While the yellow boat just picked up the last visitors from the rock in the middle of the fall, a train of Thurbo with two articulated lowfloor trainsets from StadlerRail, is crossing the bridge a... (more)
We were different railfans in the 50's and 60’s.. We had different expectations and poorer film and cameras. Every train we saw we deemed to be the last we would ever see. The PA's were running ... (more)
The Super Chief arriving at LAUPT -- Amtrak will arrive in a few weeks
NP’s westbound flagship “North Coast Limited” No. 25 leaves Butte and zips along at speed at Rocker, Montana the evening of April 10, 1970. In this photo it is really a BN train as the mer... (more)
A shot taken while waiting for a north bound steam hauled charter but the unique lighting was too good an opportunity to miss as a Class 390 passed southbound
This shot was ready to be added to my "If only there was a train" collection. Just before the colors faded, this empty grainer showed up, to add the final element to this awesome scene of a Lenti... (more)
This is PRR's daily local, S71, which ran from Northumberland to Selinsgrove Jct., then out the Selinsgrove Secondary to the PP&L power plant in Shamokin Dam, PA. (coal loads). It then continued ... (more)
Soo Line 700 crosses the Sucker River before it empties into Lake Superior between Duluth and Two Harbors. This ex-Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway bridge was also in the 1994 movie Iron Wil... (more)
A damaged QCM unit sits atop a QTTX, arriving off train M37721 20 from Montreal
A late-running New England Central Railroad train #324-05 heads into Bellows Falls, Vermont, from North Walpole, New Hampshire with Connecticut Southern Railroad SD40-2 3771, NECR SD40T-2 3317 and... (more)
Trans-Mongolian 2020 and 2021's summer and autumn railfanning photo tours available for booking now. Please join our fantastic photo tours and welcome to the Trans-Mongolian railway! Contact us:... (more)
Couldn't be happier with this shot: I spent two days here, and this is the only one of around 50 trains which came when the fog has cleared. Beautiful piece of equipment, a real modern day streaml... (more)
Lehigh Valley #601 was the first of the Valley's PA1's built in March 1948. After passenger service ceased in February 1961, it was used in freight service for a while before being sold to paren... (more)
CN Train 376 derailed near Durham Junction in Pickering, Ontario on the afternoon of 30 March 2010. No one was injured. In all, nine cars derailed along with three of the four RBRX (former GO Tra... (more)
After idling in Union Station, the first time the engineer notched up all the built-up soot in the cylinders was blown out as these three elephant-style E7 ladies demonstrated. Photo taken from Ro... (more)
Some cars just sit around too much. This artwork decorates a large covered hopper car moving to a plastics plant in Chippewa Falls on Union Pacific. I'm no fan of graffiti art on modern railroads,... (more)
I was Allowed to Visit the Sheffield Yard Tower, Here's a view looking at the 32 Track Bowl Yard to the right is the Departure Yard and on the left is NS Train 734 with BNSF #8881 pulling into Hob... (more)
Not only was this the Santa train, its engineer finished a distinquished career in high style, a tradition we should pay more mind to. Way to go!
With Tehachapi's rolling hills still clinging to the colors of Spring a westbound loaded grain train carefully drops through Cliff on the western slope of the Tehachapi Range. Nestled down in the ... (more)
As a sequel to my derailment shot of CNR 1212 at Hamilton Jct. ON, here is the CNR big hook rerailing it.
This could be the Washington/Philly Express, a day train from Buffalo, slowing for its stop. This is the same leader as seen in Railroad: Pennsylvania RailroadLocomotive: EMD E7(A)Location: Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USALocomotive #: PRR 5878Train ID: Washington ExpressPhoto Date: August 18, 1956
The late afternoon light illuminates the details of Y6a 2167 as it awaits another eastbound freight to push up the Blue Ridge grade.
The last bastion for mainline standard gauge steam in North America was Mexico. But by 1968 steam was on its last legs there as well. NdeM 3031 was a 1946 product of Alco, and she and her Alco a... (more)
Santa Fe GP60M 146, painted for the filming of a Maersk PR film, Mojave River Narrows, Victorville, CA on August 13, 1990.
A massive deadline of KCS SD70MACs await new life in Centreville, IL.
Yellow Box Wreck - On or about May 5, 1965, a student engineer on his first day of work accelerated too fast around the turn by passing Tunnel 7 and this yellow box car derailed. The car... (more)
Tucked away in the shops at Southern Pacific's Taylor Yard is RS-11 2923, freshly repainted but still resting on shop trucks. This engine rolled out of Alco's Schenectedy plant in May 1959 as SP ... (more)
Wanna Race? An older model Dodge Viper overtakes the Magic Banana, heading for the finish line of Amtrak's Jack London Square station.
