Lots of yellow power at Bailey Yard in North Platte. UP 5296 is rolling east on the main line, while the hump crew goes after another drag; rows of SD70Ms are in storage near the service island. ... (more)
You don't see many of these anymore. Used as storage for the Buffalo Southern.
Rare BQ23-7 in YN2 , built for Seaboard Coast Line / Family Lines.
Here this is the French postal high speed train running at 270 Km/h
With Mount Baker standing strong in the background and plenty of eye candy to go around, BNSF 6794 leads the Shippers Special though White Rock on a glorious sunny BC Day...
Racing for home, the crew of 106 flies over the Dexter crossovers at sunset.
The kids go back to skating once the power passes by, but mom and dad take a moment to enjoy the "peace and quiet" of a loaded coal train as it works its way south through Palmer Lake behind a pai... (more)
An F9 leads an A-B-A set as train 25, NORTH COAST LIMITED, arrives in Seattle.
These 2x2x2 unusual coal trains on the BNSF are a product of where the trains must go. These trains go to the CP at Ottumwa and on the CP they must transverse the 1.8% Rutledge Hill to get out of ... (more)
A Milwaukee Road train, likely the eastbound Midwest Hiawatha bound for Chicago, boards passengers before departing in Sioux City. See comments for more information.
Northbound CSX loads bound for Rush Run in Thurmond parallel the Loup Creek in rural Appalachia.
UP's rail detector car moves east towards Omaha to check newly laid rail after high speed derailment took out almost a mile of track between Omaha and Fremont. Derailment caused by broken wheel.
New York Central Mohawk 3128 class L-4b, a fine Lima Locomotive works machine, in an unknown yard, unknown photographer, scanned from the original Kodachrome slide, probably taken sometime in the ... (more)
Sawed Off No idea if this is part of a real locomotive or just a replica, but here's the cab of a Conrail GP40-2 sitting on display at the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona, PA.
A UP Big Boy hauling freight on Sherman Hill. Deemed the largest steam locomotive in the world, and envied by C&O Allegheny steam lovers.
One of the first new TasRail locomotives since 1973, this Progress Locomotive-built PR22L - wearing magnet reporting marks PRLX 2 - but reporting marks stenciled at various locations as the TR-02 ... (more)
Shark spotting at Harrisburg.. These units powered our overnight train from Pittsburgh, PA. My friend who was traveling with me was the late Jim Kelly, who took this photo with my camera. The po... (more)
This is how you welcome people! Since Union Pacific Railroad 6900 (DD40X, EMD) and 4023 (4-8-8-4, Alco) were relocated to the new City of Omaha Kenefick Park in 2005, the "Welcome To Omaha"... (more)
This C40-8M, built for the CN in late 1992, was recently cut up at Chicago Heights Processing in Chicago Heights, Illinois. Canadian National has been sending some of its Dash 8 fleet here to be d... (more)
Crew change at Three Forks MT.
It's not always glamorous.... As I stand here in my full-body rainsuit and big rubber boots, I can't help but feel a little bit sorry for the poor fireman standing up on the tender tank, an... (more)
A scene no longer to be seen... This line has since been lowered into a trench.
One of Doyle's magnificent toys basks in the sun along the Oregon Coast...
On it way South to one of the sugar processing plants the 6303 is crossing Stockton Ave. at College Park in San Jose.
An unusual find at KCS West Yard.
Westbound oil empties await crews at Minot yard. Unique power on each including CNJ heritage engine.
The newest addition to the heritage fleet is released to service with Conrail Quality on the long hood. Taken with permission.
An original Kodachrome slide from my collection; the photographer was not specified.
Still looking brand new! Photo taken with permission.
"Wabtec" A bird's eye view of the Wabtec Motive Power Inc. (Formerly General Electric) locomotive plant. In addition to a plethora of leaser and demonstration units, one can also view the ... (more)
LV C628 641 appears to have gotten a head start on a Conrail patch job on August 31, 1975 at Coxton Yard, where it waits for a trip to the Sayre shops. Despite what appears to be a pretty serious... (more)
On a snowy day in Cresson, a couple of cabs from a pair of retired NS units, one tossed on an old school bus, sit at Cresson Steel. Taken from public property.
