Day becomes night as smoke from the Lake Arrowhead fire blankets the San Bernardino Valley. With gusts over 40mph the trains were running few and infrequent today. Strange how such tragic events,... (more)
High speed running! Simpson 1201 is delivering a string of empty flat cars to the mill at Dayton and is running around the cars in order to shove them into the mill. Is walking speed too fast? ... (more)
ATSF 3751 passes by Calafia Beach on its southbound journey to San Diego
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 ... (more)
Many different BNSF locomotives sit at Birmingham Rail awaiting the scrappers torch. *photo taken with permission*
One of three that won't make it thru the day, this old F is being dismembered for parts and scrap. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.
Picked Switch (Derailment) at MP 96 - The first of a set of five (5) former Chicago Northwestern (CNW) commuter cars that were acquired by Chicago Metra (METX) and later sold as surplus lie... (more)
A few hours earlier, CN Q101 smashed into the side of VIA #1 in Jasper's station track. When #1 arrived in Jasper, they left a switch open after shoving into the clear in the station track. Luckil... (more)
Norfolk Southern 4000 and 4001 pose together outside the paint shop in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for their first portrait. The locomotives wear a new, special paint scheme to designate the units as... (more)
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 no. 608 surrounded by freight cars in the yard behind Denver Union Station in 1958. Photograph by more)
Due to a combination of a harsh winter, booming oil industry, and aggressive trackwork, Amtrak's Prized train, the Empire Builder detours over the KO Sub. While the eastbound train 8 still uses i... (more)
SP SD35 6902 suffers an electrical fire as the train waits in the hole in Soledad Canyon west of Palmdale, CA on July 15, 1973. The crew never noticed the smoke pouring out of the second locomotiv... (more)
Autumn high above Willsboro Bay on CP Rails scenic D&H North End with 250 winning the race handily with a lake kayaker (in CP Red) far below at 10:45.
Early morning action...eastbound and westbound stack trains.
Norfolk Southern Railway Company 8114 leads its first revenue train towards Andover, seen here squeezing thru the small railroad bore within the naturally-made Natural Tunnel. The creek created m... (more)
UP e/b manifest train derailment at Aikins, Kansas, on the Kansas Division between Topeka and Marysville. Units involved: U25Bs 632, 627, and Alco DL-640 (RS-27) 677. The up-side-down 677 can be s... (more)
The 491 heads west toward Glenwood, MN as the sky catches fire from a chilly, late fall sunrise.
A burned out CSXT unit still calls Barr Yard home after being involved in collision back in early January 2012.
The rains finally came. After a long drought, the much anticipated rainy season came in full fury. Rainfall rates of 5-6 inches per hour fell with 2.70" in 30 minutes which happens occasionally
Western grain train drops down the Elkhorn grade through the dense fog on a fall morning in late October.
BNSF 9385 and BNSF 9337 cross the Famous Lytton Bridge as they haul 401's train to Coquitlam. Note, you can still see damage from the CP Coal train derailment under the BNSF 9337.
BNSF northbound coal train, passing over the closed Washington Ave by elevated line of TRRA Merchants District, under the Eads Bridge after crossing the tunnels in front of the Gateway Arch, all t... (more)
Freshly scrubbed and serviced F7A/F3B/F7B/F7B/F7A consist awaits its train to be made up and delivered to Dearborn Station. Note handsome Monon coach remanufactured from former U.S. Army hospital ... (more)
Floating Train The Alaska Railroad has no physical connection to the rest of the North American rail network. But that doesn't prevent them from having a robust interchange. The ... (more)
Less than a year before shutting down their Pacific extension, Milwaukee Road crews in the West made a valiant effort to keep things moving. Here a pair of SD10s support a trio of SD40-2s on their... (more)
B&O E7A, E6B, E7A units arrive at the Jersey Central Elizabeth station with train no. 2, NATIONAL LIMITED, from St. Louis.
At dawn, a manned helper set of SD40E's pops out of the New Portage Tunnel and heads down "The Slide" on the journey back to Altoona to help another train up the mountain. This is the steepest gra... (more)
I want to inform you all, friends of Railnet, about some picutures realized by a solder German photographer: Walter Hollnagel. During German occupation in Italy he supplied documents about americ... (more)
The locomotive line has increased since last time I was at Donkey Creek Yard in Rozet, Wyoming a couple years ago. Located on the north end of the Powder River Basin, hundreds of locomotives are b... (more)
Talk about lost, A crew member stops a hi railer and asks for directions west as this BNSF AC motor is a rare sight and far from home along the NS Pokey Division.
