A nasty derailment in downtown Oshawa as 27 cars out of this 111 car freight train derailed at Oshawa East including the trailing locomotives, thankfully no one was injured as CP supervisors asses... (more)
In 1995 UP was so short of power that they pressed their heritage E8's into regular freight service between Cheyenne and Denver. Usually, a regular loco led, but on this day it was a pure E unit l... (more)
Vertigo! ... by FERRONOR train loaded with copper concentrate from Llanta, in Montandon - Potrerillos metric gauge line, with a maximum slope of 3.5% in this section. EMD G12 locomotive No. 82, co... (more)
Mfr. 1941.
A parting shot from a June 2010 trip to Mullan Pass. A severe thunderstorm rages over Winston as this west bound coal load hustles a few miles east of Helena.
Closeup on southbound one of last two E33s left , all others were scrapped years ago. On its way to Altoona to be restored for a museum. Conrail acquired 10 PC class E33 electrics numbered 4600-... (more)
Stainless steel side panels
Fireman’s view from eastbound flagship Train 20, "The Chief," as it meets westbound Train 23, "The Grand Canyon," climbing the Colorado side of Raton Pass near Gallinas on May 10, 1967. Raton ... (more)
A mid-day passenger train (the westbound Juniata most likely), climbs Horseshoe Curve with some help. From another angle, see the eastbound Juniata, Railroad: Pennsylvania RailroadLocomotive: GE U25CLocation: Altoona, Pennsylvania, USALocomotive #: PRR 6511Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: April, 1966
CN 7208 was involved in a sideswipe with CN 121 earlier in the day near the "De Courcelles" street at MP 3.60 on the CN Montreal Subdivision. At the time of the capture, the engine was going to be... (more)
Red at night, railfans' delight. An incredible sunset provided a spectacular end to an incredible day spent by a group of Northwesterners on BNSF's Needles Sub on February 25th. This was ... (more)
American View is a Viewliner Theater Car created by the Beech Grove shops from prototype Viewliner Sleeper 2301, which was one of the last passenger car shells produced by the Budd Company in the ... (more)
N&W Class A 1218 parked on the only track she'd fit on...
Aftermath of a headon collision: Engine 4136, 2nd unit in the ESSP, landed upside down after climbing over, and shearing off, the long hood of lead unit 4443. Engine 4309, leading SLWB, climbed ... (more)
Canadian Pacific 2-8-2 5361 sits on tracks no longer connected to the mainline behind an industrial complex in Depew, just outside Buffalo, New York. The locomotive is privately owned, but the rum... (more)
The Ugliest Diesel Ever? Some might consider the CF7 to be the ugliest diesel locomotive ever built, others the BQ23-7, but for my money this contraption based on an E8(B) when seen from t... (more)
awaiting diesel powered train from Bay Head, NJ. on the NJ. Coast line.
Rio Grande's Helper Local makes a switch move on the former Provo Canyon Branch lead at 6th South and 2nd West in Provo. Pretend for a minute that the 'Heber Creeper' route from Provo Yard was nev... (more)
Waiting for the next cold winter at the roundhouse in clean fresh Big Sky Blue paint.
BNSF 7539 leads a westbound grain train across Two Medicine Bridge. Fuji Provia 100F
Thanks to the folks who identified this location as "Bryn Mawr from the North Merion Avenue bridge, looking west". Sounds about right to me.
On the Romanian forestry railways it was very common to convert road vehicle into rail vehicles. This one seen in the Viseu de Sus yard is based on a Bucegi type truck built in Romania by Roman in... (more)
It’s Sunday, June 24, 1956, and Louisville & Nashville M-1 class number 1962—one of the memorable “Big Emma” 2-8-4s that worked the eastern side of the system, in Kentucky only—slowly ba... (more)
The face of heritage railroading is rapidly changing as a new generation moves in to carry the torch. Conductor Kara calls the shots on the White Mountain Central's hourly trains. Her regular p... (more)
The Union Railroad turn gets pulled into the Boston Freight Terminal by a trusty old Fairbanks Morse road switcher in the second of three paint schemes this unit would wear.
The 2015 New River Train spans the New River bridge at Hawks Nest on its fourth and final eastbound run of the season. Amtrak's Phase I "bloody nose" heritage P42DC No. 156 has had the h... (more)
Eastbound Amtrak No. 704, the "Blue Ridge," was passing Mexico Tower at the east end of Cumberland Yard on Oct. 12, 1975, led by Amtrak E9A No. 400. To the left in background was an eastbound Tra... (more)
CP 6250 is the first former SOO SD60 to go through the rebuild program. The unit has received a fresh coat of CP red and a new number as this ex SOO 6050.
