FWRY's Extra 3501 with a string of LPG tanks for storage is such an unusual move the man on the tractor had no idea to expect a train. Luckily both train speed and his quick thinking kept there fr... (more)
Rolling through the Peach Creek Yard near Logan, West Virginia, C&O GP38 4822 breaks a rail and hits the ballast. It’s June 27th, 1976, and the coalfields are being worked by mostly four-axle p... (more)
Christmas Eve 1994 dawned bright and clear with a wonderful hoar frost. Fortunately it lasted long enough for an early running 1330 Calvert to Northolt "binliner" to be captured in the exceptional... (more)
The 36-axle Schnabel car is gingerly moved through tight tracks in Duluth on its way to Alberta.
Drone Shot - Nashville's historic Engine #576 took it's first journey in 65 years by rail, NC&STL #576 on display in front of Nashville Union Station along with CSX #576 (NC&STL Sticker on the nos... (more)
An aerial view of the new Iowa Interstate Dennis Miller Locomotive Maintenance Works at South Amana, Iowa.
BNSF 9150 stopped at Castle Rock, CO, on Colorado's Joint Line, after an engine compartment fire developed. The fire call came in approximately 943am with the train not moving again until later a... (more)
The last car on the Toys for Tots Train was this Amtrak Observation car which was very interesting. I knew Amtrak had these I had just never seen one. The cars name is "American View"
A loaded ore train bound for Two Harbors derailed a number of its new cars on the west wye switch at Iron Junction, causing a major disruption to traffic at the busiest junction in northeastern Mi... (more)
CSX A700 goes about yarding it's train at CP Junta in Cartersville, Georgia as MofW crews replace rail on the K&A side of the split. (Slide Scan)
Priceless moments on the railroad... My younger siblings came out and surprised me with a visit while at work. Photo by Sequoya Davis.
An eastbound manifest notches up out of the sag of Darling with the sun setting behind the San Fransisco Peaks.
Brand new QNSL SD70ACes 507 and 505 sit outside of the shops in Sept-ĂŽles while crews receive training on them. All of the other new SD70ACes were present as well, except for 502, which was nowhe... (more)
Homeward Bound : Housatonic Railroad's NX12 passes under the old Trinity single lane bridge as they return north back to Canaan, CT. After the bridge, NX12 will pass through a tight rock c... (more)
CP 8578 leads grain loads west, with 9805 on the rear (not visible)
Fancy meeting you here ... A SOO SD60 leads a southbound Delaware & Hudson train past stored equipment at Cooperstown Junction, New York. One of these GG1's was purchased this month by The Henry F... (more)
Long hood forward. ALP-45DP AMT 1369 is unusually running long hood forward as it heads west on CN's Montreal Sub with multilevel coach AMT 3002 in tow. It will run this way for about 7.5 m... (more)
On August 11th, 2015, Portland and Western's Westside district trestle in Sherwood caught fire and was lost. Three teenagers were caught, cited for trespassing, and charged with reckless burning, ... (more)
NS SD90MAC 7292 recently had its cab and electrical cabinet removed.
Amtrak 68 The "Adirondack" is passing the Capital Region Toys For Tots Train on the Rockland Siding at Port Douglas. Amtrak 88 is on the rear of the TFT Train while the Amtrak Phase I he... (more)
Every noon this athlete was running on the lines a big distance.
Almost two years into Amtrak's existence, the former Santa Fe "San Diegan" service is a mixture of equipment. The Santa Fe F and a mix of Santa Fe and Southern Pacific cars rest at San Diego's dep... (more)
Rerailing of a Santa Fe SD45B is underway at San Bernardino.
2535 is 1 of 8 locos destroyed in a head-on at Lac Bouchette in the Lac st-Jean area last august.,lead unit 2511 with 3240,2535,4488,3101 collided head on with lead unit 2526,3126,2552 3737 3211,3... (more)
All Hail Big Boy! Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 4014 makes its grand entrance at the Union Pacific's celebration of the Transcontinental Railroad in Ogden.
Alexis tower was a good place to catch a lot of action. 1691 is heading towards Detroit. The track on the far left was the C&O line. To the right of the C&O was the Ann Arbor. And last the track ... (more)
Dynamic brakes whine as four unit F7 711-A,B,C,D slows for a stop at Ridgewood. This train stopped to set out the first two box cars and then continued on the Bergen County line to Croxton Yard. T... (more)
Where Milwaukee boxcab electrics once roamed, the BNSF Renton Rocket (all trash cars this day) heads over street running in downtown Renton.
