NS train 16T makes a quick eastbound move before continuing north across the bridge at Riverton Junction with a large cut of brand new Amtrak hoppers. #716
It’s almost 9:00 p.m. on the evening of July 16, 1998, at Colorado’s Denver Union Station. Rio Grande EMD GP60s sit on one of the station tracks and are being used as protection power for the ... (more)
Metra Cars on Dubbers Spur - After a short hike across the hill from Jacumba Road, the line of five former Chicago Metra cars come into view on Dubbers Spur. The track on the left is t... (more)
Why is there an "Attendant Call" button to the right of the horn handle? The crew did not know the answer either.
The Ski Train is gaining Altitude with some Attitude! For the second weekend in a row, UP 1989 (the Rio Grande Heritage Unit) leads the train over South Boulder Creek just east of the siding of Cl... (more)
Got lucky Finding a prop, A train parked on a load out on the old MStL just off the Spineline. Shot at F 45 the sun was so bright you can see it in the lens bending around the aperture blades, Som... (more)
Engines retired from service, stored in yard.
Hot car An eastbound Chicago and North Western freight going through Sussex, Wisconsin, on May 24, 1986, had a car of lumber on fire. They stopped and cut the car from both parts of the... (more)
On the first day of spring I can't help but reflect on a winter that, in the New York area at least, was somewhat underwhelming, in contrast to many parts of the USA that really got hammered.... p... (more)
The Ostroda to Elblag canal uses slipways to gain height. There are 5 separate inclines. The boat floats on to a submerged, 3.27 metre gauge, cradle wagon which then comes out of the water and dow... (more)
Looking out of Super Chief / El Capitan’s FP45, Train 18 is meeting westbound Train 23 the “Grand Canyon” behind two F units at Canyoncito, N.M. on March 7, 1968. Ahead for the Super is t... (more)
Truck driver ignores signs and attempts to cross on Hwy 92. Dolly hung in guage. A65 sits in the siding just east of the crossing.
Three Amtrak Turbo Trains, three Amtrak Turbos, one by one they all got scrapped, how many Turbos now left on the track? Not a single unit was preserved, a sad ending for what is more)
Allegheny & West Virginia 777 and 767 (one of two sets of these) sit idle on the wye at Rayland, Ohio. These units are currently being used in the film "Unstoppable" staring Denzel Washington and ... (more)
It was a bitterly cold day when this photo was taken. Five minutes earlier was a brief blinding snowfall, which had moved off over the Straits of Mackinac.
Having just pulled to a stop with their unit train loaded with soda ash, five Trona Railway EMDs idle in the cool desert air, as the twilight sky signals the end to another day in the high desert ... (more)
Cab units rule! As part of the celebration of Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal's 50th Anniversary, cab units from the three original tenant railroads were posed next to each other for ... (more)
In the terminal at San Diego waiting to take a train to L.A. The prime mover was a 244 series engine.
UP 8491 was the locomotive 2nd to the lead on the southbound freight train that was involved in a head-on collision with Metrolink SCAX 855 on 09/12/08 in Chatsworth, CA.
Two former BNSF (ATSF livery) sit being parted out and eventually cut up
OOPS! In 40 years of being around the tracks on almost a daily basis, I've never seen an underframe break like this. The Car Dept knows for sure the knuckles on this one are good!
How do you get rid of a defective Roadrailer? Well find the nearest crossing and get a truck of course.
A little over a year ago I posted the TriX Pan version I took of this shot with my dad's Argus/Cosina. Here's the Kodachrome taken with my Fujica ST-801. This was the view from the footbridge that... (more)
Photographing these "Sparkly Trains" as they are often referred to can be a challenge. They are often photographed in the dark and spark output can vary greatly drastically changing the lighting c... (more)
The Train That Struck Fear Into Los Angeles. Traversing the southern end of the ex-SP coast line, an eastbound military train, heavily laden with tanks, passes the Santa Susana Depot and Mu... (more)
This is all that remained of #6072 after a wreck in which the unit jackknifed and was slammed into from several sides by freight cars.
BNSF Network Operations Centre (NOC), opened in 1995, in Forth Worth, Texas.
A Big Boy hauls a freight over Sherman Hill with another steam engine on the rear assisting. No information on slide as to who took the photo.
