Great looking units but I never got to see them really pulling. Usually they left Colton westbound in the company of about 10 other geriatric misfits, all on line, in hopes 3 or 4 of them could m... (more)
Built 1916; retired in 1974 and donated to the city for permanant display in downtown park.
What was once one of the most powerful locomotive's used by CSX, The Spirit of Waycross is likely in low spirits as it rust's away in the storage track at Waycross yard.
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)
A Work train picks up scrap rail on the Milwaukee west of the Three Forks terminal
Derailment of CSX Q539 drags and derails 6 cars, 5 of them are over the hillside taking out about 800 feet of rail & cement ties with them. The line reopened 4 hours after WO772-28 dumps ballast ... (more)
While making my way to the GorgeRail 2013 event I stopped to snap this eastbound rolling through an orchard west of the town of Hood River. Viewed from Ruthton Park overlook looking west.
"Wow, Its SO close!!"
On the morning of October 9th, 2021, Pedowitz Machinery Movers shoves Long Island Rail Road vintage boxcar "SHOP 100" past parked cars on Ba... (more)
How to get a GP15 back on track at the hump in Roseville
On December 26, 1955, we drove down to the Englewood New York Central roundhouse, figuring that we would see at least a few in service steam locomotives. It was another cold and cloudy day, typica... (more)
Lehigh Valley Alco FA-2 units sit in front of the Bethlehem station with a caboose.
The conductor on the crew visiting the O Yard cautiously checks the water levels as the west coast rain has started to flood the area. Fortunately the water wasn't dangerously high, but the two ge... (more)
ex-C&NW 900. Unit was traded into Alco and was a lease unit for them and then Precision National before being sold to Peabody. Peabody's line became landlocked after the ex-B&O line (last operated... (more)
Days before the end of ferry service by EL the commuters from Hoboken disembark at Barclay St. for their jobs. Most commuters who made the daily trek from New Jersey were already using PATH train... (more)
Grand Central Terminal on 42nd between Lex and Madison - Opened on Feburary 2, 1913, Manhattan's only surviving large station (Pennsylvania Station was razed in 1964), hosts 67 tracks on two level... (more)
Boston and Albany commuter train on the big curve where the New Haven Shoreline and Old Colony divisions merge with the New York Central at the throat of South Station. To see another New York Cen... (more)
This photo is from my slide collection . This picture was taken by my late brother Mark Clark. It might look familiar to some of you because my brother was with Everett Young who had almost the ... (more)
A close-up view of SOO 2500A's engine compartment after its radiator was removed for repair.
First sun lights the side of a westbound stack train approaching Hector.
A major storm hit the Midwest on Saturday February 23rd. The storm dump rain, ice, and snow, followed by high winds. The result left the westside of the state of Iowa in complete disarray. Railroa... (more)
While not sporting any of the Vermont Railway red, the Bellows Falls (VT) switcher, symbol DASW-11, awaits the word from customer Dead River, to spot six LPG tanks. The switcher has brought toget... (more)
At first glance this might appear to be New York Central's Harmon shop in 1958. In reality all three of these locomotives -- E9 4096, FPA4 1390, and FL9 2013 -- originally worked for the Union Pac... (more)
Once the hub of the Dakota Southern, Chamberlain is now an inactive yard used for storage.
Union Pacific 8766 leads the five day old MNPRV out of Tunnel 39 at Cisco. Feet of Sierra Snow covering Tunnels 4 and 39 are evidence of recent winter storms. Those storms caused washouts along th... (more)
Bedtime for 611. The photo shoot is over, the actors are gone and the photographers are already headed for the parking lot. The crew from Fire-up 611 moves in to secure the engine for the ... (more)
Under an incredibly dramatic sunset, eastbound Q382 throttles up and enters the plant at West Deshler, where they'll cross over to main one to get around stopped traffic ahead. Just one of those "... (more)
The Black Gold, from Tulsa/Fort Worth, stops at Dallas Union Station before heading onward.
Rail crews have just cleared the chassis of the truck from the front of the train, revealing the true detail into how much damage the lead unit took upon impact with the water truck. There are rep... (more)
End of the lineSt. Maries River Railroad’s turn to Plummer interchanges its train to Union Pacific at Plummer, Idaho, on September 27, 2021. It’s pretty obvious where STMA’s forme... (more)
Amtrak train #3 the "Southwest Chief" leans into the curve at West Devore, CA, descending Cajon Pass led by Santa Fe's last original factory painted FP 45.
