Carrying the torch for the Rio Grande. Several generations of narrow gauge railroaders pose with two generations of D&RGW Locomotives at Silverton, Colorado in evening light. The railroad... (more)

Times are tough in fall 1982, and Milwaukee Road was storing some of their locomotives. Here we have 7 GP20Ms parked at Pigs Eye Yard not far from the roundhouse area. These Geeps were rebuilt fro... (more)

Got IT! Conrail Block Operator Jim Largent has successfully conveyed a Form D to Conrail conductor Mike Quigley at Derry Road in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The Form D authority would take the ALPI-0... (more)

GG-1's on freight, coming and going! The icing on the cake was the trailing motor on the right- the unique "Old Rivets" #4800.

In a rare scene from the early days of color photography, Southern Ps-class Pacific 1244 is shown at the roundhouse at Savannah, Georgia in 1938. The 1910 Baldwin is all spiffed up in green, silve... (more)

N&W Y6 2149 at Roanoke...Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.

The view from the engineer's seat from Santa Fe F7A 300C as it sits on the whiskers at Redondo Junction Roundhouse in Los Angeles, California on March 10, 1973. Various Alco S2 and S4 switchers a... (more)

The westbound "City of San Francisco" is seen on the Overland Route on its way to Roseville and points west before Amtrak took over

TVRM's Eden Isle observation car

The Mainstreeter at the fueling rack in Fargo. It looks as if TOFC cars are attached to the back end of this one ...

Sometimes, quite by accident, you discover something truly extraordinary. On July 24, 2000, I found a Union Pacific coal train departing Provo, traveling west down the Sharp Subdivision on its way... (more)

Sunset viewed from Inwood Hill Park, as a Hudson Line train passes under the Henry Hudson Bridge and arrives at Spuyten Duyvil station.

This was one of the worst fire damaged units I have ever seen. The only giveaway was the D/B and the old style trucks. In any case, later in the month CR 6480 emerged from the NLR shops in fresh... (more)

Early in the morning on an already hot and hazy Virginia day, three P30CH’s haul the Auto Train NB only a few miles from the destination of Lorton VA at the end of a nonstop sprint from Florida.... (more)

Milwaukee Road E70 East rounds a curve at Drexel, Montana.

Lehigh Valley RS-2 214 has just a double door NYC box car and caboose in tow in front of the Bethlehem station.

AT&SF train 12, The Chicagoan, is seen east of Newton Kansas on January 21st 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

It’s a busy time at the Boston & Maine’s small Lawrence, MA yard as a southbound train with three GP40-2’s does its pick-up/set-off work. Meanwhile, a northbound train waits its turn at yard... (more)

The Train of Tomorrow visits CNJ's small LCL yard just east of the PRR crossing in Elizabeth NJ on its 86-city tour of the country. Behind it is the roof of the CNJ freighthouse. CKF was 12 when h... (more)

Two rare EMD relics from the past(and a caboose) sit silently awaiting their pick up from the Battenkill local(the run was cancelled today due to no loads delivered yet by the Pan Am) to head nor... (more)

Conrail E8 4022 leads 6108-6257, and is backing Mail 8 down into the lead for the Post Office at, Jersey City, NJ. 11/14/1977

Two Alligators await repairs.

How many trains you can find on this photo? The action takes place in Kursk Magnetic Anomaly, largest magnetic ore anomaly on the Earth. You can see one of the largest iron qua... (more)

When passenger trains were king: Built by Fellheimer & Wagner for the New York Central in 1929, the Buffalo Central Terminal now sits in derelict condition as another day of abandonment comes to a... (more)

US Army GP10 4623 attends to a DODX flats loaded with a pair of M88 tank retrievers.

Not a bad place to ride around the steel mill in the summer but not so sure I would want to be on this in January with the wind whipping down Lake Michigan.

I'm not sure of the story behind this unit, I vaguely remember hearing that it was lettered up as a joke as it is a former Louisville & Nashville unit, but any insight would be appreciated. 35mm s... (more)

A southbound BNSF intermodal train begins looping itself on a weather/picture perfect day in May. No haze, no clouds, light wind, 55 degrees. The plane and its pilot were chartered at the Tehach... (more)

This F9 survives today.

With CN 3115 - the BC Rail heritage unit - on the point, CN E251 cuts through the fog as it passes through Davisburg, MI on the Holly Subdivision.