A line of police vehicles both marked and undercover wait adjacent the ARRC's team track just outside the yard office. They are observing the new Colorado Railcar built DMU pull in account US Spe... (more)
Having just brought this train to the west end of the yard, the conductor gets his things together, while waiting to be re-crewed, problem is, the train is completely surrounded, grain train to t... (more)
If you derail and are going to crash and stop abruptly, I highly recommend hitting a soft, muddy river bank! This was a St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) work train on the Trumann Subdivisio... (more)
At 8:58 am the first of the morning light illuminates the valley of the New River Gorge as westbound mixed freight Q303 and its eight car consist snake their way through Backus, and soon to be Qui... (more)
UP full coal passes by BNSF road maintenance team at Reno Jct. On the right track an empty coal heads further north with UP 6030 + 7099 as the lead units. Behind upper left you see two more trains... (more)
One of my favorite photo's from last winter at a spot I had just about grown tired of. Taken during the 2008 Tracks in the Snow Event Railroad: BNSF RailwayLocomotive: GE ES44DCLocation: Index, Washington, USALocomotive #: BNSF 7724Train ID: BNSF 7724Photo Date: January 20, 2008
Paducah & Louisville's GP38-2 3810 and 3800 wait for a signal to proceed south to Osborn yard with the CSX transfer. In the foreground are party caboose used by patrons during the University of Lo... (more)
Hogwarts express: in reality railjet 758, bound for Vienna. Spoiler: it's ironic, that You can find platform 9-3/4 at Wien Hbf. Photo taken near Breitenstein, while crossing the shortest tunnel of... (more)
Union Pacific ES44AC 7400 sits in the yard in Council Bluffs, wrapped in a tarp awaiting the official unveiling of the UP's newest specially painted diesel – for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure... (more)
CN C44-9W 2566 teams up with BNSF ES44C4s 8355, 7190 and 4256 leading CN detour train F30541 05 across the Pembina River between Entwistle and Evansburg, Alberta. This is BNSF's G AVIKAL9 05 detou... (more)
to the Decay II. Vehicles are held for the purpose of renewal, the storage conditions are terrible and unworthy. Railroad: Hungarian State Railways (MÁV)Locomotive: MÁV 326Location: Budapest, HungaryLocomotive #: 326,160Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: February 25, 2010
Miles away from civilization in the Trough of the South Branch of the Potomac River, B&O painted F7(A) No. 722 is illuminated by moonlight as it poses alongside the South Branch of the Ptomac Rive... (more)
A couple kiss as a Metrolink train rolls on by.
Out for the week for the GE Annual Shareholders meeting, the Hybrid unit, a new CSX Gevo (CSXT 865), and Rio Tinto 8111 (Australian Export Locomotive) all sit on outside the Convention Center on w... (more)
Argo Wilis passing Lebak Jero valley to Surabaya.
Santa Fe "Northern" 3751 is rolled slowly down temporary track and out of Viaduct Park in San Bernardino, where it has resided since 1958, and back onto Santa Fe rails for the first time in years,... (more)
Perhaps the lonliest engine servicing area in America? MRL 610 is leased to work the new UP Intermodal Yard in San Antonio, TX, however, I don't think I've ever seen it move from the spot she is ... (more)
Bound for Brunswick, an eastbound loaded autorack train out of Cumberland passes under a vintage B&O CPL signal bridge at Grasshopper, west of Hancock. The B&O CPL's were recently removed on the M... (more)
BNSF 9248 pulls hard up the eastside of the famous Logan Hill in the Powder River Basin near Bill, Wyoming.
Canadian Pacific Railway’s first heritage SD70ACU, CP #7010, leads eastbound Vancouver, BC to Montreal, QC intermodal train 112-10 through the famous Morant’s Curve, east of Lake Louise, Alber... (more)
'Route of the Streamliners' via the 'Mainline through the Rockies'. 17 of Union Pacific's finest hold-outs from the 'Streamliner' era are surrounded by the Pagodas Canyon's ruby red cliffs on the ... (more)
Having just emerged from the 'big hole' (tunnel 41) a westbound Union Pacific Z train emerges from the fog and into the sunshine as it approaches the Norden shed on January 15th, 2017. Hidden by t... (more)
"EL2" industrial electric DC locomotive with snowblower fighting with snow at "Bakal mines railroad" tracks in the "blue hour". "EL2" series manufactured in East Germany from 1957 to 1967 for the ... (more)
A strong afternoon thunderstorm moves towards Eastern Montana . There is little doubt the fishermen along the Missouri River are getting wet... Meanwhile the sun has re-appeared over Mullan Pas... (more)
Remote Control Known as the RCP-C or “sled”, this former pulpwood flatcar has been modified to act as a remote control platform. With an electrical cabinet on the B-end and multi... (more)
The engineer looks back for the highball to take the train to New York City after the engine change at South Amboy. The NJ Transit GG1 is in "heritage" livery.