A crew gets ready to cut their T-M loose from an SD and go work the yard.
475 may be just a freight hog, but she can certainly hustle along!
Nickel Plate #759, one of six surviving Berkshires, sits on a spur in a classic pose at Steamtown awaiting some cosmetic restoration and asbestos removal.
The driver's cab of historical meter gauge DMU of peloponnese
AMT 1350, first of 20 ALP-45DP ordered by AMT on a test run on electrified Deux-Montagnes line with an coach and F59PHI 1329 pushing at the rear.
On the first day of 2007 UP brought out the rotary to clear the KP line. Here we see the view from the rear of the train.
Loaded Northbound racks derail and hit train in the siding on August 1, 2005
Santa Fe U30CG 8001 (a former passenger diesel, ex-401) leads two SD45s and a U36C on a very short westbound San Bernardino to Los Angeles local (which will, no doubt, pick up more cars before it ... (more)
Southern Railway of BC's barge job loads the last track on a barge at the Annacis Rail Marine Terminal on Annacis Island. Of course, this is no ordinary day as the crew has loaded four passenger c... (more)
A damaged UP SD9043MAC sits in the sun, awaiting to be moved to North Little Rock for repairs.
NJT P40DC 820, former Amtrak, is in fresh paint at the MMC.
UP's Big Boy steam locomotive #4014 heads east of Cheyenne, Wy for Gering, NE on the first leg of it's "Home Run Express Tour" to Omaha for NCAA College Baseball World Series. Here, 4014... (more)
An ex-Southern Pacific AC4400 leads a Mexico-bound AMPEPR auto train into Ventura on its trip down the Coast Line at last light as fishermen go about their day oblivious to the train's passage.
"Through the weeds not around them". That was a parody of the DRGW's old advertising slogan, "through the Rockies not around them", dreamed up by DRGW engineer Andy Payne, probably while running ... (more)
During the last seconds of sunlight, BNSF 7081 grinds up the grade through the tight curves at Daze on the BNSF Phoenix sub in Arizona.
Fall Colors and a Northern. Frozen in time at the Modesto Amtrak station, ATSF 2921's black paint makes a stark contrast when framed against the changing, fall colors of the trees in the b... (more)
The absolutely beautiful Great Northern Railway No. 1 on display at The National Railway Museum, York. The loco is probably the peak of British locomotive builder's obsession with form over functi... (more)
The one of two SD70ACe/LW locomotives bound for the new coal hauling Tavantolgoi-Gashuunsukhait Railway in Mongolia take a ride onboard flatcars on their way to Morehead City, NC for export. This ... (more)
Welcome to the Jungle! Go back in time 15 plus years ago, this would be a common sight with ATSF stack trains and manifest would pass through all day and all night. Now, with the Alameda Co... (more)
The Westbound CANADIAN rolls through the lower canyon of the Kicking Horse River
A gentleman paints a watercolor of the former Reading bridge spanning the old Lehigh Canal, as the front end of train 45A creeps into view.
Soo 2556 at Shoreham, it didn't take long to realize this geep had ran her last mile. Damaged along with 409 in a collision with a runaway cut of cars at Roseport, MN.
On the last leg of it’s journey to become capable of soaring through those clouds, this Boeing 737-900 becomes the last fuselage to travel over the Wilburton Trestle, on the last revenue train.... (more)
Union Pacific "Old Timers Special" rounds the tight curve at Crestline, NV. This track has since been removed and re-aligned.
UP 3593 on display at St.Louis Union Station in July of 1991.
The coal cars in the foreground are coming and going to the Antelope Mine as a loaded Union Pacific coal train heads South just North of Converse Jct. A BNSF DPU can be seen helping it's train Nor... (more)
CSX Q114 drilled a semi truck that stalled on the grade crossing, thus causing a huge delay to traffic on CSX. The driver of the truck was lucky enough to hop out in time and survive with no inju... (more)
BNSF is testing EMD’s new Tier 4 models (SD70ACeP4-T4) on freight trains operating between Minneapolis (Northtown) and Superior, Wisconsin.
Longtime NWI-NRHS (Rockford, IL.) member Gerald Van Alstyne rode a Chicago-Springfield pre-Amtrak day fan trip. The group took an all-rail routing utilizing regularly scheduled trains, via the GM... (more)
Wrecked NS 3268 getting Scrapped at Chattanooga , Tn.
Monon's "Thoroughbred" passing the semaphores at Salem. Photo by Tom Smart from my collection. I was a little over one year old when this photo was taken.
