Trout through the ice
An eastbound BNSF intermodal train cruises by Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana, on January 25, 2013. Not long before the arrival of this train, the young dau... (more)

SD45 #950 passes CNW's distinctive semaphores on an extremely foggy day in October of 1984. Pre-digital, you crossed your fingers that the exposure was correct!

A BNSF Railway coal train headed to Centralia, Washington, skirts Frog Pond, and the Clark Fork River west of Trout Creek, Montana, on Montana Rail Link's 4th Subdivision.

How is a tram loaded into an aircraft? This 100% low-floor tram, manufactured by CNR Tangshan Railway Vehicle Company, is to be delivered to Turkey's Samsun city. The carrier is An-225, World's la... (more)

Month-old #103 heads west at Keenesbury, Colorado on June 6, 1944. CB&Q acquired sixteen 4-unit FT's , an Electro-Motive model 567, V-16 diesel engine provided 1,350-horse power to each unit. Th... (more)

The Iris G has just 'set sail' from Rosebery, BC on its way to the south end of Slocan Lake with loads of lumber from the mill at Nakusp. It is difficult to find a more tranquil setting than this... (more)

Eastbound Via with its classic looking train rounds "Robertson’s Curve" at Brule, Alberta. Brule Lake is formed by the Athabaska River on the edge of Jasper National Park.

Train 26C T Boned a bridge beam @ Collegedale Tn and derailed. 12.20.22

Teamwork
Portland & Western crewmen pause from their work and wave to crew of the UP Albany Roustabout as it rolls by at restricted speed. In the background, the yard crew engi... (more)

3 Warbonnets lead a San Jacinto Branch bound baretable west through Colton.

The KCT will build another 75 car unit scrap train later today, which will leave town as BNSF Train U KCKHKM0 02T with a trio of engines. The ES44C4 was built in February 2014, the newest unit I'... (more)

The number 7 subway escapes Manhattan with a load of commuters leaving the Empire State, the Chrysler and the Citibank buildings behind.

Sometimes the best photos can be found right under your nose. It was the warmest day in Anchorage in at least 10 days, today, with a high of -1 degrees! The sky was clear and crisp and the ice c... (more)

It's Getting Cold Up Here

The first thick blanket of snow has fallen on the Altoona area, and NS is as busy as ever with extra intermodal traffic ahead of the holidays. This place ne... (more)

Ore empties move east behind Baldwin sharks. John's railfanning companion was his longtime friend the late Bill Rosenberg of Kew Gardens, Long Island, N.Y., and the method of transport for this 3... (more)

Some people may remember yellow and white dots on freight cars, applied in the late 1970's, to identify whether or not the car had a certain type of wheel suspected of causing derailments. Specif... (more)

A young lass cleans the windshield of this F40PH at Jasper in an era before wearing PPE was common. She is certainly no aged CN machinist...

VIA Rail’s train No. 2, the Canadian, rolls eastbound with 21 cars through Robertson’s Curve at Swan Landing, Alberta, on the afternoon of July 7, 2014. The spectacular Brule Range is softly r... (more)

You saw it here first. Three Purdue Railroad Club members paced the northbound Hoosier State, hauling in its first public appearance #145 with its special Phase III heritage paint scheme. Club s... (more)

Winters Rigging crews are positioned to load the Amtrak P42DC #102 onto a flatcar that will soon be arriving at Northfield, Vermont. The 102 was the locomotive on the October 5 Vermonter derailme... (more)

Metre gauge DLW No 2801 crosses the Pantha Path Road in Dhaka with a train of pilgrims heading to the Biswa Ijtema festival at Tongi.

𝐀 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟗 𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐞! What a truly awesome way to start off 2019. Something extremely rare happened on New... (more)

Was this a forerunner of things to come, when the D&RGW acquired the Southern Pacific in 1988? Participating in the low-speed (and low gear) wheel lift tests at Sacramento in March 1964 were th... (more)

A westbound BNSF grain train crosses Fish Creek Trestle at Rivulet, Montana, on May 15, 2013. This 576-foot trestle is officially known as MRL Bridge 165, and was used in a few key scenes in the S... (more)

Crews hoist the lead locomotive off of a gondola loaded with pipe, after a collision the night before. More info here: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jLS0Npb0iXxa1bc7FifCRfqC... (more)

After contractors worked all night to dig this train out, the CN is now working on getting this train out of here. The head 3 units were brought out to assist the 4 that are packed in here and now... (more)

A large string of EMD BNSF SD70MAC locomotives is still stored alongside BNSF’s yard between Donkey Creek and Rozet, Wyoming, on October 18, 2018.

Looking for all the world like an RDC wearing an Alco FA mask, one of the Budd-built Roger Williams power units stands near Amtrak’s New Haven shops. Built in 1956, the six-car Roger Williams tr... (more)

Welcome to Omaha, Drone shot of UP #6900 & UP #4023 overlooking the Missouri River along Interstate I-80

Running 7 hours late due to Winter Storm Octavia, the southbound Amtrak Crescent quickly gets back underway after stopping for a malfunctioning crossing in downtown Oakwood. Along with the ... (more)

CSX detour on CP Rails' D&H passes "the castle" at Lacolle at 23:18 on a wild winter night. Heavy snow pushed by high winds enhances the drama here.

