A EMD veteran brings loaded Savannah, GA bound coke train W221 through the first of many cuts on the Southside of Cumberland Mountain. The howl of the 40's dynamics could be heard for miles before... (more)
Coming to a CN Yard near you! I believe this is an new mother/slug set that in an old CN paint scheme. Not sure what the model designations are. The 7600 is lettered as GY-430A and the 600 as ... (more)
Taken from a heli.
MMA's Searsport job met a truck last night a the crossing of Rt. 202. The driver of the truck claimed to have been unable to see the lights at the crossing and got broadsided, derailing the engin... (more)
Conrail MA-80 arrives in the yard at South Plainfield on a rainy Saturday morning. This job typically runs on Saturdays to serve Marino\WARE, a steel fabricator. The pair of NS GP38-2s are in th... (more)
Drone Shot of NS #9752 leading NS Train 54G across High Bridge in the early morning fog.
A set of Santa Fe F units in Dearborn Station. Taken on Kodachrome II film from the Roosevelt Road overpass.
United Way Loco 9159 leads train 263 over an eastbound CP Intermodal
A rare sight to catch this unique locomotive pulling an engineering special through the Moffat Tunnel, as a westbound manifest waits for it's turn.
Just minutes earlier, this back street had been a hive of activity with a wedding in full swing, carpenters using the tracks as their workshop, street hairdressers, shoe stalls, butchers and resid... (more)
This meter gauge dmu slide down for 100 meters(300feets) at least.Some passengers wounded with slight lesions.
607 with the "Powhatan Arrow" lies on her side after a derailment resulting in the death of the fireman. Cause, failure to obey automatic block-signal & entering turnout at excessive speed (77 mph... (more)
For my 600th upload, we're going to back to SLO to watch empty autos snake around the Cuesta Grade. UP 1989 was 2nd out for this run.
UP 8743 sits in the mud from a derailment back in January. The train hit a truck and both of the lead locomotives along with a few railcars went off the tracks. As of now, both locomotives involve... (more)
Pictured is a moment of weather drama I will never forget! I was driving through the west part of downtown Salt Lake City where both UP and D&RGW had passenger mainlines that ran down the middle o... (more)
First SD70M-2 for NS gets a run on the Test Track
Enroute to Cheat Bridge from Elkins, Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad operated Cheat Mountain Salamander and its four car consist were struck by a loaded tandem axle log truck traveling ... (more)
Dude! This is like so cool to sit here on the tracks and eat pizza! Oh wow man, like is that a train?
Well, here it is! EMD's newest locomotive on the Market, I was one of the first people to see it after it was unveiled at CPs Humboldt Yard. The thing that sets this unit apart from other ACes i... (more)
Canadian Pacific #2207 GP20C-ECO shines brightly in the afternoon sun as it poses for its first photos. The 2207 is part of a 30-unit order being produced in Muncie by Progress Rail. This grea... (more)
The amazing crews, including R.J. Corman Derailment Services and Winters Rigging, working to recover the Amtrak P42DC 102 from the October 5 Vermonter derailment, got it loaded on a an automated l... (more)
Claremont & Concord #18 eases a single box car down the steep grade into Coy Paper to perform a setout.
Q174 had a run in with a 18-wheeler this morning in Westfield,MA. The driver just couldn't wait for the gates to raise up after a westbound had passed and he didn't see the eastbound Q174 approach... (more)
Hallett Dock's ex-CP switcher positions ore cars for loading of limestone as CN's vessel Presque Isle is moored undergoing maintenance. CN has received STB approval to purchase this dock from Hall... (more)
North end of the Wind River Canyon, South of Thermopolis, Wyoming.
14 locomotives at the locomotive shops with an ex-C&NW (far right) and SP (inside). See a picture from my second visit.
Autumn gold to winter white Mother Nature can’t decide what season to be in as an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe grain train descends Mullan Pass and curves over Montana Rail ... (more)
View taken from an old footbridge that passed directly over the LV engine terminal. It was old, shaky and on a nice sunny day, might have been near capacity when railfans were in town.
