The Stone Mountain Scenic Railroad's former Southern Railway FP7 carries another load of passengers through some beautiful fall foliage around the Rock.
Another AT&SF grain train derailment on rain-softened roadbed, this one 6 miles south of Silsbee, Texas on May 7, 1971 for grain headed to Port of Beaumont for export. It pours rain in southeas... (more)
Espee Cab Forward! Thoroughly dominating the main hall of the California State Railroad Museum is one of the most impressive steam locomotives that I have ever seen displayed indoors. Weig... (more)
HG 3/4 # 4 (former Furka-Oberalp Bahn) is crossing the Furka pass road near Km 48.9, a Fiat 508 Balilla 3 marce from 1932 has to wait.
West Absolute Signal Pence Springs, population zero. Alone with my thoughts while the camera paints a scene invisible to the naked eye. The crescent moon obscured by a layer of clouds, coupled w... (more)
The former Amtrak SDP40F #644 spending some cold days in Portland!
I must admit, I took every opportunity to view RF&P 250 ton wreck derrick No. 1 when it was being used. It didn't get used often, but when it did, I tried to be there. Still, being steam powered... (more)
A Southern Pacific passenger train heads east across the Benicia–Martinez Bridge. Built between 1928 and 1930, the lift-bridge spans the waterway between Martinez and Benicia northeast of San F... (more)
Ah... the chase is on! Triple header steam at speed - convert you to a steam fanatic in seconds. Former Jitong Railway QJ #6988 & 7081 along with a bit of Milwaulkee muscle - #261. Railroad: Iowa InterstateLocomotive: Steam 2-10-2Location: Mineral, Illinois, USALocomotive #: IAIS 6988Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: September 16, 2006
Amtrak #36, the eastbound Desert Wind, detours over the Santa Fe Pasadena Subdivision in Highland Park, with 'Pepsi-Can' class unit 500 leading an F40PH.
CSXT 3082 Leads Eastbound at 8:30pm with a beautiful crazy sky in the background and grain elevators in the scene
A Northern Pacific Diner Among an ATSF Gold Mine. Stainless steel fluting on original Santa Fe Railway passenger cars returns again to the rails of the Barstow station, even if only for jus... (more)
After a bit of a wait, POED with a quintuplet of ex CSX C40-8's (now patched for Maine Central) leans into the curve just east of Shirley Station
To help supplement the 4 axle fleet on the railroad, the Clinchfield purchased 10 GP38's in 1967. The units were great all purpose units that could be used for mine runs, extra units for mainline ... (more)
Modern Day RDC? - At first it seems a bit ungainly and dare I say ugly, but after a bit it really does kind of grow on you. I imagine this is how fans felt in 1949 when they gazed at the f... (more)
Survivor. Juniata Valley Railroad 446 (née-NYC 8983, SW9) moves in to switch out Joe Krentzman & Son Inc. on Thursday, November 17, 2020. A quick glance to the foreground reveals a number ... (more)
The Living Legend meets the Madame Queen.
The Western Maryland owned just two BL-2s, Nos. 81 and 82. Both survive. This is No. 81, preserved outside the main entrance of the B&O Railroad Museum at Baltimore.
With a pair of Northern California cars and CDTX 2051 on the point, Amtrak 782 hustles into Emma Wood State Beach and under Pacific Coast Highway No. 1 as it skirts the Pacific Ocean this afternoo... (more)
It isn't often that you find equipment freshly painted in BN's Cascade Green scheme. This box car looks sharp on display at Bandana Square, a former NP shop complex now used for offices, a hotel a... (more)
O. Winston Link's CP ten wheeler being moved from Newfoundland NJ storage to Rome Locomotive Works (NY) with hopes for a restoration that never came about.
Crews are on scene of an eleven car derailment near Rich Bar, California in the Feather River Canyon. Here, a couple of those crew members analyze how a wheel axel tore up the side of a grain car... (more)
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe double-stack train heads east at Grizzly, Montana, on the beautiful spring morning of June 4, 2002. The snow-covered peaks of Glacier National Park dominate the back... (more)
Preheating the Rail - BNSF MOW (Maintenance of Way) workers use an Oxy-Acetylene torch to preheat the ends to two adjoining sections of 136lb. rail in preparation to welding them together... (more)
A classy and colorful caboose is at the rear of a manifest freight as it rolls west through Griffith almost thirty nine years ago, just east of the famous Broad street tower. Gotta love those spru... (more)
Two bottle cars and a ingot car remain on the site of one of the largest steel mills in the nation. Now this serves as the Duquesne City Center although most of the land isn't used, making for a d... (more)
The first train of the day is running up the steep grade to Rothorn Kulm. Shoving is light oil fired cogwheel steamlocomotive H 2/3 # 16, built in 1992 by SLM Winterthur for the Glion-Rochers de N... (more)
The newest addition to the SARM family, Seaboard Coast Line SD45 2024, backs three container flats across Blair Road.
