Up in smoke - train crew attend to a hot box on a wagon.
As a large thunderstorm rolls east along the plains of Colorado in the background, BNSF 3933 leads the Denver, CO to Provo, UT manifest up and around Big Ten Curve after overtaking a westbound UP ... (more)
With railfan and State Line Tower operator Dick Grobner documenting the scene from the ground, a Chesapeake & Ohio rail train is in the process of removing the former C&O/EL mainline from Griffith... (more)
Better Late. What is normally a morning move with its disadvantageous sun for this angle occurred on the evening of Thursday, July 15, 2021 as Conrail Shared Assets/Norfolk Southern 39G tra... (more)
Long assigned to Wyoming/Colorado branchlines, UP 457 still sports its large snow plow pilot
CFE GP38 3882 - freshly washed and cleaned up for the occasion - awaits the placement of a New England Central Railroad-bound welded rail train from the Steel Dynamics Inc. Structural and Rail mil... (more)
On a gorgeous winter morning, the whistle of Amtrak's California Zephyr echos off the rugged Book Cliffs north of town. At right, a quad of UP EMD's (including D&RGW 5371) await service on the "Di... (more)
A wintry Mount Stephen looms in the background as the eastbound VIA Canadian climbs Kicking Horse Pass.
An empty BNSF coal train crosses Union Pacific’s massive bridge at Joso, Washington, on September 21, 2015. These BNSF coal trains use UP’s Ayer Subdivision (the Washy) out of Spokane to the p... (more)
Maybe the last trip for the narrow (60 cm) steam locomotive in a unique beautiful mountain route, on Pelio.
CP SD40-2 6025 leads the "World's Largest Watermelon Slice" North towards the riverfront in Muscatine where it will be lifted by crane to its final home.
Goat Canyon - The rail line through the Carrizo Gorge was constructed starting in 1906 and it opened in 1919. Here, an old Santa Fe hopper stands on a siding at Goat Canyon next to the ... (more)
WARNING: The light at the end of the tunnel IS an oncoming TRAIN!!!!
RegioExpress leaves Ardez station heading Chur in fresh snow.
After a night rain, air in the valley of riv. Maly Inzer was full of moisture. I had to climb on top of the pine tree for shooting.
Union Pacific's Desert Storm diesel leads a westbound onto Santa Fe trackage for the last leg of its trip to Los Angeles. It will return to UP rails in Riverside, CA later that evening. UP SD40-... (more)
The big hooks were called out once the Alco and the GE's left the rails. RS27 677 was retired and scrapped on August of 1970.
This locomotive sure has a history. It started as Southern Railway 6913, then was purchased by NJT for commuter service. After a graceful run with NJT, it sat dormant for years before being purcha... (more)
Vale mining locomotives are Brazil exports. The extra NS helper units added up front at CP Traff. Included in the lot are Vale initials (CVRD) 1265, 1266, 1267, 1268, 1269, 1270, 1271, 1272, 12... (more)
Those of you who are long time followers of RP.net may recall this photo and the story that accompanied it from 5 years ago. Click h... (more)
Erie E8 A-A units have arrived with tr. 6, THE LAKE CITIES from Chicago and will go back out on tr.1, ERIE LIMITED.
Passengers on tonight's Surfliner are getting their money's worth with a spectacular sunset view over the Pacific. The northbound train is minutes away from its stop at Surf Beach.
Train W62 eases through the mess left behind after 22Q had a derailment on 7-5-18.
Both westbound and eastbound California Zephyr trains typically meet on or near the Salt Flats during the midnight hour, but passengers on this 12-hour late train were treated to a daytime trip ac... (more)
The West Bound CSS 804 went over a Portable Derail that was apparently left up by mistake after Track Work on the South Shore line by Burns Harbor, Indiana. The consist went on the ground taking o... (more)
Through the smoke and flames. Tip-toeing toward the MP 387.9 grade crossing, with an XH to have its train's conductor come out and flag due to power outages, Amtrak 761 crawls through Fair... (more)
In case of a line-blockage derailment, there was nothing like a ready-made shoofly around it!! Such was the lucky case when the rear cars of a northbound ATSF freight derailed adjacent to a lim... (more)
Among the hoppers, gondolas, tanks cars and an autorack, here is a wide angle look of UP 9135, UP 9295, UP 9230, UP 9184 (C40-8's) and UPY 940 (ex-MP 3503) a S6-1B, at Progress Rail Services, on P... (more)
Narrow gauge 0.60m steam loco, with ralfans, in Pelion mountain.
