Three wrecked and burned GP40s sit on the siding at Nahant, just west of the yard. 2028-2053-2069.
As we ring in the new year, Norfolk Southern wishes you a happy 2014! Photo by Casey Thomason. For more information about Norfolk Southern, visit more)
Before the real work commenced for the day, a quick jaunt to Lanesboro, Pennsylvania was in order for a rare daylight passage of the New York Susquehanna & Western's Port Jervis, NJ to Syracuse, N... (more)
OMG - don't show this to the kids!
What had to be the most extraordinary hi-wide move I’ve ever seen was what the INRD dubbed as the “Bucket Train”. The INRD had the task of transporting two dragline coal buckets from the Bl... (more)
Southern 2-8-0 #630 and 2-8-2 #4501 simmers side by side in the sunset at Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's Soule Shops in Chattanooga, TN, the evening prior to TVRM's "Railfest". Pho... (more)
A late No. 8 will become even later as it eases to a stop at East Browning where it would wait nearly an hour for two westbound trains. BNSF had eight trains dead and tied down between Nyack and P... (more)
Goods train passing Shidu tunnel. Beijing
One of Southern Pacific's three U50 diesels sits in the dead line at Taylor Yard in Los Angeles on March 16, 1975. Behind it are two Cotton Belt GP40s and, further back, a second U50.
Union Pacific train PWCWC2 25 (Passenger; West Colton CA to West Colton CA) originated at West Colton Yard on Saturday, January 25th and headed west. At Bassett, it reversed direction and headed ... (more)
The Niagara was the epitome of powerful dual-purpose NYC steam, and could stand its ground on the ledger sheet with the invading internal combustion power. Nonetheless, 6014 was scrapped a year o... (more)
A day-long overcast breaks as Nickel Plate 765 makes this beautiful evening charge past the Carland Grain Elevator, about 10 miles northwest of Owosso, Michigan.
Southern Pacific SD-70 with Alpine Glow from Mount Shasta at sunset.
CN 2538 was one of two units wrecked when CN Q11451-06 derailed a few miles east of Rockyford, Alberta. The train hit a washed out section of track, derailing the units and 13 head end cars. Uni... (more)
Electric cogwheel railcar Bhe 1/2 # 28 on a grade of about 48 % in the "Eselwand" (donkey wall) on the way up to Pilatus Kulm. The Pilatus Railway is the world's steepest cogwheel railway with the... (more)
San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society volunteer member Wolf Fengler has a firm grip on his spot firing duties aboard the 3751. The ex Santa Fe steam engine was on display at Los Angeles Union... (more)
A toe-numbing morning along the Lurgan Branch in the early hours of the morning on December 21, 2014 started my chase of the NS 956 with the OCS returning from South Carolina. As the sun began to ... (more)
The remnants of MEC 375 on the ground after the wreck at the diamond (UP - NS) in Momence, Illinois on November 24th, 2005. This was a trailing unit on the NS eastbound that was drilled by a UP so... (more)
Sunset at Fox Lake. Just a minute or two of daylight remains as a local SOO Line Freight runs eastbound across the causeway just south of Fox Lake, Wisconsin. The power this evening is the... (more)
Whilst on holiday in Canada, I couldn't resist this magnificent landscape.
A cut of loaded grain cars being pulled by Canadian Pacific derailed on a ladder track at BNSF's Rices Point yard, spilling its golden NoDak cargo.
Photo was taken about 1953 to 1955 with an Argus 35mm.
A small wooden trestle collapsed under the weight of an 8-car UP train heading to a sugar mill in Chaska, MN. The cause of the accident is believed to be excessive spring melt off weakening the s... (more)
President-elect Barack Obama waves to thousands of cheering supporters from the back the 2009 Inaugural Amtrak special in Edgewood, Md.
Amtrak No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr, climbs through a snowy Crescent, Colorado, on March 19, 1998.
The bartender reaches into the cooler for a cold one at the "400" Club in Altoona, Wisconsin which was named after the famous Chicago and Northwestern passenger train that used to pass right by th... (more)
Amtrak's Veteran's locomotive, P42DC #42, was unveiled at a ceremony in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, June 26th. The logo was designed in-house by Amtrak employees, and features silhouettes of me... (more)
Norfolk Southern Railway Company 8114, Norfolk Southern's ninth heritage locomotive, basks in the sun outside the paint shop at DeButts Yard in Chattanooga. Casey Thomason photo, copyright Norf... (more)
Runaway train of 22 full ore cars led by two GP40-2L units hit a curve near Bathurst, at 75 mph. Fortunately, no one was injured.
