Ahh, the newest entry in the Zero Emissions contest and one of CEECO's last releases before shutting down. Just about ready for it's next (and last) assignment this Alco C415 was saved from the... (more)
Southbound at Yacolt Creek. The last rays of golden sunlight filter through a breaking overcast as Crossett Western #10 charges south across the little wooden trestle at Yacolt Creek.
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Backyard Plaything?! - While exploring the remains of the old Boston and Maine Hillsboro Branch one late summer day I was quite surprised to find this sitting seemingly in someone's backyar... (more)
CRDC job with new paint scheme on newly built unit from RELCO looking somewhat like a strangely modified MK1500D
Now arriving on Track 1, the Queen of the Valley. Once the site of the Ludlow-Asbury Station, this area along the out of service CNJ Main Line has turned into a quaint isolated... (more)
Westbound California Zephyr snakes through the Colorado Rockies near Pinecliffe.
The historic covered bridge in Philippi is a beautiful piece of history and well maintained. A&O train Z818 passes by with 80 empty coal hoppers
Santa Fe’s Train 15 Texas Chief derailed at Lomax, Illinois at speed, cars separating but fortunately none turned over, Nov. 2, 1967. It was caused by a broken wheel on a coach some 2.5 miles ... (more)
A pair of Milwaukee Road covered wagons roll down the main at the Illinois Railway Museum. It's hard to believe the E unit is operational considering most of the exterior is covered in rust and mo... (more)
These two Baldwin shark-nose units made a rare apperance in passenger service on the NY&LB. A few of the 2,000 horsepower units had been repainted in the freight scheme, derated to 1.600 h.p. and ... (more)
185 211-0 in the near of Rüdesheim under the Castle Ehrenfels.
Two days before this photo was taken an eastbound loaded coal train rear-ended another on BNSF’s Sand Hills Subdivision near Lakeside, Nebraska. The collision caused extensive damage to the firs... (more)
Santa Fe's least photographed SD40-2! The remains of Santa Fe SD40-2 5037 lie in state at the San Bernardino diesel shop following an accident on nearby Cajon Pass. Delivered in October 1... (more)
A Rare B&M FM P 12-42 #2 Passenger Lightweight loco sits its last days in a scrap yard in Leeds Maine
A westbound Z train flies over Lake Ashtabula as a small tree provides some nice shade for napping between trains.
With my work schedule being what it is I am not always able to chase the best of what UP has to offer. As a personal favor to me, the railroad offered to bring it's E9's to my home town and save ... (more)
Here comes the next picture from the Timken archives. The Class A4 is a class of streamlined 4-6-2 steam locomotive, designed by Nigel Gresley for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1935. The... (more)
Wanna go for a spin? Members of the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum crew watch as Trainman Stewart Rhine demonstrates the turntable capability of the museum's new Model ... (more)
A Barstow to Tulsa manifest train leaves the Needles area as spring rain shower forms over the Mohave Valley area; seen from Park Moabi. With the division point changing to the state line, is sect... (more)
ATSF 3751 joins with Amtrak 406 and a 1966 Chevrolet Sting Ray for a old-timer's day celebration at LAUS this morning. All I know about this set up is that the Dispatcher told the steamer, "You'll... (more)
Sunset at 15th&Ulloa silhouettes an inbound Breda LRV running on the MUNI's L Taraval line.
With threatening skies overhead, BNSF 6689 leads the Denver, CO to Laurel, MT manifest through Niwot, CO on May 27th, 2020.
As the photoline was busy setting for their shots, I took the liberty of taking a few long exposures of majestic #98 as she sat on the trestle with the creek flowing below. Prints available.
An unscheduled stop in Nipton for a crew change provided the brief opportunity for a clutter-free shot of the Big Boy.
Eastbound loads along the triple tracked portion of the Orin Sub. Very impressive!
The now regular weeknight Bellows Falls, Vermont, to East Deerfield, Massachusetts train BFED for Pan Am Railways is seen exiting the Bellows Falls tunnel with MEC GP40 350 (a unit equipped with c... (more)
Five NC&StL F7's in the lead of a long manifest, preparing to leave Memphis, Tennessee on February 15, 1959. A Hugh Comer photo, from my collection.
An Ethan Allen Express bound for Rutland Vermont navigating the curves along the Hudson River with the New York City skyline in rearview.
