A western diamondback rattlesnake has awakened from a nap while warming itself along a rail of the Copper Basin Railway main line near Tunnel 3 at Riverside, Arizona, on the afternoon of March 18,... (more)
EMD RP40-2C locomotive C20 leads a short consist beneath the Royal Gorge Bridge. Around 900 feet or 280 metres of elevation separate the bridge and the train. The area around the bridge was decima... (more)
Freight trains from Germany to Italy usually take the route via Basel, but there are occasional trains via Schaffhausen. This DB Schenker intermodal freight train just crosses the central section ... (more)
A quintet of CP Rail SD40-2 helpers return downgrade to Donald and their helper station after lifting a westbound grain train over Rogers Pass through the Connaught Tunnel. They are shown here on ... (more)
Celebrating passing the 5M page-view mark here at railpictures.net with these uploades, John is pleased his photos are appreciated by those born in the new millennia, and feels very connected by w... (more)
A westbound Rock Island suburban commuter train is arriving Joliet Union Station as a westbound F unit led Santa Fe freight train waits for it's turn through the interlocking
Engine on static display at the Museum of Transport in St. Louis County, MO
One of the rattier units on the UP roster leads the Torrance Local back to Los Angeles as they head out of the job's namesake City.
It is March 20, 1976 and we are at West End, west of Tunnelton, WV at the top of Newburg Grade. It guess the best way to handle this is left to right. On the left is WS Tower, which controlled a... (more)
Brand new, straight off the showroom floor! A pair of Canadian Pacific's heritage SD70ACu's take a rest in Bensenville Yard on a sunny afternoon. They sure look good!
I forget where exactly this was now, but it was cool to see an Amtrak E unit in Phase II paint. While visiting a friend, he told me of a dead line of equipment that included this engine and of co... (more)
A portion of Union Pacific 200 stored locomotive in Salt Lake Cities North yard. Casualties of precision railroading. Even thought these strings of locomotives have been sitting in storage for ove... (more)
Some 11.8 miles off the Iron Range Subdivision on the DM&IR Wales branch is where they crossed the Cloquet River at Jordan. Based on the condition of the bridge and the sign now posted this is the... (more)
2-6-2+2-6-2 Garratt 14A 512 of the "Victoria Falls Steam Train Company" (VFST) with a mixed freight/passenger for Geoff's Trains/Tanago, including two diner and a baggage, is crossing slowly the 1... (more)
The "Coldest" Photo I've Ever Shot! This one made me PHYSICALLY FEEL like I never have before taking a train photo. It was 38 below zero Fahrenheit and windy...bruta... (more)
Whoopsie in East Ontario today. Apparently Watco's SW1500 was switching heavy corn syrup tank cars, when they got away and shoved the switcher into Watco's parked GP35. The former Palouse River ... (more)
Train wreck near Oaro, New Zealand. In search of a nice spot to take a picture of the evening northbound freight train we stumbled over this instead. Unfortunately I don't know what locomotive thi... (more)
CN 2664 resting outside Turnaround Diesel shop Taschereau Yd for inspection, notice new paint scheme WWW CN.CA
VENICE Santa Lucia Station, completely deserted covid - 19 "Photos from the helicopter of the Venice Air Section of the Italian State Finance Police. From Monday 18 Italy returns to the end o... (more)
The evening of Jan 22, 1978 CN 414 was stopped in the siding at Tansley. About 2120 hours, an emergency call went out from the crew, who fled for their lives "We've been hit head-on. We're... (more)
Running east on the Milwaukee Road, the ex-SP GS-4 class 4-8-4 pulls the American Freedom Train on its leg between Sioux City, IA and Des Moines, IA. The train is about 40 miles from the Milwauke... (more)
I think I hiked high enough to get this birds-eye view of an eastbound UP coal train alongside the Colorado River...
Back then as a teenager we'd ride #13 from Newark, an early morning mail train to Pittsburgh, to railfan Altoona. A stop to switch out power at Harrisburg in the morning light enabled me to get t... (more)
The way they used to run railroads: train orders, towers and cabooses.
The Reading Subway II: As early as 1895, space was becoming a premium in Philadelphia so the Reading Company, aka, the Reading & Philadelphia, lowered one of its lines through the city. T... (more)
CNJ #592, an extremely rare survivor, is one of only 3 "modern" Camelbacks in existance and one of only two remaining ... (more)
A trio of BNSF GE locomotives lead an eastbound autorack train across the Transcon, crossing the steel arch bridge over Canyon Diablo in the Arizona desert.
WNY&P 6002 and 2 Alco's are on a Turtlepoint turn taking fuel at the south end of Eldred Siding. I hear that this routine as fuel taxes in PA are less than fueling at the yard and shop in Olean, N... (more)
Santa Fe Railway’s flagship freight train, the hot Super C, has just begun its daily high-speed trip from Los Angeles to Chicago with a load of piggyback trailers on flat cars. One of th... (more)
The N&W Class J 611 heads east over the James River Trestle on this cold, rainy day. The engine was being moved for the upcoming weekend excursion at Manassas, Va.
