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The iconic locomotive for the Santa Fe! F7A 300C is seen resting between Amtrak runs at the enginehouse in Barstow, California. These Fs were retained by Santa Fe following the formation of Amtr... (more)
Streamliners at Spencer
Union Pacific's 4-6-6-4 Challenger #3985 was assigned to run an excursion from Salt Lake City to Provo and return on June 27, 1982. The coal burning steamer was built by the American Locomotive Co... (more)
The Silver Bullet! If one had consumed enough Coors Light, seeing this speed by at a grade crossing might cause one to reconsider drinking! Valley Metro Rail LRV 143B heads west down Wash... (more)
North to Chester. Valley Railroad Mikado #40 takes the second, sold-out, Santa Special of the day north across Chester Creek, heading for North Chester, just about a mile and a half further... (more)
grue de 85 tonnes de Châlon Sur Marne en intervention au dépôt de Chaumont. en 1968, cette grue était encore actionnée par un moteur à vapeur
New GE Tier-2 "Evolution" locomotive, (12-cyl, 4400-HP, AC traction), is heading back west. Seen here enroute at the UP's Proviso Yard.
This was the first plan to deal with an errant drawbar. It might not have worked out the way it was intended, but the strap held for about a mile or so. The goal of getting the car into the ne... (more)
Chicago Great Western Railroad with 5 month old EMD F3A-B-A #112C in original paint scheme. 'The Corn Belt Route' served Kansas City, Council Bluffs-Omaha, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Des Moines and... (more)
The Union Pacific Pocatello, Idaho hump switcher grabs a cut of cars from the yard on July 28, 1980. This SD7 and yard slug team worked between June 1974 and November 1982 first in North Platte, N... (more)
T&P 610 double-heads with SOU. 722 on a ferry run out of B'ham. Those were the days!
A Wheeling ore train rumbles over the Mingo Creek Viaduct and towards the connection with CSX in Connellsville as an April shower looms in the distance.
A work extra has just gotten in the clear to allow MoPac's "Southerner" Train 8 to continue its rush toward St. Louis.
This unit is fresh out of the factory, and is seen on her maiden voyage south. Heading to Alabama where it will remain for the rest of it's lifetime, this Genset locomotive is seeing the only open... (more)
Moonlight was the only light, so I setup the tripod and fought the high winds to get this shot!
CPs OCS train heads west across the bridge approaching Otter Tail east.
WE 615 eases its way across Mingo Creek Viaduct with 6985 leading 6359 and 51 coke empties, Mingo Creek Viaduct stands at a towering 195 feet tall above Mingo Creek, This was taken from PA-43 whic... (more)
UP U50s #38 and 47 bracket GP20B #302B on an eastbound freight at Bailey Yard in North Platte on August 29, 1969.
Freshly painted at the Centralia paint shop CN 2124 is placed on public display at the local Amtrak station. Recently purchased from Union Pacific. Ex. UP 9089. Ex. CNW 8577.
Classic N&W steam action in Roanoke in this Summer 1954 scene as train #46 rolls through downtown behind J-class #605. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.
With all of the recent photos of 4449 I thought I would toss in a picture of the last time I saw 4449. Seen here crossing Trout Lake on the MRL. A few minutes before the train arrived a boater cre... (more)
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)
UP DDA40X CENTENNIAL 6936 in Freight Service - 1976. UP DDA40X 6936, UP SD40-2H "Fast Forty" 8012 and UP DDA40X 6923 westbound on priority TOFC. During the mid to late 1970s, two Centennial... (more)
Today - July 23rd 2013 - Union Pacific announced that it had successfully negotiated the acquisition of its former 4-8-8-4 'Big Boy' steam locomotive 4014 from current owners, the Southern Califor... (more)
Just as the moon sets behind the mountains at Los Pinos, the Milky Way emerges in the dark night sky to create a scene I could never capture on the east coast. I have been wanting to capture this ... (more)
A pair of ALCO, at head of oil train
Soo 6600 at Gilchrist after 4408 had been pulled off of her. In a few day it will be off on the long slow trip to Shoreham to be evaluated and soon enough will be determined to be beyond repair. T... (more)
Friday night at the Fullerton, Calif. depot. A local punk band was playing a at the café and railfans were watching the track crew replace a section of rail next to the platform. So here's BNSF 5... (more)
Former Virginian Railway Derrick B37, now NS 540037 still in service (built 1958), re-rails NS Dash 8 32B #3558 on the Coca-Cola Plant spur.
A string of former NS/CR GP15-1s (LTEX 1423,1439,1421,1414 and 1419) ready for their next assignments in what are arguably the most colorful paint jobs they have ever worn.
