Destroyed in a collision on March 31, 1998, the hulk of NS 8917 sits awaiting the scrapper's torch. What's left of NS 6154 sits in the distance.

CSX has joined the heritage revolution! First out of the paint shop is ES44AH 1827 (formerly 3059), numbered and painted for the Baltimore & Ohio. It rolled out of the shop on May 10 and went righ... (more)

Northbound Csx-7672 stacktrain derails after hitting a disabled tractor trailor hauling sheetrock on a crossing.locos LTEX 8532,CSX 8038,BNSF4801 were buried, several cars came off coming to rest ... (more)

With borrowed CSXT GP38-2 #2732 assisting NYSW GP40 #3040 (hidden behind the 2732), NYS&W's Utica, New York-based UT-1 train stops in the middle of Schuyler Street in Utica as the conductor lines ... (more)

Going to sea by rail
An eastbound Union Pacific freight begins the long trek across Great Salt Lake at Lakeside, Utah, as the end of the train in the foreground is about to leave terra ... (more)

Toasters and hippos in storage as far as the eye can see. It was a pretty impressive sight.

The power for CP transfer job G41 (CP Bensenville to UP Proviso) sits after a manned Canadian Pacific switching job crashed into them. Once crews removed the cars that piled onto the 1885, the dam... (more)

Skirting a quick-moving morning rainstorm, an eastbound BNSF coal train passes through the late spring green-covered Badlands of North Dakota at Sully Springs on June 20, 2015.

The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.

Fog rises out of US Steel's Edgar Tompson plant as three Union Railroad MP15's shove a caboose into the mill.

NS/Progress Rail PR43C's 4000, 4001, and 4300 gathered around the East End Shop's turntable while being tested in Roanoke, VA.

CPR #2816 makes a scene reminiscent of a Nicholas Morant Photo passing Gap Lake through the magnificent Canadian Rockies.

The empty Fire Lake ore train - utilizing side dump cars - is seen having just arrived at the stub end track at the mine site with the QCM AC44CW #11 way off in the distance on the south end and t... (more)

My son and I enjoying fishing and rail fanning

A Burlington Northern freight heads west through the scenic Badlands of North Dakota at Sully Springs on the afternoon of June 29, 1994. Leading the train is a former Southern Railway GP30 rebuilt... (more)

For my 4000th contribution on Railpictures, I hand-picked this onetime picture, shot on march 18th 2016 at 02.18 PM: We have a look down from the mountain, about 500 meter above the valley floor, ... (more)

A passenger train comes into the yard on the old Keystone mainline in a light snowfall.

As the early morning sunlight of an early summer day begins to shine into the winding Palouse River Canyon, a northbound empty grain train emerges from Tunnel 14 and passes along one of many narro... (more)

While out for a snowy evening stroll, a local family comes across Reading & Northern #425 simmering at the Jim Thorpe station. The young boy is captivated by the immense size of the locomotive, as... (more)

CSX 366 " Chessie sticker" sits in south side on a siding after catching fire this morning coming through the J&L tunnel. Thankfully the crew was not harmed when it caught fire. The unit looks as ... (more)

N&W transfer from Clare heading to Decoursey runs down the middle of Monmouth St (tracks are LONG gone) and will shortly cross the C&O line to Russell

An E8, E7B and FP7A are teamed up on the Rock Island / Southern Pacific GOLDEN STATE departing LaSalle St. station.

The Interstate heritage unit eases out of the smaller tunnel within Natural Tunnel. The creek that created Natural Tunnel passes thru a smaller naturally-made tunnel in the lower right of the ima... (more)

Brand new Chyrsler mini-vans & cars burned inside an autorack car carrier, at the EJ&E's interchange yard with the C&NW at West Chicago Illinois.

A westbound late in the afternoon west of Lyle, Washington.

On July 1, 2017, a westbound BNSF coal train follows the Missouri River past the ghost townsite of Lombard, Montana. The train is entering Lombard siding and passing Milwaukee Road’s Pacific Ext... (more)

My final trip to the C&NW 40th Street Shops was just before May 22, 1956, the last day for C&NW steam in Chicago. The only operational steam locomotives I saw on this visit were several 0-6-0s and... (more)

Not too far from Peach Creek, C&O had a string of 2-6-6-6’s condemned to scrap in the yard at Hinton, W. Va., such as 1624 on Aug. 5, 1956. I was too late to see and hear the brutes in action.

