Another view of the NS 2106 switching in the shadow of the SS United States.
Twelve years after the Milwaukee Road's Pacific Coast extension abandonment, skeletons of a pair of ABS block signals still stand between Lennup and Loweth MT.
This experimental lightweight articulated trainset was built by Baldwin and Pullman in the 1950s for the New York Central for operation between Cleveland and Cincinnati, OH. The train was not a su... (more)
NS 683 heads for the coal fields as it crosses the ex-Reading Bridge in Harrisburg on a warm spring afternoon. The remaining piers of the uncompleted South Penn RR Bridge are visible in the fore... (more)
Amtrak 7 still stored in Chicago since at least August, but it seems to move around the facility a bit from time to time.
A group of Union Pacific locomotives are spotted for work and servicing inside the main locomotive shop building at the railroad’s massive Bailey Yard at North Platte, Nebraska, on May 5, 2011.
Cass Scenic Railroad Shay No. 5 leads the first photo excursion along the former Chesapeake & Ohio Greenbrier line in more than 30 years. The locomotive, which has been disguised as a former Green... (more)
Close up of COLAS Freight Rail GE PH37ACmi locomotive bound #70804 for the UK. Also in the high wide move was a power transformer.
The colorful San Diego MTS (Metro Transit System) crosses a wading pool in front of the San Diego Convention Center.
In mid-1965, it was still possible to catch an Alco PA nosing out of Kansas City Union Station with Santa Fe train 7, the Fast Mail Express for Los Angeles. On April 25, the 65 is just getting und... (more)
The Alaska Railroad's Glacier Discovery train crosses a trestle, about to duck into the Whittier Tunnel
It's undeniable that there truly is quite the array of power to be seen sitting in the LTEX shops. From SW1500's to C30-7's, and Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range to Ohio Central, there's plenty her... (more)
Wish I'd had a wide-angle to capture the cranes of destruction too while Union Pacific DD35 #75B spent it's last hours on the planet at "Scraporano." Build at LaGrange in May of 1964, this unit wa... (more)
Winter Park Express Arrival Moments after emerging from Moffat West Portal at Winter Park Resort the Winter Park Express has begun detraining eager skiers and vacationing... (more)
The U ROOEVE enters the fill and begins its drop back down to river level at the John Day Dam on the Columbia River.
A Union Pacific coal train arcs through Big 10 Curve on the afternoon of June 9, 2013. In the foreground are two AC4400CWs being used as rear DPUs going through Eisele, Colorado. Directly below is... (more)
Although it isn't in its original Penn Central paint and has an LTEX patch on it, a PC GP9 is still and interesting find in 2007. Right next to it is a LTEX rent-a-wreck, painted in all black and... (more)
A Southern box car with a newly repaired door sits outside the shops near the Altoona station, seen in the distance.
Two things you don't see to often in the same picture. American LaFrance Firetruck of this vintage still in service and a CSX derailment in Munhall....... RJ Cornman was already on the scene to g... (more)
Switch goes left, line goes right, train goes down the middle. BNSF 5969 with BNSF 5792 pick the switch for the Ottawa Beach spur. Only one coal hopper went off the tracks as well.
I wandered into the Lehigh Valley engine terminal at Oak Island and managed to snap off a few shots before I was chased off due to the heightened security concerns coinciding with the start of the... (more)
A view from the coal dock at East Altoona reveals a passenger train, powered by a EP40,on the main line westward to the Altoona station. The dead steam in the foreground will probably never run a... (more)
Running along the tramway in Central District in the evening with its dark coffee tram body advertisement.
Having just joined the 'Overland Main' at Speer Junction the annual CFD special drops down grade into Cheyenne with a trainload of passengers eager to attend Frontier Day's opening ceremony. For t... (more)
Close-up of a low speed, staged collision between a loaded coal train and a school bus. Click Here to see what happened afterwards... (more)
Captured in the late light of August 14, 1956, ATSF 5034 shows evidence of frequent use and hard Ohio water. With her bell clanging the Hostler backs her to the house, passing a future Pennsy die... (more)
GP40-2 #6086 and GP15T #1515 ran through a closed switch, then derailed after reversing direction around 7am on January... (more)
Horseshoe Curve In my first trip across the USA, I saw the especial train of Norfolk Southern. Export GE locomotives for Transnet (South Africa) passing throught the Horseshoe Curve. My wi... (more)
It's beginning to look like autumn in the Wasatch! A Utah Railway IPP coal empty charges east through Castilla amid a nice smattering of brilliant red oak brush in Spanish Fork Canyon.