Various Montana Rail Link locomotives occupy the tracks in the railroad's Livingston, Montana, shop building. The locomotives are in the shop for storage, cannibalization, or repair. Besides the S... (more)
Now with Black under frame.....
Two UP U-50's, a GP-7B and another Geep are in the siding at Aikins, Kansas to meet an eastbound, headed for Kansas City while Nos. 45 and 43 are going to Marysville and on to North Platte, Nebr.,... (more)
A massive deadline of General Electric power looks on as the only two coal empties in Hobson Yard are serviced.
Santa Fe F7's 315 and 316 sit outside the gate at Motive Power & Equipment Solution's shop in Greenville, ready for pickup by NS for shipment to their new home at the Galveston Railroad Museum in ... (more)
Fall colors return to Loup Creek... A pair of run-through CSXT CW44ACs enter the only tunnel on R.J. Corman's former C&O Loup Creek Branch near Mount Hope. The two CSX locomotives are retur... (more)
On the Romanian forestry railways it was very common to convert road vehicle into rail vehicles. This former Russian truck was used on the Comandau line.
CN 2027 with taconite pellets from the Minorca mine is crossing over the former Duluth Missabe and Northern (DM&N) then it was the DMIR and now it's the CN bridge along the CN Iron Range Sub for T... (more)
Three steam locomotives on display at Green Bay. From left to right we have Lake Superior & Ishpeming 2-8-0 23, Soo Line 4-6-2 2718, and AT&SF 2-10-4 5017. Despite what it looks like, the museum... (more)
On Turntable at Steamtown
The NORTHERN ARROW was made up of sections from Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago. It operated during the summer months to bring tourists and cottage owners to northern Michigan resorts. Its dest... (more)
To quote a Big and Rich album name, "Horses of a Different Color..." Taking that a step further, each type of road locomotive on Vermont Rail System's roster is featured on the head end... (more)
Some of the SD9043MAC's that were stored here were pulled last year and either sold to the NS or returned to service. The remaining units on hand looked good today under a coat of fresh powder. S... (more)
The snow flies and Engineer Max Casias watches intently as he makes another plunge into the deep snow drift, much as the DRGW might have cleared the line 60 years ago. It took five or six such pl... (more)
Now that's a near hit! Crew was within feet of disaster. Spring thaw along the River Line.
A "dummy" wheelset is being installed to replace a bad set that had a burned out bearing.
Big power over a big bridge. Normally Portland & Western power runs over these tracks but a BNSF repo train takes away some stored well cars near Banks, OR.
Several EMD locomotives in the middle of shop time, including two SD70Ms, sit in front of the Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 8, 2014.
Alcos A9108 and A9104 head on some tank cars on the way to the oil refinery. This train runs every 20 days about.
On January 4th, 2000, Central Michigan 8801 was involved in a collision with a truck, leaving the locomotive extremely damaged. The locomotive was hauled back to Bay City where it was deemed beyon... (more)
Alco A-B-B units accelerate with train 76, CALIFORNIA SPECIAL on their way to Lubbock and eventually Temple, TX. This train was comprised of some cars picked up from the SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF in Clo... (more)
Union Pacific Challenger 3985 sits inside the UP Steam Shop with her smokebox door opened, giving a rare view of the inside of her smokebox.
CP 9756 + CP 9159 pull 87 cars with ease breaking a fresh trail on the rail.
This 76 year-old survivor was spotted moving through the UP's North Yard on the back of a grain train. Built in April of 1941, DRGW 69035 was last serviced in 1969 and was utilized as a tool car ... (more)
Former EMD Demonstrators 1211 and 1212 are now wearing the colors of Tacoma Rail for the duration of their 5 year lease. These may be the last most modern units to cross this trestle as it is sch... (more)
Santa Fe between Borger and Panhandle, Texas on July 11, 1964, the 263C-2791A-2789A-2637 (F7A-GP7B-GP7B-F7A). No photographer's name listed on slide. RL Collection.
Transitioning on a beautiful spring day over Norfolk Southern's massive Inman Yard. Also in the frame, above and to the right, is CSX's Tilford Yard. Special thanks to Chris Starnes.
PRR class J1 2-10-4 6448 is beside the coaling tower at Columbus, Ohio on Nov. 2, 1957, exactly 25 days before the PRR killed the last fire and declared itself all-diesel or electric.