RTD (Regional Transportation District) in Denver, Colorado, is building another commuter line in the metro area with the N Line, referred to as the North Metro rail line during construction. The f... (more)
BNSF 100 entered MAC as a warbonnet and has exited in black and orange. The paint scheme is a sort of H1-H3 hybrid. Mimicking the colors and logo of the H3, but with lines and styling similar to H... (more)
A unit oil train is framed through the empty window of an abandoned Sinclair gas station along old U.S. 30 through James Town near Green River, Wyoming, on the afternoon of March 12, 2012. Sunset ... (more)
Here is an antique Ford highrail used by the Union Transportation Co on a storage track. Viewer Bill McBride adds this info from John Brinkmann's book on the Pembroke line: "Sometime in the early... (more)
UP 4014, a 4-8-8-4 Big Boy articulated locomotive, resting on temporary panel track at the LA County Fairplex in Pomona, CA. UP 4014 is seen beginning it's 1200 mile trek back to Cheyenne, WY for ... (more)
Slow and steady Under the watchful eyes of a signal maintainer, Q619 rolls over this break in the rail at the cautious speed of 10 mph. This break was caused by the very low temperat... (more)
Indy action in the 50s/60s era at Union Station. 5772 along with 5766 with an afternoon eastbound from Chicago or St. Louis. More info coming.
N&W Class A 2-6-6-4 No. 1211 is receiving coal from the coaling tower at Columbus, Ohio on Nov. 2, 1957.
The journey of former Erie Mining F9As 4214 and 4210 to Indiana Boxcar's Vermilion Valley Railroad continues as the units arrived at Proctor, Minnesota. Here a crew member climbs on 4214 to protec... (more)
The Santa Fe Super Chief is seen at Albuquerque New Mexico in 1943. Note the wartime headlight visor on the EMC E6. Jack Delano photo, from the Library of Congress collection and my collection.
The engine house at Proviso is always an interesting place to photograph because of the variety of units that can be seen. Today, 4 brand new Ferromex SD70ACe's brought in from the CN sit with var... (more)
Can you say buried in snow.
I cross country skied west from the Soda Springs railroad crossing about 1/2 mile to get this shot.
The famous hanging bridge (from the west), labeled "Rio Grande," but built by AT&SF in 1879 to get through a 30-ft-wide gap in the gorge. From the other direction: Railroad: Royal Gorge RailroadLocomotive: EMD F7(A)Location: Canon City, Colorado, USALocomotive #: CRRX 403Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: August 22, 2004
A battery of 'flat irons' stand at Valeciennes depot in northern France with Bo-Bo No BB-13033 nearest the camera and Co-Co No 14102 on the right. I believe there were a total of 323 of these 'Mon... (more)
A pair of Alcos A9106,A9103 rossing Isthmos canal
New York Central's last E8 unit is paired with another, black one on the front of the combined PACEMAKER-NEW ENGLAND STATES as it slows for Englewood station.
GM 92, a one of a kind SD89MAC Demonstrator, sits outside the EMD shops on a crisp, clear, Spring afternoon.
I always liked the Warbonnet paint better on the F45s and FP45s. On May 23, 1990, Santa Fe GP60M 100 glides past San Bernardino station and a passenger special powered by FP45 91. The GP60M is he... (more)
The Cummins PR photo shoot using the Indiana Rail Road train SAHW (Senate Avenue - Indianapolis to Hiawatha Yard) with the QSK95 demonstrator, CECX 1919, leading INRD SD90MAC43 9013 has pulled dow... (more)
After several days of heavy snowfall, only some animal tracks are crossing the landscape on 1800 meter a.s.l. on the Rochers-de-Naye. But soon a lonely skier, which just left the train on the requ... (more)
Big Boy being moved to new location of Kenefick Park.
Ex-D&H Sharknose leased by the E&LS turns passes a set of Milwaukee Road F's as ot turns on the Channing wye to return to Wells.
Federal regulators and CSX crews positioned this fleet of damaged tank cars in an enclosed area near the railroad's former Handley yard after a 2015 crude oil derailment leveled a home and put the... (more)
Reading Alco RS-3 units 490 & 483 pound across the Lehigh Valley main line at Bethlehem in the late afternoon.