Take your pick. At Larry's, we have it all!
Pushing dumpcars with iron ore out of the pit.
10 MPH slow order for the NS 332 as it rolls on by the remains of the derailment of the NS 206 that occured around 6:00 AM February 18 2010, just west of Butler, Indiana at CP 360.
Having been out of service for 8 years, Southern Railway SD40 #3170 moves its first tonnage since being rebuilt and restored into its Southern "Tuxedo" scheme. As viewed from Inman Yard's North T... (more)
As I was standing on the Franklin Avenue Bridge, I kept hear a revving up of an engine, and wondered down the hill to find this. GECX 4400 is now a testbed unit for AC4400/AC6000 locomotives, and... (more)
Three trains in one location :-) It doesn't get any better than this. A UP intermodal train heads down BNSF main 2 (foreground). BNSF 7780 heads up BNSF main 1, and UP 5745 leads a manifest up... (more)
1918-1966 Rains was one of the closely settled coal camps that ran together and was mined by Liberty Fuels. There was a time this area north of helper produced 300 coal cars a day of coal from se... (more)
As far as I know, this is the first time a derailment has happened here in Mt. Airy. The cause has not been ascertained at the time of this photo upload. Do know that it was a Northbound NS 118 ... (more)
Bananas, Blackberrys, Belles and one Gray Ghost in storage with expired leases take up three tracks at the KCS Yard, originally IC, then ICG, CMNW, and GWWR Yard.
A perfect set of EMD F7's A-B-B-A in the lead F7(A) 564. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer listed on slide.
The new electric shunting locomotive for the SBB was the first day out on the line today. The Ee 922 001 from Stadler Winterthur can reach a speed of 100 km p.h., but will not be allowed to go on ... (more)
After watching some good golf all day at Augusta National, I stumbled on a pleasant surprise as the NS OCS sits tied down for Masters week in Augusta, GA.
BNSF's rotary snow plow is parked for the night at Aurora. A 8 am crew will jump aboard today to plow the Giltner Sub towards Hastings, NE. A 7 man crew is used to move this equipment, 4 man train... (more)
It is interesting how a different focal length and different framing can change a view. Another of my photos of this train on Joso bridge was posted on RP a few weeks ago, that wide angle version... (more)
Go the distance. This is my attempt to incorporate the granger roots of the C&NW into a photo made in 2006. In the process of making this photo, I discovered that the ground between the roa... (more)
Dangerous job: The 'Steffenbachbrücke' with cogwheel between Realp and Tiefenbach, a very special bridge with three parts. Every autumn about 15 volunteers hinge down this bridge in one day. Ever... (more)
Garratt class 20 n 730 RED
The (probably) City of Portland races off the Harriman Cutoff in the late 60s, with my father, Clarence (who is not one of the three generations of Hinkhouses to post on this site), ... (more)
A classic "hotbox" on a loaded ore car that was caught by a detector. The train is stopped and the crew will place this quad on the set-out track near the Saginaw depot. Journal oil fires are just... (more)
"SA31 to the South Jersey dispatcher..." NS 5284 was delayed for a few hours on its journey from Browns Yard in Sayreville to Freehold by this fallen tree just west of MP 8 and the Schoolho... (more)
3 NP SD45's are on the former SP&S at Scribner, WA shortly after the merger to BN. These units have not been renumbered.
A overestimated snowstorm that hit the I-95 corridor on March 14 still dumped a heavy mix of snow and sleet, causing trees to fall along the entire Philadelphia Subdivision. Q031 came across a few... (more)
An SY engine drags a long rake of empty coal wagons into the township of Wujiu on the 9th of December 2012. The first steam photographer to visit this isolated location in the far north east of Ch... (more)
An Altoona GG-1 sporting fresh, PRR paint sits on display as one of the main attractions at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
Only a face the Chessie could love. Hopefully, this is one of the next pieces to get a cosmetic restoration.
The southbound Loyall-Varilla mine run rear-ended a standing freight on the former double track on the north end of Loyall Yard on this foggy day in 1958. This was CTC territory, but the track on ... (more)
A pair of Southern Pacific Boxcars lie on the side of the mountain after a derailment from the late 1970s caused them to topple down into the gorge.
CN 2538 in the siding at Hawthorne, WI.
The PIR Intermodal Yard at Coyote Wells - [Vernal Equinox 2016 +1 Series] - STBX #4501 sits on a setout track in the brush at Coyote Wells California. There are no operating trains on ... (more)
Probably when they were the darlings of the U. P. railroad, four brand new SD45's hustle a westbound out of Rawlins, Wyo. on May 11, 1968. But the fuel-guzzling V-20s eventually turned sentiment... (more)
Holy smoke! The UP Operation Lifesaver Train is halted in Chippewa Falls, Wis. as the crew works to extinguish the fire on 949.
