Negotiating floodwaters near Port Junction.
The secret is out, the Heber Valley is the place to be for winter steam photography! Annie Bruehl waits at the Edwards Lane crossing for UP 618 to pass by her completely original 1953 Buick.
After Picture. Support leans about 30 degrees. CSXT locomotive hangs by a thread as only rails support loaded Centerflow.
Darwin Award candidates on the Kaalfontein to Tembisa run. Trainsurfing has become an often fatal fad around Johannesburg and the ultimate macho thing is to ride on the roof, standing upright whi... (more)
Several engines on this train derailed in the early morning hours.
Look at the face of the passenger in the truck. Also notice that the truck has a handicap parking permit on the mirror. He passed 4 cars waiting at the crossing and I would guess he was doing at l... (more)
the dead line in Colton is about 150 locos long - some SD40-2's or C40-8's but also a lot of newer SD70M's are sidelined due to lack of work ...
Burr A wind chill of -30 made for a cold shoot, M337 is punching some small drifts.
Big Boy on static display-currently displayed at Omaha's Kenefick Park.
The lead unit of a derailed SB UP train. The 3 crew members reportedly rode the trip out with minimal injuries. Reported to have derailed, then collided with a NB UP, before going down the emba... (more)
50th Anniversary of O. Winston Link's first N&W photograph
Nevada Northern #93 operating on Heber Valley Railroad line for the Salt Lake Winter Olympics.
I don't remember the exact date but the derailment happened on the weekend that Princess Diana died
All 20 heritage units are gathered around the turntable at the Spencer Roundhouse, with 1030 holding down the table. For more information, visit more)
NS 4817 caught fire, Somerset FD called to extinguish the blaze. No injuries.
Moody Tunnel on BNSF Oregon Trunk Line in the background.
CP train 164 behind SD 40-2 6010 passing above Lake Champlains Willsboro Bay completing a memorable view at 09:13.
A set of stack cars get stuck under a bridge after the clearance was over looked.
This was the so-called "race" between 4449 and 8444 up Cajon Pass. Kodachrome 64, Minolta X700, Rokkor 35-70mm f3.5
Happy Friday the 13th. After making a setout on the industry track, an eastbound roadswitcher out of Williston was impacted by the setout rolling back out onto main 2 due to a lack of hand brakes.... (more)
NS 3276 Barrell-Rolled Down the hill from Bluefield Yard onto the Adjacent Highway
First train after the Christmas 2002 Snowstorm
Oops! Somebody should probably tell the helper crew that you shouldn't put empty flat cars between the helpers and loaded lumber cars.
CSX V322 crosses NS's Copper Creek Bridge while CSX U349 crosses the CSX Viaduct high above...this photo is NOT staged, it just happened!
It's Not Delivery, It's DiGiorno; More than six hours after a semi truck was struck by a northbound manifest crews are STILL removing frozen pizza's from the front of the lead unit. Now that's w... (more)
An ICE approching the main station of Frankfurt am Main with a lot of other Deutsche Bahn wagons standing around. Photo was taken from the observation deck of the Maintower, about 600 feet AGL.
The Big Ten Curve in late afternoon with a train occupying the entire 270 degrees. The head of the train is exiting westbound while the rear has just exited the Little Ten and is starting into Big... (more)
UP's "Big-Boy" steam locomotive, UP 4023, fills Bancroft Street at the new Kenefick Park in Omaha Nebraska. Gives a new meaning to the term "Street Running"!
Big meets small as the LS&M's GE centercab rolls a cut of empty Detroit Edison coal cars out of BNSF's Mikes Yard in West Duluth. The tourist railroad is storing a train of hoppers this winter as ... (more)
Two beauties and one beast, two models of Playboy Tv Latinoamerica next to The Cooper Canyon Express
One side of the locomotive is lettered for the DM&IR and the other for the Union RR, luckily the DM&IR side was the one that was lit. The tracks in the distance is NS's line through Greenville.
214 struck a trailer loaded with yarn. Impact occurred just out of the frame to the right. Train crew shaken up but apparently not injured. Driver also OK. Driver ignored 4 signs advising him ... (more)
An insider photograph of the shocking aftermath of the tragic runaway of a overloaded SP potash train "01-MJLBP-11" after it lost it's brakes off Cajon Pass and careened off a curve at over 100mph... (more)
OC put on a spectacular show of steam running both GTW #6325 and former Canadian Pacific G-5 #1293 side by side on it's former PRR lines through Ohio.
Hot Rail! Movie stunt train once belonging to the Santa Clarita Railroad (SCRX) performing a stunt with a Pontiac Firebird. Note part of vehicle firewall on right side of the locomotive.
Aftermath of catastrophic head-on collision. Southbound lead by RS-32 2020 and GP-35 2384 hit 4 FA's. Note FB tossed up on the embankment. 2020 remains are under the coach. The fuel fire delayed c... (more)
In the quietest moments of a winter storm, fire and ice converge in the tangled trackwork at Metra's busiest interlocking in the Chicagoland area.
The most crowded train in the world? Every January the Biswa Ijtema event takes place in Tongi, north of Dhaka, attracting around 3 million people! On it`s third and final day the trains taking de... (more)
Reporting live from Roseville... And here she is! SP Heritage Unit in Quasi-Daylight all the way! A little hint of Black Widow but sleek classy - kinda like a modern GS-4. More to come later!
Wide-angle stitch; cab view image of the "Big Boy" (UP #4006). Museum's yellow signs are readable in the 4.3kx1.6k pixel 1.3Mb file.
A hot Z train zips by a loaded Ethanol train and a track gang at Dalies. See EXIF data for shot details.
Deraa station- camera/canon D5-ob 24-105
METER GAUGE
Two new locomotives head west.
