On the morning of June 17th, this Norfolk Southern intermodal train hit a tractor trailer that was stuck at a grade crossing. It derailed after the impact. Amazingly, everyone walked away with min... (more)
The 261 lives again. Under steam again for the first time since 2008 after undergoing its federal mandated overhaul on this 1944 Alco 4-8-4.
Well over a mile's worth of stored locomotives await an uncertain fate at the UP yard in Nampa. I lost count around 75 units.
Rails to the bay, literally. In the distant past this area of Agate Bay was used by commercial fisherman who launched their large boats using dollies mounted on track, using scrap rail likely laid... (more)
After cooling its heels in the siding at Tolland to allow Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr to overtake it, a loaded UP coal train heads downhill from the divide along South Boulder Creek, swol... (more)
Pan AM local ED-8 switches the yard at Gardner. in the foreground is an autorack car filled with burned-out vehicles from a recent unfortunate fire. All the vehicles and the railcar are a total lo... (more)
FEC crews look over the damage after FEC train 226 north derailed coming out of the north end of the Pineda siding. FEC 433 is on its side, while FEC 419 remained on the rails. 5 double stack we... (more)
It was a rainy day and deep in Harkins Slough a large eucalyptus tree had fallen across the track. There are no roads to access the location so the Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay F9 locomotives, SC 110... (more)
1992 was nearly 20 years ago but this railroad still runs in the streets of Brooklyn as NYNJ Rail. One EMD is assigned to Brooklyn and another at the dock in Jersey City, NJ. Note locomotive is ... (more)
Well there you have it folks! Finally two of the units have been painted into the Vale Mining scheme with five more yet to come. These units have more represent more than just what their paint sho... (more)
They are finally here! A new era begins on the FEC as the very first of 24 ES44C4's take 101 out for the first time. Departing right on time at Bowden.
A whole lot of yellow.
First GG 1 lays over between runs at Meadows Yard
Number 5000, the "Diversity in Motion" unit, leads a load of southbound coal across the "Skaggs Hole" bridge at Towers.
Something is not quite right with the 6936.
After an afternoon of rain showers across northern Arizona, a rainbow has appeared along the eastern side of Flagstaff. With only a few minutes left of sunlight, the slow moving Belen, NM to Phoen... (more)
Alco builder's photo of Interstate RS-3 #31 courtesy of the Collection of Ron Flanary. The 88-mile Interstate was located in the southwest corner of Virginia. Its chief business was to haul coal f... (more)
The brakeman has gone to look for the owner of the white car blocking the lead to Peerless Confection; meanwhile a pastry truck blocks SOO 1548 in from the other side. Just feet from the end of t... (more)
Inside the cab of the monster....Big Boy 4017
A West Colton to Roseville manifest holds the siding at Ansel to let a southbound monster manifest by with the moon shinning down.
The Unstoppable train is on the bridge directly above the Ohio River. The power on both ends of the train can be seen.
UP 46, shown here eastbound on the Kansas Division, was built in May, 1965, retired and traded to GE in September, 1973. Kodachrome II, Yashica TL.
Here's a over head view..
CN's Santa Train made a stop at the former DM&IR shop and yard complex at Proctor.
A view from above at various PRR electrics in the rack. The Lackawanna main is under the wires on the far left.
In 1966, there were only two ways into remote Rock Creek Canyon, between Crater and Volcano on Rio Grande’s Craig Branch in northwestern Colorado. One was to hike along the track from the neares... (more)
Santa Fe 315, with a yellow variation of the famous "Warbonnet" paint scheme, leads three more F7 B units on Amtrak's Texas Chief. Union Station would close and the remaining Amtrak traffic would... (more)
As usually happens in big cities, the capital of Chile has places that are not exactly beautiful. EMD SD40-2 with empty intermodal train crosses Mapocho river near Alameda Yard. (It's not a drone ... (more)
Dynamic braking for all they're worth, 5 GEs ease all of loaded westbound potash train 671's 142 cars down the Big Hill. (2 on the headend, two scattered mid-train, and one on the rear) This view ... (more)
On the afternoon of September 20th, I ran by BNSF's Topeka, KS shops, and found their Hydrogen powered switcher #1205 sitting outside with its hood removed, giving us a rare view of it's innards. ... (more)
Milwaukee Road #261 leads a consist of gondolas Westbound for the TC&W. We needed freight, they needed the gondolas moved - a side profile shot with "rods up" for those who like it as David P. Mo... (more)
Photographer: -Norman Blackwood- from the original Kodachrome 35mm slide. This is one of three N&W Y6 class engines (one Y6a and two Y6b's) that languished into the mid 1970's in Roanoke. It i... (more)
Eastbound 5354 running as Converse Norfolk Southern Coal meets Kansas City Roper Quality train KCRVQ led by Santa Fe 942
Having just landed at North Carolina's Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, US Airways' specially painted "Piedmont Airlines" Airbus A319 taxis towards the passenger terminal while a Norfolk S... (more)
Last day for Eurocity Croatia to be powered by a pair of older ladies, as new timetables arrived Slovenske Zeleznice took over the job with leased Siemens Vectron locomotives.