Wrecked CSX ES44DC in Barr Yard from the three train collision last week near Valparaiso, Indiana southeast of Chicago.
KCSM 4070, 4097, 3436, and 3351 blast out of a spectacular tunnel on the KCSM as they approach Benjamin Mendez, Coahuila, Mexico. To view this album, paste http://railbaron.rrpicturearchives.net/... (more)
Oh ... That's What the Flashing Red Lights Mean!As Southern Pacific's Huntington Beach Hauler was heading back to Anaheim, a moron in a white car somehow failed to notice the... (more)
Staged for a special photo shoot, the Penn Central and Conrail heritage units are joined by NS SD70ACe #1011 at Amtrak's 16th Street yard in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Casey Thomason. F... (more)
CP 8748 and CP 8742 during the early hours of a beautiful August day wait for their new crew at the east end of track 2 in Field yard.
An eastbound freight moves through the maze of tracks just west of the Omaha depot. According to the sign atop the Hill Hotel, one can obtain a room for two dollars and fifty cents. I suspect... (more)
The coal fired, steam powered, car ferry Chief Wawatam is being loaded by Soo Line GP-30 708 at the St. Ignace dock in June of 1979.
Westbound intermodal train 21G has derailed on main 2 in the area of Allegrippus Curve. Located between MP 244 and 245, Allegrippus Curve is the one of the more severe curves on the east slope ,bu... (more)
Massive upgrades to CN's Newmarket Sub have brought all kinds of different equipment to the area recently. This Peterbilt Brandt RTL (Road Transferable Locomotive) along with a Mack have been busy... (more)
Clear as mud - one of a handful of surviving unpatched or unrepainted Southern Pacific locomotives rests next to a mud puddle in the Hoffman Avenue yard in St. Paul.
Welcome to the family! Central Maine & Quebec Railway has finished painting its ten 6-axle ex-Canadian Pacific Railway SD40-2F and released the final unit in a special Bangor & Aroostook heritage... (more)
Roll Em By - C704 is tucked away safely in the hole at Ackerville. It's Conductor braves night and fog, inspecting a passing fleet of northbound trains on CN's busy Waukesha Sub.
Corridor Contrasts: Classic Pennsylvania RR Station and today's sleek ACELA. Note northbound Crescent in the distance.
Inside the cab of New York Central E8 4085. It led the last eastbound 20th Century Limited out of Chicago on December 3, 1967.
DONE!: With this word, the Transcontinental Railroad was declared completed on May 10th, 1869. One day short of 150 years later, the Union Pacific Railroad held a ceremony in Ogden, Utah to... (more)
A day after being involved in a wreck due to a rock slide near Isom, CSX #61 sets on the siding at Blair Branch until another train or crew moves it away. This loco was still running at the time o... (more)
B&O 4559 crests the 17 mile grade at Altamont, MD. in September, 1969.
A big motor, rated at 6,800HP, waits at the shed.
CN 2548 and CN 5534 (too bad it wasn't leading instead!) lead C770's train east into some beautiful morning light. The train consists of a brand new NOKL coal set... and a few old CN cars.
History in the making. The construction of a concrete deck that will span the entire open air portion of railroad prior to entering Penn Station is about half way complete in this shot. ... (more)
"Double South" 758 starts around the connection between the Virginian and the N&W Winston-Salem line while the Warehouse Crew (with NS 3236 and usual caboose on rear) holds up north of JK. The War... (more)
zebra stripes
A shame to see such a beautiful face in this condition, but it looks like the cab is relatively undamaged, so EMD's shock-absorbing prow must have worked as advertised.
The "Left Coast Lifter" Crane sits with the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge on June 14, 2018. The moveable portion has just been lifted on to a barge, where it will see extensive repairs this summ... (more)
The westbound Grand Canyon is assisted by two Alcos as it leaves Trinidad and begins its assault on Raton Pass.
Deadheading home... My hardhat label says it all!
At 00:39 on 01/17/69, southbound Illinois Central passenger train #25 led by a trio of E-units collided with a northbound freight that went past a red signal at Indian Oaks. Three people, includi... (more)
BNSF yard job 110 prepares to move a special high-wide train from Duluth to Superior prior to a road crew taking it west to Montana with CP taking over there for the final move into Alberta. The l... (more)
Imagine the impact!! 2nd in consist UP GP40-2 on Lufkin local that NS Dash 9 hit head on. The GP40-2 on point with fatality scrapped on spot
A blue hour image of a loaded 60-car train of limestone heading up Proctor Hill while the American Century and Philip R. Clarke load ore at CN's ore dock. Tug Helen H assists the Clarke.
