British Columbia 6-motor Alcos lead an SD40-2 south with a train heavy with the forest products of British Columbia. Cut in about 90 cars back are cabless remote units.
A different look at a familiar location! The "view from the veranda" at the Mance P. O., a place that loses none of its appeal to trainwatchers after dark. Early in the morning at 04:07, the first... (more)
On January 20, 1984, a predawn fire destroyed the wood pile trestle approaches to the Charles River drawbridge outside Boston's North Station, cutting off access to the station for 15 months while... (more)
Overhead shot of an ES44DC.
N&W SD39 2965 (ex-Illinios Terminal 2305) receiving its black paint at Norfolk, VA on February 10, 1983.
UP 4-8-8-4 Big Boy #4014 leads UP P-MCSP into Saint Paul, MN as part of the Great Race Across The Midwest. This is the very first time a Big Boy locomotive has ever been to Minnesota. Photo taken ... (more)
Sometimes the locomotive isn't the most interesting thing on the train. The Lake Shore Limited rolls along the former "Water Level Route" with the NYC Hickory Creek observation car at the tail end... (more)
Crud the Genset blew up! Although this track is old Los Angeles & Salt Lake, so I'm not sure it's right to call the SW1500 by its SP moniker of Crud, and the Genset didn't really blow up, but it ... (more)
Immediately after its formation, Conrail transferred all six-axle Alco Centuries to Ohio for use in iron ore drag freight service. Of course a lot of that ore was destined for the steel mills in t... (more)
As the old saying goes, sometimes it IS better to be lucky than it is to be good... Such is the case on August 5 at 0200 hrs at Fire Lake, Quebec! Having set out on the road on Wednesday, August ... (more)
Vanishing Point - One of the Seven Sisters arcs off into the distance with the moon above as the sun begins to set over the Sonoran Desert. This railroad was embargoed in 2008 and there... (more)
The works for the construction of the new bridge is a fact. The 1st metal part for the bridge is's arrived to be placed. The meter gauge line via Tripolis will be ready to run after 3 months about... (more)
Out of the Maw Winter Dreamscape - Part 2 The prior Saturday I got this amazing image at State Line Tunnel: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/680266/ ... (more)
The 16-cylinder, 2000 horsepower EMD 645 engine shines through the sides of CSX GP38-2 #2702, in a Dickson-style loco-xray image at Spencer, NC.
The end is near for the remaining 200 or so steam-era low side "regular" ore cars still in service. Here one that is bad ordered is removed from its train by crane and rolled off to the side of th... (more)
Brand new ES44AC's are already getting down and dirty, performing pusher service on the Pokey.
Union Pacific ES44AC 7964 (built in June 2012) has the honor of being designated as the 5000th Evolution Series Locomotive (GEVO) built by General Electric. Rather than a fancy paint scheme, it h... (more)
A dmu unit crossing through a small water bridge
Running long hood forward, the MSJRV approaches the south end of the Newark yard with former Erie Lackawana SDP45 in the lead.
The weekly freight crossing the station of Patra. A9103 and A9102 on 80300 freight to the south.
Built in 1904, the old City Hall subway station has been abandoned for more than 70 years. After discharging passengers at its southernmost stop, though, 6 trains still pass through the loop in or... (more)
westbound Santa Fe freight running on SP trackage rights between Marcel and Walong, CA
Mamiya 645 color negative
Arcelor-Mittal Mines Canada had planned to fully repaint the fleet of Quebec Cartier Mining AC44CWs into the orange and grey corporate colors, however funding has staved off those efforts temporar... (more)
Former DL&W 818 and former Erie 826 sit with the mostly mail and express train 22 in Port Jervis. This was a Binghamton to Hoboken accomodation that was run after the through trains had been route... (more)
Some newly painted SKNX grain cars depart Jasper on M301.
There was a lot of activity in the departure yard of Union Pacific's West Colton yard on a rainy night. A crew is working on BNSF 7703 to prepare it for departure to Barstow.
A log reload yard is a busy and dangerous site so the crew of the Clarkia Logger moves cautiously as they roll through the yard. Unfortunately this scene will not be repeated as the reload and all... (more)
On the way to Tianjin at 333 km/h (208 MPH). Photo showing the luxury seats and the driving room.
A freshly painted wood-sheathed caboose sits in Turcot yard.
Hotshot intermodal 213 races southward toward Atlanta over the 200 foot tall Wells Viaduct near Toccoa, GA on a foggy late June evening with one of just a handful of Ex Conrail SD60's on point.