A pair of Korail GT22C's lead a Mugunghwa (second class) through a busy crossing at the approach to Seoul Station. The crossing presents an interesting anachronism, a manned crossing on a line tha... (more)
Making the case about the Safety of rail passenger travel, Amtrak California no. 768, the morning Surfliner from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles, passes morning commute traffic on Hwy 1 and Freeway ... (more)
Southbound BN WP run through "Highline" train on WP Keddie Wye
At 7.15 AM, about 5 minutes before departure for the trip back home from Dresden towards Lyss/Switzerland. The former Deutsche Bundesbahn 4-6-2 express train steamlocomotive 01 # 202 of associatio... (more)
Late afternoon light streams across the work floor at Nelson, BC, last stand of the F-M's.
Looking like a model railroader's kitbashing project, Rock Island GP40 4710 sits in the deadline in North Little Rock, Arkansas, in May 1985. The deadline is made up of former Rock Island and Wes... (more)
Trains rolled through the town of Lac-Mégantic, Que., for the first time since July when a train carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire. This morning a test train made up of five locomotives... (more)
Px48-1907 with occasional train "Autumn in Zulawy"
580 rolled the rail at London Road derailing KRL 300302 and a number of hoppers. This is a close-up of the derailed B-end of the car.
The brand new yard is being built for the Superior Silica sand plant located at Poskin, Wisconsin. Now Canadian National, this line used to be operated by the Soo Line railroad and then by the Wis... (more)
Lift-off! All is quiet on the Florida East Coast Railway in Melbourne as a Delta 4 rocket lifts off from Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral. The rocket is carrying an Australian satellite and ro... (more)
MRL in North Dakota! 60 cylinders of leased EMD goodness screams out of the White Earth Valley with the Minot-bound GREX slot train and leans into "Whiskey Curve", where decades ago, a whis... (more)
CSX is replacing the swing span on the old B&O Wabash River bridge at Vincennes to allow double stack loads to cross. Work began Saturday morning 8/4 with an expected completion of Monday 8/6.
UP's Granville Job LTN-70 heading back to Butler Yard. Freshly painted Katy heritage SD70ACe 1988 has just been picked up from the WSOR interchange at Granville, on the far northwest side of Milwa... (more)
The only active SDP40F on the planet sees regular service hauling Rail Explorers' Railbikes and customers up the grade back to the museum in Boulder City, NV. The locomotive was built new by EMD ... (more)
Rebuilt Sentinel railcar No.261 performing international passenger service Arica (northern of Chile) - Tacna (Southern Peru), passes by the Chinchorro beach on his return to the Chilean city durin... (more)
A pair of brand new FEC units await delivery, seen here on the CSX-GE interchange track. This will more than likely be these units' only encounter with snow.
ATSF 5379 and CR 5070 lead a train up Cajon Pass.
I was on my way back to my office in Signal Hill from a job when I encountered this Southern Pacific re-railing operation in Paramount, CA. Not long after I took this shot, I was asked to move ba... (more)
Metra F40PHM-2 #209 shoves an inbound morning scoot east towards LaSalle St Station, flying high above the Norfolk Southern mainline across the Englewood Flyover. This image demonstrates why the ... (more)
The BB 9003 and 9004 locomotives were built by the MTE group (Matériel de Traction Électrique) in 1952. Their innovative aesthetics emphasised their body with their aerodynamic shaped ends which... (more)
Milwaukee! Cream City, Brew City, Beer City, Brew Town, Beertown, Miltown...whatever you prefer! A Canadian Pacific ballast train with a pair of SD40-2's attracted a lot of attention around town t... (more)
SP C415 2405 leads the Anaheim Hauler past two other C415s, the power for the Buena Park Hauler, in Buena Park, CA, on January 20, 1973.
With a little imagination, you can almost believe this old workhorse is still running!
Hope I look this good (and still run) when I'm 130! One of Knott's Berry Farms' immaculately maintained C-19 narrow gauge Consolidations leads the Saturday train out of the Calico Ghost Town train... (more)
Leading BNSF Railway train Z-LACNWH3-19A (Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal; Los Angeles CA to North Baltimore OH) is BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4709. It may not be obvious, but this locomotive wears a unique ve... (more)
Rotary snow plow no. X900207 and its permanently assigned F7B unit are in the company of NW2s nos. 665 and 666 at Milwaukee Road's Tacoma tideflats shops and yard 11 months prior to the end of the... (more)
Passing through a Cajon Pass landmark, the Mormon Rocks (created by the San Andreas Fault) is Union Pacific “Big Boy” 4014, leading a 23-car passenger train from Barstow to the railroad’s We... (more)
FIRST FREIGHT. The first revenue freight move to cross this bridge since November 1989 rolls SB, operating under the old D&H symbol used for the D&H North Creek to Saratoga job.