Northbound Amtrak #14 - The Coast Starlight is running a couple of hours behind as it heads northbound along Klamath Lake on a clear morning in July. Only a couple of hours previous, passengers we... (more)
With Oregon's Mt. Hood looming proudly in the background, an empty BNSF oil train glides gracefully along the mighty Columbia River and heads east back to North Dakota and the Bakken Oil Fields fo... (more)
"Old Rivets" in her Golden Years
PRR #4800 is located at the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum in Strasburg, PA. The engine itself was purchased from Conrail by the Lancaster Chapter of the N... (more)
Two motorists patiently wait at the Blue Mountain Road crossing for a empty UP coal train that is climbing the grade in Coal Creek Canyon west of Denver.
Now we have new information about this crash, the steam locomotive with the number 3311 is an ex Florida East Coast 4-8-2 part of a group of FEC locomotives sold to the NdeM in 1946-1952 it is lis... (more)
Running on the advertised out of Santa Barbara, southbound Amtrak train #11 sprints along the California Coast as it passes beach goers at Emma Wood State Beach near Ventura on the former Souther... (more)
This BNSF switch job pulls toward Cicero yard, the time being it strikes the BRC's bridge and shreads open half a 5 pack.
12mm shot of a fairly new NS SD70M-2. Thanks to the crew for the shot opportunity.
NR37's headlight cuts the gloom as it leads sister unit NR15 upgrade into the sleepy hamlet of Exeter, in the New South Wales southern highlands. The wooden-arm semaphores at this location were re... (more)
A view from the coal dock at East Altoona reveals active and stored steam. John had permission from a high-up in the PRR to roam East Altoona, not often accessable to railfans. This is one of 16... (more)
Late in the afternoon as the sun had draped across the right side of the locomotive NS Corp photographer Casey Thomason and I thought it would be an interesting photo to open up all of the body si... (more)
Fresh from the factory! Brand new Iowa Interstate ES44AC's 502 (closest to camera) 503, 504, 508 & 510 are sitting in the NS Bellevue yard having come in two days prior. I wish they had been pai... (more)
This was taken 4 days after it was all over.
The remnants of the Halloween night wreck in La Mirada are still being cleaned up on November 4, 1974. The remains of Penn Central bo... (more)
The daily Beijing-train has just left Tibet capitol Lhasa on its 4.064 km (2.540 miles) and 47 hour journey. The highest point on the new Qinghai-Tibet railway is at 5.072 m (16.640 feet) - a new ... (more)
New slogan and paint scheme? Spotted at the Alton & Southern Gateway Yard.
"Crocodile" Ce 6/8 II # 14270 from Erstfeld made a short fly today with the help of two large railway cranes back to the network. The 126 ton legend from the electrification of the Gotthard line i... (more)
On the evening of January 3rd 2018, a loaded Coal Train blasts out of the loading yard past 82 Station at the bottom of the grade out of Sandaoling Open Cut Coal Mine, Nth West China.
Train of empties hit a coal truck and derailed at Nolan, WV, just west of Williamson. The truck driver was killed. Here is the truck frame wedged under the lead unit.
An eastbound BNSF freight crosses Noxon Bridge west of Noxon, Montana, just after sunrise on October 2, 2014. Fog is quickly burning off over the Clark Fork this cool morning on Montana Rail Linkâ... (more)
The ditcher has made 2 passes thru this decent drift at the top of Alden hill with the wings out to push the snow back, now MofW had the crew back up about a mile to hit this drift at 40 mph to cl... (more)
The ever changing scene at Larrys. Today, Penn Central, SP, DMIR, NS, BLE, CNW, and many others await their fate.
No. 12 was sabotaged by someone removing a rail on a curve just before a fill on a downgrade at Mile 4 during the night. The 2 Canadian Pacific hoists were leased at $10,000 per day per hoist and ... (more)
Three of the six units damaged in the head-on collison between two ore trains on September 30 rest at Lauren, just south of Highland, waiting to be scrapped on-site.
The Big Boy's first servicing stop for the day on Thursday, August 12, was Vinita, Oklahoma. This scene shows the typical crowd and turnout for the steam train's brief appearance in the numerous s... (more)
On-board Former CSXT 116, now C&O 8016 makes his way back to the Potomac Eagle station in Romney, WV to allow the passengers to detrain. NOTE: Photo taken with permission.
The legendary rotary snowplows have returned to Donner Pass. California has been hammered with numerous storms this winter. All of these storms have wreaked havoc across the Donner Pass Route. Fro... (more)
Hot Box After being tagged by the XXB 152.0 defect detector, this tanker from Q602 was slowly taken to the house track at Milstead where it will wait for a replacement wheel set. Tha... (more)
Army-Navy football specials are lined up in the yard next to (then) Philadelphia Municipal Stadium on the south side.