According to internet reports, CSX Q114 saw sparks flying from a car on loaded coal train CSX T909 and notified them. T909 was running Westbound coming into Hamler, OH and trying to bring the tra... (more)
123 is strung out all the way from Dendron to the upper loop of High Fill on this beautiful February morning along the Blue Ridge.
Special Limited Express Train. From Namba Osaka to Osaka Kansai Airport.
A Brandt Road-Transferable Locomotive (RTL) in maintenance of way service, takes a break for the weekend in Union Pacific's Echo Yard. Brandt is a Canadian company that converts semi trucks into d... (more)
This must be the end of the line for these prime movers. There still may be a chance that they may be reincarnated into something.
Lettered for Willamette & Pacific RR Special
LaGrange at Christmas! Locomotives as far as the light carries dominate E. Main St. in this view of an eastbound led by photogenic C40-8W 7876 idling past the clock tower at 00:56. Freights are v... (more)
Photographer- unknown- from my personal collection. 35mm Anscochrome slide. July 11, 1959 finds Y6b 2174 performing a photo run by at the giant Trace Fork viaduct on the Dry Fork Branch of the ... (more)
CN has recently taken delivery of several containers used to keep the air charged on long trains. They seem to be using them on manifest trains as well.
Rock Island's bicentennial E8 652 debutes on the 20th Century Railroad Club's Railfair '76 special from Chicago to Bureau, shown here departing Chicago.
At about 9:30 PM on Saturday, February 20, 2010, a BNSF Railway westbound derailed and caught fire inside Tunnel 9 - The tunnel at the bottom of the famed Tehachapi Loop. The location made fightin... (more)
What’s your favorite color? It’s in there.
Imagine for a minute you are finishing the sandwich you packed for lunch today (there is no such thing as 'fast food' yet), enjoying it with an ice cold 7oz. bottle of Coke, when along comes this ... (more)
At dusk BNSF ES44DC 7708 blasts upgrade at 60 mph across old US 66 at Williams, AZ.
Around 10:00 A.M. on 11-7-10 at MP 41.9 on the BNSF St. Joseph Sub. BNSF X RICCNB7 03 (empty ethanol train) led by BNSF 793 rear ended BNSF X GATNEN9 03 (empty grain train) which was shoving out o... (more)
CSXT locomotive hangs by a thread as only rails support loaded Centerflow. Notice bravest guys I've seen working under car only supported by rail!!!
Snowy McEwen Sunrise. A mountain snow flurry that drifted in from the nearby Elkhorns continues to lightly dust the McEwen Yard, as the sun rises amid breaking clouds to the east. This sur... (more)
There are times when you can’t plan for certain aspects of a shot, but you can take advantage of a developing situation. Such was the case on August 15, after several severe storms blew through... (more)
As the sun is rising on another cold day, southbound No 324 with two SD70M-2's, is plowing through banks of snow that have built up on the Rouses Point Subdivision overnight.
It appears that Terminal Railroad Association of Saint Louis is experimenting with a new truck arrangement on their SD40-2s! (Or is it an N-scale body shell on HO trucks?) TRRA SD40-2 3004 sits ... (more)
Ain't she sweet?.....the 4014, I mean. The recent Big Boy debut was a pretty crowded affair, making it very difficult to get "clean" photos of the locomotive. People just kept getting in ... (more)
10 new MRS AC4400CWIs sit at the CSX-GE interchange, along with BNSF ES44DC #7427, and CSX ES44AHs #916 and #920.
Awaiting assignment in Cheyenne. Same time, nearby, different GTEL, click here!
A ballast train has been tied down on the former Modoc mainline at Flanigan, as lingering debris clouds from the day's thunderstorms roll east toward the Smoke Creek desert.
A no truck crossing sign lays in the grass on S Battleground Avenue after a truck that got stuck on the Oak St. railroad crossing was hit Wednesday afternoon by a Norfolk Southern intermodal train... (more)
With every one of its matchsticks creaking under the load, two DCs bring a loaded coal train from Rapahoe into Greymouth across an S shaped wooden truss bridge dating from the late 1800s. I heard ... (more)
Three tank cars, one of which was breached and burned, in the James River, the day after the fiery oil train derailment in downtown Lynchburg.
BNSF 4904 and a rainbow consist lead a southbound manifest at Keddie Wye, with 5 different paint schemes including ex-CP and QNS&L units.
The long awaited trip of Union Pacific 4014 to Cheyenne Wyoming for restoration. Shown climbing out of southern California thru the Cajon Pass on the first leg.