Santa Fe eastbound Mail Train 8 blasts through Stafford, Kansas without even slowing down, and the Agent appears to be looking down, not watching the action or the RPO clerk in the first car comin... (more)

This is the view on August 6, 1978 from the extremely rickety and ancient steel footbridge over the Southern Pacific's small Bull Ring Yard in downtown Los Angeles, a second-generation diesel love... (more)

The former Bessemer and Lake Erie SD9 rests at the original Hartwell Railroad's facility at Airline, GA. A long string of storage cars lies between here and the outside world.

Recently restored Santa Fe FP45 rests overnight in SCRM's Carbarn Seven. This locomotive was backdated to it's as delivered appearance by museum volunteers. The hard work of the restoration team r... (more)

Electric shunter Te III # 147 of the MBC with a Slmmnps-y car, loaded with a M109 self-propelled howitzer of the Swiss Army. This car will be transported to the military training area near Bière ... (more)

"Lining the Westbound at BERK"

A SONO Switch Tower Museum guest playing Tower Operator hastily throws one of several mechanical levers to put in a signal for a westbound Metro-North ... (more)

This veteran started out in July 1970 as C&O 7521, builder number 36750, frame number 7276-15. On this day it was the trailing unit on what will become BNSF Train U KCKHKM0 01T, seen here at KCT ... (more)

At the 1990 NRHS Convention in St. Louis, TRAINS Magazine had a special and private photo staged in the afternoon where all four participating steam locomotives would be lined up for its staffers.... (more)

A block freight full of cars at Assopos creek. On the head is A509 MLW class 500, 3.650hp, 126t

C&O 1601's cab is immaculate at the Ford Museum. Here is a fun fact, if you pull the throttle, you get steam sound effects. Cool! To keep people from tripping on the grate shakers the museum has... (more)

Inside the cab of the 1225.

A few minutes before the sunset, the last ic on the way to Athens moving along Platanos coast.

The "Rhaetian Crocodile" stretches its brown nose out of the 450 metre long Wiesen I tunnel. The bridge over the Brückentobel stream is only 10 metres long and leads directly into the 9... (more)

The UP 844 creeps away past a lineup of modern UP power at Armourdale Yard in Kansas City, Kansas.

Posed in basic black and imitation gold, Rio Grande's GP9 #5931 in original paint scheme. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer listed on slide.

It has been two and a half years since I visited this former Canadian National G8 and it has not moved an inch. This long nose beauty was built in 1954 and operated with the CN until somehow find... (more)

Train No. 1, La Bala, departs Guadalajara for the 1,200-mile trip to the U.S. border.

BN 640 heads up an interesting mixture of former Great Northern and Northern Pacific F units at the Belknap St. roundhouse in Superior, WI, September 1970, about six months after the BN merger. Th... (more)

Four brand new consecutively numbered Alaska Railroad GP49's (2801-2802-2803-2804) along with a BN business car & caboose are being hostled from Interbay to South Seattle on the Burlington Norther... (more)

Train wrecks seem to be popular on RP. How about a train wreck of a color scheme? Amtrak was still in its relative infancy when its classic RDCs and GG1s were subjected to cruel and unusual pigm... (more)

35Q struck a grain truck at MP 13.2 at Sheaffer Rd near Dillsburg. Canon EOS 10D w/ 300mm F/4L IS lens. 1/125 sec. @ F/4. ISO 200.

Late in 1995, Union Pacific began a fuel tender program to expand the fuel capacity of locomotives working in Power River Basin coal train service. By 1998, the experiment was deemed a failure due... (more)

A meet occurs just south of the Alexandria, Virginia Amtrak station as a northbound Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac pig train meets a southbound hi-rail truck.

New Arrivals

Last week, four newly acquired ex-NJT P40's were delivered to New Haven, Conn to join the ranks of CDOT Shoreline East and future Hartford Commuter service. They w... (more)

Climbing the grade out of Las Vegas, this westbound intermodal works hard to defeat gravity through the curves at Sloan NV. It will soon reach the the grade crest at Cima, CA, and be speeding tow... (more)

Be careful at all crossings, especially where remote controlled locomotives operate.

3 LPG tankers car derail over bridge. difficult to rescue!!!

"An Uphill Battle"

An unusual array of crossing protection halts traffic on the Hamburg Turnpike as the SU-99 works upgrade with three units for power. While the lead unit on t... (more)

WCE train 13 approaches its final stop of the morning as it passes the yard lead for Saskatchewan Wheat Pool's Cascadia Grain Terminal

Now this is a compromise joint!
Having to connect vastly different sized rails on this seldom used NS house track greatly illustrates how valuable compromise joints are and what they ... (more)

With an E9 and two E7B units, the 17 car eastbound Golden State sprints at track speed across Arizona about 62 miles east of Tucson at Tully siding.