An eastbound BNSF freight in the rock cuts at Lyle, WA.
Ex CP plow being pushed by B23-7 2004 by the East outlet of Moosehead Lake and approximately 77 miles from its destination Lac Megantic Quebec.
D&H PA's 18 & 19 northbound Adirondack on a cold, snowy day.
Late at night was a good time to visit Colorado & Southern’s Rice yard in Denver the late 1950s. You could set up your tripod out of the way of working railroaders. There was usually one of the ... (more)
With Mt. Shasta as a backdrop, "World's Fair Daylight," powered by Southern Pacific Daylight 4449, heads back to Portland, Oregon.
Eastbound double Joe with dead box cab in tow pulls through the yard at Haugan
As the mist gets blown off of the Pacific Ocean on to the rusty, steel rails, of the former Southern Pacific Coast Route, a pair of EMD motors race south along the shore of Emma Wood State Beach, ... (more)
Union Pacific MRONY heads eastbound out of Radium, Colorado, and is about to enter Little Gore Canyon on the afternoon of August 4, 2014. EMD locomotives powering the train are a pair of SD70Ms (N... (more)
Mount Washington Cog Railway loco 'Tip Top' blasts away from the base station as it commences the climb to the summit with its single coach, 13/10/01. ©www.railphotoprints.co.uk - John Chalcraft ... (more)
Inside the C&NW heritage locomotive
The aftermath of the collision between Amtrak 29 and Marc P286 in 1996. The wreck claimed eleven lives.
The switch was not on the straight line position but possibly forgotten to the turn. So it happens....The night ic express from Athens to Alexandroupolis derailed and four coaches went to the fiel... (more)
General Electric Evolution Hybrid demonstrator 2010 on display at Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal in Los Angeles, CA, on May 24, 2007. Also on display are Union Pacific ES44AC 7625 and BNSF ... (more)
The Milwaukee Road is ending its operations in the western United States. This is the 2nd to the last train, which is heading east with a collection of the remaining motive power and rolling stock... (more)
One of the roadswitchers (yes, being a cowl unit it is used for that purpose) eases on the breaks as it rolls out of Dealu after the two parts of the train was coupled. The weekly Dej-Sacel-Leordi... (more)
Nestled in the Rocky Mountains along the St. Joe River, the scene of the Milwaukee Road at Avery Idaho during its last full year of operation. The substation has ceased generating electricity sin... (more)
Through a forest of telephone and former catenary poles, MILW 169 East crosses the Northern Pacific at Sinclair, Montana on Aug. 14, 1979, about 8 miles east of Deer Lodge. NP’s route of the ... (more)
Having just crossed the Ohio River from Cincinnati, L&N 241 does some street running around the intersection of 6th & Saratoga.
"Old Rivets", the original PRR GG1, has recently been restored to its 1935 appearance, and its three-month-old paint is gleaming. Today, sister 4935, repainted to PRR livery by Amtrak in... (more)
In this cold scene, a loaded coal train led by three UP GE's including a patched Chicago and Northwestern unit leading, negotiates the Big Ten Curve just west of Denver.
This is a prime example of why distracted driving and trains do not mix. We watched this whole event unfold. The crew was shoving at no more than 5 MPH, and the conductor had the crossing protecte... (more)
As the sun sets over the Marin County hills across San Pablo Bay, a late California Zephyr begins its final sprint west to Emeryville behind UP power borrowed at Truckee.
The second car of BNSF train M-BRCGAL1-29A was this wrecked CP ES44AC number 8814, mounted on a QTTX 8-axle flat. This train came from the BRC railroad in Chicago and is pictured here just east of... (more)
A baggage-express car, a coach and a snack-lounge behind a lone E-unit: This is all that’s left of the once-great Rocky Mountain Rocket by late September, 1966. Hard-pressed Rock Island lopped o... (more)
Is This The End? A line of retired NJ Transit ALP-44s sits in Port Morris awaiting an uncertain future. Over the years, these locomotives have fallen further into disrepair, being broken i... (more)
A meter gauge ic express on the way to Patras passing a...wreck on Elefsina bay
UP borrowed NS Dash 9 uprighted after deadly head on collision 9-15-05. Switch to siding was open
Super FleetOn the very first run of Super Fleet GP60Ms, the Santa Fe QNYLA train speeds through Ransom, Illinois, on May 20, 1990. Only two GP60Ms were delivered by EMD at this point (N... (more)
The hometown Interstate Railroad was known for owning a rather eclectic fleet of steam locomotives--some bought new, but most second hand acquisitions from here and there. A prime example was 2-8-... (more)
UP 3597 heads up the Brigham City, Utah based, Malad Idaho, local. Scrap filled gondolas for Nucor Steel and hoppers for grain and pumice for Malad City's industries.