On October 24, 1992, the Soo Line’s abandoned, former Milwaukee Road yard at Savanna, Illinois, is still populated by a large assortment of Soo and Milwaukee cars awaiting a date with the cuttin... (more)
Shot at 600mm with my Sigma 150-600mm lens, NBSR 6340 snakes along the terrain, as they approach Cork, New Brunswick, nearing the hotbox detector at mile 59.
Crews work in pouring rain to finish the cleanup of a Derailment of 11J early Monday morning at Aprox 04:30 at Radebaugh ( CP Rade ). The tracks on the right are for i... (more)
The reddish orange glow of the yard means that sunrise is just minutes away.
An interesting container load with some wheel sets ride on the second level of cans.
Cascades power done for the day. This scene features a substitue train set and a yet to be re-certified Talgo train set
Barrow Hill Shed was the last operational round house in the UK, now home to Barrow Hill Engine Shed Society the site sees various active steam and diesel locomotives visiting. Here we see three m... (more)
An empty crude oil train hugs the shoreline of the Clark Fork River as it traverses the stunning Cabinet Gorge on its way toward Missoula, Laurel, and points east.
Skating down the Santa Cruz Boardwalk on a DODX flatcar.
EMDX 92 at La Grange.
While visiting NRE in Silvis to inspect Eldon, IA's GP7 purchase, we were allowed to tour the entire ex-Rock Island complex with an escort and proper PPE. There were several SOO GP38's in for reb... (more)
The final train of the season to Two Harbors returns to Duluth behind Hustle Muscle as sun fights with clouds. The passengers on the sold-out North Shore Scenic Railroad train enjoyed a nice sampl... (more)
Standing out in a sea of Rock Island blue, GTW 5629 awaits a call to duty that will never come. Fitting location considering it was rusting away in a yard of the deceased Rock Island.
CN 3070 leads a potash train through nice Fall colors, approaching Petitcodiac, New Brunswick.
Meeting of the old a GP60M warbonnet and the new ES44DC in powerbar coloring meet at the curves of Siberia
What a Recession Looks Like A visit to Southern Pacific's primary yard and shop complex in Los Angeles, Taylor Yard (located just north of downtown), during the 1973-1975 recessi... (more)
Three years have passed since Rock Island's abandonment, but the trustee's decrepit GP18 - bent frame and all - is still shuttling up and down the mainline tying up loose ends. On this afternoon,... (more)
Just recently the Schellville dead line lost a former Northcoast Railway, ex-SP GP9. Now three former SP SD9Es await the future with two former BLE F units on a sunny day before Christmas 2016.
The Southern Shorthaul Railroad's specially painted B61 locomotive - the Bernie Baker - Streamliners - unit, is center stage on the Goulburn Railroad Heritage Centre turntable as its mates are bas... (more)
Reading Lines 1067, Norfolk Southern's twelfth heritage unit, rests outside the shop in Muncie. For more information, visit www.nscorp... (more)
The last hurrah for the Cliffs Erie F9s as they make their last trip between Hoyt Lakes and Taconite Harbor. Here they arrive at the Harbor and prepare to spot cars for limestone loading. The Fs ... (more)
MMA Searsport Local tangled with a truck which failed to stop at the US Rt. 202 crossing, causing the 8592 and a tank car to derail.
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Biden wave to thousands of cheering supporters from the back the 2009 Inaugural Amtrak special in Edgewood, Md. Note newly appointed White Hou... (more)
to the Nature III. The Csarna-valley section of the narrow-gauge railway was damaged by flooding in 1999. The water found a new creek bed in many places. The rails are slowly being reclaime... (more)
Railmax high railer weed sprayer being serviced at Bluefield
Burlington 4-6-4 4000 was built in 1930 as No. 3002, a member of class S-4, by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. This class had 78-inch drivers, boiler pressure of 250 pounds per square inch, and 25x2... (more)
Rear, front, and lower middle portions of ex CN and Indiana Boxcar unit sits in a field on the side of the highway.
