Santa Fe SD45 B-unit 5502 is painted in the Yellowbonnet scheme at the San Bernardino Shops. This scheme was decided against upon and was repainted without the cigar band logo and Yellowbonnet and... (more)
Another never-to-be-called back on stage to perform, C&O 1344 in the dead line at Peach Creek, W. Va.
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)
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)
A pair of UP E8's grace the front of the 'City of Hinkle' mixed train that ran between Spokane and Hinkle, Oregon. Today's train at Marshall, WA is short compared to others. It was an incredible... (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
A 3-unit helper set with relatively new 4404 leads MRL's local 841 and its two GP35s back to Livingston.
Well before the Road Railer, we have this over the highway move. Would this be a Rail Roader? :)
An eastbound Union Pacific freight is on the long trek across Great Salt Lake at Lakeside, Utah, on March 5, 2012. A 12-mile wood trestle used to carry the railroad straight across the lake, but d... (more)
Fall in the Pocahontas coalfields! With colors the best they've been in years, a loaded eastbound coal drag negotiates the scenic Pokey district near Glen Alum.
The Northern Lights shine over the old Milwaukee Road lift bridge in Hastings as a westbound train crosses the river.
As the sun sets on a unseasonably warm February evening, Amtrak #11 glides over the Arroyo Hondo trestle as it journeys down the coast toward Santa Barbara.
SOLD! - In the fading light, recently rebuilt NS 4490 leads 15 SD70ACUs on their ride out of town. All have been hasty remarked 'PRLX' and are heading to one of Progress Rail's locomotive storage ... (more)
Almost 10 years ago, snow blower CN3 was breaked down. CN1 has come from Chambéry to replace CN3. It arrives from St Claude, by the great viaduct of Morez. On the road, under snow cloud, driver... (more)
3834 pulls the train across Hwy 62 in to Southwind towards Mt Vernon Terminal.
Santa Fe’s Super Chief-El Capitan Train 18 eastbound rounds a high-speed banked curve at Dalies, N.M. as it passes a westbound freight on the double track mainline. This was the era of no ditch... (more)
New England Central GP38 3851 is moving damaged Amtrak P42DC #102 northbound toward Montpelier Jct., Vermont, past the Dog River Farm on Sunday, October 11. The Amtrak P42 had just been moved ont... (more)
GP38 2007 works the yard at Whittier. This town is the exchange point for the rest the rail network in North America, via a car ferry, one of which can be seen in the harbor in the background.
Original Kodachrome slide from my collection.
A temperature inversion at sunrise has trapped steam rising off freshly baked taconite pellets at CN's former DM&IR yard at Proctor, Minnesota. A trio of Missabe tunnel motors will head north for ... (more)
Even After 45 Years, I Still Have a Lot of Great Memories of This DayAlmost immediately after it took over passenger train operations from the private railroads In 1971, Amtrak sent... (more)
One of the first Amfleet I Coach Class cars with the new interior refresh, featuring comfortable e-leather cushion upgrades to the existing seat frames.
Rail America's Kyle RR using CEFX leasors 9282 & 9245 derailed snow plow 06 at SH 02 west side of Kanorado. Plow was westbound clearing Dec 29-30, 2006 snowfall (over 30-inches in western Kansas -... (more)
At first, spotting this from down the road, I anticipated a complete F40PH. I was disappointing by a cruel optical illusion.
Brand new, on it's first run since repaint KCS 4006 leads the QSHKC NB through the S curve at Cleveland MO on a cold November day.
A crewmember cleans out ash from the locomotive's firebox.
A 4500 hp turbine electric speeds through Emkay, WY with a general freight. Photo taken by Jack Pfeifer.
Sunset on the Pere Marquette. Pere Marquette 1225 leads a 31-car, double-header eastbound through lush Michigan farmland, just moments before a late August sunset.
While browsing my arc... (more)
"A Balao Class and a few Six Axles" NYS&W SU-99 begins its run westbound up the Southern Divsion to Binghamton during sunset with three six axle units. The train is cro... (more)
Sunset at Trout Creek On the eve of September 14, 2011, an eastbound BNSF coal empty with CN No. 8878 in the lead, passes over the causeway by Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana.
A mix of steam and diesel can be found at Renovo in this 1956 scene. Founded during the Civil War when the tracks were put down, Renovo's population neared 4,000 in 1920 after the railroad came t... (more)
Suffering from decades of deferred maintenance the Maumee & Western slowly rolls along their dilapidated mainline east of Okolona leaning so far at times I'm amazed the whole train didn't tip over... (more)
A westbound intermodal chugs out of Exshaw with Pigeon Mountain and Mt. McGillivray in the background, the bow river as calm as ever
DITCHED, part 3: EXTRACTION. On Wednesday, February 9, 2011, a southbound New England Southern light engine struck a patch of ice and toppled a full 130 degrees off the tracks and... (more)
A fiery sunset ends the day in Western Wisconsin near Gilman as the cows head to the barn to be milked as a priority container train heads towards Chicago.