Just five months off the boat at Houston, German immigrant 4002 is being readied at Rio Grande’s North Yard for a helper turn to the Moffat Tunnel. Local fans are excited. Could this 3540-hp die... (more)
WSOR had an extra "Gavilon" grain train to run out of Avalon last night, but it would never make it back to the UP yard as intended. At around 9:00 Sunday night, people reported a train ... (more)
Boxcab that helped eastbound out of Butte has now cut off and is in siding as train continues east.
VGN westbound near McCoy, Feb 1957. Bob Drake photo, photo collection of Tom Sink.
Westbound Pennsylvania Railroad F7A-B-A #9792 with 98 boxcars of merchandise near Altoona, PA. Note the coupler covers on the lead unit, and the Pennsy style roof top induction antenna on the ... (more)
Bathed in 'Golden Hour' light, a Union Pacific inspection special emerges from Spanish Fork Canyon on July 26, 2014.
Awaiting a call to service that never came... Part of a fleet of narrow gauge hopper cars that once numbered close to 275 sit pending their fate at EBT's Mount Union yard.
A few hoppers were s... (more)
Come Hell or high water, she wasn't gonna move.
Traffic along Madison St. clears the way for this local traveling east to Algiers.
Utah Railway RSD-4 No. 303 has a newly rebuilt Alco 244 V-12 prime mover installed at Martin Yard on July 25, 1977. Unfortunately, the 244 engine tarnished Alco's reputation as it had reliability ... (more)
CP 9151 and CP 9832 exit a tunnel at mile 120 on the CN Ashcroft Sub.
UP 6916 and UP 833 4-8-4 together at the Utah state Railroad Museum at the Ogden Union Station
A Pan Am train pops out of the tunnel under downtown Bellows Falls, Vt., as it heads south.
On the Cape-Natal branch GMAM 4074 climbs the steep grade between Ceighton and Donnybrook with a mixed train in early morning light. The round huts (rondavels) are typical Zulu homes. Steam Loco... (more)
Lake State Railway is celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year and to celebrate the event LSRC GP40-3 4325 was placed in service wearing a special logo and the number board font and cabside road... (more)
Two weeks after my 15th birthday, at the end of one of the busiest days I have seen on the Ayer Sub, the third loaded grain train of the day crosses the massive Joso Bridge over the Snake River, a... (more)
The shop switch, 0-6-0 #4466, makes a move with a gas-turbine on the table. 4466 was one of 30 such engines that arrived on UP property in 1920 (source: Utahrails.net)
Was it any crossties or was it the sod that held the gauge on MILW's Winifred branch near Suffolk when the local with eight 40-ft. box cars tenderly negotiated it at 10 mph? Remnants of old "rai... (more)
A family vacation of good balance. My wife likes to fish, and I like to watch trains. Our oldest boy likes everything, so we spent a nice Saturday afternoon enjoying the Mississippi River around D... (more)
Stomping up the tough grade into East Chattanooga, #4501 is almost done with its roundtrip to Summerville. The trip would arrive back at Grand Junction almost 45min ahead of the advertised return ... (more)
The curved Foss River trestle provides the setting for this dramatic illustration of the forces involved in moving a rail car from one place to another. Just a couple feet from falling 75' or mo... (more)
A severe thunderstorm has begun to roar through the woods of rural St. Mary's, Pennsylvania, the home of the little-known Bucksgahuda and Western Railroad. Engine #5, nicknamed "Henry" is making i... (more)
A question I’d had at the back of my mind for many years was whether it might be possible to flash one of the Midland Line viaducts. While there was always the lingering fear that after a great ... (more)
A graveyard of locomotives sit quietly as they rest awaiting their time of fate for the scraper.
The morning sun sets the Kalamazoo River on fire as Amtrak's Pere Marquette heads to Chicago on a crisp fall morning.
Ludlow, Vermont, Looks a Bit Different Than Ludlow, California!BNSF Railway train H-SLABAR9-03A (High Priority Merch... (more)
To celebrate the centennial of the opening of its Chicago to Aurora, Illinois line, the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy very temporarily painted its queen of fan trips, Northern 5632, gold. The scen... (more)
With abandonment looming over the subdivision that has served my hometown of Redvers Saskatchewan for the last a hundred and some years a photo like this may not be possible in a few years or so. ... (more)
All that remains of Union Pacific SD-24B sits in a Santa Fe gondola along with other locomotive parts. Damaged Santa Fe 5609 and an Amtrak locomotive sit on the track next to the Santa Fe locomot... (more)
In this view, another steam engine, LV 3189 joins the 5218 in work train detail clearing up a freight derailment on the LV main at Union. I was a 17 year old high school kid with my Bolsey camera... (more)
An object in motion will stay in motion.... The holes in the nose of 2243 demonstrate Newton's 1st law of motion, an object in motion will stay in motion until acted upon by another force. ... (more)