Less than a year old, PRR 5804 gets readied for departure to Chicago at 11am as seen in this Ansco Color view. PRR was renovating their Pittsburgh terminal at the time of this photo, pardon the w... (more)
CSX Q438 a Hamlet, NC, Rocky Mount NC, Richmond VA, Baltimore MD, Selkirk NY mixed freight is crossing over 9th Street SW in Washington, DC, as seen from Room 15-111 of the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel. V... (more)
Canadian Pacific Railway launched their 2014 United States portion of the Holiday Train on November 26, departing Montreal, Quebec for Scranton, Pennsylvania. With a Nor'easter snow storm impactin... (more)
Welcome to the C&O Railroad Museum? Well, not quite, though part of the B&O Railroad Museum's collection contains CSX predecessors as seen here. From left to right, C&O 2-6-6-2 compound Mallet ... (more)
Eastbound train 984, Trail BC to Calgary -Alyth AB, curves around the loop at McGillivray before the final assualt on Crowsnest Pass. Today a coal mine spur branches off a wye and a small yard exi... (more)
Indiana Boxcar's Olin Locomotive Works is nearing completion on a rebuild of former Louisville & Nashville Railroad SD40 1245, built in 1970. The locomotive is framed in the cab window of former E... (more)
Special track at Avaroa (border Bolivia/Chile): who knows the reason?
20th August is a public holiday in Hungary, when stores and universities are closed and there are multiple ceremonies and public speeches around the country, complete with magnificent fireworks af... (more)
A bird's eye view of the inventory at the Larry's Truck Electric compound outside of Youngstown.
The long-dormant storefronts of Thurmond, West Virginia were brought to life in the fall of 1986 when the town was chosen as the location for shooting the film “Matewan”, an historical account... (more)
The Westbound WMSR train blast around Helmstetters curve, high above Cumberland
Going to GW and living in Georgetown, I had witnessed the B&O Georgetown local from the inside of a Metro Bus on K Street at night. But this was the only time I saw it in daylight. Here it is pass... (more)
It's OK, Pioneer GP20 3054 is still on the rails and the train behind it will follow right along. This is probably the worst spot on the Napoleon, Defiance and Western and downright terrifying to ... (more)
The Juniata Shops is an original Pennsylvania Railroad Facility. The original Altoona shops were built in 1850 with the first locomotive repairs occurring in December of 1852. The Juniata Shops we... (more)
Eastbound Santa Fe Barstow to Texas train 805 climbs Goffs Hill eastbound into the sunrise on the first morning of a great trip and bringing up the rear are tweny one cabooses twenty of which are ... (more)
In the month of February, CN shipped many of these smaller gauge SD70Ms to Halifax to be transported by boat over to South America. Engine 736 was one of two on train M308 on this day.
Dos Cabezas - At one time there was a station building located at Dos Cabezas and a water tower fed from a spring up the hill to the left. The water tower still remains and it once fe... (more)
Classic B&O power heading to engine terminal after bringing coal up from the Elkins area.
A wide angle view of A4 60019 Bittern accelerating through the suburbs of Bath watched by a lone viewer from the footbridge
The westbound California Zephyr exits Tunnel 39 inside Little Gore Canyon.
One of two GG1s slowly succumbs to the elements.
UP #6900 has arrived in Salt Lake City with Ross Rowland's "Gold Spike Limited" on the morning of May 10th, 1969. The #6900 has cut off from it's train and 4-8-4 #8444 will take that train to Ogde... (more)
Pennsylvania 8102, Norfolk Southern's sixth heritage unit, rests outside the paint shop in Altoona. Casey Thomason photo, copyright Norfolk Southern Corporation. For more information, visit <... (more)
After striking a over-sized truck at a crossing along US 301, Amtrak P080 of March 9th, is seen in the recovery phase while re-railing the P42 Engine 185. The Locomotive was just re-railed on the... (more)
Coal may not be what it used to be and the trains may not roll through the community of Sproul as often as they used to, but the loyal Chesapeake & Ohio style cantilever signals still guide trains... (more)
A look inside UP's operational Rotary snowplow in the Cheyenne Roundhouse.
