Weis Markets. In the upper right corner..... (more)
This graphic depiction of a calamity of railroading was scanned from a small snap shot taken by an unknown person in the ‘30s. The location is the Louisville & Nashville’s yard at Corbin, KYâ€... (more)
Former Southern Pacific #1744 prepares to cross a road in the small town of Laveta, CO.
Health and safety at work! Riding on the bonnet of an electric loco doesn`t seem such a good idea. Narrow gauge No1 propels wagons past 2 of it`s sister locos at Fuli mine.
How times have changed on the C&O... Distributed power is now a common practice on mainline manifests, as freshly rebuilt GE AC44CM No. 7003 is positioned mid-consist for Rocky Mount, NC to... (more)
A cut of heavy-duty Department of Defense flatcars loaded with M1 Abrams tanks are on an eastbound Santa Fe (early BNSF) freight curving through Crozier Canyon near Valentine, Arizona, on the afte... (more)
Steel rails, stars and semaphores. Coyote siding, MP 14518, New Mexico. Spetember 18th, 1999. Steve Crise Photo. © scrise.com
An eastbound Norfolk Southern train waits for the signal on the former Reading Railroad Bridge.
With low fog and a full moon silhouetting the Norfolk & Western coaling tower at Farm, an eastbound grain train waits to pull east with a leased Progress Rail ex-Burlington Northern EMD SD70MAC in... (more)
With golden afternoon light basing the scene, No. 44W drops downgrade through Kumis, Va., along the rails of the former Virginian Railroad with a lengthy grain train in tow. Spring has officially ... (more)
Free move of this emu unit break down the wall and went for a walk into the avenue.Possibly a bad driving of the accelerator make this mess.The guilty must be one of the clearing auxiliary staff.R... (more)
The end of the line...is near for many TTX cars and NS motive power at Cresson Steel. In the foreground, many TTX cars await the scrappers torch, while a small group of NS C40-8s have been salvage... (more)
A westbound Union Pacific stack train enters the serpentine east end of Green River Yard, bound for a crew change, before climbing Wyoming’s Peru Hill west of town on the afternoon of September ... (more)
SPMW 207 passes under the last remaining searchlight signal bridge on Donner Pass as it clears the heavy "Sierra Cement" from track #1. The rotaries would plow snow all the way to the Bi... (more)
A long BNSF train snakes through the grasslands above Marias Pass having just passed through East Glacier Park under the great blue skies of Montana.
The damage to CSX # 384 after the derailment of K429 on February 13,2020.
One of the tank cars used to bring in the fuel the Santa-Fe oil-burners needed on a coal-burning railroad is spotted by the roundhouse. Oil burners were a western railroad fuel not akin to PRR op... (more)
Nevada Northern Wrecking Crane A easily moves a flatcar at Lavon siding on the Adverse Branch north of East Ely, Nevada, on February 3, 2007. The crew is performing a “derailment cleanup†with... (more)
A thick fog and freezing temperatures have coated the landscape in a thin layer of ice.
Its really difficult to pass up this location, especially with a sunset as nice as this one. This is the BNSF Centralia turn out of Tacoma. Railroad: BNSF RailwayLocomotive: GE ET44ACLocation: Steilacoom, Washington, USALocomotive #: UnknownTrain ID: UnknownPhoto Date: June 04, 2016
First responder volunteers with the "Pink Heals Tour" and one of their specially painted pink fire trucks (named Kennedy) poses with Norfolk Southern's "Honoring First Responders&qu... (more)
A matching set of Milwaukee box cabs E47B, C and A are switching Missoula, MT. In 3 trips down there these were the only box cabs we saw in operation. Everything else was Little Joes or diesels.... (more)
Ken Kuhne has posted some excellent photographs of the MRL derailment near Rivulet, MT. I thought I would add another photo that shows the airplanes and some of the damage a bit closer.
A Boeing 737 fuselage heads west on a BNSF priority freight at Bearmouth, Montana, on September 26, 2014. This fuselage is built by Spirit AeroSystems, and is being shipped from Wichita, Kansas to... (more)
The result of a fire on a fully loaded Auto Rack
BNSF 980 leads DM&IR 409, a very rare visitor to Northern Virginia, Nikon D200
15,000 horsepower and 45 freight cars are but a speck on the landscape when compared to the vast California Desert surrounding UP's Cima Subdivision. A magical, mystical place.
