Almost new CP ES44AC 8858 sits at the old Marathon West. That is one heck of a view eh?! The Lake Superior north shore out the windows.
Amtrak 58 and 197 heading towards Union Station with the Washington Monument in the background
A westbound BNSF empty coal train rolls across the impressive Valley City bridge. The train is headed up by a BNSF SD70MAC, and a CSX AC60CW. In the foreground is the Sheyenne River.
Seven FA1's pull an ice reefer train. No photographer name listed on slide.
The San Francisco Chief pulls into Merced, as the baggage handler works his way into place.
Snow In Los Angeles. Well, the closest any snow got to downtown Los Angeles that is. In this sunset scene at Union Pacific's "J Yard," the power for the YJY68R and YJY78R share the surprisi... (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)
Winston Hill is a great spot to watch storms form over the mountains and move about. A perfectly sunny day gave way to thick clouds later in the afternoon. As much as I wanted sun, I think this tu... (more)
In the early morning hours of January 11th, 2020 an EF-1 tornado tore through the south end of Hernando, MS. About a two and a half weeks later GRYR 2651 rolls south through the damage with cars f... (more)
Retired MBTA Light Rail Vehicles and subway cars bring up the rear of a southbound CSX train through West Trenton. These cars are en route to Pueblo, Colorado, where they will be used for governm... (more)
Special heads to Ft. Steele, B.C.
A little bit of late afternoon sun hang around as a westbound BNSF grain train exits Tunnel #5 in the Columbia River Gorge.
N&W 2141 with its eastbound loaded coal train waits at Bluefield, Va. to enter the Bluefield, W. Va. yard and swap crews.
Rack train 75 cm gauge at Niamata station
New York Central Hudson No 5242 storms east through Palmyra in the 1930s.
Unscheduled Stop Amtrak Coast Starlight #14 slowly approaches the cantilever signal at CP VP 580 in preparation to stop at Oakridge where the city police will assist with removing... (more)
First derailment I ever saw was Soo Line 944 piling up 27-cars due to a broken rail. Soo track inspector Irv Nissen was ordered off tracks to let train 944 pass. Train found broken rail - ouch!
Heavy storms in the Midwest has resulted in significant delays to Amtrak California Zephyr trains No. 5 and 6 in the past week. Here, a near on-time eastbound No. 6 sits alongside a very tardy wes... (more)
Bicentennial Caboose
CN's contribution to advertising EXPO 86 in Vancouver. It was supposed to lead as often as possible, but the three times I saw it, it departed in trail and at night! For CP's version http://www.ra... (more)
C&NW F7A 409 spends the weekend at Lake Geneva, WI. On Monday morning she'll shove her train down the branch and into the bustling Chicago Passenger Terminal of the Northwestern. Today, the line... (more)
Brand new at the factory.
Resplendent in a fresh coat of “Zito yellow,” Chicago and North Western wrecking crane No. 6359 shows some of its vertical range while picking up the end of its boom car while on display at Bu... (more)
Loads for pickup. The Altoona, Pennsylvania Juniata Locomotive Shops and adjoining yard of Norfolk Southern were loaded with engines of all kinds on Saturday, November 2, 2019. Of note are the A-B... (more)
A BNSF Railway intermodal train for Barstow, Calif., meets a Bakersfield, Calif., bound freight train at Tehachapi loops during an unusually green and mild spring season.
Just after Midnight on May 2nd, 2021, two storage buildings located at Amtrak’s Beech Grove Shops burst into flames. Luckily, firefighters were able to put out the fire without any injuries.
Out of the ashes of the Knox & Kane fire, this rusty hulk is destined to rise like a phoenix and once again ride the rails. This Chinese-built SY locomotive, which was damaged in the engin... (more)
The 72nd annual Santa Train crosses the famous Copper Creek Viaduct high above the Copper Creek valley. Santa has two more stops in Virginia to distribute toys, candy, and winter wear before the ... (more)
AC44C6M #4002, wearing the "Roanoke Horse Mane" paint scheme, leads train 187 west across the Chattahoochee River bridge, departing Columbus, Georgia, with 168 cars of mixed freight bound for Birm... (more)
Probably the coldest Ive ever been in May. The Soo Line pulls the largest freight car in North America, the Schnabel< out of Port Terminal and on towards Stinson Yard. It was snowing! Notice the B... (more)
Tennessee Pass through Belden, which was a processing plant for zinc mined in this area. Pretty much a ghost town these days, and kind of eerie when you first come up on it. Both the mining oper... (more)
On May 26th, 1934, the Pioneer Zephyr made its record-breaking non-stop dawn-to-dusk run from Denver to Chicago, passing under this signal bridge. This night, an eastbound coal train led by a pair... (more)
Baltimore & Ohio E8(A) 1435 with an E8(B) on the C&O's Cincinnati to Detroit "The Cincinnatian" near Cincinnati, Ohio January 22, 1961 Photo from my slide collection, no photographer listed on s... (more)
A chartered train for association GDI waiting in Alp Grüm station for the final run to Poschiavo, in the background Piz Palü, Piz Caral and Sassal Mason.
