G's are stacked up with Army-Navy trains, laying over in the yard next to (then) Philadelphia Municipal Stadium on the south side.
What a difference 3 years can make... http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=81193 Now Liz uses the modern way of keeping record of locomotive numbers for Dad, camera cell phone.
The sad condition of the leased power is indicative of the grim condition of the "new"publicly-owned Northwestern Pacific. It would not be long before the FRA would close the railroad down for nu... (more)
Newest batch of M7s waits for the LIRR to take delivery.
New GM70, EMD's SD70ACe Tier-2 emissions unit, was at the EMD Plant at LaGrange Illinois for more testing.
Five passenger car bodies await restoration next to San Luis & Rio Grande’s car shop in Alamosa, Colorado, on June 4, 2018. These are the same cars that sat in repose on a lot near the BNSF yard... (more)
Empty grain rolls up the Hi-line just east of West Glacier, Montana, late in the day. The train is running on approaches, and will slide in the next siding. He will roll around two westbounds, and... (more)
Two Milwaukee Road Hiawatha passenger trains at Chicago Union Station, circa 1950. Leading the train in the background is F7-class 4-6-4 no. 102. Photograph by more)
In its day, Train 8, the Rocky Mountain Rocket, was a class operation, not as fast as its Union Pacific and Burlington competitors but a luxurious and comfortable. ride from Denver to Chicago. But... (more)
About to turn the heat off - a detail of the tire just as it got hot enough to remove the tire. Luckily, even though there was much strength and work involved in the process by the volunteer membe... (more)
She jumped the track. The result of a hopper door coming open and derailing the car. 110 tons of coal must now be unloaded by hand before rerailing.
My final trip to the C&NW 40th Street Shops was just before May 22, 1956, the last day for C&NW steam in Chicago. The only operational steam locomotives I saw on this visit were several 0-6-0s and... (more)
The evening of September 25th, the nightly PRWO derailed the cabless B unit in the upper Valley Falls yard. This morning the over the road/hi rail crane was making things right. Their getting thin... (more)
I spent many years helping out with the restoration of this locomotive, only to see it rotting away now in Pittsburgh. B&LE #643, Hazzelwood, PA. 4/05/1992
Emerging from the morning mist at Karwan Bazar was my first sight of a Biswa Ijtema train. An amazing scene as the whole train seemed to be alive! The noise of the excited passengers grew as the t... (more)
Emerging from the east portal at Moffat framed by the fall colors, 5323 is one of the SD45's from DRGW's first order of that model.
Norfolk and Western 156 was a former Virginian Trainmaster that worked out of Mullens, WV along with sisters for the remainder of their existence. These units had many unusual features such as exp... (more)
The Reading & Northern's newly painted EMD F9 #270 sits on display at Outer Station in Reading, PA. This is one of the former Norfolk Southern executive train units which along with B unit #275 wa... (more)
Surf City became motorcar city for a weekend in May of 2013. This was the first time motorcars ran on the Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line and over 40 motorcars participated in the event. They journeye... (more)
On a spectacular clear winter day. a C430-C420-GP18 trio cross the Delaware River at Mill Rift. The rear of the train can be seen in the trees up river.
North meets south at "The Sag" a few miles north of Palmer Lake on the Joint line. The coal train to the right on Main 1 is stopped, cooling its traction motors after the long climb up P... (more)
We're at the National Railway Equipment's facility in Dixmoor as the scrapper is hard at work, taking apart Illinois Central SW14 #1435. USSX SW1200RS #59's tragic end would follow within 24 hours... (more)
A pair of CP ECOs switch Duluth's Port Terminal in a thick fog on a quiet Sunday morning.
Coaster 692 heads towards San Diego with an F40 shoving on the rear.
I found this funky looking thing sitting at the Navajo Generating Station. It was remanufactured at MK's Boise shops in 1975 from a U25B and is the sole diesel-electric engine operated by the BML... (more)
FEC (Job 23) PM1-02 drags it's train across the Dodge Island Bridge after a few days of no Port Train due to the Hurricane. This train would bring 5100ft of Intermodal for the Port, which was c... (more)
Sunset is nearing as an eastbound ballast train negotiates the curves through the badlands at Sully Springs.
Little Joe E70 assists an eastbound freight past the station at Ringold.
Just days after being unloaded off a ship from Europe at Houston, Southern Pacific's second generation German Krauss-Maffei diesel hydraulic 9005 is paired up with an F-7 at Eugene, Oregon roundho... (more)
As we rolled towards Banks, we ran into a severe fog bank, while trasveling over the 1100-foot long wooden trestle at Rockton. We went quite slow, as we had some concern wether or not the bridge ... (more)
The new generation of Observation car to replace the VIA Rail Dome Cars
Thunderstorm rolled to the North while I was out shooting trains last night. Captured this shot of lightning from the Norfolk Southern Reading Yard last night. Photo by Shawn A Leightcap
Night shift is running out and the partially loaded train picks excavator operator and charges from the pit.