A beautifully restored piece of Union Pacific heritage built in 1941 meets a more modern piece of BNSF power ES44C4 No. 8048. Westbound Union Pacific No.4014 drifts downhill out of Sullivans Curve... (more)
It is always worth heading North of Anchorage on the Alaska Railroad. The scenery from Hurricane to Fairbanks is spectacular. Although the day had held great promise with sunshine early by the tim... (more)
Try this on your model layout! An open-air interlocker, complete with semaphore home signal. It appears to have been staffed "as needed." Not an assignment you'd want in January, even in urban ... (more)
Rock Island E6A 630 and a drab E7B heads the Twin Star Rocket at Fort Worth, Texas in December 1960. Photo by R. Plummer, from my slide collection.
What's left of Montana Rail Link SD45-2 No. 301 is lifted off of its front truck for the last time. The contract worker is cutting the last appendage (a speed recorder cable) before the crane lift... (more)
SAL E7 #3045 on train #3 at Raleigh, NC || May 1954 Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.
Amtrak 653 approaching its destination in Washington, DC passing by K Tower while working through a maze of tracks and catenary.
The KCS freight, Coquitlam to Cranbrook, heads from the main line yard to the south yard to pick up the rest of its train
MRL's Gas Local on the return trip from Thompson Falls, MT, to Missoula, MT.
A Union Pacific Las Vegas to Salt Lake City officer's special glides north through rural Springville, Utah. Scanned from a Kodachrome transparency taken via the deck of the 14th North bridge where... (more)
Mountain railroading on the old C&O.
Bayview local HB48, passes 5th Avenue Yard, on it's journey from Bayview to the Port of Baltimore Dundalk Marine Terminal with a long train of export John Deere tractors and Case combines.
Soviet built elegant car of type GAZ (Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod) M13 "Chaika" (inspired by the US Packard Patrician from 1955), built from around 1960, as a railway inspection car. Ins... (more)
Another very atmospheric photo by the late Kenneth Field showing a local train from Crewe on arrival in Chester General station hauled by class 2P 4-4-0 No 40653.
Classic NYC power! A Mohawk meets a lightning stripe E8 at the National NYC museum.
Backwoods of central Russia at the north of wooded and swampy Tver region. Local time 4-28 AM. TEP70 locomotive with passenger train "Ivanovo - St. Petersburg" appears out of the fog breaking the ... (more)
A Thornton Yard (Canada) to Everett, WA manifest cruises along Puget Sound on a sunny but cold day.
I'm not sure what is more interesting - the matched set of Soo Line GP38-2s in 2018 or the BNSF hopper that wanted to free range on a local gravel road.
The Atlantic Limited is on the last two hours of the overnight trip to Montreal as it stops at Magog. The locals called this train the Halifax because it connected with a ferry at St. John that co... (more)
A bloody nose for a bloody nose. Amtrak F7A No. 104 (formerly BN 9780; originally NP 6511A) went to early retirement after hitting a truck loaded with 1300 turkeys in northwestern Minnesota on Amt... (more)
The last thing a penny sees...
Two Boston & Maine FT A-B sets of power are seen at Altoona buried in the yard.
A damaged loaded coal hopper is towed into Hazard Yard.
Union Pacific is throwing everything it has at Sherman Hill today, March 19 1966. And it has a lot. Turbines, big DD35As and strings of GP30s and â€35s have all tackled the grade east out of Lara... (more)
In preparation for the BigBoy move; back from repairs at NLR UP 4014 leads UP 4884, UPP 6334 Art Lockman, UPP 209 Howard Fogg, UPP 5714 Lynn Nystrom, UPP 9374 & 9313 Cheyenne WY Rotary Snow Plow c... (more)
Three former Lackawanna Train Masters are eastbound with hopper cars on a Sunday. The big units were often used on weekend freights as they weren't needed for commuter trains. There was no mistaki... (more)
BNSF 6022 suns itself on the west end of KCS' Knoche Yard in Kansas City, MO, resplendent in its new garb, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the BNSF merger. The unit was repainted at Mid-Ame... (more)
Lines of stored NS units at Roanoke, VA - September 2020
Are you busy at 1100? The East Broad Top Railroad has publicized that they have an announcement for the public on February 14, 2020 at 1100. Since the railroad ceased operations in 2011, speculati... (more)
Converting A Ford tractor into Railcar
NS fuel rack at Chattanooga Tn
Grand Trunk Western streamlined 4-8-4 steam locomotive no. 6409 leading an eastbound passenger train out of Chicago's Dearborn Station on February 2, 1952. Photograph by Wallace W. Abbey, collecti... (more)
A Roger Puta photograph.