VIA Switcher at the Montreal Maintenance Center Montreal
Worn-out, obsolete, unneeded - all words that might accurately describe these old locomotives, as well as their dilapidated surroundings. But L&N is going to give several RS-3s (delivered in 1954... (more)
A Reunion between EX Western Maryland 39, now George's Creek 39 poses at the New Page Papermill with GCK 25 in Luke,Md before it undergoes restoration back to WM Circus colors. A spec... (more)
They Live! Not one, but two old ALCO's have escaped the scrapper's torch in a remote section of Eastern Kentucky. Located in Martin County, KY. these were found sitting near the head of NS's Wolf ... (more)
A beautiful steam locomotive, by many connoisseurs said as one of the finest ever built, the Bavarian S 3/6 18 478 or 3673 (2 'C 1' "Pacific" or 4-6-2), built in 1918 by Maffei in Munich, is a fo... (more)
Pavonia Yard at night had all the action that was fit to view.
CP 281 had a little mishap this morning...
Running at full track speed, CB&Q 9911A heads through Somanuk, Illinois just as the last rays of the sun hit the stainless steel trainset.
Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad owned Dearborn Station in downtown Chicago and provided access and terminal facilities for Erie; Wabash; Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Monon; Atchison, Topeka & Sa... (more)
Mixed Train 2009! In an historic first, due to changing traffic patterns the ARR has chosen to exercise its FRA waiver to run mixed trains consisting of revenue passenger and haz-mat freigh... (more)
This morning a number of BNSF cars derailed in the Denver Yard, falling off a bridge and into the South Platte River. The cars were empty hoppers and center beam cars so there were no issues with... (more)
Tucked away deep in Metro East Industries facility, where locomotives and rail cars are rehabilitated, are Herzog 181 (marked MPM XIV on its flanks) coupled to Burlington Northern Santa Fe SD70MAC... (more)
Casey says: "Ya'll c'mon out to Spencer, see these Streamliners, along with 20 of their closest friends!" It's only a matter of a few days now until the North Carolina Transportatio... (more)
This meter gauge ic express approaching Diakofto station.
Railroad life can be dangerous! On June 29th 2016, I was called to work on the YWTS60 assignment at Taschereau yard, in Montreal. CN 7266 with more than 55 years of ser... (more)
A Montana Rail Link work train with SD40-2XR no. 259 leading glides across the Clark Fork River in Clark Fork, Idaho. The 259 was rebuilt from former Burlington Northern no. 6324.
Orphaned by the Milwaukee Road out in the Puget Sound Region when service was cut on March 15, 1980, SW1 no. 878 left Milwaukee's roster and was sold to Weyerhaeuser Co. This photo was taken 4 mon... (more)
It's only been a few years since the L&N takeover of the Hoosier Line (Monon) between Louisville and Chicago as a southbound manifest runs the streets of Bedford, Indiana. Seemingly continually en... (more)
A Lackawanna passenger train rolls eastbound towards Gouldsboro, PA as a local resident heads out in his 1938 Buick.
Galloping home early in the afternoon at Rocky siding, Rio Grande number 10, the Craig-Denver Yampa Valley, is 35 minutes from a 3:20 arrival at Union Station. Three coaches and a baggage car behi... (more)
CN power for Pool train service to Toronto crossing over to CP
It's not in the middle of nowhere for nothing. While the Fillmore & Western does operate tourist service, the most distinctive part of their operation is in the movie business. With a vast amount ... (more)
A minor derailment at Saunders turned into something more as the airslide hopper landed on a propane tank. The flame is from the crews burning off the propane before they try re-railing the cars.
Not dressed for a public appearance, Amtrak F59PHI 465 sits at Amtrak's Seattle facility, with its mangled nose cone sitting on the ground nearby. This locomotive appears to have been involved in ... (more)
Milwaukee Road Little Joe has just cut off of westbound after helping it over St. Paul Pass.
Looking almost as if waiting for a long passenger train to arrive this beautiful if somewhat battered consist will take a freight somewhere. Cushy passenger jobs are long gone.
A Norfolk Southern "baretable" train crosses the Little Conemaugh River just west of South Fork, PA. This section of the Pennsylvania Railroad follows the grade of the Allegheny Portage ... (more)
NS CB10 local crosses the old Pennsylvania Railroad steel bridge, which crosses PA Route 36 (24st) here in Altoona. Also of note is the Juniata Shops built Prototype leading the Local. NS 2423 is ... (more)
Two shades of orange are represented in Huron today, one shade is on W&LE locomotives and hoppers, while the other is some rusty orange on a “De Witt” geep.
Clear The Scene. Looking from geographic south to north, the amount of brush clearing that has occurred at the the East Broad Top Railroad in Orbisonia, Pennsylvania is dramatically evident... (more)