Twice a day at the museum a demonstration is given of turning a steam locomotive on a turntable. This has fallen to 790 'Hardwicke' for some time and it is seen here as it rotates around in the ce... (more)
2:05 am, the GLC ONTN has returned to Owosso, but with no other tracks open in the yard for the locomotives to run around and get back to the terminal, the crews are forced to tie up the locomotiv... (more)
It is almost 6:30a.m. and the sun has just crested over the mountains as the morning mist begins to dissipate.
Penn Central 1073, Norfolk Southern's eighteenth heritage unit, undergoes testing outside the shop in Muncie. For more information, visit ... (more)
UP units in storage in Northlake Yard.
After a weekend of rain & clouds we are treated to a full week of beautiful weather and taking the main stage would have to be Mt. Rainier. Showing us while Trains are very big, some things are ju... (more)
Derailment of southbound train looking across river, with at least 20 cars derailed. train derailed at about 1:00am thursday morning.
Let It Snow- If it's going to be grey, it might as well snow. The WSOR HOK tries to step between big puffy flakes at Brandon, on its daily trip to Oshkosh.
Our train has stopped to throw a switch. Mr. Dan McFadden adds the following: "That is a CNJ switcher (RS-3) off in the distance. They had quite a business with local industry in High Bridge. The... (more)
There are nothing left of these old gray Amtrak units except the cabs. Glad I at least saw them once in my lifetime.
Picture taken with permission Hy-Rail crosses a long tunnel, greetings to all!
On her first day of running in service in over 20 years, the big 800 class unit takes the spot light in a night photo shoot under a spectacular, stormy sky.
With a rosy glow in the western sky, Union Pacific's Salt Lake to Los Angeles intermodal curves west through a superelevated curve just east of Erda, Utah. In the distance is Stansbury Island, the... (more)
What cost $8.5 Million, is brand new, and can do inspections at 70 MPH? Apparently this thing. This is UP's newest (1 of only 2) inspection car, and it is the most advanced on the rails today. Thi... (more)
Three Burlington Northern EMD SD70MACs haul a loaded BNSF Powder River Basin coal train past milepost 268 west of Alps, New Mexico, on February 27, 1999. This location is on BNSF’s Twin Mountain... (more)
Howitzer M-109 from Swiss Army reaches Bière barracks on rail. The standard gauge flat car stands on four narrow gauge wagon carrier trucks, one per each standard gauge axle.
"Uncle Pete" offers up a "triple" at Dale Jct., WY, a mile east of the Hermosa Tunnels at 11am on a perfectly gorgeous Sunday morning. Two westbound stack trains meet an eastbound manifest. The ... (more)
A hot Z trains rolls west in the late afternoon along the Columbia River, with a NS SD70M-2 2nd in consist.
LS&I 1608 switches Munising, MI in August of 1966. I wonder who Tiger Lady is? Bob Ferge Kodachrome from my collection.
The much-talked-about firebox of 2716 was the major focus of the initial inspection. In this shot, Jason Sobczynski, founding member of KSHCO and owner of Next Generation Rail Services, prepares t... (more)
Special Norfolk Southern locomotives help Atlantans breathe easier ATLANTA, Sept. 1, 2015 -- With Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on hand to celebrate the success of a public-private partnership for ... (more)
It's not quite as fancy as Switzerland's Landwasserviadukt, but New Zealand makes do with the locality of Staircase (population:0). After leaving an unmanned passing loop of the same name, wes... (more)
EMD's latest and greatest demo the SD70ace-T4 at the RSI show in BNSF's northtown yard. Taken before the crowds came storming in.
"Lost in the Weeds" - Pan Am Railways local BO-1 crawls down the Danvers Industrial Branch with five loaded cars for Rousselot. This customer receives cars at least twice a week and is one of two ... (more)
Shortly after dawn, I&O's Lima-Delta turn job rumbles south near Leipsic with 57 cars and a pair of SD40-2s.