Amtrak FL9 No. 486 served as a parts source for Maine Eastern's FL9s and was finally cut up after languishing for a decade in New Jersey. The story can be found at http://blog.railroadphotographer... (more)
Best seat for the 765 trips.. okay second best seat after being in the cab of 765. NKP 765 can be seen ahead of the 8100 as they lay over one night at Conway yard.
Our Southwest Chief train on the way to Chicago had a run in with a car transporter at South Valley. The train was delayed for 5-6 hours due to the DEA being called, as one of the cars on the tra... (more)
UP 1988, MKT heritage unit. Note the recently installed PTC equipment, which is why this unit was at West Colton for several weeks.
This two axle switcher, a Republic RX500, works the tracks inside the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe Co. in south-east Provo. Thanks go to Bill Caywood and Pete for identifying the locomotive manuf... (more)
The classic "Crocodile" locomotive Ce 6/8 II 14253 in traditional brown color was built in 1919 by SLM and MFO for the newly electrified Gotthard route, she was in regular service till 1976, the l... (more)
Earlier in the day a tractor-trailer attempted to beat a train at the E Main Street crossing in Somerset, PA. He lost and 6461, the second of three units, suffered the most damage with the conduc... (more)
Just Like The Posters: When Great Northern Railway promoters tried to sell the wilds of Montana to potential travelers, this is what they were thinking of; tall mountains, rapid rivers, stu... (more)
The Minot-Superior manifest is yarded in Duluth today versus Superior.
With A41's lone tank car now safely out of the way, the re-railing crews will now begin the process of picking up the SD40-2 assigned to this week's NS A41 local. Since the rail it was riding ato... (more)
One of a kind. The first on P&W's SD70M-2's no. 4301 has been repainted into their classic, and stunning orange brown and white scheme. This unit is ex FEC no. 100 and has been modified to fit on ... (more)
A Kasgro 122 Ton - 25’ Depressed Deck Flat Car sits at the CN yard, with a transformer. Kasgro is the builder of “World’s Largest Railroad Car” Their web site states; "From our twelve-axle... (more)
Northbound along the Lehigh River on the former CNJ L&S line.
Locomotives tucked behind the north car shop at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD
As the sun begins to set over Norfolk Southern's Inman Yard, a yard job sporting a pair of Atlanta-based GP33ECO units, continues with it's duties of building an outbound intermodal train.
2019's winter was a tough one for all the railroads in the Midwest. A major storm hit on Saturday February 23rd. The storm dump rain, ice, and snow, followed by blizzard like winds. B41 left out o... (more)
New Chicago and North Western General Electric C44-9Ws line up at Bill, Wyoming, on July 7, 1994. Included in the gathering are Nos. 8614, 8688, 8693, 8645 and 8647.
After a heavy snowstorm in the night and morning, rotary Xrotet 9218 and dual system (diesel/electric) locomotive Gem 4/4 801 cleared the line over the Bernina pass (2253 metre/7391 ft a.s.l.) No... (more)
Number 6 reflects the last light of the day as it nears Chicago.
Super "C" accelerates through Joliet. As a little trivia, when I was hanging around near the end of Joliet Union Station as a passenger station(2014) I spent several nice evenings ta... (more)
N21 heads south with 130 empties for Bailey Mine, passing West Penn Power's Mitchell Station, located between Shire Oaks and Monongahela. For more information, visit more)
Still plenty of snow in the riverbed of the Reuss, when "Taurus" locomotive (Siemens ES 64 U2) of Austrian Railways (OeBB) with the Railjet trainset is leaving Wattinger tunnel and crossing lower ... (more)
FCCA 1011 leads a La Oroya bound train across the steel deck/truss bridge over the Rio Rimac at Rio Blanco. This is the only mode of transportation moving up the valley here at Rio Blanco. Just of... (more)
Here we are at the Erie Jersey City yard with a mix of steam and diesel activity. Ansco color/color corrected in P/S
It's a beautiful summer evening with fire in the sky to stop at my favorite piece of rail equipment on Fort Lee. While she might look big, a Krupp V5 German railgun nearly twice the size sits in ... (more)
Shuffle your feet, lose your seat. Before Norfolk Southern Railroad sold their set of F units that had been dedicated to power most Office Car Specials, they were renumbered from 4270-4271 and 427... (more)
It's Black Friday, 1975 version, as it is the day after Thanksgiving when I watched Erie Lackawanna employees rerail 3 cars in Hoboken using 2 derricks. There was no Hulcher or RJ Corman at this ... (more)
A lone GEVO leads CSX X797-26 through downtown Kent on a cloudy, crappy day. I missed a similar train about a week before this one, so I ventured out in the clouds to shoot it. The train consist... (more)
An eastbound on the main track meets a westbound lead by MP2138 in a soggy downtown Big Spring, TX. around the first week in September, 1980. Water from heavy rains west of town have funneled... (more)
Southern Pacific's West Colton to Los Angeles Hauler rounds the balloon track as it departs West Colton Yard and heads west on January 5th, 1980. The train is powered by a trio of SD39s (5320, 53... (more)
Two UP Century DD40A-X's are assisted by an SD24B and a GP30 up Cajon grade at Devore, Calif. on April 30, 1976. UP operates on AT&SF (new BNSF) trackage rights over Cajon Summit all the way to D... (more)
People crowds around this basic ES44AC for the yearly Railroad Day event at Natural Tunnel State Park. The loco was stopped and no one was trespassing beyond bounds at the time.