VIA 15 passed through the ice storm in eastern Quebec last night.
After a 2 hour wait with no trains, the last light of day sees an empty garbage train heading West along the Columbia River
UH That'll Do! The sometimes not so glamorous side of railroading and some of the things that can happen. Here is what happens when the load out chute of a taconite pellet bin fails to close dur... (more)
This westbound intermodal with its three UP locomotives is about to disappear into the fog at 10:02 this morning. Canon 20D and 24-70mm lens.
Santa Fe 800 East crosses the Colorado River at Topock.
What attracted gricers from around the world to this obscure line was this viaduct, which had an almost surreal quality about it, especially in the hazy lighting that is typical of this area due t... (more)
Last official run of IC steam power pulled by Mountain type #2613.
7079 is transported through the suburb of West Swan in Perth following a train collision on the Robe line in the WA Pilbara region.
New GM70, EMD's SD70ACe Tier-2 emissions unit, was at the EMD Plant at LaGrange Illinois for more testing.
BNSF 5430 had to stop its trek up the pass on track 1 when it came face-to-face with a brush fire. The fire was located north of the tracks and just east of I-15. The firefighters seemed to have... (more)
This was the first time that the Rio Grande heritage unit led the Ski Train. Wind chill was well below zero, with high winds and fresh snow.
Southbound Grangeville local crosses a wooden matchstick trestle north of Cottonwood
This is what is left of SD40-2 8877. It was on the K-959 went it hit K-960 head-on on 9/22/05. It was buried under a pile of gondolas and on fire.
C&S Denver-Cheyenne freight extra 700D plowed in to on-time southbound Billings-Denver passenger train #30 at 6:48 a.m. in Broomfield, CO, when it failed to wait at Utah Junction or hold the sidin... (more)
One of those you really had to see it to believe it moments. Soo 4408 rides high over 6600 in the aftermath of the July 12, 1982 head on at Gilchrist
BNSF VS beer filled semi trailer, everyone was ok.
Aftermath of the Carolinian derailment in Raleigh yesterday. A dumptruck carrying gravel drove around the gates and struck the front corner of P42 #69. See http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.ph... (more)
Via #85 hit this car at a road crossing dragging her over a kilometer down the tracks she was fatally injured
Primed and lettered.
The Glacier Discovery works north after passing the Girdwood Passenger station. Moments earlier a rainbow filled the Girdwood Valley but now dark storm clouds are shrouding the Chugach Mountains ... (more)
I finally got the picture that I always wanted from Donner, although there wasnt quite as much snow as I wished. Needless to say I love it! Here the spreader is plowing snow moving east over the l... (more)
CN's G843 is Plowing plenty of snow across the Dubuque Sub today as seen in the photo they are just hitting small ones at speed at this point on the East end of Beth siding. They could of used a ... (more)
A decent array of power around the turntable in Cumberland.
Where else can you find 56 year old MKT geeps, an F-unit, an F40c, Alaska GP38-2s and a whole bunch of switchers all in one place, today?
Morant's curve from the other direction. It will be more than an hour before the sun, shining on the high peaks, makes it into the valley.
A little premature flying
Series 500 "NOZOMI" running under very hard rain. It runs at about 160MPH so making a great splash.
A temperature inversion traps steam from freshly baked taconite pellets close to the yard, creating an interesting effect on this cold -12F morning.
Eastbound empty coal train on Stoney Creek bridge on the Rogers pass line. The bridge is 325 feet above the creek bed.
Home Sweet Home for a hardcore railfan. A private drive with a flatcar frame bridge leads to a home nestled in the pine forest at 7,000 feet just steps from the Moffat Route. A lead UP flag unit i... (more)
NS 056 had quite the train on 8/18/2014, amongst the CAT equipment, pipe loads, and Trucks for these units, were these 10 brand new BB40-9W GE's, heading for Mozambique,Africa.. Photo at Johnstow... (more)
Now that's OVERSIZED!! The crew was doubled as this Multi-Million dollar prototype 787 Dreamliner section backs up the Boeing siding in Mukilteo. It even makes the typical oversized cars look smal... (more)
Making for a memorable first night in La Grange, a six hr. wait for a northbound is rewarded when CSX 8118 comes idling down Main Street past the Mayor's house at 04:11.
Not your typical "coupler pan" shot. The trailing centerbeam flatcar dropped it's drawbar about a mile or so back. At about 3 mph they made it about half mile before the strap that was holding t... (more)
Green Machine. Battery powered NS 999, classed BP4, goes to work for the first time in Rose Yard in Altoona. The unit was built using the frame of former NS GP38 2911, ex CR 7732, ne... (more)
On February 6, 1951, the PRR's "Broker" derailed at excessive speed on a temporary trestle killing 85 and injuring 500 in one of the worst ever rail accidents in America. This picture was taken ... (more)
Should this be called a GG-1/2? Used for a while as the Wilmington Shop switcher. This unit also saw service as a self-propelled snowmelter for wintertime clearing of switches, by means of a downw... (more)
Long before placement in the bunker at Strasburg, PRR 1223 steps down Water St. with the Santa Claus Special at Lancaster, PA in December, 1966. PRR Class D16sb.
KCS 4688 had enough this morning and its prime mover apparently decided to "run away". You could see the smoke from 10 miles away. KCPD and KCFD responded to KCS Knoche Yard this morning and watch... (more)
It is 2AM on the CalTrain SF Peninsula, long after the commutes and a strange ghost train has appeared. The rescue GGRM (Golden Gate RR Museum) equipment relocation train is about to leave "The Ci... (more)
Amtrak's California Zephyr parallels Interstate 70 and the Colorado River on its way towards its next stop in Glenwood Springs.
VIA's Canadian #2 passes Summit Lake, just west of Stephen, near the Continental Divide.