Chicago's Dearborn Street Station was the oldest of six large downtown passenger depots. Opened on May 8, 1885, it was closed by Amtrak on May 2, 1971. On the eve of Amtrak's startup, Santa Fe 3... (more)
Amid a beautiful autumn in Glacier National Park, a westbound BNSF stack train curves along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River as it exits Tunnel 4 just east of West Glacier (Belton), Montana, ... (more)
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A wrecked CSX locomotive in Barr Yard, from the three train collision last week near Valparaiso, Indiana.
An almost surreal moment in mountain railroading is captured as a Union Pacific freight climbs out of the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon while a BNSF manifest stirs up a cloud of dust descendi... (more)
Cleaning up the Drifts that blew in after the ditcher ran the week before. And no i was past the snow, by looking at the chunks from the last pass and not shooting by them you don't get hit.
Almost 20 hours after this major De-railment on NS's main line and cleanup still cannot start as cars filled with Ethanol burn off.
Monday morning, BM GP40 #332, the last GP40 to wear Boston & Maine, derailed just West of Lawrence yard as the power for a Lawrence local job. BM #332 dug into the dirt after leaving the rails and... (more)
Conductor checks the vacant platform before giving the high ball to the southbound Floridian. Yaschica Mat 124-G; Plus-X
New locomotives waiting for track testing.
Two EMD F40PHs lead Amtrak No. 8, the Empire Builder, across the celebrated Two Medicine Bridge at East Glacier, Montana, surrounded by a clear, cool winter wonderland in Glacier National Park.
End of the line, but thanks to Amtrak making some parts available on eBay these locomotives can live on forever in the collections of fans. more)
Two boys watch as an "Iron Dragon" crosses the Luanhe River.
Delaware and Hudson sharks sit outside the Escanaba and Lake Superior car shops in Escanaba in the late nineteen eighties.
CN 365 derailed 10 cars last night on the bridge. The bridge collapsed and the line will be closed for a month, trains will be detourned via La Tuque Sub from Quebec City. This picture was took by... (more)
D Tower and the old hotel leave no doubt as to the where this photo was taken. This pair of GP38-2s were the only non-AC power in the yard and are used on locals on the Fairmont, Cowen and Bridgep... (more)
When I saw a whisp of smoke coming from the U28B's, I thought one was being fired up for service. Unfortunately it was the scrapper's torch ending the life of another U-Boat.
A pack of GP-38's throttle up for the fight to Hampton Junction with 80 loads of Carter Roag coal bound for the Ukraine via Baltimore. The ex-B&O leader is right at home on this former Baltimore ... (more)
The pair of BNSF C4 Gevos on the head of this Greenville & Western unit ethanol train look extremely out of place on a piece of track being reclaimed by the Carolina woods.
Baldwin EM-1 Yellowstone 2-8-8-4 in Painesville, OH. My dad took this picture on the B&0 Fairport Harbor to Warren branch near the NKP crossing. This line has was abandoned in the early 1980s ... (more)
Amtrak 112 recently showed up in Chicago, en route (eventually) to Beech Grove or the scrap heap. Number 112 caught fire in Elyria, OH on the morning of December 16th, while leading the Lake Shore... (more)
A westbound rumbles through town. Torrential rains swept the area closing both CP and BNSF mainlines for a few days.
The 2002 eastbound Montana by Steam excursion, shown here a few miles east of Garrison, MT, is on leg 2 (Missoula-Bozeman) of a three day trip across western Montana. Former SP&S 700 and MRL F45 ... (more)
The view out the front of a moving CDOT cab control car passing through the brick lined tunnels under New Haven, CT. Canon EOS 20D, Sigma 15mm f/2.8 EX Fisheye
A splash of color around the Spencer roundhouse. These beautiful streamliners are NS 4271, Erie 833, NH 2019, UP 949, Wabash 1189, and Wabash 1009.