As the Amtrak Gulf Coast inspection train passes the historic depot in Tallahassee, Florida on 2/19/2016, the Tallahassee Fire Department came out to give the train a traditional fir... (more)
Gone but not forgotten. Originally belonging to the Hanna Furnace Corp. not spends its days at R&R Salvage. Although this hasn't moved in years I'm assured by the owner it could start right up if ... (more)
Lackawanna 1074 will bring up the "markers" for 961, the lite engine move from Progress Rail in Muncie to Linwood. For more information, visit more)
Westbound UP auto carrier with 3965 on the point lumbers its way to the west through the scenic Altamont Pass hills populated with numerous wind generators.
30 Year ago...time flies
Gone but not forgotten, this long string of Conrail boxcars rots away on the abandoned tracks at Rose yard.
Metre gauge MLW 2306 on the Vaoal Express, 0020 Bahadurabad to Dhaka, passes slums lying very close to both sides of the tracks at Karwan Bazar, Dhaka.
607 with the "Powhatan Arrow" lies on her side after a derailment resulting in the death of the fireman. Cause, failure to obey automatic block-signal & entering turnout at excessive speed (77 mph... (more)
UP 6900 (retired) is spotted on temporary track East of the Amtrak Station. Within a couple hours, crews were already on location be begin lifting the locomotive for street movement in a few week... (more)
NKP #765 rumbles across the Lehigh River in Weissport, PA late in the evening on a return trip from Pittston, PA to Allentown via Jim Thorpe. Sponsored by Norfolk Southern.
Every year the local High School in Tracy has a firework display. While pretty small, at around 115 fireworks launched and lasting just 15 minutes, where else will you find a California Northern G... (more)
P&W 2307 backs a couple cars away from the impact zone the following day after a semi truck slammed into a cut of cars in north west Portland. Sadly, the driver lost his life but fortunately the c... (more)
Moments after being righted from the ditch, sidebooms lift SCAX 645 back onto the tracks.
One of the last 2 or 3 operational TMs shoves coal up the hill toward the Mullens shop.
While I have always been intrigued by EMD's double diesels, nothing could prepare me for this spectacular sight at Salt Lake City in 1977. By the late 1970s, the Union Pacific had assigned the maj... (more)
NS 8462 is getting scrapped , its been in storage since 2016 , after being wrecked
Sunset encounter. A cold January sunset reflects off the door of a farmer's pick-up as he waits for the passage of an eastbound passenger train at rural crossing in Eastern Michigan.
The Cowan pusher prepares to duck into Cowan Tunnel as it shoves heavy Northbound mixed freight Q580 up the steep 2% grade to the top of Cumberland Mountain. The Timber Rattlesnake in the foregrou... (more)
After a pig train passes him at Sando, 231 streaks out of the siding and contniues his westward trip toward Richmond.
On Wednesday, July 18, Vermont Rail System, in cooperation with the The Ogdensburg Bridge & Port Authority teamed up to move a quintet of CIT-owned SD9043MACs to the BBC Delaware ship for export t... (more)
Fresh out of Beech Grove, the first repainted Amtrak dual mode unit backs into the Rensselaer Shops after trailing on the inbound Lake Shore Limited from Chicago. The units have a Phase III paint ... (more)
UP 3966 goes for a spin. Click "UP 3966" in the loco # field for additional views of the engine being serviced that day.
White Pass Archaeology: WPY #60. Sitting on a bluff near the north end of the White Pass Yard in Skagway is one very forlorn-looking, little 10-wheeler with a rather odd story to tell. ... (more)
to the Nature II. The Csarna-valley section of the narrow-gauge railway was damaged by flooding in 1999. The rails and the bridges are slowly being reclaimed by the nature. Railroad: Kemence Forestry Museum RailwayLocomotive: N/ALocation: Kemence, HungaryLocomotive #: N/ATrain ID: N/APhoto Date: November 04, 2010
Rain clouds are rolling out at sunset as the crew sends their power to the roundhouse. NCTM's FP7, Southern 6133, goes for a spin on the turntable in the day's last light, aiming for the glow from... (more)
Looking more like Mars than Earth, the eastbound California Zephyr skirts the Book Cliffs in eastern Utah. This is likely one of the most difficult spots I've ever shot. Railroad: AmtrakLocomotive: GE P42DCLocation: Floy, Utah, USALocomotive #: AMTK 94Train ID: AMTK 6Photo Date: September 19, 2008
Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 whistles as it meets an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe double-stack train at Casa Blanca, four miles west of the Riverside Amtrak/Metrolink station. The steam engine i... (more)
Well before the Road Railer, we have this over the highway move. Would this be a Rail Roader? :)
