Four routes from Mountain Top (summit of the grade) in Solomon Gap, PA, August, 1970. Five Lehigh Valley SW8 "pups" roll an unexpected westbound downgrade with an oversize load. They are utiliz... (more)
This remaining B&O tower at Leipsic gives us reminder of days passed. Guarding this diamond XN tower once protected the interlocking in conjunction with the Nickel Plate RR. Another days sun arise... (more)
Former Southern Railway derrick on display at TVRM.
UP rail detector car DC3 sits on a spur at Laramie, WY. No photographer name on slide.
E8 units 4065 & 4060 sit at Harmon awaiting duty on a westbound passenger train. The lead unit wears the short-lived script emblem that was used briefly before the simplified color scheme was intr... (more)
Under a full moon I shot this 5 minute 52 second exposure of a long BNSF pig train between Tunnel 10 and Marcel. The long string of trailers created a nice ghosting effect under the moonlight.
At dusk, an eastbound Milwaukee Road fruit block waits to depart Avery.
The boneyard at Altoona Works, July 1952. The locomotive at the left is a 2-8-0 H Class Mikado and the one in the background is a 2-10-4 J Class Texas type.
A couple of U18Bs bracket a U36B/slug set as a crew switches at Mulberry.
Could we call it two pieces of nice looking junk.
This is what the light at the other end of the tunnel looks like once it clears - stop, look and listen! A 1/6th zoom pan.
For more zoom pans, select your preference: Railroad: Western Maryland Scenic RailroadLocomotive: Steam 2-8-0Location: Frostburg, Maryland, USALocomotive #: WMSR 734Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: October 19, 2009
A dying EMD's last request....just to have a little company. Metra F40C 610 and IHB SW1200 2256 create an extremely sad sight at the entrance to NRE Dixmoor this afternoon. Lot of good times with ... (more)
Even though it is raining, it has no factor on the endless string of trains in the PRB.
East bound freight at Steventon with the Bridge of the Gods in the distance
An A-B-B-A set of EMD F9s of LTV Mining Company (former Erie Mining Co.) exit Cramer Tunnel with an empty taconite ore train and curve by some of Minnesota’s autumn color on September 24, 1994.
On August 19, the Virginia Museum of Transportation’s 4-8-4 steam locomotive, N&W 611, began its trek to Strasburg, PA, behind NS C40-9W 9214. The 611 and support equipment were supposed to be ... (more)
In what may be one of the craziest things I've ever seen, CP 8790 leads a manifest south through the middle of floodwaters from the Mississippi River in downtown Davenport.
A quartet of EMD E units lead UP's Old Timer's Special west through the Tooele Valley on March 19, 1978. The lead engine, No. 928 was the last active E8 on the Union Pacific roster. The train and ... (more)
We are in Gorham, NH as SLR 393 behind Road Slug 805 rolls past the photogenic ex-GT station as L to R, Tim Beaulac, Richard Berlanger and Don Provencher exchange waves with the engineer at 22:26.... (more)
Rock Island commuter trains with CRI&P 675 (F7A), 662 (E8A), and 676 (F7A), resting at La Salle Street Station in Chicago. Verne Brummel (photographer) / Dave Cramer (photo editing). Visit our w... (more)
Heading for Cajon Summit
Leaving Appleby for Carlisle on the last leg of a northbound Cumbrian Mountain express, at the end of a beautiful day.
Dropping back 48 years from my last post, here is another one of those grainy faded Anscochromes that has been reasonably resurrected by Photoshop. No. 3 is doing intra plant switching at the mil... (more)
Rolling through the S Curve at Glenshire, Union Pacific No.7388 with an Intermodal Container Train, hugs the Truckee River as it approaches the town of Truckee,
Software test of the future (from this winter) snow fighting equipment on the Bernina line of the Rhaetian Railway. Snowblower Xrot mt # 95404 with shoving diesel locomotive Gmf 23403 (D3) (Schalk... (more)
Cab view inside BN 814(EMD F9A) locomotive. This locomotive was built in 1954, and belonged to the Northern Pacific Railroad as #7003-D for many years. It was later acquired by the Burlington No... (more)
A handsome Lackawanna TrainMaster sits at Hoboken on a beautiful Saturday morning.
Denver & Rio Grande Western had a narrow gauge main line that penetrated the Black Canyon of the Gunnison between Gunnison and Montrose, Colorado. This line was abandoned in 1949 and in 1960, much... (more)
"Alco Power Pack Ready for Scrap" Long Island Rail Road's rebuilt Alco Power Pack, LI 3100, sits on the River Track at Wheelspur Facility in Long Island City awaiting the scrapper's torch.... (more)
It's a quiet Saturday at the Norfolk Southern Yard in Williamson, West Virginia. A pair of GE's await their next assignment and a loaded coal train awaits a new crew, but much of this former N&W y... (more)
Quite the billboard.
