Staged at Ogden, AB on November 11. Photo contains CP 6644, CP 7023, CP 7022, CP 7021, CP 7020
D&RGW Train #2, the "Royal Gorge," led by F-7 5574 near Cotopaxi has been reduced to two cars on it's daily run back to Denver from Salida, Colo. on March 12, 1967. The continental divide domin... (more)
The cabs from a Baltimore & Ohio S4 and a Conrail C630 sit among the detritus of reclaimed steel at "Scraporano." Naporano was not fan friendly, but on Sundays it was closed and there was a back g... (more)
Westbound local stopped at Metropark
Three Lehigh Valley Alco C628's, (636 and 632 in "Snowbird" attire) lead an eastbound departing Coxton Yard at Pittston Junction in the late summer under threatening skies. This Allentown bound tr... (more)
Not looking any better. It had been a little while since I had checked in on 'preserved' M636 CP 4723 in Farnham and unfortunately it is not looking any better. It sits near the ex-CP stati... (more)
Set the controls for Roanoke! Here we see the controls of the sole survivor of Norfolk & Western's amazing Y6 class of 2-8-8-2 freight locomotives. Right now this immaculately preserved machine... (more)
February 22nd, 2014. (From left to right) Rob Shatsnider, R&LHS Chairman, Mayor Elliott Rothman, Mayor of Pomona, and Ed Dickens, Sr. Manager Heritage Operations for the Union Pacific Railroad rid... (more)
Making the most of a day! Following meetings in New Haven, CT for my wife, the three youngest of our nine kiddos that were along were given the choice of where they wanted to go. The chant quick... (more)
Wearing the classic blue and gray Eagle passenger scheme, Missouri Pacific GP7’s 186 and 221 hustle a local freight east towards Herrington on the Kansas City-Pueblo main line, MP’s westernmo... (more)
Richard Stoddard, brakeman for the Tooele Valley Railroad blows the horn along Vine Street at Highway 36 (Main Street) crossing in Tooele City on July 7, 1980. After the International smelter east... (more)
A CB&Q E8 leads three other E units on a very long DENVER ZEPHYR inbound to Chicago.
The GrandLuxe Great Northwestern National Parks train, looking rather small as it climbs up out of the Columbia river gorge and heads for the Trinidad loop, gaining over 600 feet of elevation. more)
A pair of Pan Am Railways MEC C40-8s, 7605 and 7541, bracket a soon to be replaced SD40-2M 601, as the weekly slurry train, symbol BFPO, departs Vermont Rail System's GMRC Bellows Falls Subdivisio... (more)
N&W's Train 111 "Banner Blue" leaves Chicago's Dearborn Station headed for St. Louis on May 16, 1967. Don't know the heritage of E-8 3812 --- likely Wabash? Chicago & Western Indiana 254 Alco... (more)
On October 27, 1965 the westbound Houston to Clovis train 75 the California Special behind Alco PA 53 and two PB's at Texico, Texas near Clovis, New Mexico. The California Special will connect wit... (more)
Christmas EveChicago, Burlington and Quincy caboose (waycar in CB&Q parlance) No. 14602 glows in the gathering twilight of Christmas Eve 2007. The Izaak Walton Inn at Essex, Montana, ha... (more)
Union Pacific brought this interesting piece of equipment to SLO. This boxcar is a classroom designed to instruct emergency responders the appropriot way to handle potential incidents involving Oi... (more)
Greyhound UP 844 heads down Medbury Hill with the Idaho Centennial Special. The train spent the night in Boise and is headed for Pocatello. DDA40X 6936 is providing the necessary dynamic braking. ... (more)
Cab view, engineman control stand CN 2668
World record:longest passenger train in the world with 25 four-car Capricorn units like celebrating 175 years of Swiss railways. This is also longest narrow gauge personal train. Location for ph... (more)
Strong thunderstorms rolled through Duluth and in the process knocked over a few double stack cars at the port terminal.
Walking on water: Wielding a "calibrated ballast density meter," fellow RP contributor Bob Harbison inspects the... (more)
On the 3rd annual URHS Heritage Festival, unfinished GG1 4879 was on display in the engine shed. Maybe one day, with the fantastic efforts of the VRA, this GG1 will be restored.
transfert de la 241 P 9 de Guitres à Toulouse où elle sera remise en état de Marche
3 GP38-2's and 3 flangers return from doing battle with Sierra cement on SP's route over Donner Pass.
Houston we have a problem?
These Rio Tinto locomotives have the tiger stripes on their sides as they test into the setting sunlight.