After arriving in Chicago late Thursday night, the Milwaukee 261 ran around the wye at Amtrak before creeping into the yard. Here its seen sitting on the 21st Street Bridge waiting for a signal in... (more)
Cab shot of UP GEVO.
Monongahela 8025, Norfolk Southern's fifteenth heritage unit, rests outside the paint shop in Chattanooga. For more information, visit ... (more)
Stainless steel on a classic streamliner, taken at the Streamliners at Spencer event.
Penn Central E44s and a train stuck in the Assunpink Creek flooding of 1975. The USGS investigation of the flooding can be found here... (more)
The latest concoction from Motive Power is the HSP46 for MBTA. These new units are quite a departure from the MP36 line, and feature engines, generators, and AC traction gear from GE, rather than... (more)
Passengers and pigs disembark from a Shibanxi bound train.
The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train just arrives for the Delanson show as the last of sunlight fades away for the night.
Yep, it's still there. Approximately a year after being abandoned here, MMA 8583 and a short train are still in Ste-Sabine, Quebec. The reason for this is the poor condition of the t... (more)
On a cold and snowy Saturday afternoon, BNSF’s Provo, UT to Lincoln, NE manifest emerges from Tunnel 4 next to the Flatirons of the Rocky Mountains on January 12th, 2019.
Here's a ground-level view of the pit at Columbus and leased Santa Fe 5034. PRR steam is seen in the background, their version of the 2-10-4, also used in Sandusky coal service. The Santa Fe eng... (more)
GoRail and Norfolk Southern announced the unveiling of its one-of-a-kind GoRail locomotive today to commemorate the 10th anniversary of GoRail, a non-profit grassroots organization dedicated to ed... (more)
At around 7:30 PM on July 29, 2013, the eastbound Empire Builder struck a bulldozer at a private crossing west of Trenton. The lead unit, AMTK 21, received heavy damage and was set out on t... (more)
Yes, I was feeling physically sick. There were were carcasses of some really great old units all over the place.
CSXT southbound drag manifest/local crosses the Ohio river from Jeffersonville, IN to Louisville, KY. Louisville city line is visible in the background.
A washout near Chester, AR caused a derailment of the nocturnal A&M Fort Smith Turn in mid September. The lead locomotive rolled on its left side during the incident. Fortunately the crew did not ... (more)
An eastbound BNSF coal train passes through the massive cut at East Stokes, Wyoming, on June 21, 2020. In the spring of 1998, BNSF daylighted Sunset Tunnel, also known as the 1,928-foot Tunnel 2 b... (more)
On the old L&N Memphis line.
Freeport McMoRan EMD GP38-2 No. 9 sits in the yard at Clifton, Arizona, on October 28, 2020. The locomotive is specially-painted to honor our United States military veterans, and is named “The M... (more)
It's a full house in the CSX Selkirk Yard. Built by NRE, genset 1324 sits beside an assortment of power.
Moving from Fair Park in Dallas to it's new home in Frisco, TX.
On November 11th, 2019 for Remembrance Day, Canadian Pacific unveiled 5 brand new SD70ACUs at their Ogden Yard wearing various military schemes. Here's a roster shot of CP 7020 wearing the Army Te... (more)
Up and over. New York & Atlantic Railway matched Progress Rail PR20Bs 300 and 301 lead local job RS-20 down the Long Island Railroad Bushwick Branch on the morning of Sunday, December 31, 2017. At... (more)
One of the most famous trains in the USA during its heyday, New York Central Train 26, The Twentieth Century Limited, behind two E8As and an E7B prepares to depart LaSalle Street Station Chicago o... (more)
Record heavy snows buried Stevens Pass last December so BNSF wastes no time bringing out the big guns to clear the Right of Way. At one point over the scanner I hear BNSF engineer Michael “Mad-... (more)
Smoking at a slow crawl.
Jersey Central Lines 1071, Norfolk Southern's seventeenth heritage unit, poses outside the shop in Muncie. For more information, visit ... (more)
Originally slated to be CSXT 950 before CSX canceled the order, Iowa Interstate 512 rests outside Mid America Car, waiting to be moved into the shop on Monday to begin its transformation from ugly... (more)
Second 81 crosses Kiowa Creek near Bennett behind EMD-re-engined FA 141, a load of autoracks out of Kansas City headed for dealers and showrooms in Denver and along the Front Range. It’s high su... (more)
Complete cabshot of a desktop AC4400
Sun and Fog. Just after sunrise the yard job shuffles the deck with a string of autoracks at the NS yards in Fostoria.
