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.

View onto Zürich main station from the "Clouds" Bar Bistro on the 35th floor of Switzerlands highest building, the new 126 (hight corrected) meter high "Prime Tower". An ICN tilt train is leaving... (more)

Here we see the apron on the dock at the left being lowered to mate with the rails aboard the barge MANISTEE which is loaded with freight cars which have just been ferried across the Straits of Ma... (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)

With the fall colors nearly peak, Amtrak Adirondack hugs the shores of Lake Champlain at Port Henry N.Y

I decided to spend the day fanning at the NH platform in New Haven. Little did I know that later that day President Truman would be making a stump speech for Adlai Stevenson at this location. ... (more)

the results from a night-photo session in Meridian with the NS and KCS executive F unit sets.

Winters Rigging crews have positioned the 154-ton Amtrak P42DC #102 inline with the rails for a flatcar to be moved under the damaged locomotive at Northfield, Vermont. The 102 was the locomotive... (more)

UP 5123 is part of a Friday afternoon parade of cars and trains to use the Huey P. Long bridge. From the other end: Click here<... (more)

The face of two Texas-types, PRR and Santa Fe. One burned coal, the other burned oil and pulled coal. The Santa Fe engine is believed to be #5018 and was being shoved up to the water plug before... (more)

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)

First light over the Cascades as the parade of trains move over the double track mainline between Seattle and Tacoma.

NS westbound getting ready to cross the double track CSX main at Selma, NC.

Alligator No. 9841 is in the midst of getting some major work done at the shops.

Class A 1238 rolls downgrade at a good clip with a westbound freight bound for Roanoke. This is one of my favorite shots as the fireman has just begun to stoke the fire adding contrast to the stea... (more)

A lady crosses 6th Street almost unfazed that NS 191 is rumbling near less than a block away as it traverses the famous Augusta street. No worries though, it's only 10mph track speed! Boy, do I mi... (more)

This critter caught my eye on the drive home, standing tall amidst CSX diesels. It turned out to be "standing" on a flat, perhaps destined for a rail museum...

The captured Krupp-built German railway gun, "Leopold," at the old US Army Ordnance Museum near Aberdeen, MD. The barrel is 283 mm (11.1") in diameter X 71 feet long, with a range of 40 miles. A... (more)

Santa Fe 2959, 3282 and 3338 are on their side next to the north track at the derailment site located just north of Highway 138 in Cajon Pass. Heavy rain storms caused track damage and ATSF 3338, ... (more)

Down in the man made canyon of the Coors Brewery, C997 goes about the task of shoving 6 tank cars into the complex.

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)

Ready to leave Portland for Seattle, it is one of the daily trains run by the UP, SP&S, and NP in the last months before Amtrak fell upon us.

One of 5 SD70ACe's for QNS&L, nearing delivery time at Progress Rail's Tacoma facility. Progress Rail ( CEECO before) frequently has interesting equipment on site. In the background is Metra ... (more)

Bang your head The lite power of today’s Z390 is almost at the rear of its own train where the conductor is busy gathering his thoughts for the next move as he patiently waits for the eng... (more)

Remote control locomotive ex-Mid South GP10 now used for Maintenance Way projects like ballast trains, tie replacement and rail trains.

On September 21, 2015, Canadian Pacific AC4400CW No. 9620 leads a westbound Union Pacific grain train across the huge bridge spanning the Snake River at Joso, Washington.

With their work complete T25 swings through Mascot TN headed for Sevier Yard.

Let off some steam! The Big Boy isn't the only steamer that can whip up a crowd. From my surprisingly secluded spot, I watched the masses race along 2-lane highway 2 to follow 4449 on her unique t... (more)

This graphic depiction of a calamity of railroading was scanned from a small snap shot taken by an unknown person in the ‘30s. The location is the Louisville & Nashville’s yard at Corbin, KY�... (more)

Last light
BNSF’s Ayer turn switches at Ayer, Washington, in the very last bit of sunlight on September 19, 2016. The train is operating on trackage rights over Union Pacific’s Spok... (more)

Steel rails, stars and semaphores. Coyote siding, MP 14518, New Mexico. Spetember 18th, 1999. Steve Crise Photo. © scrise.com

An eastbound Norfolk Southern train waits for the signal on the former Reading Railroad Bridge.

The former Santa Fe PA gets a new coat of blue paint on its trucks.

Former Southern Pacific #1744 prepares to cross a road in the small town of Laveta, CO.