A brand new AC44C6M rebuilt at GE Transportation from a C40-9 sits on the EEC-NS interchange track awaiting pickup. These units are rebuilt with the rear two thirds remaining relatively unchanged,... (more)
Taken almost 50 years to the day before 9-11-01, the Pennsy 2001 is photographed in Altoona. 2001 had only been on the property a few months, delivered earlier that year. PRR Class BF32.
A rare leader on Norfolk Southern’s cab signaled territory as Union Pacific equipped SD70AH 1943 and 9083 with the NS cab signals to operate an office car special from Council Bluffs, IA to Crox... (more)
It's early dawn and the morning parade of heavy freight manifests begin rolling through America's heartland. NKP #765 along with PM #1225 team up in a double-headed pan... (more)
Four ex-NP F units lift Amtrak Train 10 eastbound out of Butte, Montana (background) as the “Mainstreeter” climbs up to Homestake Pass on July 31, 1973.
Taking advantage of a photography gig from a helicopter, I got this shot from about 500 feet over BNSF's Tennessee Yard.
A stack train glints as it snakes east through the desert at Ludlow, CA on the BNSF Needles Sub as the sun sets on a very windy and dusty day in April 2009.
Imagine it's 1960. The Southern Pacific narrow gauge is on its last legs, so you decide to go photograph it on Washington's birthday. You're going to drive to the Owens Valley and chase the train ... (more)
B&O 5581 has been coaled and now goes for a spin on the table before being spotted for further service. The colorful upstarts of the C&O seem to be watching the activity from the house. More tur... (more)
The Mississippi River has caused alot of headaches in the Midwest with the railroads this spring. The river crested at Burlington, IA, (19 miles upstream) on 6-02 was the 3rd highest crest on reco... (more)
A pair of FM H24-66s lead a loaded coal train at Elmore, WVa in April 1971.
As a CB&Q switcher putters in Burlington's coach yard, GM&O Train 1, "The Limited," with E7 103A and E8 100A, leaves Chicago on Aug. 1, 1968, taken from railfan's favorite overlook -- Roosevelt Av... (more)
Waiting, wondering.........as the normal traffic passes Hunt Tower westbound.........will it happen? A bell sounds three times somewhere in town, and the magic begins! The car scanner picks up ano... (more)
A trio of NS heritage units, 1066 New York Central, 1065 Savannah and Atlanta and 8102 Pennsylvania Railroad cross the Potomac River from Maryland into West Virginia on a beautiful afternoon.
On Wednesday, May 30, 2018, the Aberdeen, Carolina & Western Railroad, NC Operation Lifesaver, and NCDOT BeRailSafe and several other state agencies attended and witnessed a staged railroad crossi... (more)
"Fire up 611!" As Streamliner fans gather around the Bob Julian Roundhouse, Norfolk Southern CEO Wick Moorman speaks on behalf of the pending restoration of historic J-Class 4-8-4... (more)
For the RP.net rivet counters: The prototype GG1 from 1935 featured a riveted body, seen here in this Ansco-Color view as the train makes a stop at South Amboy. Lurking a few hundred feet behind ... (more)
A quartet of Roy Hill General Electric Transportation System ES44AC6 locomotives - RHA 1001, 1003, 1012, and 1011, are joined by a BNSF ES44AC and brand new CN ES44AC 2904 on the GETS test track a... (more)
If you're going to crash, might as well make it spectacular. Southern Railway's new aluminum "silver side" coal hoppers detailed atop a trestle near Frisco, Tenn. and the Big Hook was uprighting ... (more)
A Cummins PR photo shoot using the Indiana Rail Road train SAHW (Senate Avenue - Indianapolis to Hiawatha Yard) with the QSK95 demonstrator, CECX 1919, is working the S Senate Ave Yard in Indianap... (more)
I don't remember the particulars of the wreck, but it appears to have been a head on collision. WC 3015, The Ralph C. Bryant, is (was) ex-CMNW 3015 and nee-WP 3532.
Canadian National train No. 310 departs Swan Landing, Alberta, along Brule Lake on the afternoon of July 7, 2014. CN EMD SD75I No. 5756 leads a pair of GE C44-9Ws (2577 and 2599) and EMD SD70M-2 N... (more)
Trespassers in a pristine wilderness. Plowing snow that's just a foot or two deep, the White Pass Rotary Fleet is making good progress through Meadows, en route to a water and lunch stop ju... (more)
4 years after it nailed an 18 wheeler at a crossing, UP 8232 sits awaiting it's destruction, most likely...
Looking east on the Western Maryland mainline toward Slatyfork, the Elk River bridge and much of the former mainline rail remain in place, outside of downtown Webster Springs. Coal mining operatio... (more)
Among my archive of photos taken of the Rio Grande Zephyr, this one has always been a favorite. Train #18 is winding its way through the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon amid broken clouds and n... (more)
CN's infrequent turn to the GM stamping plant in Oshawa, ON does some street running (along with some "front yard running") in one of the more unique Canadian railroading locales.