The Nickel Plate, officially the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company. NKP Alco PA-1 #189 & #182 (Bluebirds) on train #7 The Westerner, crosses the NYC (MC) tracks at South Gary, Indiana... (more)
Half the fleet of CSX SD80MACs are seen here along with an orange HLCX leaser in the back. These units are going thru various tests and all are cranked up and running. Not sure what CSX will do wi... (more)
Coal train inbound to Ameren UE's Rush Island power plant wades through some flood waters of the Mississippi River on May 21, 2010. I am the supervisor of the unloading crew at this plant for Amer... (more)
Illuminated entirely by star light and the passing of two separate trains, a star filled sky swirls above the New River Gorge at Sewell as an eastbound loaded coal train crosses the New River on m... (more)
Three trains meet (they're all moving) as two Pennsy icons (GG-1 No. 4859 and N6B caboose 980016) are repositioned for station trackwork in 2014
"Ouch" Was hit by a freight that ran a signal on a foggy morning. The train hit was Q116
3 stages of rebuilds in a line. NS 4095 has just recently started to be rebuilt into a AC44C6M, 4094 behind has had all the work done and will be painted soon, and 4119 was rebuilt at Roanoke and ... (more)
After a fun chase from Whittier (two-thirds of which was in the rain - but who cares!) we grab our final shot of the morning. Looking down from the Old Seward Hwy overpass the full length of the ... (more)
SP’s Train 12 “Cascade” left Eugene, Oregon five minutes ago before it picked up train orders at Burma where new CTC signals were being installed. It’s now 6:20 a.m. and the Alco PA’s h... (more)
Hundreds of locomotives are being stored at Roanoke as freight traffic drops during the pandemic.
Excursion thru Niles Canyon and over Altamont To Sacramento with SP's first passenger Diesel/
A BNSF Seattle - Chicago intermodal follows the Kootenai River under an ominous wildfire smoke filled sky.
The last of 4 bull elk to cross CN's busy Edson Sub at Henry House just ahead of Q143's train heads to safety, just in time. Now get out of the way, I want to shoot this sweet pair of C40-8s comin... (more)
Laramie was once a busy terminal, where eastbounds picked up helpers for the climb over Sheman Hill and westbounds dropped them off. But four years after the last Union Pacific steam engine tied u... (more)
Classic Northern Pacific passenger colors passing the tower at Marshall, WA near Spokane. This is probably the Mainstreeter eastbound in the morning after departing Seattle the afternoon before. ... (more)
After a long days work clearing the rails over the summit, the spreader powered by two GP38-2's idles in the heavy snowfall
Exactly 20 years ago today, 10/4/1996, the train crew of Camas Prairie train 63606 is approximately 6 hours into their day. At Cottonwood, the crew set out some grain hoppers and ran around their... (more)
Norfolk Southern Derrick NS 540037, former Virginian Railway B37, in action at Park Street.
In April 2005, a large 745-ton Belleli vessel was shipped from Houston, Texas, to Denver, Colorado, using the “world’s largest railroad car,” Schnabel CEBX No. 800. The heavy load was going ... (more)
As the sun tries to peak through the Mexico City pollution, FCI 67 gets some attention at the San Lazaro roundhouse. It is interesting that the engine is still lettered for the Ferrocarril Intero... (more)
Now that's HOT!... The fusion of rails has just been made through the process of "Thermite Welding". Part of the hardened sand mould (which incloses and promotes the welding process) an... (more)
The quarry train returns to Plaster City about an hour later than expected. The water tank on the rear of the train is in the background. This is the last industrial narrow gauge railway in the Un... (more)
Woman power for a high-gloss "Pacific"! Daughter and mother hard working for a beautiful shiny 01 202 steamlocomotive for the trip from Romanshorn via Schaffhausen-Waldshut-Basel-Olten back to Lys... (more)
This is a shot I obtained many years from the late Shelby Lowe. The subject is Southern Ts-class Mountain 1459--a Knoxville Division engine that was then handling trains 27-28, the Carolina Specia... (more)
Late afternoon in a classic scene in Cajon Pass, it is impressive to hear the roar and effort of those engines as they face the numerous curves before reaching the Summit. A eastbound BNSF Z train... (more)
As rare as rare gets... at least, these days! Doublehead live steam in action as 4-8-4 844 and Challenger 3985 lead UP's Denver Post Excursion northward about 15 miles north of Denver, Colorado.
CN 309 leave Joffre Yard by a beautiful afternoon.