CSXT had planned on operating an office car special on Tuesday, June 20, with execs aboard from Boston to Chicago, but overnight last night those plans changed. Instead the train would deadhead ba... (more)
PRR GG1 #4859 sits about a 1,000 ft from the Harrisburg Transportation Center, currently protected under a tarp while Amtrak performs renovation work on the station's catenary, signals, switches a... (more)
Another Tatoo Train in Potrerillos wall: Spectacular trip between Potrerillos and Montandon metric gauge line, in Diego de Almagro city (North of Chile). Already ending the day, FERRONOR su... (more)
VIA 6437, 6446, 6440, 6405 and 6448 make up the most impressive VIA train I have ever seen.
An application of CSX quality stealth paint has made an already homely engine downright ugly.
A train with U50 51 and three SD24B's are leaving North Platte's departure yard under stormy skies. On one of the adjacent tracks, a train is headed by what appears to be a U50C.
7825 east crosses the normally westbound Ciennega Creek Bridge over Davidson Canyon. If there are no west bounds around, the dispatcher will route a heavy eastbound over the westbound track.
Two employees work the signals by hand for the Lakeville Turn as they cross County 23.
What a long strange trip it has been for Pennsylvania Railroad K-4s No. 1361.
Built in 1918 in the roads own Altoona Shops, it ran off 2.5 million miles of faithful service before being plinthe... (more)
Rare bird. PRR transfer engine #8730 center-cab Baldwin RT-624 at Frankford Jct., North Phila. 35 mm slide photo dates from 1965 or '66. Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton delivered 23 of these beasts to the... (more)
This is the result of a collision with a rock of about 50 tons weight, found on the rails behind a curve when descending from Ticlio to Casapalca. Emergency braking of the engineer was of little e... (more)
An A-B-B set of F units climb the new line over Sherman Hill. Photo by Jack A Pfeifer.
In the spring of 1998, BNSF daylighted Sunset Tunnel, also known as the 1,928-foot Tunnel 2 between Guernsey and Wendover, Wyoming. The wood-lined tunnel on this 9-mile segment of railroad was ori... (more)
NS 212 overtakes 25Q under a nearly full moon at 1am.
The fate of Amtrak P42DC #102 has apparently been decided following the Monday derailment of the Amtrak Vermonter train. According to reports from the scene, the locomotive is to be scrapped on s... (more)
Field a small town in British Columbia is a CP crew change point on the Loggan Sub. On Feb 4th, 2019 3 crew members lost their lives when their train derailed near Field. I would like to dedicat... (more)
Late night fog starts to roll in over Tehachapi Pass as the headlights, and ETD, from a northbound BNSF train illuminate hillside of Marcel.
The Pennsy heritage unit and F's greeted inbound and outbound passenger trains all day Friday awaiting placement for Saturday's "National Train Day" celebration. Casey Thomason photo, copyright N... (more)
PGR 1500 pulls one boxcar and 4 empty tank cars down Walker Street to interchange the tank cars at Union Pacific’s Pajaro, CA yard. The St. Paul & Pacific Railroad commenced operation on August ... (more)
CP 2816 and its handsome train head slowly roll along Lake Wapta before tipping over the big hill towards Field.
A remote control set ran through a closed switch and derailed when they reversed direction at CSX's Barr Yard just before dawn on January 2nd. I happened to pass over the bridge and picked up a s... (more)
"Nesquehoning Derailment"The Reading & Northern North Reading Fast Freight derailed while passing thru the town of Nesquehonning this evening on the way to Pittston.. Numerous cars... (more)
Under a full moon I shot this 5 minute 52 second exposure of a long BNSF pig train between Tunnel 10 and Marcel. The long string of trailers created a nice ghosting effect under the moonlight.
Amtrak's southbound Vermonter train is seen exiting the 166-year-old Bellows Falls Tunnel beneath the town of Bellows Falls, Vermont. The daily Amtrak service is climbing out of the tunnel, which... (more)
In a view from California highway 70, the westbound 16-car California Zephyr wraps around the hill at James, a few miles short of Oroville, where a crew and power change will take place.
Union Pacific GP9 No. 195 switches the yard near UP’s car shops in Omaha, Nebraska, in June 1981. Mixed in the freight cars in the background are three former Rock Island bay-window cabooses rec... (more)
Winter eruption. I've never seen a plume quite this dramatic. Needless to say, it was cold. A Pete Lerro charter.
Could we call it two pieces of nice looking junk.
The boneyard at Altoona Works, July 1952. The locomotive at the left is a 2-8-0 H Class Mikado and the one in the background is a 2-10-4 J Class Texas type.