I'm not sure of the story behind this boxcar but it is one of the more interesting ones I have ever photographed.
A UP stack train snakes its way up the Columbia River Gorge, thru vineyard and orchard, village and hamlet.
MILW SD9 and four F's (one in pass. paint) have just crossed the Mississippi and are heading west.
The profile is classic USRA but that fat stack says Union Pacific. Some 625 light 2-8-2’s were turned out for American railroads under control of the United States Railroad Administration during... (more)
The track and concrete footprint are all that remain of the RJ Corman locomotive shop in Guthrie, KY after being destroyed by fire on 10/5/2014. The 3 locomotives are still in the same spot they w... (more)
DITCHED, part 6: THE DAMAGE. Work crews bend and lean to view the damage to the locomotive they just pulled from the ditch. The locomotive eventually went to the Hobo Railroad in... (more)
To Pennsy they were just another diesel model in the ranks, online in 1955, a year in service grime showing to prove it at the time of this photo. They're at Columbus, blending in with the produc... (more)
Shave and a haircut--two bits. Inside the Cloquet Terminal Railroad's shop a little wheel work is taking place to remove some "slight imperfections" and this wheel set will be returned to service... (more)
Hang Time - CP trains 280 and 276 get hooked by an Alaska Air 737, on approach to Ohare...It's going to be a while before these CP hotshots land at their final terminal, only a mile behind me.
From 2/27 to 11/11/91 UP 3593 (nee-UP 8084, b/d 8/79, b/n 786218-20) wore this "Desert Victory" camo paint scheme in honor of the 66 UP employees who participated in Operation Desert Storm. Kodak... (more)
CSX CM44AH 7203 leads a northbound manifest to Cincinnati, Ohio on its very first revenue run. The unit was rebuilt from CW44AC 215 with a new cab, upgraded electronics, and other goodies.
For the past 20 minutes, we've been watching a tiny speck of light, some 7 miles away, gradually grow into a beacon illuminating the last of the exhaust still billowing out of the west portal of t... (more)
"We Didn't Start the Fire" Big Al, one of NYAR's senior engineers poses by a switch being heated by the Track Department.
New New Haven Alco C-425s 2554 and 2553 head South Boston to New Haven (Cedar Hill) train BN-1 at Readville Yard. BN-1 reached this yard via the Dorchester Freight line and is about to take the si... (more)
The Union Pacific City of Denver is ready to leave Denver Union Station for Chicago in Summer 1956 (right after UP ended its relationship with CNW and took up with Milw). Scheduled Departur... (more)
Built By ANF-Frangeco, France
Maine Central EMD F3(A) #672 and GP7#564 in Bangor, Maine November 1966. The end is near for 672 and her sisters, a dozen new GP38's were on order to replace them. No photographer listed on slide... (more)
Street running? Wuppertal Schwebebahn No 18 approaches the western terminus of the system at Vohwinkel. Most of the line runs above the river Wupper, but the last couple of miles are above the str... (more)
The eastbound "City of Los Angeles" is seen climbing the grade out of San Bernardino and the smog filled LA air.
This is a classic of East Texas engineering, check those weld lines. There is a prototype for almost everything.
This CPR track maintenance crew was using every bit of available track time to gather up old ties and pile them up at Spences Bridge. This truck is deceptively powerful and able to move along at ... (more)
Three nights and a couple hours later after our prior visit, we return to see how the foliage is doing at the SLR crossing of Wild River in Gilead, Maine. Same leader, slightly different angle wit... (more)
An interesting load, a pair of cracking towers from Hooper Welding in Oakville make their way into Hamilton for Railink.
Experimental/demonstrator. Rather than buying new electric locomotives, Conrail will discontinue electric freight operations.
A set of Milwaukee Road Geeps and a leased Precision National SD24 back down into the yard to pick up their train.
Two brand new MK5000Cs prepare to depart North Yard for a test run up the Moffat road with the SP dynamometer car.
After an extensive rebuild SW9 Locomotive was restored to its original owner livery at B&P shops in Brookville, PA
The lines formerly operated by Dakota Southern are now being operated by WATCO's Ringneck & Western, meaning that the Dakota Southern equipment has to be removed. A former Missouri Pacific Jordan... (more)
Ugh, Mondays.. Crew from Norfolk Southern begin clearing out a heavy pile of debris from a rockslide across the Kenova District mainline just west of the signals at Falls Branch following a... (more)
You never know what you're going to get on the Warm Springs Local.... BNSF 110 and BNSF 2469 lead a short 5-car Warm Springs Local up the Square under a mucky January afternoon. Canon Rebel XS.