Bruised and battered but everyone is OK. Before sunup UP 7193 (ES44AC) was pulling with three other units a long container train on the Greeley Sub and hit a semi that was hauling pumping equipme... (more)
Wrecked Ballast Express unit waits to be repaired at Altoona.
Now THAT is a plume! Well, admittedly it's overkill, but dramatic nonetheless. UP's world famous 4-8-4 climbs east through Echo Canyon on a sunny October 22, 1978 afternoon. UP President John C. K... (more)
A BNSF intermodel streaks past downtown St. Paul and through Dayton's Bluff on this crisp cold night as a few barges huddle together on the Mississippi River. The Twin Cities area accounts for the... (more)
Specially painted UP SD70ACe 1983 commemorates "Fallen Flag" railroad Western Pacific as it leads a three unit lashup from East Yard to the old SP Shops Yard, where it will pick up a train heading... (more)
Built 1990, wrecked November 1996, recovered March 1997, rebuilt 1998, collision with dump truck December 2002.
Southern Pacific 2-6-0 No. 1744 leads Deer Creek Scenic's Santa Claus Express through an icy landscape at Deer Creek Dam near Wallsburg. The 1744 was built by Baldwin for the SP in November 1901.
A 498 passes A 477......
A Milwaukee Road eastbound led by a Little Joe crosses the St. Regis River near Alberton, Montana.
Norfolk Southern GP33ECO's 4700 (assigned to Chicago) and 4715 (assigned to Atlanta) glisten together for the first time in the cool morning sunshine outside the paint shop at Altoona's Juniata Sh... (more)
NS Virginian 1069 makes it's first run down the scenic former New York Central Line as it snakes into Highland on a beautiful Saturday morning with a loaded Philly oil out of the Dakotas. Speci... (more)
Cab view from the conductors side of CN 2538 northbound on the Superior Sub.
An eastbound BNSF coal train passes through Lombard, Montana, on the eve of September 11, 2011. Smoke from western wildfires enhances the colors of a pretty sunset over the Missouri River and Lomb... (more)
The south end of Letts is lined up for the St. Paul, MN to Kansas City, MO manifest train to head south towards Ottumwa, IA. This is one of three short sections of CTC on the ICE's Kansas City Sub... (more)
The last 261 Triplecrown roadrailer is finally built and the conductor and Road and Rail supervisor tend to the marker for the final brake test before departure. Power for the train was NS 6782-UP... (more)
Rock Island Geep 1330 leads its local over the manual CB&Q crossing on the outskirts of St.Joseph, Missouri for a customer probably waiting for his shipment in the insulated box car. October 22, ... (more)
On a gray afternoon when we weren't even sure it was worth heading to the tracks, a buddy and I happened on this beast sitting behind the former Western Railway of Alabama shops. RSCo was rebuildi... (more)
A westbound Union Pacific coal empty wraps itself around Big 10 Curve as it passes the east switch at Eisele, Colorado, on the long climb to the Moffat Tunnel on the nice clear afternoon of June 9... (more)
Gas-Turbine #51 makes a move past John's camera on it's way from the ready tracks to a train. The Bunker C burned by the locomotive had a big carbon footprint, as is evidenced in this view. It t... (more)
CSX Deadline & Storage Cumberland,MarylandRailroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)Locomotive: CSXTLocation: Cumberland, Maryland, USALocomotive #: CSXT Train ID: CSX Photo Date: June 27, 2009Subscribe · Profile · Add to Favorites · Add to Album
Presenting Streamliner #26-and-a-half: Hoping for a unique photo opportunity, I packed this N-scale model of an NKP PA with the rest of my photo gear. I had tried a few times throughout th... (more)
No matter if it is carrying a large load or waiting in the yard for its next assignment, this is one massive and impressive rail car.
GN 325 leads an eastbound that I would assume is the Empire Builder near Inverness, MT. Scanned from an Ektachrome transparency that is part of my collection but was not shot by me. No photographe... (more)
Mink Harbor, located just west of Marathon, Ontario, is one of the scenic highlights of the Canadian Pacific in Ontario. CP's mainline twists along the shores of Lake Superior and passes many scen... (more)
"Royal Canadian Pacific" as "Golfer special" passing through Morant's Curve on the way to Calgary.