No this is not GM's newest SUV! CDTX 2014 is running light from the Oakland coach yard to the Amtrak station where it would be coupled to the S/B Coast Starlight.
Was out hunting trains, specifically this new GP38-3, but instead was also able to hunt this fella. He paused for a while, but moved when the locomotive got closer.
NS 9855 with fire damage.
A Big Boy heads toward Hermosa on Sherman Hill with a long train. The train is running on the Harriman cut off which is now the number three track. This is the locomotive that is now on display at... (more)
Railfans and the local population enjoy the side-by-side runby of 765 and 1225 during the 1991 NRHS Convention.
Once the future of railroading with a promise of 6000hp from the manufacture, today the SD9043MAC finds itself as the oddball loco on the UP's roster. 23 such units are taking up space on track 5... (more)
The MRL 20th Anniversary train heading back to Missoula, tries to keep ahead of threatening skies just minutes before sunset.
These now out of service tracks once carried the Jersey Central Railroad's Main Line through the township of Glen Gardner in Hunterdon County. Looking west from Bell Avenue, the only road with a ... (more)
A variation on the classic "ABB" lash up, as UP DD35s leave Green River, WY with a westbound pig train. UP 74 was built in April 1965, retired August, 1981 and sold for scrap. K64, Yashica TL El... (more)
Rio Grande eastbound California Zephyr behind PA1 6001, PB-1 6002 and PA-1 6003 near Glenwood Springs, Colorado on July 18, 1951. Rio Grande PA's carried this silver and orange paint from late 194... (more)
A "chicken-wire" F3 about to depart Weehawken.
Help from the "Great Northern Railway" (GNR)! The third locomotive in the consist, electric Da 888 of the Swedish Railwaymuseum, had problem with battery power and wasn't able to pull an... (more)
The engineer's view of the spaceship-like Acela; the fastest train in North America.
Santa Fe's combined El Capitan/Super Chief rolls out of Lamy behind FP45u's #103 and #102, looking like someone was in a hurry to get this train out of Los Angeles - note the silver paint overspra... (more)
At one end of SP’s test train at Sacramento Shops to monitor wheel lift were 3 Krauss-Maffei hydros and at the other end were two that had been acquired from dissatisfied customer D&RGW. The l... (more)
A sad reminder to Look! Listen! Live! The BNSF 9142 gets some emergency repairs after it struck a SUV a few hours earlier. The accident killed all the vehicle's occupants instant... (more)
Cliff Hanging! - The White Pass & Yukon's "rotary fleet" consisting of vintage snowplow #3 (Cooke - 1899) is marching upgrade trailed by twin steam locomotives #73 (Baldwin 2-8-2 blt. 5-47)... (more)
What do you do when it's raining. Shoot out of the car window of course.
Alco FA-2 units in A-A configuration pull slowly beneath Cedar Lane in Teaneck with a westbound freight.
The sun continues to dip down in the western sky above the Big Horn Mountains as an eastbound empty BNSF grain train from Kalama, Washington, scoots along State Highway 345 between Parkman and Ran... (more)
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 Baggage-Dorm c... (more)
Heading home to Manitoba I stopped at Rugby, which had a manned station at the time, and was told a westbound was coming within minutes. I took the photo and headed on my way not realizing at the ... (more)
It takes lots of little trains to keep a blast furnace running. At left CWRO 206 works the C5 blast furnace switching bottle cars while up on the high line CWRO 211 holds back a string of coke car... (more)
Sunrise over West Colton sets an eerie scene as the fog has not yet burned off from the cool night before.
Designated E8Am by Santa Fe, this brace of power is fit to lead a Chief.
This is what the BN Denver locomotive terminal looked like in July of 1982. It will be 10+ years before the ubiquitous SD70MAC will take over, so everything is green, with a wide variety of EMD p... (more)
With a dusting of spring snow in the high country along South Boulder Creek, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight heads east between Tolland and Rollinsville, Colorado, on April 12, 200... (more)
Before getting started grinding away on the rails of Bridge 14, this Loram Rail Grinding train gave the area a "good soaking".
Railroad: LoramLocomotive: UnknownLocation: Steilacoom, Washington, USALocomotive #: n/aTrain ID: n/aPhoto Date: June 28, 2018
First time seeing the light of day. Valley Railroad Chief Mechanical Officer J. David Conrad looks over the railroad's newest locomotive - a Chinese SY, wearing #3025 on its first trip outside of... (more)
Like a Hershey's Kiss. 5900-5901 original Class 2[A1A-A1A]20E, delivered September 1945.