A new model for the BNSF Railway, as they have purchased Progress Rail PR30C demonstrators 3002 through 3005. The first to be repainted is BNSF 1320, which is the former PRLX 3002, rebuilt with a... (more)
I stood on the route 50 bridge for several hours. Then snow fluries moved in and my feet started to freeze. Another great coal job from Grafton showed up with F unit and GP-9. I grabed the shot an... (more)
SNCF 4-8-2s 241 P 31 and 241 P 25 are serviced at the Chaumont shops
Union Pacific #844 (then numbered 8444) on a Rocky Mountain Railroad Club two day excursion Denver to Rawlins and return at Rock River, WY. 1968
BNSF’s Chewelah Turn passes through Napa Street and approaches Yardley at Spokane, Washington, on October 6, 2018. An impressive A-B-B-B-B-A consist powers the train—GP60M No. 105 leads GP60B ... (more)
I really dislike graffiti on railroad equipment, and don’t make a point of specially-recording any of it in a photograph. But once in a blue moon a car will go by that catches my attention. On F... (more)
The Amtrak "Super Chief" is seen westbound in the early morning sunlight at east summit switch. Soon to be renamed the "Southwest Limited", it is still using the Santa Fe equipment that was the "S... (more)
At first we were a little disappointed with the few trains (almost all westbound and none uphill), as we waited this morning at the Cajon Pass on Sullivans curve. But then appeared as a great surp... (more)
A steady rain and cool 50-degree temperature made for a damp walk on the Highway 2 bridge to capture Milwaukee Road 261 crossing BNSF's ex-NP Grassy Point Draw linking Duluth and Superior. The pos... (more)
The night crew working the General Motors cut that was dropped in the afternoon.
Built by Gunderson in May of 2013 this car represents one of the newest and latest designs for the stand alone auto rack, the Multi-Max. The unique aspect of this auto rack is that it can be setu... (more)
The first of the L3b Mohawks built by Lima is eastbound with a freight at Oneida. I was about 5 1/2 and with my dad who shot this with his Voigtlander. The car behind the tender is interesting.
Two u-boats long hood first look more like helper than lead power in this shot showing the first few arches of the 17 arch viaduct. The 2501 was the flagship of the EL GE's and had the road name p... (more)
Union Pacific DDA40X has long been a parts source for the Dakota Southern Railway. It is rumored to be heading to a rail museum in Nebraska. WATCO's Ringneck & Western is the new operator of the... (more)
It's getting dark quickly at CP 466, just west of LaPorte, IN on the NS Chicago Line as NS 205 heads west splitting a stopped 23N on the left and 23Z stopped in the siding on the right creating wh... (more)
Paint crews are busy getting the next SD40-2F ready for the new corporate scheme for the Central Maine & Quebec. The 3-stage process has one unit being ground down and sand blasted, while one is ... (more)
Apparently people don't know how to read the "DO NOT PARK ON TRACKS" sign posted on the building. The Ballard Terminal Railroad had to have 6 total cars towed away. I guess that's their way to lea... (more)
One of the first Amfleet I Business Class cars with the new interior refresh, featuring comfortable e-leather cushion upgrades to the existing seat frames.
An eastbound frieght sits next to some of the wreckage from a major derailment during the early morning hours on February 6 in Glencoe. U833 left the tracks coming around the curve where the stop... (more)
Merchant Navy class panned at speed. My thanks to Mitch Goldman for inspiring me to take more pan shots instead of 3/4 wedgies!
Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 waits in the Fairplex parking lot after having been pulled to the end of the panel track. The panel track in front of her will now be pulled up and placed behind her ag... (more)
Union Pacific #4012 prepares for another day of "oooohs" and "ahhhhs" as the star static steam attraction at Steamtown National Park. Seen here under a new coat of flat black primer paint.
Mt. Washington Cog Railway Track Maintenance Car. Just how difficult could it be to maintain a railway that is all of 3.1 miles long? Well, if the railway is built entirely on wooden tres... (more)
Remember This View, You Will Not See It For A While. MTA NYC Transit Subway E01 (R-77E, General Electric, 1983) is momentarily suspended off the ground while a truck backs in underneath on ... (more)
A SB BNSF freight heads to Texas across central Oklahoma. Big thanks to Bart Y. for helping make this shot possible with his aerial prowess.
A Western Maryland freight makes an early departure out of Cumberland and thunders Westbound through the Narrows towards Frostburg on a blistery cold morning.
A express trains leaves with a new locomotive in secunderabad.
"Morning Blues" PM 1225 on A frosty, blue Michigan morning, just after sunrise.
Did you ever wonder who so many concrete coaling towers remain in place, straddling busy main lines long after steam has disappeared from the rails? These structures were built from yards and yard... (more)
Four Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors bring the westbound Union Pacific LJP45 “dirt train” local into Mounds, Utah, on the sunny afternoon of January 30, 2003. The train is about to enter ... (more)