Early morning hot shot Boston to Lowell symbol BL1. with three RS 3's in New Haven colors hauling tonnage through the snow. This is the New, New Haven under Penn Central ownership

Health and safety at work! Riding on the bonnet of an electric loco doesn`t seem such a good idea. Narrow gauge No1 propels wagons past 2 of it`s sister locos at Fuli mine.

How times have changed on the C&O... Distributed power is now a common practice on mainline manifests, as freshly rebuilt GE AC44CM No. 7003 is positioned mid-consist for Rocky Mount, NC to... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific stack train enters the serpentine east end of Green River Yard, bound for a crew change, before climbing Wyoming’s Peru Hill west of town on the afternoon of September ... (more)

Free move of this emu unit break down the wall and went for a walk into the avenue.Possibly a bad driving of the accelerator make this mess.The guilty must be one of the clearing auxiliary staff.R... (more)

A cut of heavy-duty Department of Defense flatcars loaded with M1 Abrams tanks are on an eastbound Santa Fe (early BNSF) freight curving through Crozier Canyon near Valentine, Arizona, on the afte... (more)

The end of the line...is near for many TTX cars and NS motive power at Cresson Steel. In the foreground, many TTX cars await the scrappers torch, while a small group of NS C40-8s have been salvage... (more)

Making it's way through the frosty Glorieta Pass, Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Cheif has just exited Apache Canyon, climbing toward Glorieta proper.

With low fog and a full moon silhouetting the Norfolk & Western coaling tower at Farm, an eastbound grain train waits to pull east with a leased Progress Rail ex-Burlington Northern EMD SD70MAC in... (more)

With golden afternoon light basing the scene, No. 44W drops downgrade through Kumis, Va., along the rails of the former Virginian Railroad with a lengthy grain train in tow. Spring has officially ... (more)

On a damp and dreary December night in downtown Cumberland, Western Maryland Scenic, 2-8-0 No. 734 boards passengers for the nighttime Polar Express trip to Frostburg. Each year, the Western Maryl... (more)

The Museum of the American Railroad new location in Frisco has the Doodlebug parked for perfect morning roster photo.

PRR 7555 under steam at Shamokin. From railpictures.net viewer Toby Schwartzman, "I believe that..was taken..in the Pennsy yard, which is now occupied by Weis Markets. In the upper right corner..... (more)

SPMW 207 passes under the last remaining searchlight signal bridge on Donner Pass as it clears the heavy "Sierra Cement" from track #1. The rotaries would plow snow all the way to the Bi... (more)

A thick fog and freezing temperatures have coated the landscape in a thin layer of ice.

The damage to CSX # 384 after the derailment of K429 on February 13,2020.

A long BNSF train snakes through the grasslands above Marias Pass having just passed through East Glacier Park under the great blue skies of Montana.

BNSF 980 leads DM&IR 409, a very rare visitor to Northern Virginia, Nikon D200

A Boeing 737 fuselage heads west on a BNSF priority freight at Bearmouth, Montana, on September 26, 2014. This fuselage is built by Spirit AeroSystems, and is being shipped from Wichita, Kansas to... (more)

The result of a fire on a fully loaded Auto Rack

First responder volunteers with the "Pink Heals Tour" and one of their specially painted pink fire trucks (named Kennedy) poses with Norfolk Southern's "Honoring First Responders&qu... (more)

A matching set of Milwaukee box cabs E47B, C and A are switching Missoula, MT. In 3 trips down there these were the only box cabs we saw in operation. Everything else was Little Joes or diesels.... (more)

Its really difficult to pass up this location, especially with a sunset as nice as this one. This is the BNSF Centralia turn out of Tacoma. Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE ET44AC
Location: Steilacoom, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: June 04, 2016

Ken Kuhne has posted some excellent photographs of the MRL derailment near Rivulet, MT. I thought I would add another photo that shows the airplanes and some of the damage a bit closer.

15,000 horsepower and 45 freight cars are but a speck on the landscape when compared to the vast California Desert surrounding UP's Cima Subdivision. A magical, mystical place.

The Super Continental makes its station stop and crew change at Boston Bar, BC following a two day snow storm that closed Highway 1 and caused some delays in rail service. This train however was p... (more)

A roaring pair of big UP powerhouses begins the downhill run to Laramie, exiting Hermosa Tunnel during a snowstorm. Leading is U50 #40, followed by a DD35B. UP 40 was built in 1964, using recond... (more)