Grand Rapids-bound Pere Marquette waits for the highball at Plymouth, MI.
Snow as high as an elephant's ear, or something like that! The most snow in more than 30 years and the passengers of the westbound Empire Builder are getting a close up view. The excavator is on... (more)
My wife Katie holds our 6-month old Beagle Riley, as they watch Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr climb the two-percent grade toward Big 10 Curve west of Rocky, Colorado, on April 22, 2006. W... (more)
These Challengers have been deactivated and sit in the service tracks waiting for the inevitable. The UP shield is already gone from 3955. For more color views from that day, click Railroad: Union PacificLocomotive: Steam 4-6-6-4Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming, USALocomotive #: UP 3950 Train ID: n/aPhoto Date: September, 1957
The rear end helpers on this westbound loaded ethanol train are getting a break, as the train reaches the bottom of Ash Hill. The head end can be seen entering Ludlow in the distance.
ATSF 3751 heads to San Bernardino down the middle of the 10 Freeway on its way from Los Angeles Union Station to San Bernardino station to take part in both San Bernardino's National Train Day dis... (more)
Another great winter photo shoot on the Nevada Northern. A big thanks to Mark Bassett and his crew of people who work so hard to make these events possible. They enjoy what they do and take grea... (more)
What can happen when a freight train splits a switch. Workers can be seen carrying cartons of Schlitz Beer from a damaged box car. Many a bottle of brew from Milwaukee was snatched by members of ... (more)
On April 9, 2016, an eastbound Union Pacific loaded oil train pops out of Tunnel 1 into a small pocket of sunshine (literally) on a gorgeous spring afternoon in Coal Creek Canyon.
Looking rather incomplete, AT&SF Pacific #1316 waits quietly in the yard at Rusk. Her new boiler is on site, but an engineering oversight means it will need rebuilt before it even has its first fi... (more)
GM&O E7 units 102A and 102 are backing into Union Station with train 3, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, for its 5:50 p.m. CDT departure. The Missouri Pacific sleeper was a through car to Hot Springs, AR.
Little Joe E70 is lead helper for Milwaukee Road westbound hot-shot 171 West at Stetson, ID. The road freight that originated in Chicago will soon arrive in Avery, where it will change crews. Also... (more)
Looking more like a police line up the shops at Juniata had an interesting array of power near the turntable.
The daily CSX Hunts Point Market Local shoves east through the sidewalk of Sal's Scrap Metal just after splitting from the Northeast Corridor. This is one of 3 busy industries that the train must ... (more)
A New Face in TownAn interesting little train passes through Fullerton, California, as the sun was rising on June 16th, 2016. This train originated at EMD's plant in Muncie, IN, an... (more)
Fairly new CP SD70ACU 7033 brings up the rear of ethanol train 650 across the Canada/U.S border. About half of the consist is in the United-States.
Olin-Mathieson 2-8-0 #11 leads a short train at Saltville, VA in Sept. 1960. This engine is the oldest surviving Norfolk & Western locomotive which currently sits on static display in the Town of ... (more)
VIA #2 Split the Switch at Glen Yard just after leaving Vancouver VIA Rail Station. Spring '05
Pan Francisco.
Westbound potash train #671 is beginning its descent of the Big Hill as it winds over Kicking Horse Pass - The tail end of the train is just leaving Alberta.
Looks like a couple of model train engines that were picked up and placed beside the track instead of back in their box. The head end of an eastbound stack train clipped the end of a westbound sta... (more)
Train 370 derailed @ Hiram Ga over the weekend , NS forces are clearing the scene.
Alaska RR rotary snow plow #3 basking in the summer sun at Anchorage yard awaiting its move up to a siding at Curry for long-term storage awaiting its disposition. This plow was built by the Cooke... (more)
Yes, there is a track underneath all that grass!
Just like old times. Fresh from the paint shop, Santa Fe FP45s 101 and 102 show off the resurrected "Warbonnet" paint scheme in front of the classic San Bernardino station.
From the Silver Rails Gallery Archives: Santa Fe's #1, part of the "One Spot Twins," is in charge of a westbound Super Chief as it makes a station stop at Ft. Madison.
Dimantled locomotive parts and other materials are seen on intershop property at Altoona Works of the once mighty Pennsylvania Railroad. This is the Juniata Shops.