NS 309 was passing through Lakewood when it struck a pedestrian at Brockley Street. Why did the pedestrian get struck? He was making a gesture towards the train which involved his middle finger. H... (more)
The weakest link has been found!
The cold, rushing waters of Flaugherty Creek runs along side the B&O, which ducks under the Ex Western Maryland Keystone Viaduct, is accompanied by Q135 heading west along the Keystone Sub and dow... (more)
The future looks a little like the past as visitors inspect the looming spectre of Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis steam locomotive No. 576. A little movie magic and imagination go a long way d... (more)
Westbound Milwaukee Road freight train climbing the grade up from the Columbia River at Doris, Washington, on July 14, 1979. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund and courtesy of the more)
Union Pacific's Ohio Crane MP-70 departs North Yard in Salt Lake City for Roseville, California. The MP-70 was remanufactured by American & Ohio Locomotive Crane Co., Inc. of Bucyrus, Ohio.
These unique RDCs with locomotive-style cabs were built in 1957 as part of a six-car experimental train for the New Haven RR, called the "Roger Williams" and intended for Boston-New York... (more)
Rolling east, UP 4014 crosses the flyover in Ontario with UP 1996 helping in the rear on a sunny, Southern California afternoon.
The first SD70MAC repainted in the new Swosh (H3) scheme at CEECO in Tacoma. Leading the TACPAS, while a UP baretable heads to the Muni yard.
On a beautiful spring day, the Norfolk & Western Class J 611 sails over the Big Otter trestle leading the Powhatan Arrow back toward Roanoke for another round of evening excursions on the Christia... (more)
FURX 8103 scoots under the hump - note how the tunnel is shared by both road and rail vehicles...
Emerging from the clouds into a little sunshine, the westbound Rio Grande Zephyr approaches Tunnel 39 and prepares to enter Little Gore Canyon.
Well preserved RS-1 sits in Squamish.
I was passing through Chicago on my way from a Navy school in South Carolina to my ship in Long Beach. In Union Station I saw an add for this trip and fortunately last minute tickets were availabl... (more)
Drone Shot - NS train 117 heads up and over the departure yard and passes the hump tower at DeButts yard in Chattanooga, TN in the late afternoon sun. DeButts Yard opened in 1955 has 12 receiving... (more)
Durango and Silverton, ex Rio Grande, #482 crosses over the high bridge en-route back to Durango, CO.
An ex-Metroliner cab car is in the shop at Philly, still with a pneumatic brake system. To compare with an overhauled cab car with an electronic brake system, Railroad: AmtrakLocomotive: cab carLocation: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USALocomotive #: AMTK 9634Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: July, 2013
"Take a left on Pierre Ave..." Earlier in the day this particular section on the NY&GL branch was covered with pallets from the adjacent business which was unaware that a trai... (more)
Sometimes, even after 41 years of railfanning, you see something you've never seen before.
Crew of this train gathers in front of B&O #51 before leaving Jersey City for Washington, D.C.
A rarely seen view of SP 4449 Southern Pacific GS-4 4449, known as "The Daylight", may well be the most photographed locomotive in the world. Even so, this one is different than most. This shot... (more)
We are inside the control room at America West Resources, Wildcat, Utah loadout. Loader operator Jennifer is in charge of loading this Utah Railway unit coal train which will deliver its load to t... (more)
The Farewell to Steam trip with 612 has paused at Asbury Park for a lunch stop for the many on board. A friend and I climbed the cantilever signal for this picture, a practice that is strictly for... (more)
The beginning of a new era on the FEC are on the way south and are almost at their new home on the rails of Florida
The Mississippi River seems to overtake this yard almost every spring, forcing its evacuation. Note the hopper cars full of ballast holding down the tracks to keep them from rising up and "floatin... (more)
An A-B-B-A power consist of BN F units powers an officer's train at Roosevelt Road in Chicago. 744, 737, 705 and 766 form the classic streamliner lash-up
Wearing CP's military themed "Army Temperate Climates" green, CP SD70ACU 7020 leads loaded grain train 303-608 around a curve east of Canmore on CP's Laggan Sub.
Two Penn Central Alco C636s head up a transfer run heading east on the Indiana Harbor Belt as it passes under the Rock Island mainline at Blue Island, IL. The 6333 was built in March 1968 and beca... (more)
A location I have wanted to take for a long time the opportunity came on 10 July 2010 with the running of the Heart of Wales charter. The scene captures industrial dereliction with the Lightship w... (more)
L1s 2369 awaiting a call to duty at Williamsport, PA. Note the circular number plate common to freight engines prior to the use of a Keystone plate on the M1 Class freight haulers in the 1920s.