A GMQX EMD SW9 switcher shuffles empty cars around the main plant area. Over the next few days these cars will be loaded and then passed off to the Union Pacific as a unit train.
C&EI FP7 #1601, GP7 #235, and F7(A) #750. Chicago & Eastern Illinois was merged with Missouri Pacific on October 15, 1976. Photo taken from my slide collection, No photographer listed on slide.
Operating on the Western Maryland Scenic
One of North America's most beautiful trains, The Canadian in CP Rail colors starts its trip out of Vancouver, BC with Riding Mountain Park bringing up the markers. The CP station is on Vancouver'... (more)
Sixty years have passed since this empty narrow gauge hopper last moved. During that time, Mother Nature had begun its process of reclamation. Rails have sunk into the ground and many wheels of ad... (more)
Running as advertised, Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief splits the blades as it knocks down an intermediate pair of semaphore signals on this stunningly hot summer afternoon.
From the I-80 Rest stop at Emigrant Gap, I was shooting my last shot of the day which was for the 2009 "A Day in North America" issue of Railroads Ill. The storm clouds from a passing storm parted... (more)
475 blows down before making a photo run for a Historic Transport Presevation charter.
A501 standart gauge and A9107 meter gauge on repair works at the centrak workhouse of Piraeus
A spring storm has coated the Colorado Front Range with a fresh layer of snow, no doubt delighting the passengers and crew on the California Zephyr that timed their trip just right for the winter ... (more)
Founded in 1903 as a way to give the powerhouse Southern Pacific railroad competition into northern California, the Western Pacific was built to connect the Rio Grande railroad in Utah with the Sa... (more)
Sharply on time at 10:30 a.m. on May 16, 1967, after idling most of the night two Erie-Lackawanna E8s crack open the throttle to move the 7-car Lake Cities Train 6 out of Dearborn Station for the ... (more)
The 502 passenger train to Thesaloniki crossing the big bridge of Papadia.
CSX Local train from Decatur Alabama - Unit 6059 (Original Chessie B&O 4159) Leads a three unit local grain train along the TN River in front of the Condos on the shoreline , near sunset
Konkan Railway is one of the most scenic railway routes of India, especially, in monsoon season. In this photo, 24 coach long Mandovi express is crossing Shastri river bridge after exiting 2.6 Kms... (more)
Scene from the "Great Locomotive Chase"
A recreation featuring locomotive 4-4-0 #63 - the Leviathan and 4-4-0 #17 - the York (Racing forward but not in view). The event was put togethe... (more)
A former GMTX GP38-2 now lettered for BNSF leads the local westbound through Heman on the Transcon.
A string of GP9Bs stored at the UP's Portland Shops in August 1972.
They say Oz (aka Australia) is a magical place and the night of October 18 did not let me down. Never in a million years would I have thought that I would lens a train and a moonbow in a night ph... (more)
Norfolk Southern's Wabash heritage unit awaits its next assignment in Union Pacific's Dolores Yard in Carson, CA. Note all the store UP power to the side.
The end of the trip for 501 passenger from Thessaloniki. On the head 220 028 and 220 035.
Oh! Those FA'sCP MLW FA-1 4020, MLW RS-3 8433 and MLW FPA-2 4095 idle at Quebec St. in London, ON.
In November 1984, UP Big Boy 4012 was relocated from Bellows Falls, Vermont, to Scranton, PA. The locomotive is shown here, exiting the Belden Tunnel, on its way over the D&H between Oneonta and B... (more)
As the sun sets on June 29, 2016, an eastbound BNSF grain empty curves into Lombard, Montana, on the busy main line of Montana Rail Link. In a few hours, the colorful clouds will build into impres... (more)
A string of transfer cabooses mingle with unused cars awaiting disposition after the demise of the Rock Island. Gondolas on the right are loaded with salvaged rail.
An early morning westbound Norfolk Southern merchandise train crosses the Genesee River in Letchworth State Park. The park touts this area as being the "Grand Canyon of the East."
NS 1187 rolls through the wye out of the NS Rossville Intermodal Facility as it enters onto the mainline of the NS Memphis District heading eastbound.
In October 1992 John Craft ran a series of charters on the C&TS. During the week, while all the engines were hot, CMO John Bush had the brainstorm of lining all the engines up in numerical order ... (more)
NS 9914 has a bit of wreck damage, and is shown sitting in the Juniata shops in Altoona, Pa