Sea Of Horses A birds-eye view of the locomotive storage lines at the Juniata shops, Norfolk Southern's biggest locomotive shop. Unfortunately, due to decreased freight traffic in conjunct... (more)
An ABB set of E units move past Canal st. in Downtown Chicago. Photo taken by James D. Hediger.
Norfolk Southern SD45-2 number 1700 poses outside the paint shop at DeButts Yard in Chattanooga, Tennessee, wearing its new, "old" paint scheme. The first of a thirteen unit order, 1700... (more)
Canadian Pacifics 2011 Holiday Train is deadheading southbound as it crosses a backwater along Lake Champlains Bulwagga Bay a few miles south of Port Henry, NY. Mother Nature contributed mild temp... (more)
CZRY - Carrizo Gorge Railway's entire passenger fleet, just RR east of tunnel 5, Carrizo Gorge
Three steam locomotives simmer on a hot, humid late spring afternoon at St. Louis, Missouri, on June 13, 1990, in a gathering to celebrate Trains Magazine’s 50th anniversary. Union Pacific 4-8-4... (more)
CSXT 845, a lone ES44AC spends the night in the Westward Siding as an impressive lightning storm stirs up trouble in the background.
A 3-pack of 80MAC's wait for trains to clear up before heading west to South Fork. This is the second time I have gotten an "alien invasion" shot at Cresson as an EB produces an eerie glow around ... (more)
Montana Rail Link's Laurel to Missoula manifest freight streaks through Lombard, Montana during an awesome light show courtesy of Mother Nature. I'm standing on the abutment of the old Milwaukee R... (more)
Just Happened Tonight
Dropping back 48 years from my last post! I wonder if this kind of log dumping is still done. These particular logs were hauled into Tuolumne by the three-foot gauge Shays of the West Side Lumber... (more)
Union Pacific's "Western Pacific" Heritage painted EMD SD70ACe is on display at UP's "Heritage Celebration" event in Omaha Nebraska.
Prototype missile launch car at the museum was developed in 1986 and carried one Peacekeeper ICBM that could be launched from the car itself. Car is 87 ft. long and weighs 520,000 lbs. A seldom... (more)
Union Pacific EMD SD70ACe No. 4141 sits in repose at UP’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 8, 2014. UP SD70M No. 5058 waits its turn in the shop a few tracks over. No... (more)
Alvia to Barcelona from Madrid.
The two flagships and standard bearers of the Santa Fe Ry., the Chief and the Super Chief meet at Trinidad, Colo. on May 10, 1967. The combined Super Chief / El Capitan, with a working RPO, had ... (more)
Fresh UP 1982 in heritage paint scheme for Missouri Pacific. Unveiled by UP Sat 7-30-05
this is what a unit looks like that has gone through an apartment building. the previous night a company was MOVING A *corrected* building across the Santa Fe Pasadena Sub in Highland Park CA with... (more)
It's early morning as SAR 24 class 2-8-4 takes a Knysna to George mixed train across the Lagoon trestle.
CP 930 in heavy snow passing the Plattsburgh,NY station with CN SD 70I 5609 leading. This is a CN-NS train operated over CPs D&H under a haulage agreement between the three roads.
Sitting, still in disrepair and waiting for duty, 6311 keeps guard outside the old elevators in Rosalia. The setting sun, light pollution from nearby Spokane, and a single mercury vapour light pro... (more)
Train derailment in Esquel due to strong wind
Three GE's lead this Tacoma, WA to Omaha, NE stack train that is seen leaving the city of Boulder. The Valmont Power Plant can be seen in the background.
C&O 614 in "cammo" while being painted green for the Greenbrier Presidential Express
COMILOG/ ERAMET - SETRAG GT46AC CC4304 is being prepared for its FRA inspection and the train built up with all 6 of these export units on September 6, 2012. Later the units were picked up by Nor... (more)
36A gets a shove up the mountain and is headed by the Cassandra Railroad Overlook as a couple visiting from Rhode Island with their two dogs take in the fall colors and mountain railroading.
After meeting an Eastbound coil train, Westbound coke accelerates toward the diamond at XN (or RO if you're a B&O fan) tower on the former Nickel Plate racetrack in Leipsic.
Both engineer and fireman take a moment at a station stop while passengers board a late night train bound for Norfolk, Virginia.