High above the Colorado Front Range, the sound of dynamic breaks can be heard as an empty BNSF sand train descends out of Tunnel 1 and through the horseshoe curve at Coal Creek Canyon, CO on June ... (more)
SY 1396's making a "atomic bomb" on the mountain top. I've never seen a wonderful steam view like this. But the view has disappeared
The Southern Pacific Railroad was an official sponsor of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California. As such, they promoted the Games with a special paint scheme applied to SD40R 73... (more)
Operating long hood first in a salute to the preference of previous owner Great Northern, BN 6603 has Train 3 pretty much on schedule after losing the lead SD45 at Quincy, WA due to a wheel failur... (more)
Canadian National Dash 8-40CW 2152 has had previous owner BNSF Railways' markings painted out and the new owner's markings applied, but it has yet to depart BNSF's Barstow Yard to set wheels on it... (more)
With engineer Rick Sisson at the throttle, WW&F Ry No. 10, heads south across Humason Brook Trestle with an all freight consist. This image is one of 12 nighttime scenes created in tribute to l... (more)
The results of warm air colliding with a cold front.. A mild 55 degree night has produced the right amount of energy for the development of severe thunderstorms across Kentucky and West Virginia. ... (more)
CP 8719 leads coal loads over the CP bridge at Cisco, the CPR bridge can be seen below.
Amtrak Train #4 gallops over the KCT Sheffield Flyover on KCT Main 3 with a Phase 3 Heritage leading as KCT Train 310 waits for traffic ahead at the UP diamond on KCT Main Track 4. We passed th... (more)
One of Metro North's inspection trains after Hurricane Sandy. Train crews looked for trees or any obstructions on the tracks, stopped when one was spotted and on board track workers armed with cha... (more)
G.E. widecab that was involved in a wreak at Eiffingham, Ill. Let us railfans not forget that railroading is a dangerous job. Both crew members perished in the crash. Say a little prayer for the r... (more)
825 piled up after a car jumped the tracks leaving the yard and was dragged half a mile (including through a public crossing).
DITCHED, part 5: THE LIFT. On Wednesday, February 9, 2011, a southbound New England Southern light engine struck a patch of ice and toppled a full 130 degrees off the tracks and d... (more)
Selkirk, the way I remember it. Nostalgic variety of Big Blue (and some NS Black). A GE B23-7 #1970, a C30-7A #6571, and a few EMD's #6738 an SD50 and #6940 an SD38! Add a yard slug and two NS e... (more)
As tree branches snap and rails creak IAIS 512 & 718 slowly make their way out of the south end of the EJ&E Yard with EJ&E 100 ton covered coil cars and 50' gons along the spur that will take them... (more)
Western Maryland Scenic Railroad's 1309 is photographed inside of Brush Tunnel. 1309 is the second largest operating locomotive in the United States, and the largest in regular service. This 2-6... (more)
Amid the hustle and bustle of life in New York City, day transitions to dark on this June evening as a Queens bound 7-local train arrives at 40th Street station in Queens. The city's Empire State ... (more)
NS 8500 (ex NS 8305) and NS 8501 (ex NS 8309) are the first two GE C40-8.5's to be completed by the Roanoke shops. They have arrived at Altoona's Juniata Shops for their emissions testing and a ne... (more)
A westbound BNSF manifest crosses a causeway on Montana Rail Link along the Clark Fork on a crisp fall morning at sunrise near Trout Creek, Montana.
An interior shot of the "GN441 Luxury Locomotive Lodge" at the Izaak Walton Inn at Essex, Montana. This shot shows the main lounge area.
The sun sets over Del Mar beach as a Coaster train pushes south.
"King of the Road" THE shot I wasn't always confident we'd be able to pull off coming into the weekend at Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad for Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society b... (more)
BNSF uses one of their ex-GN snow dozers to clear Mikes Yard in West Duluth after a heavy snow. BNSF 2051 is former Milwaukee Road GP40 2011.
The collision occurred at less than 1MPH, but the force was strong enough to mangle the school bus. The "accident" was part of a rescue drill, Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)Locomotive: GE C40-8 (Dash 8-40C)Location: Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, USALocomotive #: CSXT 7622Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: August 28, 1999
Oh the diesel history captured in this photo! They served well for many years but for most of them time has run out. This was just some of the units stored in the former Virginian Railway yard in... (more)
On a good day for the block operator - in this case Jim Largent - everything comes together and the conductor or engineer grab their Form D movement authority on the fly. Just past the moment of ... (more)
Two flagship AT&SF trains side-by-side at LAUPT in 1954. Loco #17 is on the point of the Super Chief I believe; and #41 is likely the lead unit of El Capitan.
NS 750 is southbound utilizing CSX trackage rights at Starnes, VA as lead engine 8652 'distributes' some flames as it and the two GP38-2 get the 14,000+ coal train moving again after a brief stop.
Move over 1943, Here's your UP Lab LOCO! This franken-ALCO was a graveyard smash! It was spotted at the Bluffs in the Summer Of Love prior to being traded in to EMD in '68 for it's own 'monster m... (more)
Canadian National train No. 102 curves through Swan Landing near Brule, Alberta, on the afternoon of July 15, 2013. The CN main line here skirts Brule Lake, with scenic Jasper National Park provid... (more)
