37410 leads Pathfinder Tours’ 1Z37 “The Snowdonian” 06.00 Cardiff Central to Pwllheli railtour across Criccieth beach.
In the consist of NS 13T is brand new NJT PL42AC #4011, fresh from Alstom in Hornell, NY.
On a busy afternoon in Opelika, a local resident finally gets across the tracks on her way home from shopping downtown. Right to left are train 215, an SCL run-through from Hamlet with a WP caboos... (more)
Ready to leave San Diego for LA, an Amtrak San Diegan sports mostly Santa Fe equipment, the Amtrak lettered combine the only outward indication that this is no longer a Santa Fe train. An REA Expr... (more)
N&W 611 crosses the Roanoke River at Altavista, VA as my fiance Melissa and fellow RP contributor Hunter Richardson get shot from the wooden boardwalk.
16:18 Carlisle - Leeds at sunset
With the sun peeking out, light snow falls as the flanger heads back to Roseville.
The 10,221-foot-high summit of the former Rio Grande main line over Tennessee Pass sits quiet and rusty today, with heavy trains no longer grinding through the lofty 2,550-foot tunnel beneath the ... (more)
Mix of B&O power awaiting assignments.
One of earliest pictures I took - Challenger 3947 at an active coaling tower (notice guys on top of both boiler and tender) in either Sidney Neb, or Lodgepole NE, in NE Panhandle - in early fall o... (more)
Future BNSF locomotives are produced at the GE Manufacturing Solutions plant in Fort Worth, Texas.
Control stand area of the D&RGW Heritage locomotive.
A westbound Southern Pacific piggyback train passes Redwood Jct. Tower sometime in the 1950s. This image on SP's San Francisco Subdivision was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.
Heading to Paradise to swap some cars.
Ironic that the engineer of this AMTRAK train has a UNION PACIFIC jacket. This was taken BEFORE the train left.
Panama Canal Railway Company 1856 1857 and 1859 (ex-AMTK 259 313 and 354) being loaded by Intermarine vessel Industrial Challenger for shipment to Panama.
TR 7001 and 7002 tiptoe down a +-3% grade in some of the steepest parts of the "Gulch", to pickup the rest of their train. Former EMD Demonstrators 1211 and 1212, they are now wearing t... (more)
Some have waited at this location for considerable time to wait for a cross like this. I was lucky enough to wait for about 15 minutes as a Q train flys over a Z train.
One of my all time favorites, a photo that was worth smashing the rental car for.
Deep in the Pocahontas coal fields, Norfolk & Western A-Class No. 1218 looks right at home. It was visiting Iaeger on this day with a special passenger train for the 1991 National Railway Historic... (more)
Raising is own rooster tail of blowing snow is an eastbound Burlington Northern freight at Grizzly, Montana, beneath the towering peaks of Glacier National Park on March 3, 1989. The train is led ... (more)
The hulk of Union Pacific DD40AX No. 6926, now used as a parts source by the Dakota Southern.
Rare CSXT paintjob, Mamiya 645 negative.
A long set of Alco A-B-B-A units is ready to back down to train 1, SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF, at Clovis. The train came into town behind another A-B-B-B set.
This local has stopped to take on fuel at Barnum. This crew has been fighting snow drifts for over 100 miles today on the Cherokee Sub. This shot was taken after the crew had cleaned off the lead ... (more)
A bit of hazy sunlight illuminates Y6a 2157 pushing a steel caboose on the freight led by class A 1217.
Having barely turned 15 years of service for its owner, a former Union Pacific DD35 is seen at the IHB's Blue Island Yard awaiting movement east via Conrail to Naporano Iron and Metal in New Jerse... (more)
The Forth Bridge at night. The streak of light on the bridge is an Aberdeen-London service. The bridge connects Scotland's capital Edinburgh with Fife, and acts as a major artery connecting the no... (more)
HG 3/4 # 4 of the DFB with a train from Realp to Furka pass in the Furkareuss gorge near Realp, on a section without cogwheel and a grade of 3.5 %.
Flamsbana.