The Caboose Who Got Loose? A lonely ex-Ann Arbor Railroad streamlined-cupola caboose sits on a small trestle over an unnamed creek about two miles east of Bridgewater. This route was once part of ... (more)
Arriving at Rochester 8 hours later than it's scheduled time at Ten AM gives the opportunity to shoot Amtrak's Lakeshore Limited crossing over High Falls on the mighty Genesee River in perfect eve... (more)
The lovely ladies of Scranton!  · Click here for a close up view of CP Railroad: Canadian Pacific RailwayLocomotive: Steam 4-6-2Location: Scranton, Pennsylvania, USALocomotive #: CP 2317Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: September 04, 2010
Leased Baldwin Sharknose No. 1216 was used in service on the E&LS for a very brief period in the fall of 1982. Here the train passes the abandoned store at Watson, Mich. on the turn from Wells to ... (more)
Southern 5119 is power for a work extra sent to Pine Mountain to clean-up a wreck in the curving cut on the north side of downtown.
Amtrak has taken lease of two complete VIA Rail Stainless Steel train sets - 5 coach/1 Park Car each - and moved them from Montreal to Albany on Sunday, November 18, behind Amtrak P40 822 and P42 ... (more)
NS is cleaning out the ditches through the grade separated 'trench' between the Amtrak Depot and Toledo Yard. Here the work train's in action with debris flying off on the opposite side. Note th... (more)
A westbound Rio Grande intermodal train exits the Glenwood Tunnel east of Glenwood Springs on July 6, 1987. This part of Interstate 70 highway through Glenwood Canyon was completed in 1965, with a... (more)
A interesting move on a fright train. 118 rolls north through Belmont with a beat up D9W 9102 on a flat bed. If anyone has any info on what derailment it was involved in post a comment below.
CSX Q606 has met sunset at Henderson Point, Mississippi, as the waves lap up onto the shore from the Gulf of Mexico. Fair weather and following seas dominated the day with the exception of this si... (more)
CN Train 383 through Windsor always seemed to have surprises for us, especially when new locomotives from the GMDD plant in London were on delivery. BN SD60M #1991 was en route to the BN in Chica... (more)
Ex SP SD40T-2 #2006 leads an empty Trona Railway coal train, as it begins its journey to the Union Pacific interchange at Searles, CA. The days of coal trains on the Trona Railway are numbered, a... (more)
The Arcelor Mittal's Quebec Cartier Mining Railway Northern Subdivision runs across the Hydro-Quebec Hart-Jaune Dam at the base of the Petit-Lac-Manicouagan Reservoir. On August 15, a loaded CC-1... (more)
Having just completed its station stop at Portage, the nortbound Glacier Discovery Train crosses Twenty Mile Bridge as it heads homeward toward Anchorage amidst the beautiful Alaskan wilder... (more)
One of the few Camelback locomotives left in existence. This Baldwin 0-4-0 was built in 1903 and served for many years with the Reading Company. In 1962, she was acquired by the Strasburg Railro... (more)
Class A 1210 passes between position light signals with a westbound freight downgrade to Roanoke.
CSX #3232 leads a westbound empty coal hopper train through Thurmond, WV on the spring morning of May 18, 2021. The town was founded by W.D. Thurmond in 1873 when the former Civil War Confederate ... (more)
The entirety of a massive 129-car unit Canpotex potash train can be seen as the train heads south down the scenic Palouse River Canyon at Park. The two DPU's can be seen in the distance.
The Baldwin 60000: The cab of the mighty beast! Take note the two large cylinders coming out of the top of the backhead - this was part of the innovative "water-tube boiler". As the hotte... (more)
RSD12 #2958 sits on temporary track laid on top of concrete in the Southern Pacific's small Bull Ring Yard near downtown Los Angeles. Behind the RSD12 is one of SP's U50s (9952) and a U25B (6721).... (more)
Crossing the Southern's main line. Unit is ex-C&O; back on home rails.
Zimbabwe Hwange coal mine 19D n 3
Busy morning on Logan Hill
As the sun sets across the Ohio Valley, coal loads from southern West Virginia are led by a trio of Norfolk Southern motors as they cross over NS' Kenova Bridge at sunset. Photo taken with permiss... (more)
A westbound autorack train splits the silence alongside the cemetery in Miller City, Ohio. The US&S bracket signal, a sentinel marking this as a former Nickel Plate Road territory, is headed to th... (more)
Flying high with the Johnstown Jet. 2297/6426 are pulling up to double back on to the empty gons before heading south out of downtown.
1.1 mile electric railroad that served the Pearl Brewery in San Antonio.