Grand Indeed! New York Central's Grand Central Terminal is a Manhattan landmark which serves as an example of the power and prestige that was once synonymous with the large American railroa... (more)
Diminutive 0-6-0 B6sB (sB stands for 'superheater/Belpaire firebox' in PRR nomenclature) 8357 on the inter-shop tracks, hoping the bell will ring again as the internal combustion invaders are popp... (more)
Engineer Dan Sheppard watches closely as he shoves the Jordan Spreader thru a drift near MP 386. Shoving this plow is a touch tricky because you have to use alot of power, at times, but yet go eas... (more)
An exceptionally clean UP CA-9 caboose takes up the rear of an eastbound UP train. This caboose must have received new paint in late 1976 or early 1977 as there is a picture on this site (no. 107... (more)
Narrow gauge hopper cars as far as the eye can see... Part of what was once a fleet of roughly 275 hopper cars, close to 100 sit preserving a moment of time that once was - a living time capsule o... (more)
Here a U50 sits at Council Bluffs and it sure looks like it's seen better days. Photo taken by George Cockle.
CN 4515 is being lifted free of two other locos that derailed at Lake Avenue in Stoney Creek, ON. Two cranes were utilized to lift the locomotives out of the gulley, one of them being a steam pow... (more)
Under a steady drizzle, NS 282 stands at Spring in Atlanta, Georgia with the class SD70ACC rebuild No1800 in the lead on this Veterans Day as GZ02 slides by heading north from East Point with SD40... (more)
While its competitors dispatched passenger trains behind fleets of E-units, Santa Fe preferred F-units geared for passenger-train speeds. The exceptions were a handful of E3s and E6s and a dozen ... (more)
Some like it Hot What do you do after a rail breaks??? Heat it up of course. The track gang here, is heating up the rail to allow it to expand so as to apply the new joint bar. Thi... (more)
The cab of one of the rare EMD FL9 in operation in Canada.
42 inch gauge mixed scheduled out of St John's 1030 Monday Wednesday Friday
On November 11th, 2019 for Remembrance Day, Canadian Pacific unveiled 5 brand new SD70ACUs at their Ogden Yard wearing various military schemes. On November 11th, 2019 (Remembrance Day in Canada),... (more)
Fortescue Metals Group SD70ACe is the first EMD SD70ACe for the Australian Iron Ore hauler. The 701 is the only unit to have the special T155 marking on the left and right sides of the cab. ... (more)
Where else can you get the DMIR, BLE, SP, CNW, STEELCO & WC all in the same shot but Larry's?
the first UP "GREEN GOAT" waits for departure after it's test in Roseville
Interior of a recent rebuild GP-35 by Brookville Corp.
An EMD GT36HCW eventually bound for Algerian Railways passengar service, takes a stroll to the Pueblo, CO test tracks for various tests via a KRL 89 footer due to the different wheel gauge the the... (more)
After a foot of snow 5 new QNSL GEAC4400CW are waiting to be move to Matane by CFMG railway to be put on a ferry to Sept-Isles Quebec.
The first EMD SD40-2 in Argentina, a dream for local railfans!
Reverse Superelevation? CNW 8042 is leaning the wrong way after suffering a derailment in St. Francis, WI in June of 1992.
GSR clickity-clacks toward the CP interchange at a steady 10mph, over a trestle and past an abandoned farmhouse.
Set for an Inspection Trainset and Tourist Train as well, the last 1953 Alco power has been preserved & combined by PT Kereta Api (Persero). CC20015 is The First Diesel Electric Lokomotive in Indo... (more)
Eastbound Virginian Rwy coal loads working upgrade near Clark Gap, WV in February 1957. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.
What a difference 3 years can make... http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=81193 Now Liz uses the modern way of keeping record of locomotive numbers for Dad, camera cell phone.
A new FEC unit leads a fresh CN and a primer GE demonstrator westbound along the test track on a gloomy, cold morning. This photo was taken with my iPhone 4s. This was a very impromptu trip decide... (more)
Canadian National K5a Hudson #5700 on display at the former Michigan Central Shops at St. Thomas, ON. Built by MLW in 1930, with 43,279 lbs of tractive effort and 80 inch drivers, these 4-6-4's we... (more)
About to turn the heat off - a detail of the tire just as it got hot enough to remove the tire. Luckily, even though there was much strength and work involved in the process by the volunteer membe... (more)
The sad condition of the leased power is indicative of the grim condition of the "new"publicly-owned Northwestern Pacific. It would not be long before the FRA would close the railroad down for nu... (more)
She jumped the track. The result of a hopper door coming open and derailing the car. 110 tons of coal must now be unloaded by hand before rerailing.