Over 8,000 tones of worn Abrams tanks are seen being slugged upgrade into Woodford on a warm afternoon on Tehachapi. Making a somewhat rare appearance on a DODX train, two mid-train DPU's can be s... (more)
Extra 478 South, and its reflection, hurry across the Animas River just south of Silverton on a Steam Loco Safari Tours charter.
at the argentina dock sud port, the first and so far only EMD SD 40 -2 in this country ,currently it is modifying, apparently to lower the weight, and it can be used in this country ,also, the pur... (more)
A VERY rare find. ORIGINAL blue paint Chessie/CO caboose (With For Progress logo) is seen at the end of this local switch/yard operations train.
Tennessee Pass Line under a full moon nearly 18 years after the last revenue train traversed the line in 1997.
Empties for Russell have just left Hinton, following the banks of the New River west through the Sandstone Falls. Appropriately titled the "New River Subdivision", this empty coal drag will hug th... (more)
CP 9021 leads grain empties out of the Hector dip near Stephen, BC on a crisp Spring day.
Almost finished new paint scheme on former CN SD40-2W #5342.
The sun is below the horizon as a trio of SDs roar through Goodwater, the low light causing a Kodachrome 'blow-out' of 3230's headlight. An SD24 and an SD35 trail the Dash-2.
A meter gauge ic on the way to Patras crossing the port of Egio. Heavy sea ram this dmu unit on the side.
When a freight car is built to haul heavier than normal loads such as this tank car carrying 297000 lbs of Vinyl acetate, a normal two axle truck will not do. Thus the distinctive three axle truc... (more)
Frost covered rail spikes at the abandoned Nashville grain siding on CP's MacTier Sub.
Box cab set of helpers heads light eastward to Haugan to pick up and assist a westbound over the Bitteroots
This is most likely PRR train #1077, the "Nellie Bly" which ran from New York to Atlantic City in 2 hrs and 45 min and would have received an engine change here from a GG1 to the K4s. For sure, t... (more)
A 3-unit set of FA2's wait alongside a set of Pennsy E2B's which were regularly seen at Pot Yard, summer 1961.
8 big ones on the ground. A few thousand cubic feet of wheat spilled. Track ruined (the CWR is sheared in two different places, and they weren't welds!). No one hurt. A bad flange on a BNSF hopper... (more)
An eastbound WP train has just departed their Oakland yard down a street passing old WP passenger depot now a spaghetti house.
I never believed that the ND&W's track was this bad until I saw it first hand. Even though the railroad's corporate owner, Pioneer Railcorp, has made significant improvements to the line since the... (more)
On Day of the Dead, the local train "pulls the strip" with a cemetery lit by candlelight in the foreground.
Daraa-The two locomotives enter in the fruit market. Today all this is destroyed by war! Locomotive Borsig-Tegel 1914
The latest local power sets for frac sand traffic in Altoona, Wisconsin includes SD60Ms and a SD40-2. A few of these units sit and idle outside the depot as lightning and severe thunderstorms pass... (more)
Q693-05 passes the remains of a derailed Q692.
Having just unloaded itself GP9 8812 and train from the Slocan Lake barge the westbound wayfreight from Nelson starts out on the orphaned Kaslo Subdivision to Nakusp BC. in a light January snow. H... (more)
A pre-dawn view out the cab of a CDOT Shore Line East commuter train approaching New Haven, CT. Canon EOS 20D, Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC
Burlington Northern Santa Fe tried several test schemes before coming up with “Heritage I” paint for the merged railroad. One on them, applied to BN SD70MAC No. 9647 was not very popular, and ... (more)
NP North Coast Limited No. 26 is about to depart Butte, Mont. at 7:45 a.m. on its run to Chicago, 1544 miles yet to go.
On April 28th, 1992, an eastbound APL stack train derailed at CP 237 in Utica, destroying the interlocking. Kids in the area had put debris on the tracks ( possibly a shopping cart ) which got wed... (more)
This shows the TIMBERLINER, a summer weekend train which would leave Detroit late on Friday afternoon, arriving at Mackinaw City around midnight. It would return to Detroit late Sunday afternoon.... (more)
TRRA units 1512, 1517, 1513, 1501, 1502, 1515, and 1507 were moved from St Louis to Waycross in a dedicated train (X98220), in hopes of avoiding a situation like the derailment of the first batch ... (more)
Norfolk Southern's honorary "Veterans" and "First Responders" SD60Es 6920 and 911 pose together for a portrait at Juniata Shop in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Photo by Casey Thomason. For more informa... (more)
UP's DRGW Heritage unit on Pueblo to North Yard, Denver, CO, train met sb Denver RTD car 127 as commuter puffed on her cigarette
Galloping Goose! Having just turned on the wye, the former RGS Motor #5, aka "Galloping Goose #5", backs slowly into the Silverton Depot at the end of a late afternoon excursion on the Dura... (more)
The details are interesting. 4460 is between fan trips. On the right note the "torpedo boat" GP9 with its typical SP "full light package". On the left is a E in its original daylight scheme. Mi... (more)
In a wide-angle perspective, VIA 6414 La Poule aux Oeufs d"Or also known as "The Turd" by local known railfans, rolls through 1 of less than 30 double-slip switches on VIA's daily train number 85.