In the early 1970's several railroads had begun to concentrate their unique fleets built by the smaller builders. The B&O had many FM's assigned to the Baltimore area including these roadswitcher... (more)
BNSF ore train passes underneath the Gateway Arch on a beautiful Spring morning.
Century 628 #3123 awaits a sad fate in the boneyard of the Bull Ring. Even as I clicked this frame on my Fujica ST-801, I was thinking that I couldn't wait to write Jim Edmonston for his Trackside... (more)
It is going to be a long night for RJ Corman crews. Q353 derailed on the afternoon of the 31st, and about an hour and a half afterwards, RJ Corman was already on the scene. 15 cars derailed, with... (more)
Just in time for the NCAA Basketball “Sweet Sixteen” game on March 28, Paducah & Louisville parked their SD70MACs painted for the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville at th... (more)
RF&P F's wait for another train to lead, and a C&O geep is seen far right, in this scene from the ready tracks at Pot Yard, once one of the busiest on the east coast. From the south, it was not u... (more)
Rock Island power behind this U50C
Ann Arbor carferry No.7 underwent a major re-fit in Superior, WI over the winter of 1964/65. The boat would re-emerge as the Viking. One of the major modifications was to repower the boat with fo... (more)
An indoor-flying drone spies a unique view of the Beech Grove locomotive shops, featuring NPCU 90221 in "Salutes our Veterans" scheme, and one of the shop's remote controlled overhead cr... (more)
The westbound Southwest Chief leaves Chicago behind in a swirl of snow as it dusts the Metra platform at LaVergne and photographer Chris Lastovich at 70mph.
An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway business train approaches Fullerton. At just four months old, there are not many locomotives relettered for the new road yet, let alone any of th... (more)
K-28s sisters 473 and 476 make their final push into Silverton, seen from high above the "Narrows" of the Animas River. Hopefully, I am the first and last person to obtain this angle... (more)
Quite possibly falling into the top ten sunsets that I have ever seen, a string of midwestern supercells loom over the old Naperville, CB&Q depot. Being out later on a Wednesday afternoon, althoug... (more)
Welcome to 2017! While the Class 1 Railroads continue standardizing everything, there are plenty of unique shortlines worth your time as my wife steps out to grab a shot of the KJRY FP9's.
I had been due to fly to Eritrea next week for my fourth trip to the country and its wonderful railway, but sadly the line has been damaged by recent heavy rainfall and the tour has had to be canc... (more)
The 1975 Memorial Day holiday found me wandering around the Cumberland, Maryland area and searching for trains, but none were to found! I decided to cross the border and see what was happening ov... (more)
Burning diesel on the NSM mainline and climbing out of the Lake Superior basin with empties for the mine 47 miles inland at Babbitt, MN.
A CSX manifest snakes along the New River and through the old historic town of Thurmond, West Virginia. The tracks that cross the river are operated by the RJ Corman Railroad.
A Work train picks up scrap rail on the Milwaukee west of the Three Forks terminal
Abandoned NCStL roundhouse at the CSX - KWT interchange.
A pair of Santa Fe Railway’s finest, a bit battered and bruised after repeatedly operating for thousands of miles at a time, poke their noses out of the shops in San Bernardino. Built in June 1... (more)
Ten years ago, the Mississippi River and its northern tributaries took in more rain than they could handle. In Cedar Rapids, the CRANDIC tried to forestall disaster to their mid-town bridge by loa... (more)
Came out from the fog... Backwoods of central Russia at the north of Tver region. Local time 5-00 AM. TEP70-0270 locomotive with passenger train "Ivanovo - St. Petersburg" appears... (more)