The next 3 Viewliner II cars were released from CAF USA in Elmira, NY on July 8th. On July 10th the 4 delivered cars, one of each type, were running tests at Rensselaer. Here is the first Diner ca... (more)
This was my first attempt of shooting a train exiting a tunnel at night, the idea worked and this image was part of the CRPA contest winner, it also ending up being one of my favorite images.
With another day of hard work on the books, PM 1225 and NKP 765 await some TLC from their hard working crews.
Became BN 9902.
Inside the cab of KCS GP22ECO No. 2810.
The Big Boy leaves Cheyenne and heads for Sherman Hill. No photographer name listed on slide.
14CRB 4-8-2 No. 1882 leads GEA Garratt No. 4023 past the home signals at Oudtshoorn. Below freezing weather and morning sun highlight the steam. Alan Crotty recently posted a shot of this train ... (more)
The Rio Grande Zephyr Passed through numerous spectacular canyons in its journey between Denver and Salt Lake City, including Gore, Little Gore, Glenwood, Ruby, and Debeque Canyons. Arguably the m... (more)
A PRR Texas-type is being doubled to another PRR brute, probably for the purpose of dragging another coal load north to the docks at Sandusky. Doubleheaded steam was fairly common practice on the... (more)
You had one job! A covered hopper built by Trinity Industries in 1989 shows off a different approach to the CSX lettering scheme typically seen on the sides of that railroad's freight ... (more)
to the Decay V. Only three remained from more than five hundred USATC S160 Class locos (2-8-0), which were bought by MÁV after the World War II. The 411,264 (Lima 8434) is displayed in Hat... (more)
Home for Christmas.
On a cold January night, four cars from a Stockton train derailed inside the J.R. Davis Yard in Roseville, California. The black tanker was originally believed to be carrying toluene, which is a t... (more)
White River Junction, Vermont's Rotary Club Polar Express train operated on Saturday, December 13 and Sunday, December 14, with Vermont Railway GP40-2 303 (ex-Boston & Maine on old home turf) haul... (more)
There are no easy days, except days off, but a few tricks are quieter than others and a few nights cooler than some.
Workers ease a heavy component onto a 16-axle depressed center flat car at the Port of Duluth. The car is expected to a take a CP/DME routing to South Dakota this week as a special move.
A failure to communicate! 841, three more AC 44's and eighty empty hoppers are shocked to find the county digging under the ballast to place a water line! The CSX engineer called the track foreman... (more)
A coal load descends the roller-coaster profile from its summit at Bellevue.
Eastbound with four engines; going to go south to Master's Golf Tourament in Augusta,Ga. Consist was NS F9A 4270, NS F7B 4276, NS F7B 4275, NS GP38-2 5648 . Train is passing under ex PRR signal B... (more)
The less-often viewed end of CSX's "Pride In Service" locomotives: 911, 1776, and 3194.
Carizzo Gorge Siding - I found this siding listed as "Carrizo Gorge Siding" on an old topo map of the area and it is not referenced in my copy of the Altamont California Region Timetable 20... (more)
Time was running out for the last Santa Fe passenger train operating in Northern California as ATSF #301 leads the San Francisco Chief on the last leg of its journey thru Hercules and on to Richmo... (more)
The "runaway" train in the upcoming movie Unstoppable makes another trip back and forth on the old B&O bridge from Bellaire Ohio to Benwood West Virginia. Filming took place in Bellaire from Nove... (more)
Near PRR's Bayview Yard, an unusual electric tractor is seen switching cars down Monument Street. This tractor was built at the Pennsy's Altoona Works, and was specifically designed to move freigh... (more)
Something you don't see everyday. Work continues on the progress to close ALTO tower within the next 6-12 months. The current switches at ALTO will be torn out except for the switch to Hollidaysbu... (more)
Norfolk Southern's specially painted honorary SD60E's, 6920 and 9-1-1, pose together in front of the Chattanooga National Cemetary in Chattanooga, Tennessee, along the Tennessee Valley Railroad's ... (more)
Carl Franz Photo Special bursts from Brush Tunnel.
M62 Diesel locomotive goes through the train stop "168 km" at the sunrise... Railroad line "Losevo - Hiitola".
Late in the day and towards the end of a major snow storm the NYS&W sent out one locomotive to clear crossings on the Southern Division. Here it is smashing through a snow bank at Old Rudetown Rd.
Trains no longer run along Tennessee Pass, but hikers enjoy the area along this section of the line near Red Cliff.