"Holding up the Big Apple" Traffic comes to a grinding halt at 3rd Street in Brooklyn for a NYCT equipment move down the South Brooklyn Railway for Brooklyn Marine Term... (more)
As I took this image of ths massive oil tranker next to a UP train, I thought to my self, boy a train has never looked so small as it does right now!
Picked Switch -A set of five (5) former Chicago Northwestern (CNW) commuter cars that were acquired by Chicago Metra (METX) and later sold as surplus lies derailed across the turnout at Dub... (more)
Amtrak's southbound Vermonter train #55 struck a rock slide this morning shortly after 10 am south of Northfield, Vermont, and derailed. The locomotive and head car left the rails and traveled in... (more)
Restored Monon F7(A) hangs a right onto N. 8th Street heading towards Fishers. Sometimes it's just easier to take the roads you know. Railroad: MononLocomotive: EMD F7(A)Location: Noblesville, Indiana, USALocomotive #: MON 83ATrain ID: ITM83APhoto Date: June, 1998
Nestled between the rising peaks of the Chugach Mountains and the tidal flats of the Turnagain Arm, The Spirit of Alaska leads a rare daylight move northward from Whittier to Anchorage. The... (more)
NS spraying for bugs.
Nothing quite evoked the word 'atmosphere' as much as when the great wooden barn doors were opened for us at Huludao MPD to reveal this glorious sight. The soft sighing of locomotives in light ste... (more)
Conrail freight from Saucon Yard, is seen crossing W. 3rd Street, just after the sun went away. We are looking east on the former RDG's Bethlehem Branch. Much of W. 3rd Street has since been ra... (more)
You are looking at the world's most powerful articulated steam locomotive, C&O H-8 2-6-6-6 Allegheny 1601. It and it's brethren were rated for 7,498 horsepower at 46 MPH. Interesting how single un... (more)
zebra stripes
Greg Klingler greets 9824 with the Holiday Train in tow with a wave as it crosses over a portion of the Hudson River onto Rogers Island in Fort Edward southbound at 04:32.
1 car of the NS 68Q ethanol train still burning out before it will be moved.
Overview of Illinois Central Gulf former Gulf Mobile and Ohio(Alton) shops in Bloomington, Il.
The Jeff City local made an unscheduled stop at the Kirkwood depot after a confused driver stopped on the tracks when the crossing lights started flashing. Thankfully the train was not going fast ... (more)
"Cutting the Trucks" It's snowing, but that doesn't stop the guys at Frontier Metals from torching the trucks of 2 Budd M3 Pairs; (LI 9822/ LI 9821) and (LI 9820/ LI 9819), as they prepare... (more)
Have you ever arrived at a play late, just after the final curtain dropped? That was my luck at Peach Creek, W.Va. when C&O had just shut down stream operations. This was C&O 2-6-6-2 1421 after... (more)
Chessie lives! VLIX 7311, which was stored on the Chesapeake & Indiana for several years, moved to Barr Yard in late September. Now it has been transferred to IHB's Blue Island Yard in Riverdale.
There are very few Class Ones that still have a working roundhouse and turntable anymore which is one thing (among many) that makes Seattle's rail scene special. But at the north end of BNSF's Bal... (more)
The ladies are lined up for a late afternoon shot...my goodness, it looks like 4418 "pooted"
NS train 38T rolls eastbound along the Canisteo River behind brand new ES44AC #8852.
The sound of couplers colliding together, whistle blasts, air compressors and steam locomotive exhaust chuffs, all but an auditory echo from some 50 years past. Here, a long abandoned hopper and ... (more)