the seventies was a booming decade for SP which found the railroad chronically power short resulting in many unusual power lashups, here a set of seven SW1500's lead a Dolores yard to Taylor yard ... (more)
Ahh, Townwood. One of my favorite places to just "sit and watch." Even though nearby Leipsic has the added bonus of CSX's Toledo Subdivision, I find this middle-of-nowhere spot to be much more ... (more)
Wide view of the Maestranza San Eugenio workshops and roundhouses, belonging to the Chilean state railways, located at the southern end of the Central Station of Santiago. Very important in the hi... (more)
The CP business train goes for a swim as it heads north on the Marquette Sub and along the flooded Mississippi River.
Centennials 6936 and 6900 are paired together one last time for the Kansas City, MO to Council Bluffs, IA portion of the Chairman's Inspection Special. 6900 is destined for display in Kenefick Pa... (more)
Yes She Was Big To celebrate the centennial of the opening of its Chicago to Aurora, Illinois line, the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy temporarily painted its queen of fan trips, Northern 56... (more)
One of my favorite "human element" captures on the Hudson local by the Iron Horse Bar on a cold March afternoon with a long string of empties to bring back down the hill from the mill.
CP 4107 leads a beautiful A-B-A set on the Royal Canadian Pacific, as the train travels north on the Windermere Sub. If this area looks familiar, that is because John Ryan made this location famou... (more)
An interesting, and rarely photographed view at 1/25ths. Taken while on the Hiwassee Loop Excursion
Stainless steel side panels
One of the DB V200 diesel-hydraulic B-Bs has taken over the 10.45 Prague to Paris 'Zpadni Express' from a CSD 2-10-0 at the frontier station with Czechoslovakia while the West Germany customs offi... (more)
NS 1069 Leads I4Z past Greensburg Amtrak Station at 00:37 am.
A fireman on the Huanan Narrow Gauge Coal Railway trims coal in the tender of C2-class 0-8-0 no. 168 during a stop at Xiahua Station. Xiahua, 12 miles east of Huanan, is a common meeting point for... (more)
The early morning sun reflects a nice orange glow off the sides of five cryo-trans refrigerated boxcars seen at the head end of today’s Q551. This train is about to pass the Pine Street control... (more)
CN 9179 assigned to plow duty in the Bruce Peninsula idles at it's home base in Stratford between runs.
In 1995 UP was so short of power that they pressed their heritage E8's into regular freight service between Cheyenne and Denver. Usually, a regular loco led, but on this day it was a pure E unit l... (more)
A Pennsy yard switcher 2-10-0 4552 class I1sa waits for a PRR Baldwin shark nose RF-15 to clear a diamond in Columbus, Ohio yard.
South of Merced, CA on the SP San Joaquin Division. Half day off from work was worth it!
The famous P-811 TLM (track laying machine) in full operation laying the first concrete ties prior to the overhead wire installation. The TLM was part of a long string of machines doing everything... (more)
Two QJ's storm upgrade in the horseshoe valley of Erdi.
As much history as there has been at the Tennessee Pass tunnel, there isn't a whole lot left to see nowadays. It has been over 11 years since Union Pacific shut the line down (but not abandoned).... (more)
Ex Southern Railway FP7's 6147 and 6143 are seen side-by-side as 6147 begins its first test run after being completely rebuilt this year. The test was successful, look for more views of the pair ... (more)
All 201 cars of K31's train can be seen here as the train makes its way south towards Assiniboia. This train is about 2 miles long with cars for the Assiniboia area elevators and the Great Western... (more)
Painted for snow plow/MOW service, BN F7 #9758 awaits its next call to duty at Minneapolis in this June 1975 scene.
le train N°45 Paris-Bâle quitte Chaumont au crochet de l'une des deux locomotives prototypes CC 70000
Sunrise on January 23, 2005, sees a westbound Union Pacific coal train climbing out of Leyden, Colorado, at mile 14.5 on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision.