Vermont Railway and Vermont Rail System are kicking off the Golden 50th Anniversary of the rail company - January 6, 1964 to January 6, 2014. In honor of the anniversary, VRS had GP40-2LW 311 pai... (more)

FXE 4600, 4602, 4601, 4604, 4605, BNSF 6119, FURX 7209, NREX 5979, BNSF 7660. The 5 FXE, and the BNSF 6119 heading back down to Galesburg.

As the winter sun rises over the Cascades, its warm rays start to melt the morning frost and fill the valley with a light fog that glows from the sun. It’s a serene and beautiful morning that co... (more)

I stumbled across several old family photos and discovered that one of my relatives had photographed a Soo Line train wreck that occurred in Stevens Point, WI back on december 30, 1916.

Long term storage of sand hoppers due to the decline of Fracking Sand operations.

Early evening light highlights the Proctor Roadswitch as it lifts 36 ore cars loaded with limestone up the "ramp" in the shadow of ore dock 6 in Duluth.

A Trona bound coal train rolls through Saltdale on Union Pacific's Lone Pine Branch shortly before beginning the climb for the last 20 miles to Searles, and the junction with the Trona Railway.

Westbound Virginia Rwy freight passing through Kumiss, VA in this May 1958 scene. [Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink]

This little critter was probably the most unusual unit on CSX's roster.

The "West Local" is departing Brantford for Hamilton in the late evening light after setting off 6 empty flats cars and lifting 10 flat cars of new Massey Ferguson combines. TH&B 77 is leading a t... (more)

July 6th, Wednesday - The NRHS's Go By Train convention featured a double header (#700 and #4449) seen here charging out of the cliffs at Cape Horn.

On a frigid Feb. day D&M 975 is trying to get some loaded coal hoppers onto the Chief Wawatam at Mackinaw City. The coal was bound from West Virginia to Algoma Steel at Sault Ste. Marie and was pa... (more)

The IC afternoon intercity fleet afternoon departures included the JWRiley 4P, Panama Limited 4:30P (all sleeping cars & seen here), Seminole 4:45P, Land O' Corn 5P, & The Hawkeye 7P. Here's a vi... (more)

NJ Transit held an official unveiling of their new "dual-powered" locomotive at Newark Penn Station today. The ALP-45DP is touted as the "first of its kind in North America" (FL9 notwithstanding)... (more)

Christmas City Express pauses by the nicely lit trees adjacent to Bentleyville.

The soot-stained brick interior of the Blue Ridge Tunnel is seen after a single 30s exposure on the day after Christmas, 2009. To mourn the 65th anniversary of this majestic tunnel's abandonment, ... (more)

Heating a damaged tire for it's removal at the new Oregon Rail Heritage Center.

Union Pacific 6414 with heavy wreck damage in the UP Adams Street yard in Peoria. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Lehigh Valley 8104, Norfolk Southern's eighth heritage locomotive, rests outside the Juniata Paint Shop, sporting a new "nose job". For more information, visit ... (more)

The fictional "AM National Express" plows through two "Illinois State Police" cruisers as part of a scene from the popular series, Prison Break, being filmed in North Texas last week. The train h... (more)

Merchant Navy no. 35029 Ellerman Lines was saved from Barry scrapyard in South Wales in 1975 by the National Railway Museum, York. It was then sectioned and is now on display in that condition. I... (more)

Bergen - Oslo railway

With late season thunderstorms rumbling over the Bookcliffs in the background, Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dirt train” local approaches Mounds, Utah, late on the afternoon of November 21, 2003. R... (more)

The former Providence & Worcester B40-8W 582 has emerged from its exterior/cab rehabilitation and painting to become PWRZ 4007 in fresh Genesee & Wyoming corporate colors. The unit is seen posed ... (more)

The southbound Denali Express has discharged her cruise passengers and is crossing Whittier Creek as they pull into the Whittier yard to await their deadhead move to Anchorage. But first they must... (more)

Here's morning action at Terminal Tower as seen through the marine layer blanketing the L.A. basin after arrival of The Lark

85. The slowly dimming light of the DPU can be seen dropping further down the bore of the Moffat Tunnel.

New England Central empty ethanol extra heads north through the Merrow section of Mansfield, CT at a little after midnight. Canon EOS 50D, Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC, single Lumedyne flash

The first shot of the day would often be at Slabberts, as the eastbound overnight passenger would arrive just about at sunrise. It's still true 20 years later, although today the train is westbou... (more)

After being hit at over 20 mph by UP 3666, you can see very visible damage to this lumber car.