Savannah & Atlanta 1065 and New York Central 1066 pose side by side outside the shop in Muncie. For more information, visit www.nscorp.... (more)
Cass Shay #11 crosses Leatherbark Creek with the 3pm trip to Whittaker Station on a beautiful fall day.
The moon rises over the remains of the Bethlehem Steel plant as an incoming train illuminates the yard full of inter-model cars. Not long ago, this facility was one of the largest producers of ste... (more)
VIa Rail train after a big snowstorm
7HDL engine change.
Q381 with a rainbow lashup of Warbonnet and H2 B40-8W's heads over the High Falls in the Genesee River Gorge with downtown Rochester as a backdrop.
The train is seen in the distance, it's true ... and maybe far away, rather see something black in the bottom of the canyon, looks like a black tattoo. But you can clearly see how this railroad sh... (more)
Four people were killed and 63 were injured after a Metro North Hudson Line train derailed in the Bronx, New York City at 7:20am December 1, 2013. Operating in a locomotive-pushing manner, it w... (more)
The yard at 30th Street Station was easily photographable from a rooftop parking lot. Simply pay to park you car and watch for action. Note the Penn Central Baldwin RS12 switching cars behind.
Boston and Albany S 2 on the big South Station curve switching the Railway Express tracks. "Wow, remember REA?" In the background: Boston Edison Steam Plant and Pacemaker boxcars.
A couple of Little Joes at the beginning of the Montana electrified Milwaukee mainline. A box-cab is hiding behind E-72. E-78 has the EMD cab, unlike the rest of the Little Joes.
Two Toledo, Peoria and Western trains pass over each other at the Farmdale trestle near East Peoria, Illinois. Above is the the Effner Local with GP38-2s Nos. 2002 and 2008, curving over the Morto... (more)
An extra Potash local makes an unusual late afternoon appearance as it exits Bootlegger Canyon heading to the Potash Mine which is located at the end of the Cane Creek Branch. Corona Arch is seen ... (more)
The skytop lounge brings up the rear of the CP 2816 steam special as it backs out of Chicago Union Station.
A portion of Amtrak FL9 487's cab is being placed onto a flatbed truck. C&K Scrap Metal scrapped the 487 at the Morristown & Erie's Morristown yard.
An eastbound UP stack train holds the main at Shawmut while a manifest waits in the siding to follow it.
The eastbound Rio Grande Zephyr at Kyune, Utah.
Santa Fe train #24 rounds the curves at Darling, Arizona, just west of Flagstaff. (On highway maps, this location is Winona.) Power for the five-car train is GE U30CG 402, one of six on the roster... (more)
The Minnesota Commercial rosters an eclectic mix of Alco and older GE locomotives at it's engine terminal and roundhouse in Saint Paul.
If you hike or bike north on "The Old Putnam Trail" in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York City, you will come upon these 13 stone pillars. Surrounded by trees and growth, they are like an A... (more)
Yellow bonnet and stainless steel F-7A soon to be rebuilt into a CF-7
Freightrain from Belarus to Polish border station Siemianowka crossing the bridge onto the lake causeway.
NYC Niagara 6011 is moving toward her train as seen in my picture 64993
With the western sky lighting up as the sun begins to dip below the horizon, the sound of five 4,400 horsepower locomotives can be heard charging hard in the distance. Battling the steep and long ... (more)
The LV had 3 locations in the NYC harbor area where they conducted car float operations. #1 and #1A were in Jersey City. SW #108 was built in 1937-38. Here it shoves cars onto a LV barge with the... (more)
The shortest Amtrak Cascads trainset, made by Talgo in Spain, waits to someday be used in service. The purpose of this trainset is for spare parts, as it includes a Bistro, baggage, and generator... (more)
TEP70 diesel locomotive with passenger train "Kostomuksha - Saint - Petersburg" goes along Hitolanyarvi lake near Kulikovo town. That day in Karelia come first frost. Lake left already covered wi... (more)
The Napa Valley Lunch Train trundles back to Napa, passing a beautiful bunch of wine grapes at the Rutherford Grove Winery. Unfortunately for the wineries, but fortunate for me, the recent frost h... (more)