Wash out on the Sunbury Main
An R160 train has just left Stillwell Avenue station at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York for it's journey through Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. It is because of trains like these that the Tran... (more)
The Super Continental makes its station stop and crew change at Boston Bar, BC following a two day snow storm that closed Highway 1 and caused some delays in rail service. This train however was p... (more)
The December '13' date was certainly not lucky for the Thursday morning arrival of New England Central local train 601 into the White River Junction yard. The NECR GP38 3857 picked the switch fro... (more)
A roaring pair of big UP powerhouses begins the downhill run to Laramie, exiting Hermosa Tunnel during a snowstorm. Leading is U50 #40, followed by a DD35B. UP 40 was built in 1964, using recond... (more)
Conrail Shared Assets Job YPMO-R1 works it's way down Delmorr Ave as it heads back to Morrisville Yard
UP experimental gas turbine 8080B was housed in former GN electric 5018 which has had most of its grills removed for one last fatal maintenance time, Council Bluffs, Iowa, July 3, 1966. 8-wheel tr... (more)
UP 4983 West enters Tucson Yard at sunset under monsoon skies.
A window of opportunity - both for the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (Railroad: Nickel Plate RoadLocomotive: Steam 2-8-4Location: Duncannon, Pennsylvania, USALocomotive #: NKP 765Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: May 27, 2013
Heading into the setting sun, Union Pacific's Desert Storm diesel leads a westbound toward Victorville, CA. Cajon Pass and the terminus of Los Angeles lie ahead. UP SD40-2 3593 was originally UP 8... (more)
After a very successful two-year display period at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, a replica of President Lincoln's funeral car is being shipped by truck to its next viewing location in Antioch... (more)
On board of the D&RGW Zephyr
Empty reefers march west at Mt. Union under the command of M1 Mountain-type 6903. At one time PRR had 10 westbound symbol trains to handle this type of traffic (Tankers/Reefers/Stock-EB Loads/WB ... (more)
While standing on the front walkway of CP 2206 and looking over the short hood nose we see the first group of CP GP20C-ECO units being lined up for delivery. Units are still undergoing final test... (more)
Special delivery! The Wheeling brings one giant load of spools into Monessen on the Mat Branch. The bridge in the background crosses the Monongahela River, it took this train about one hour to g... (more)
The wide expanse of Canadian National's Harrison Yard is seen from high above in Memphis, Tennessee. The Union Pacific MCNNL is ready to leave Harrison Yard and head for a Mississippi River crossi... (more)
Norfolk and Western class J number 611 takes its very first spin on the turntable at Spencer's North Carolina Transportation Museum, while the Museum's excursion train passes in the background wit... (more)
Still awaiting disposition: RDG #1187 is one of the few Camelback locomotives left in existence. This Baldwin 0-4-0 was built in March of 1903 and served for many years with the Reading Co... (more)
M583 eases down the Southern slope of Cumberland Mountain with a veteran widecab GE leading the charge.
A pair of TTX heavy duty flatcars carry two 3-foot narrow gauge locomotives built new for the White Pass & Yukon by National Railway Equipment Company (NRE) of Mount Vernon, Illinois. A total of t... (more)
Linemen, Three Forks, MT. --- In the winter of 1980 The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) abandoned almost two thousand miles of track west of Miles City Montana.... (more)
A veteran Southern Pacific GS-4 backs down the Bataan Memorial Trainway which permits passage under the streets of El Paso.
Tanks creep east toward Rockville.
The Western Maryland of Webster Springs... When one envisions the mainline and branch lines of the Western Maryland, the community of Webster Spring doesn't immediately stand out as a geographical... (more)
NS 82V roars into Bluefield, WV in the very last of the day with two GE's in notch 8 pulling the heavy coal drag out of the setting sun.
BNSF ET44C4 #3693 leads an eastbound Roberts Bank coal empty across the Skykomish River in Gold Bar, WA on September 25th, 2021.
One of the old Santa Fe warbonnets showing its age as it sits in a deadline in Galveston,TX