NREX (Alstom) 4180 rests in Irondale on its way from Texas to NRE Silvis. Loco was tagged as "dead/retired"
A power line-up. It's just after dawn on a cold morning in February, and the locomotives of the Nevada Northern Railway are getting ready for work. Pictured here are the four work horses t... (more)
By the late 1950s the final chapter had been written for mainline steam in North America, with only a few exceptions, lines of dead steam locomotives awaited the scrapper's torch across the countr... (more)
Norfolk and Western class J #611 leads train 957 uphill at Jamestown, North Carolina, during its mainline test run on May 21, 2015. After a year-long restoration to operating condition, this is t... (more)
Watch out for Google Rail View! Yes, it's a standard Street View bike strapped to a flatcar. It looks like the Rhaetian Railway is going to be the first railway to be featured. more)
Even in the 21st Century, the Union Pacific Railroad can still put together the most impressive passenger trains of any railroad in North America. And here is where it all happens – The Union P... (more)
Making their maiden voyage on the Lake State Railway's Huron Subdivision to Alpena, Michigan, the newly-arrived Metro-East Industries/ZTR Systems-constructed GP40-3/Road Slug set of LSRC 4303 and ... (more)
Tucked at the head of the Alma Branch, Sprouse Creek GP30 awaits its fate under the once booming loadout at Rawl Sales, near Matewan. Sign of the times in the Appalachian coalfields, as there's na... (more)
A BNSF grain train heads east near Perma, Montana along the Flathead River as cold morning temps caused heavy frost in parts of the valley.
Shortly before 6 a.m. on April 10th NECR's northbound train 323 hit a washout in Westminster VT along the Connecticut River. The lead unit made it over, and as you can see the trailing units weren... (more)
I am not sure what the story with this one is, but it had a short and sorrowful life.
Precision Scheduled Railroading at work. Union Pacific's Portland, OR to North Platte, NE manifest put 28 cars on the ground at approximately 1 AM MST on 12/5/2021, just outside Hammett, Idaho... (more)
NYC sharks wait at Harmon in 3rd-rail territory. This shot and others came during a family cruise up the Hudson valley on a Sunday in the '50 Olds Rocket 88. John, a teenager at the time, reca... (more)
On a 4-track mainline Pennsy 2-10-4 class J1a 6403 has cut off from its train and is drifting toward the roundhouse for servicing and the crew to get off duty at Columbus, Ohio. The date was No... (more)
On the west side of Manhattan, construction is booming as the Hudson Yards Project proceeds. An elevated view shows the High Line Park ringing around the Long Island Railroad's West Side Yard with... (more)
The Lark approaching LAUPT.
All four of the so-called SD-20-2's caught at the hump tower in the then-new Queensgate Yard.
Milwaukee Extra 24 West tip toes across the Hall Creek trestle on the west slope of Snoqualmie Pass with a quartet of SD40-2s. Hints of electrification remain over the ballast deck bridge, and def... (more)
A Global 2 to Long Beach stack train is giving its all trying to fight the 30 mph wind and the grade on Arcadia hill as it heads west.
Late in the afternoon from atop the hill at the north end of Reno Junction, one can see five coal trains in all.
A Silverton-bound chartered mixed train enters the spectacular Highline.
One of SQMs boxcabs hauls a load of nitrate down to Tocopilla, which you can see in the background. In about a kilometer, the train will arrive at the reverso switchback, where they need to run th... (more)
Amtrak Cascades 507 is doing it's station stop at Tacoma, using the recently re-aligned trackage. The third main addition project is nearing completion, as is the new "D" street bridge. Vista's... (more)
The historic DMU VT 18.16 (later class 175) of the Deutsche Reichsbahn is seen here leaving the Leipzig Hauptbahnhof in October 1990. This train was also known as the "East German TEE". The highly... (more)
It started out Thursday afternoon as rain, and then snow mixed in. When the precip turned to all snow, the flakes were the size of potato chips. The snow stuck to every little twig on every tree... (more)
On the PRSL Engine No. 460 is at Atlantic City' NJ after a fantrip run from Newark, NJ. This is Johns 1000th photo for Railpictures.net. Many thanks to all for allowing him to share his images.... (more)
This Nationwide Truck Driver was captain of the Failboat this morning as he got hit by a southbound military train. #murica
Norfolk and Western Y6a #2156 is back on home rails at Elmwood, Ohio. 2156 is being moved by Norfolk Southern train 956 from the St Louis Museum of Transportation for long term loan to the Virgin... (more)
GMs can smoke like a GE ... D70
From a hilltop in the lush valley northeast of Reading, the senses come alive with spring. A lone tree in an open field provides a natural place to sit under and take it all in. Surrounded by youn... (more)
The remains of Amtrak Superliner Sleeper 32035, awaits the rest of its fate sitting on a flat car in Beech Grove. Photo taken on by property with permission.
N&W 2135 resting between assignments at Roanoke, VA || February 1957 Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.
The unique hogger's office of the BN1.
Oneonta was the heart of the old D&H. A pair of RS-36's are working the yard in front of the yard office. Sadly, there is almost nothing left in this scene today.
A thunderstorm rages over Marana, Arizona, as a UP freight leaves its mark at a crossing on the outskirts of the small town.