A creative graffiti artist has given this car a rather artistic touch.
Locomotive hit a loaded grain truck at a grade crossing at jesup Georgia
We don't like foamers here, son. Now git! When our Lerro Productions photo freight stopped at the concrete trestle over Tailes Creek, just a couple of miles west of Maydelle, our leader, P... (more)
There's plenty of muscle here, PRR 6768 pulls on the main. A companion view is seen here. PRR Class M1a.
On a surprisingly warm and beautiful April evening, the shelter for passengers awaiting eastbound trains in La Fox is illuminated by the setting summer sun. Unfortunately, recreation of this photo... (more)
Various power sits in the deadlines of NRE in Silvis. A lot of what you see here will soon be scrapped due to the impending closure of this facility.
A quartet of brand new Southern Pacific GE's has been added to the point of this Eastbound double stack train as it nears the top of Beaumont Hill.
Westbound Penn Central freight train at Bay Junction in West Detroit, Michigan, on October 14, 1973. The large building at the left is General Motors' Cadillac plant. Photograph by more)
6,200 horsepower, give or take, at rest, at Steamtown. Lighting compliments of Lerro Productions.
A double ic express at Kakia Skala passage on the way to south. The line is out of work from 2004 because the new double standard gauge line is more usfull.
Tight Parking. On November 24, 2019, a very full storage yard in Roanoke, Virginia shows Norfolk Southern engines of many varieties. EMD SD40-2s and SD70M-2s sit along side GE Dash 8s, unit... (more)
I remember my father showing me this photo, and, if my memory serves me correctly, he took it while on an extended work assignment in Indianapolis in 1960. This is a real rarity, 1 of 22 center-c... (more)
The 261 lives again. Under steam again for the first time since 2008 after undergoing its federal mandated overhaul on this 1944 Alco 4-8-4.
Rio Grande F9A #5771 takes her first journey from Denver to Salt Lake City after the completion of a complete rebuild and repaint at Burnham shops. Rio Grande Zephyr train #17 has just emerged fro... (more)
Lehigh Valley #400 was the first of four low nose RS-11's on the roster. She is seen here basking in the sun on a service track in Sayre Yard.
As a series of severe thunderstorms build over the Colorado Front Range, BNSF 8253 leads the Denver, CO to Lincoln, NE manifest east through the small town of Roggen, CO on June 17th, 2019.
Kicking off a month of 'road trips' for the Pan Am execs and invited guests/shippers, Pan Am Railways Office Car Special (OCS) train is seen crossing the Hoosic River at Schaghticoke, New York. O... (more)
Head-on collision on single track mainline.
There Goes The Last DJ... The last hurrah for coal burning on the Durango and Silverton as K-36, #481 takes charge of the 2024 Winter Photographer's Train for what will be the ... (more)
Servicing in the Cumbres Yard. After a pretty arduous climb up the 4% grade out of Chama on wet rails, we see the Durango Railroad Historical Society (DRHS) crew servicing their locomotive ... (more)
It was bad enough arriving Peach Creek, W. Va. to find C&O’s steam operations had just been taken over by diesels in 1956, but the dismal, rainy, overcast Oct. 6th day didn’t help the enthusia... (more)
Norfolk Southern dynamic brake slug RPU6D #892 tags along with SD33ECO #6210 to work a cut of cars at the north end of Brosnan Yard. The RPU6D slug provides additional tractive effort as well as d... (more)
CN train Q19851 09 soars high above the Prairie Creek between Hinton and Entrance on the Edson Sub. CP ES44AC 9371 leads while CP ES44AC 8916 brings up the rear. CN “borrowed” these units off ... (more)
Breaking Trail. Having picked up a single boxcar at the Panolam plant at Martins, CN 4132 plows up a bit of snow as it gains headroom coming off the plant lead and onto the back track befor... (more)
Elementary, Watson! It appears the cab-end truck on Lehigh Valley C420 #411 has picked a switch point, thereby dragging the two adjacent locomotives off the rails as well. And check out the guy o... (more)
A southbound passenger is throttling up as it leaves the IC station.
Westbound stone train. Kennett & Avon Canal in the foreground. 4th Sept 2003. Fujicolor 200, Nikon FM, 35mm Nikkor
Credit where credit is due. Employees CSX, members of the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum and associates posed in front of Clinchfield 800 (F3A) at the end of the day on November 18, 2017. Afte... (more)
After a quick stop, 611 is underway northbound through Dundee yard out of Danville.