I saw about 5 of the 11 miles of track in Carrizo Gorge and I'm having a hard time thinking of a more impressive line. At points the track sits on a narrow embanking literally feet from drop offs ... (more)
What a work of art... Greetings from tropical Cass Lake! The other side of this car is equally as impressive. Click on the locomotive number field to see the other side of this car. more)
Freshly painted Clinchfield Railroad No. 800 leads the 75th running of the Santa Train southbound on home rails, spanning the Copper Creek viaduct. The locomotive was recently painted at CSX's Hun... (more)
A rare visitor to Denver in 1968, one of UP’s great clattering U50’s dominates the ready tracks at the Pullman roundhouse. Likely the 36 came in early morning off the Julesburg line and will l... (more)
One of the new kids on the block idles on Jasper's shop track. CN C40-8 2123 was set off by Q112 and would later head back west towards Vancouver on power troubled M309.
Head-on collision on single track mainline.
FEC 813 brings up the tail of 7 new FEC GEVO's in tow (810, 807, 811, 802, 801, 800 & 813) behind the road power of Q357-25 at Boughtonville, OH on their way to Willard where another train will fo... (more)
Fresh out of the CRCR paint booth, VALE 102 & 107 show off their colors after being the first 2 locomotives painted out of 7. These are the last few units out of London before they closed down the... (more)
On it's inaugural revenue run since being repainted by the fine folks at the Huntington Locomotive shops, CSX 3194, the "Honoring Law Enforcement" unit leads Russell to Waycross time fre... (more)
CP train 220 passes Marina Park as it leaves Thunder Bay. Trailing in the consist for 220 today is a new locomotive for Go Transit.
A pair of electric motor coaches, with another banking at the rear, climb towards Ozpizio Bernina beside the snow covered frozen Lago Bianco with the 10.55 St.Moritiz to Tirano train on a brillian... (more)
The Engine Facility is packed today! BNSF 5001, BNSF 6783 with a rare SD40-2B 7502 in BN paint, Santa Fe Warbonnet 708, BNSF Warbonnet 4709 with a B23-7 Bluebonnet and the last SF30B Bluebonnet on... (more)
A busy evening at CN's Dock 6 in Duluth as the afternoon roadswitch job doubles its empty ore train together for a trip back to Proctor. Note a BNSF coal train unloading across the bay.
A warm greeting to a regional Ventimiglia-Genova, one of the last trains in transit on the mesmerizing waterfront of Cervo. This stretch no longer exists: the rails have been moved on the other s... (more)
I took this slide and filed it away with no information other than date and gross location. I was hoping somebody could fill in all the blanks. They did!
A fan snaps one last photo of the Minnesota Zephyr F-units as they depart Randolph, MN, on Progressive Rail. Loaded in late 2014 but held up by Union Pacific for various issues, the locomotives ar... (more)
Under a downpour, a TGV going to Paris meets the 4-8-2 "241-P-17" going to Lyon on the Dombes line. Apologies for a picture that is only 50% steam!
The Alaska Railroad work train has just set out 3 cars for the B&B gang that will soon start building a new bridge over Indian Creek. With that chore done they head back north with 3006 leading in... (more)
metre gauge HHD class, No 3320,built by Ganz in Hungary 1983,passes through a textile market as it arrives at Bogra on train 20,the "Bogra Express", 1345 Gaibandha to Santahar. Stall holders need ... (more)
On a glorious day in Alaska, if only the rest of the summer could be like today, the Alaska RR's 5 day a week freight to Fairbanks crosses the Knik River. Roughly 30 miles and 50 minutes into thei... (more)
Train 103 near Newtonville Ont
I believe this is a Northern California Railroad Club special from San Francisco to Monterey stopping to pickup passengers at the classic mission revival Burlingame station. Two months later 4460... (more)
Union Pacific’s local freight to Phippsburg, Colorado, approaches Pinecliffe on a snowy April 12, 2001. Springtime in the Rockies!
Shot taken from the Roosevelt Road Bridge. That's Dearborn Station to the left and that looks like a Monon RS3 above the Es.
It seems as if the shots you don't plan are the ones that turn out the best. I was on my way to go shoot an Ex BN unit in Gainesville, and as I made my way into Georgia I kept thinking to myself "... (more)
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company (NKP) number 587 runs East through traffic on S. 8th Street enroute to Hobbs Station in Noblesville, IN, home of the Indiana Transportation Museum.
Heading for loading onto a ship at Norfolk, VA, 2 Transnet Freight Rail GE C30ACi locomotives 43 001, 43 002 lay over in Enola, PA on special train 098. There are 10 of these that are to be built ... (more)
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway FP7 #1607 with F3B #1505 and F3A #1203 leads passenger train The Georgian on April 30, 1951. Photo taken from my slide collection. photographer unknown.
Westbound Yampa Valley Mail making a stop at Granby, CO in 1964.