This is a result of an early morning derailment on CP's Thompson Sub. This derailment resulted in no trains running on CP's Thompson and CN's Ashcroft Sub.

Ball signal. As of 2012 the famous ball signal was still in place at Whitefield, NH, though the tracks have not seen any trains in many years. The tracks going left to right was Boston & Ma... (more)

The NW 1218 sits in the yard at the Virginia Museum of Transportation. The locomotive had been moved out from under the shelter for a special event photo shoot for the weekend.

Uploaded nearly a month after the fact, this is still the first snow shot of the year on Railpictures. The snow lasted but a few days, and made for some great shots in the meantime! Here we see a ... (more)

A westbound train climbs Track 1, the original Donner crossing, toward the summit. Track 1 was later removed and is today a MOW road.

A delight to the eyes emerges from the West Portal of State Line Tunnel at 02:03 in the form of CSXT 661 still wearing her as delivered paint scheme!

One of the Milwaukee's Baldwin Westinghouse EP3 Class motors leads the Columbian at Butte, MT. THe units were built in 1919 and were retired shortly after the Korean war.

Classic Southern Pacific! SP F7A 6325 and F7B 8219 (both November 1950 graduates of the EMD La Grange, IL, factory) sit with a caboose at the station in Chatsworth, California, on the SP's Coast ... (more)

Three PRR Baldwin Sharks have come across the Monongahela River to pick up interchange from the P&LE and the Monongahela Ry. at BF Tower, Brownsville, Pa. April 14, 1961. Five yard tracks prec... (more)

The distant roar of a Westbound grain train clawing up the .65% grade out of the Souris River Valley fills the chilly Spring night sky; and the intermediate signal at MP 16.7 gives a proceed indic... (more)

Locomotive Graveyard. This was a wild scene not many get to witness. It reminded me of the part in Lion King where Simba and Nala wander off to the elephant grave yard. Carcasses of locom... (more)

These 80,000 lbs 3 foot gauge coal hopper cars are seen near the location of the East Broad Top Railroad Coal Washing Plant in Mt. Union PA. These cars, along with a hundred or so brethren, have s... (more)

Late on a stormy summer afternoon, Deseret Power Railway Units 1, 2 and 3 sweep past acres of sage brush and exposed outcrops at 27 Mile, about halfway between the Utah border and Bonanza Power Pl... (more)

Nose end of 5016 in the Blacksmith shop at Derby. It just makes it before the track runs out

The passenger's aboard Cascades 509 have just emerged from about a minute of darkness, to be treated to a great view of the Tacoma Narrows on the Puget Sound. But they can't see what we can... Mt... (more)

So far this summer the Anchorage area is off to a wet start with plenty of rain and more in the forecast. So, in searching the archives I found this shot of a southbound coal train at Bird Point o... (more)

A BNSF grain train snakes through the treacherous Feather River Canyon as it passes the Rock Creek Dam west of Belden, California. Luckily, due to recent rains, there is "some" water in the Feathe... (more)

The Lake Superior Railroad Museum put together a small train for a media event welcoming its newest addition, former NP passenger GP9 number 245 (ex-ILSX 1382 Dakota Quality Grain). This view is a... (more)

Day 3 of the Derailment went slow. They turned the PAN AM boxcar then cut holes in the roof. Then set the paper contents on fire. A splash can also be seen where some of the paper went into the... (more)

The Real "Polar Express" locomotive 1225. At 5 degrees and clear blue skies who could ask for better photography conditions of a steam locomotive. Here we see 1225 heading north with another Sold ... (more)

Union Pacific's Engineering special heads Eastbound at Dos on the Glenwood Springs Sub.

While most rail aficionados were wooing over the newest additions to the Canadian Pacific roster, one of the first two heritage SD70ACU locomotives, CP 7010, quietly snuck a nice little “PR cons... (more)

Flood waters from Hurricane Katrina washed this string of cars off the track next to Gentilly Yard. Most all of the water from this area has now receeded.

Love it or hate it, Part Deux - Locomotive a vapeur consolidation 140 A 259 - As displayed at the museum depicting sabotage of the railways during the war. (Top view)

The sunshine at the end of the day with a double railcar near the coast line.

The results of a head on collision just south of Green Bay Yard.

Santa Fe F3 units in A-B-B-B-A formation are ready to depart with the GRAND CANYON. Erie Lackawanna's train 6 had stood in the exact spot just a short time before.

CN 2192 Takes one for the Team CNIC's Peoria Local slams into drifts between Delavan and Green Valley, Illinois as the crew radios the ''diesel doctor'' to report a cracked conductors side window... (more)

What does a couple million dollars look like, here you go. It's not very often you can get this good of a look at the Salt Lake City dead line. Four NRE 3GS21B, A couple C44-9W and the rest are SD... (more)

Ae 8/8 273 of the BLS, which isn't in regular service any more, pulls a charter train of Eurovapor from Lyss to Domodossola through the vineyards above Lake Geneva, down the 3.8 % grade track of t... (more)

An eastbound auto rack train leaves behind one of Arizona's famed red sunsets.