Brand new KCSM slug mother and slug heading to the Pueblo Test Center
On a day with a lot of air pollution in Santiago, the train movement continues in the old San Eugenio workshops, which has also become a warehouse for old locomotives and cars of all kinds. The lo... (more)
Conrail’s Conway Yard was one of the hubs for its six-axle Alco Centuries assigned to drag freight service. Multiple C628’s, C630’s and C636’s can be seen in this overview of the outdoor t... (more)
A Union Pacific Operation Lifesaver Special, traveling between Council Bluffs, Iowa and Salt Lake City, Utah passes through Uintah with UP 9054 and 9051 SD70AH units leading the Columbine, City of... (more)
The Pride of the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society
Amtrak (CZRY) Diner #5801 showing its worse side
These Union Pacific locomotives have reached the end of the line at Progress Rail Service's facility on President's Island in Memphis, Tennessee. The two C40-8's and one S6-1B (former GP50)are bei... (more)
Months before PC was able to jettison passenger service under the Amtrak umbrella, one of 75 ex-PRR E8's leads this ramshackle remnant of the once great fleet past the eyes of the Operator at MG.
No HEP (head-end power 480-v.) here in GN’s Seattle coach yard where the cars are hooked to ground steam on rainy April 9, 1970 The Big Sky Blue didn’t last long as the merger creating Burlin... (more)
A first attempt to lift the "crocodile" at 10.30 AM failed, because the locomotive was moving around its longitudinal axis. The mounting on the crane had to be done in a different way and the acti... (more)
With Detroit Edison coal loads in tow, CSX N811 parades along the Big Sandy River, splitting a pair of oddball bracket mast signals housing C&O-style signals, westb... (more)
A Grande Sunset: "On fire" at "Stein's Curve." Literally at the moment of sunset, a westbound Rio Grande Freight suddenly "catches fire" with solar glint, as it negotiates "Stein's Curve", ... (more)
High winds led to several snow drifts across the rails along the Front Range. The Rio Grande Heritage Unit leads the Ski Train through one such drift.
On an overcast August day in 1962, an eastbound Soo Line freight train, led by two F-units and a geep, is crossing the St. Croix River high bridge between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Photograph by Wa... (more)
Even with more traditional lighting, this angle looked like something from another world.
MSCI 488 leads a cut of cars south for storage.
Despite lack of wires or full Amtrak/Government support, Boston had fast 100 MPH plus train service to New York in the seventies. Number 51 is crossing the curved high bridge just north of the Ci... (more)
L&N U30Cs are at the head of a loaded Harlee Branch coal train on the connection from the mainline, but they wait as the mixed train to Macon departs first. Couple maybe interesting sidenotes: T... (more)
to the Creation III. A real workshop, at lunch breaks time. The narrow gauge 490 loco of Children's Railway requires a complete renovation. Railroad: Hungarian State Railways (MÁV)Locomotive: MÁV 490Location: Budapest, HungaryLocomotive #: 490,056Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: August 02, 2010
This late summer evening in September finds an empty train for Peach Creek rolling through the signals and spring switch at E.E. Ranger on CSX's former C&O Logan Subdivision. Ranger is the occasio... (more)
The Day It Happened The heavy duty Mammoet owned remote controlled flat bed is being put to the test as it's tow 200+ tons of history down the middle of Charlotte Ave. The special e... (more)
Part 1 of the Pamban Bridge Trilogy 14048 crosses the cantilever section of the bridge with a passenger service fr... (more)
BNSF 7462 is rolling out to it's train, while a mob of Pumpkins await their turn in the engine facility. Three Warbonnets lurk among the sea of orange. Railroad: BNSF RailwayLocomotive: GE ES44DCLocation: Tacoma, Washington, USALocomotive #: BNSF 7462Train ID: TACPASPhoto Date: July 07, 2009
Half Covered Wagon, Half RDC. New Haven's five-unit Roger Williams trainset was built by Budd. The three center units were essentially off-the-shelf RDCs, but the two end un... (more)
"EL2" industrial electric DC locomotive with snowblower fighting with snow at "Bakal mines railroad" tracks in the "blue hour". "EL2" series manufactured in... (more)
Picture taken at PK200 565 km/h during April the 3rd, 2007 world record: Vmax = 574.8 km/h
N&W class Y6a #2156 poses in front of the former site of the N&W/NS Roanoke Car Shop, present day Freight Car America facility. A yard crew has pulled the big gal out of her hiding place and left ... (more)
The Train of Tomorrow visits Elizabeth NJ on its tour of the county. The location is listed as Baltimore & Ohio Freight Yard.... but is actually the small CNJ LCL yard just east of the PRR crossi... (more)