An abandoned spur off the main once crossed the Toe River (perhaps to reach a mine?) near Kona. Now the second span of this through truss bridge has collapsed into the river.
No TGV's survive in Sud-Est Orange.
This looks worse than it actually was. BNSF train B-BIRLAC3-12A, a baretable train (empty intermodal cars), heading from Birmingham AL to Los Angeles, was going to set some of these cars out on a... (more)
Beauty and the Beast Tracy takes a picture of this Mother/Slug set that is resting in Notasulga. These engines have been shuffling cars all day in the Vulcan Quarry just north of town.
The eastbound Texas Eagle barrels down a straight stretch of hogbacks toward a meet with a waiting UP freight at Elmo at dusk.
SP painted SD45 7399 and SD40 7342 in this "popsicle" scheme variation to serve as helpers for 4449, shown here on the "Louisiana World's Fair Daylight" trip in 1984. Kodachrome 64, Minolta X-700... (more)
With plenty of jets leaving contrails in the sky overhead, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe intermodal train climbs Tehachapi Loop at Walong, California, on March 8, 2001. The rear of the huge train... (more)
KCS 4117 lead's a G AGMBRC through Rochelle, IL eastbound on a remarkable Sunday evening sunset.
April Fools Day Double-Header Runby CB&Q 4960 and 5632.
The CDTX2012 was leading San Joaquin #715 North out of Bakersfield on July 19, 2007 when it hit an (empty) gas tanker truck at a grade crossing in Shafter, CA plugged from full 79mph trackspeed... (more)
Hell bent to "get out of Dodge" at dusk, four Western Pacific GE's and an EMD unit smoke it up eastbound through downtown Elko, Nevada en route Salt Lake City on April 18, 1980. Fortunately the t... (more)
A wreck damaged number 7 sits in the Storage track at Savannah after hitting an automobile in Rennart NC.
The race is on, as two trains speed west on BNSF's Needles Subdivision. The first train in the shot is passing through Bagdad, while the Z train in the distance, running on the opposite track, wi... (more)
Delivered in 1947, the class F3A 9500 is readied for service. Thanks to J.M. Frybourg for P/S assistance. PRR Class EF30.
The "Last Run of a PA" Excursion is on its way back to Richmond from Stockton and has stopped at Port Chicago for a photo run. Trailing unit #58 has quit, resulting in some very ALCO-like smoke fr... (more)
Check out the 40' boxcars!
A westbound Canadian National freight exits rugged Black Canyon of the Thompson River west of Ashcroft, British Columbia, on June 24, 2006. In the foreground is the parallel Canadian Pacific main ... (more)
Mouth of the beast? Throat of the beast? This view of the tender, from the cab, shows the auger of the stoker. The coal would pass under the cab and into the firebox.
N&W Y6a #2170 resting between trips at Roanoke, VA in this 1957 winter scene. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.
All is quiet on this little Michigan farm as PM 1225 roars south with a mixed freight in the middle of the night. In reality, PM 1225 creeps into position for the real night photo session but I ma... (more)
During the period of August 17 through 20, Army National Guard units that had participated in the Operation Northern Strike exercises at Camp Grayling, Grayling, Michigan, were loaded back onto th... (more)
An overhead view of the roundhouse still in use as the engine servicing facility for the Minnesota Commercial Railroad. A rare RS 27 sits outside under the sanding tower, while a variety of Alco a... (more)
In a view from the cab of Montana Rail Link SD70ACe No. 4312, the night gas local of September 21, 2006 cruises up MRL’s scenic Tenth Subdivision. Only a small bit of glow from a western sky is ... (more)
With the severe flooding in North Dakota, the water in one of the lakes just outside of Sanborn, ND is almost up to the top of the BNSF causeway.
Reading T1 2111 pulls tonnage on the PRR Northern Region in the Williamsport area. These engines were leased by the PRR as a cheaper alternative than doing class repairs on their own aging fleet ... (more)
Unloading LCL freight at Charleston.
Southern 2695 backs a wreck train around the curve just north of downtown as a work crew waits near the wreck site. The Man O' War has been gone for years, but the curve still has a fair degree o... (more)
A southbound Congressional enters 30th Street Station with the Philadelphia Art Museum in the background. No statue of Rocky on the steps of the museum when that picture was taken!
Amtrak's California Zephyr glides east through Spanish Fork Canyon at the foot of 10,685 ft. Mt. Loafer.