Two low floor EMU of type Bhe 4/6 are descending from the Gornergrat.
New Siemens ALC-42 50th anniversary locomotive trails the consist on Amtrak No. 6, the California Zephyr. For more information on this unique paint scheme, see Railpictures photo ID 562182. Eviden... (more)
DC-9 begins street running in Newport enroute to L&N's Decoursey Yard
To give you a closer look at the damage on the what was the only operating D8.5-40CW from the front. It has officially been nine days since the collision that led to the derailment of NS 164-20 (B... (more)
D&SNGRR 473 pulls the Fall Photographer's Train through Whitehead Gulch on the way to Silverton, CO. The consist was comprised of all "Tuscan Red" premium coaches, a departure from the b... (more)
"Allegra" ABe 8/12 with train 4657 made only a very short stop in Alp Grüm Station, on 2091 meter a.s.l. In the background from left Palü glacier, Piz Palü (3900 mter a.s.l.), Piz Caral and Sa... (more)
A young U28CG shares the service tracks with veteran F7A 308.
A quintet of EMD 567 V-16 diesel engines all fit nicely on a 50 ft. CNW flat car, pictured at the Oelwein, Iowa diesel shops, once the heart of the Chicago Great Western Railroad. During this peri... (more)
Pensylvania Railroad GG1 electric at an unknown location in the 1950s.
Assigned to pusher service out of Rio Grande’s North Yards, Krauss-Maffei 4003 snubs up to one of the railroad’s colorful cabooses on October 6, 1963. The gentleman in the driver’s seat may ... (more)
Tom Golden photo.
Pennsylvania Railroad M1b 4-8-2 #6755
This incredibly impressive engine was cosmetically restored by the Museum after receipt from the PRR and eventual donation by Penn Central yet today sits ... (more)
Nickel Plate 757 moves to its new home of the Mad River & NKP Museum in Bellevue, OH in Wampum, PA.
Amtrak #5 is seen climbing the grade out of Keenesburg, Colorado with the Amtrak Anniversary Train. The train will be dropped off in Denver and will be taken to Cheyenne, Wyoming for Depot Days.
The latest progress done on this restoration project. This engine was last seen in late September as it recently has been relocated for further restoration work.
It's February 1958 and the Pennsy is borrowing power from it's southern connections to augment the GG1 fleet on the corridor as a freak snowstorm a few days earlier had crippled the fleet. Here a... (more)
"Super Chief/El Capitan" approaching its eastern destination, Dearborn Station
38th Street Yard tower at right. Train on North Lead had BNSF 2811 (off track tipping towards McDonalds) and SD40-2 RCL 6393 tangled with covered hoppers which fell onto South Lead and main. Coa... (more)
Alligator No. 9841 is in the midst of getting some major work done at the shops.
Looking east along the former mainline of the Wisconsin Central (Soo Line/DSS&A) at Diamond Junction. The signals have been deactivated after WC abandoned this track in 1997 after purchasing Union... (more)
Canadian Pacific’s Royal Canadian Pacific luxury train crosses the massive bridge at Lethbridge, Alberta, on CP’s Crownest Pass route on September 15, 2002. The huge structure, commonly known ... (more)
The last Chessie train on the Rochester Sub is passing thru Bird Swamp with 4 Chessie Cats. The next day this line would be the Rochester & Southern.
A German Army ambulance train has been overtaken by avancing British troops and waits for rescue, its locomotive having run out of water. A photograph by the late Peter Handford who was serving wi... (more)
What a shame.:-( It has taken 3 trips and 2676 miles to finally see the gorgeous Swedish 'Ten-Wheeler' #1149, who was unfortunately sidelined by the FRA.
The Nebraska Zephyr departs the Windy City out of Union Station on a rare excursion off the Illinois Railway Museum grounds bound for Quincy, IL and return. The Silver Pilot (the sloped nosed E-5... (more)
This slide has been in my collection for many years, though I regrettably do not know the identity of the photographer. The scene is L&N’s old Canal Street station in the “Big Easy”—New Or... (more)
A smokey night on the EBT. With a little creativity one can imagine that #15 is bringing a passenger train back from Mount Union as #17 waits patiently in the yard with her merchand... (more)
Fatal Bumps and Bruises?Sitting forlornly outside Amtrak's Beech Grove Shops is P42DC 66, damaged in a wreck involving a semi truck on February 19, 2016. This engine, wearing the ca... (more)