UP skeletons! The skeletons of three SD70ACe's sit at West Colton Yard. UP 8485 & 8491 are from the Chatsworth, CA crash and UP 8315 from the crash in Rialto in September 2010. I don't know what's... (more)
Norfolk Southern dynamic brake slug RPU6D #890 tags along with SD33ECO #6213 to work a cut of cars at the north end of Brosnan Yard. The RPU6D slug provides additional tractive effort as well as d... (more)
Challenger X3966 gets a drink before heading out to a waiting train in the yard. For more color views from that day, click here
Rolling North to Chicago after a 7:30 AM departure from Saint Louis Union Station. These units are now powered by 16-645Es and have D 78 traction motors. 949, 951 and 963B were UP units that went ... (more)
Snow continues to fall as Monty, the BNSF dispatcher, informs the crew of this heavy eastbound that they will be waiting in the siding at Scenic to allow Amtrak #8 to "Run Around." About an hour l... (more)
NSHR 44 makes its way through the snow by the Rupert Covered Bridge.
Ultra wide view of the cab of C&O 1308, a 2-6-6-2 owned by the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Society.
The 6:15 p.m. outbound Northstar departure rockets across the Mississippi River bridge on a rainy January night.
Westbound train #45, The Tennessean, about to make its station stop at Glade Springs, VA on a snowy, yet busy February day in 1962.
Whether you consider this vandalism or an urban expression of art, there is no disputing that the tag on UP 2187 (SD60) is bold. Many of the engines sitting in the Dead Line at the Burnham Shops ... (more)
Alaska Railroads first passenger train of the morning is about to cross under the highway to Seward as the train itself makes its way to Seward. Interestingly the railroad is physically shorter th... (more)
A magnificant winter scene...as breathtaking as it is, if you look closely youll see the uP 585 working Eastbound on the #1 track. The low clouds, snow covered scenery and light snowfall make for ... (more)
Like a restless bull, she waits for the highball in the snow, rain, and steam.
A westbound freight emerges from the tunnel at Gallitzin
Severed—forever?In early March 2014, a 30-foot boulder came crashing down the mountainside above Minturn, slamming onto the Tennessee Pass main line below while breaking in two and de... (more)
An unidentified Erie FT A-B-B-A set leads a westbound freight at Hancock. The eastbound semaphore signal has not yet cleared from the freight headed by the F3 set.
An Erie built workhorse spooks a pair of local Amish workhorses (you can see the other just to the left of the barn) residing at a local farm just outside of Dalton, WI. The pair of horses had be... (more)
UP 6904 leads the deadline at Yermo. 25 of her bretheren were reseurrected for one last go round hauling trains before they were all shut down permanently with the exception of the 6936.
Has left Ann Arbor Ferry yard. AA RS 1 # 21 has crossed the diamond and is now backing up and getting onto the old abandoned EX NYC Ypsilanti branch here at Pittsfield Jct. The former depot sa... (more)
A lone rafter floats down the Colorado River as a westbound BNSF manifest freight rumbles through Tunnel’s 39 and 40 in Little Gore Canyon west of Azure, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 4, ... (more)
Who said you can't see the end of a rainbow! Look at the cart near the center of the photo...looks like the end to me...however, I didn't see a pot of gold! A huge storm front just passed over the... (more)
Big and Little. CNR Trainmaster is coupled to a diminutive SW1200RS at Belleville, ON. This unit was the only Trainmaster CNR owned.
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The frames of either 755 or 760 lies in the yard of the BCR Workshops at Squamish in August 1985. Purchased new in 1980, both 755 and 760 were wrecked in June 1984 and were both retired the same y... (more)
A Richard Beal photo: While riding a fantrip behind the CN 6167, a stop in Stratford finds Richard shooting the deadline, here we see two of the same class of CN 4-8-4s, the 6200 unstreamlined ... (more)
Canada's "Rosie" After spending an afternoon making her CN Mogul look pristine, this Canadian "Rosie" takes a minute to enjoy the warm evening light that's bathing the T... (more)
Inside the heart of a steam locomotive Well, maybe the boiler is the heart, but perhaps we can think of the firebox as where a locomotive gets her “life.” The famous Union Pacific N... (more)
BNSF 7421 leads grain loads around the famous curve at Home Valley bound for export at some Pacific Ocean port.
The proud owner of the "Spirit of the Conrailer", Douglas Woodard, watches a westbound CSX train roll through Berea. This truck was formerly the "Spirit of the Conrail 7", and used to be in CSX YN... (more)
It’s 11:45 a.m. and we’re running a couple hours late, meeting and passing through plenty of BNSF freight traffic in Iowa aboard Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr on November 7, 2018. Cru... (more)
brand new csx unit and one of the first to be in the yn3 scheme for their new order