CN 387 running west between St. Catherines and Hamilton, ON hit an open switch that had been tampered with by vandals. 387 lead by a CN 9404, 4523, 4524 and 4573 hit the switch and derailed pilin... (more)
6 locos, a mix of YP and YG classes, are gathered around the turntable at Madurai. I was just too young to have witnessed scenes like this at home in England, so it was really a wonderful sight fo... (more)
Sometimes things just seem to come together as was the case on this particular Saturdays excursion with the holiday season some fresh snow and ice & the star attraction of the night was none other... (more)
Heading out on the afternoon dinky parade this oddity was living out it's last days. The RI oddball triuvirate had been broken with the retirement of the "Christine" but I got the other two.
The Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Railroad Station: In honor of long-time Amtrak rider and strong advocate of passenger rail, the newly renovated Wilmington Station was dedicated in name to Vice P... (more)
The deformed, twisted, kinked rails of the Napoleon, Defiance & Western Railway wait for the next train, which will not be for a while, as the train visible on the horizon has derailed, a victim o... (more)
During the finals days of steam on the Nickel Plate the 765 blasts across the midwestern countryside with a fast freight bound for points west. Thanks go to John Craft and the HTP for putting on a... (more)
Turn and go for this pair on this Spring morning.
ON TEST
There were some interesting sights at the UP North Yard - these old passenger cars sitting next to UPY 669 were being shipped on flat cars and were the talk of the yard. The cars were named - fro... (more)
A GN passenger train, probably the Red River is loaded for departure.
You can go back in time! Many thanks to Peter Lerro and his hard-working crew for putting on great night photo shoot.
Rolling coal and flood loading coal! A coal truck has just dumped his load at the Apex Mining site at Kyber, as U53 prepares to cut away to run around their train to start flood loading system hop... (more)
Devastating flood waters in November of 1985, brought destruction to the Roanoke Transportation Museum, then located in Wasena Park. The force of the water pushed C&O H-8 Allegheny, 1604 under the... (more)
A westbound drops down the long ramp between Wendell and Nashua that will bring it into the Bois de Sioux River valley. In just a few more miles it will cross the BNSF's former Great Northern lin... (more)
After acquiring THIS former Milwaukee F7(A) in early 2011, Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad operated and C&O freight sch... (more)
Underside shot of NS 9491. 8932 in background. Crew treated and released
CN Q117 makes its southbound departure from Markham Yard with the Wisconsin Central heritage unit in charge. It's seen passing the Homewood railfan platform. From here, the train will continue sou... (more)
A long line of recently sold Kcs ace's sit awaiting there future. These were sold to Prlx and will make revenue runs elsewhere.
Finally mounted to a TTX flat, this slightly battle-worn Amtrak unit should be on her way to a rebuild at Beach Grove. This side is the side that sustained the least amount of damage, the other si... (more)
Eastbound train seen on the east leg of the wye. The Pacific Extension mainline is seen in the foreground
PLEASE STOP changing the location to incorrect places like Spring Garden and Clio. Look at the attached map for exact spot taken, I know, I was there. I found the location name I used on a state f... (more)
This westbound manifest finally catches a green at the entrance to the Las Vegas valley at Apex.
A guy lays what appears to be a penny on the rail in full view of the crew on this approaching southbound mixed frieght. Although the train is only moving at 10mph, it's funny how people and cars ... (more)
LSM train departing to Retiro.
East bound Milwaukee Road freight approaching Mason City, IA.
Damage from accident with 18 wheeler at grade crossing located at Highway 1488 and FM 1774. 18 wheeler was high-centered on tracks. Accident happened on March, 4, 2013, and there were no injuries.
Traffic on the road is very quiet this morning, unlike the parallel Union Pacific main line which is humming with trains. As seen from inside a long-abandoned gas station along the old Lincoln Hig... (more)
A brief snow storm is breaking just after sunset at the continental divide. A UP coal train has exited the Moffat Tunnel (the signals and portal are visible in the far distant center) and now snak... (more)
Moon over Cumbres. Denver & Rio Grande Western K-36, Number 487 poses on the 84 ft. wooden trestle at Cumbres Pass, under a crystal clear, moon-lit sky. A 30-second exposure at ISO 500 and... (more)
OKLAHOMA CITY OK (October) 1975 -- Vandals broke a switch lock, threw the switch and tampered with the switch signal to show the wrong aspect. The result was that Rock Island GP40 384 left the mai... (more)
Monsoon season has been exciting so far this year in Northern Arizona. This past Tuesday, another monsoon storm rolled through Valentine. It produced thunderous skies for most of the evening. As t... (more)