464 102 ÈKD Praha 1940, 464 008 ÈKD Paha 1935
UP Challenger X3941 rolls off the table at Cheyenne. For more color views from that day, click here
A quartet of LIRR's ubiquitous G5s relax at the Oyster Bay terminal on a Sunday afternoon
Stop, Look & Listen! EMD 'Like A Rock'
SP's one and only E8 heads train No. 99, the Coast Daylight, through Burlingame at something close to 79 mph. Well, after checking some special instructions maybe it was only 70 mph. But it was fa... (more)
7322 sits in the siding at Glencoe after reportedly ice caused the main reservoir to freeze and build up too much pressure resulting in the visible damage.
Erie Railroad #833 (owned by the New York & Greenwood Lake Railway) is seen taking a spin on the turntable on Thursday afternoon's turning ceremony. The NYGL 833 was acquired after the Conrail sp... (more)
A chilly late afternoon in the upper reaches of Cajon Pass finds a northbound UP manifest freight on the former SP Palmdale Cutoff, passing above the now out of service Tunnel 1 on BNSF's Cajon Su... (more)
Here we see coal empties from the UP and BNSF sandwiching a KCT Mill Street Yard to KCS Knoche Yard Transfer at The Incline. The coal empties on BNSF Train E KCLBAM0 124A are climbing north up ... (more)
There were only 3 and they pretty much stayed in the desert, alligators with 16-567 EMDs dubbed by railfans "hermaphrogators" working the hump, wierd ancient beasts in the newest hump yard in Amer... (more)
Santa Fe F7A 304L, wearing its new Yellow Warbonnet colors, leads Amtrak #778, an eastbound San Diegan (Los Angeles to San Diego). Built in October 1949, the 304L would be rebuilt as CF7 2... (more)
H76 passes a small creek between Five Points and Mount Bethel, PA on its way to Slateford junction on the first day of November.
Train vs. F150 - 17 year old driver walked away.
Sun rays filter through the trees after a late afternoon rain shower. I pass by this crossing a hundred or more times a year, but this time was special and I just had to stop. After firing off a f... (more)
At the peak of a winter sunrise, a CSX 150-car empty hopper train heads west over the New River at Ansted, West Virginia, as seen from the overlook at Hawks Nest State Park.
Mixed freight from BNSF's Northtown Yard heads west over Lake Ashtabula on its way to Pasco, Washington. Completed in 1912 by the Great Northern Railway, the Karnak Crossing passes over the Sheyen... (more)
CN repainted 102 into classic green and gold with the more modern CN logo. It is hard to get it leading as it is used for HEP (head-end-power for the passenger cars) and runs in the trailing posit... (more)
Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-6 No 1629 was built by the Lima Locomotive Company in 1944, one of 25 Alleghenies in the third order of these locomotives. These H-8 Class single-expansion articulateds had... (more)
UP SD70M 2002 leads the Olympic Torch Relay Train on its journey carrying the Olympic Flame to the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.
No, this is not North Little Rock, this is Union Pacific DD40X #6944 looking good as new at Norfolk Southern's Juniata Shop in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The big Centennial has undergone a cosmetic r... (more)
AMTK 90218 sits awaiting repairs after a fiery collision with a semi in Michigan. Whats neat is the fire burnt off all the Phase V paint on the side revealing the Phase III scheme once again.
A broken rail make this derail. At least this meter gauge Alco stoped just before chaos...
Lehigh Valley PA-1 units have been pressed into freight service after the demise of most of the railroad's passenger service. The Lehigh Valley discontinued all passenger trains early the followin... (more)
REDEMPTION! 2011 Master's OCS heading home! After getting burned by horrible weather conditions on it's trip to Augusta, I got lucky enough to chase the Northbound OCS on its return ... (more)
Apparently the Ex-Conrail GP8 at the grain elevator in Tamora, Nebraska needed a little help building air. The folks at the Co-Op strapped an air compressor up on the front pilot.
The Waycross, GA dead line.
Eastbound trash train 64J follows the Yellow Leaf Road as it passes through Pittsburgh's North Side. Each year, the trees lining the tracks are always the last in the area to change.
CFS 1828 out of Joffre Yard and is beginning the climb up the grade
I just happened to be in the area when I heard the Royal Canadian Pacific was going out for a quick trip to Lake Louise from Calgary. Catching this train is proving to be difficult this year due t... (more)
Q368 with a helper ahead...unfortunately...heads eastbound around the Horseshoe at Mance under the peak of fall colors.
