CP 475 navigates the flooded downtown Davenport, moving at a steady 5mph. In a last ditch effort to outdo the floods, CP raised the elevation of the track through downtown Davenport, in some spots... (more)
A glass-surfaced lake creates a spectacular reflection for The Portland Rose, led by Union Pacific's last 4-8-4 in service, #844.
Savage 7107 is an SW1200RS, a custom rebuild by Canadian National receiving the long hood from a GP9. This unique series of switchers were nicknamed the "sweep" since they were a kind of switcher ... (more)
Savage Services has painted/wrapped SD40-2 #8638 into this flashy "Salutes Our Veterans" scheme. Built in 1978 as BN 7090, the unit later served as NS 3464 before being acquired by Savage and renu... (more)
Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8503 was the lead engine on the Westbound APLAA when it didn't stop, ran out the West end of the siding and into the side of the Eastbound LADAT. Apparently the 8503 was ... (more)
Heavily damaged CN SD70M-2 8847 sits quietly in the backtrack at Lempriere, BC awaiting an uncertain fate. It was the lead engine of train Q11251 24 on April 25, 2012 when it hit a washout between... (more)
Taking a walk off the beaten path paid off on this day. Not only did I get to see the last of the fall colors here but I also got to see a train cross this bridge in a very remote location. The fa... (more)
A salvage and scrap crew have started the dismantling process of three former Soo Line covered hoppers. Built by Pullman-Standard, these cars have reached the end of the line.
While driving in an area without any railroad tracks for 30 miles or so, the last thing I expected to see was a boxcar. To my surprise, an old Bay Line car served as a bridge to a camp next to th... (more)
What can you say?
HRT 6525, a rail veteran for the B&O railroad, remains stationary beneath overgrown trees behind a pottery shop, in very rough shape.
This past Saturday was two for one day on Beach Street in Santa Cruz on the Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line. The SCBT&P Beach Train led down Beach Street with the Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay Railwayâ€... (more)
Norfolk Southern Train W62 heads east through a derailment site in Pell City that 22Q had a few days prior.
At dawn, a westbound BNSF manifest freight climbs around Arnold Loop, near Clifside, Nevada, on March 6, 2012. On the lower right just visible going through a rock cut is a lone SD70MAC helping ou... (more)
Four Boeing 737 fuselages prepare to drop a clear signal in Fountain as the KCKSPO continues the journey west towards Washington with the unique loads at the front. For a more detailed shot of th... (more)
On February 25, 1994, it’s still snowing and dusk is approaching as Soo Line train 421 blasts west through Brookfield, Wisconsin, with Soo EMD SD60 No. 6014 clearing the way, and has all but obs... (more)
About thirty-five miles west of L.A. is the location of Santa Susana. Eastbound SP F7#6157 A-B-B-A set in Black Widow paint scheme, with reefer train 2-803 January 28, 1958. Photo part of my ... (more)
Named unit Don Cook the DME 6077 and 3 others on Jul 9, hit a bolder and put some of them in the Mississippi river. Scrap now
PRR's inbound New York to Washington Constitution sits next to the Southern Railway's Washington to Atlanta Peach Queen. PRR GG-1 4935 from the Railroad Museum of PA sits on display ... (more)
NB freight with a famous leader. Note the telltale, long obsolete.
Around 10:30pm the night before, BNSF's Longmont Turn struck a tree stump deliberately placed on the tracks. The lead unit, BNSF 8105, somehow managed to stay mostly upright.
Vermont Rail System, for only the second time in a year (and by design) operated an all-red consist that is book-ended by the railproad’s pair of SD70M-2s. Due to bridge restrictions and weight... (more)
Switching in the streets with a crossing guard on duty, New York Central yard crew delivers paper in an era when local industries still had sidings.
Western Maryland power has just showed up at the B&O facility. After a quick servicing the power will head south with a cut of empty hoppers to one of three isolated coal tipple branchs in West Vi... (more)
4 Coal gons hit the ground. One view of two__ the other two were under the overpass. Hey Dave, we must have just missed one another.
After hitting a trespasser at Norwood Station, local rescue squads and the Medical Examiner check the front of #607 for body effects. First and hopefully last time I see something like this.
1 Diesel, 3 Electrics. A P42 heads past a sample of three types of Amtrak electric locomotives; the venerable AEM-7, HHP-8, and ACS-64.
STADLER DMU in recently remanufactured, meter line.
An unusual train in an unusual location - for Metrolink. F59PH 856, a single coach and Metrolink's sole F40PH (800) operate in San Diego's Rose Canyon, further south than Metrolink typically oper... (more)
The times, they are a-changin’ – South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania has undergone quite a bit of change since the late 1970’s, and this image captures the beginning of the change. The Bethlehem S... (more)
A plethora of historic equipment sits at the Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati in Latonia, Kentucky. Among the collection is PRR Observation, the Metropolitan View (bottom right) and B&O "... (more)
The end is very near for Rock Island on July 15, 1979, as GP7R 4552 leads a matched set of jeeps under Loop 12 in Irving toward Dallas. Rock Island diesels and cars have been dressed in “Ingramâ... (more)
Built during the 1920s for a Western Suburbs railway between St James and Town Hall that never came to fruition, this section of abandoned tunnel lies dormant and all-but-forgotten beneath the nor... (more)
Waiting for the Train. Big thanks to Peter Lerro for organizing the shoot.
Expecting a leased SD 90MAC leading, I get a surprise, VTR 308 wearing the VTR red & white scheme on the point of an ethanol train! From the land of various paint schemes, this is a favorite of mi... (more)
VIA's eastbound Turbo is gliding through the Brockville train station without stopping as a Canadian National freight is heading westbound.
GM GT-22 under general repair.
Former N&W 250 ton crane (derrick) Industrial Brownhoist
"LIRR Intermodal Bogie Rolls Over the Montauk Cutoff" One of Long Island Rail Road's experimental "Intermodal Bogies" gets dragged down the Montauk Cuttoff to Sunnyside Yard to be cut up f... (more)
A pair of internal combustion oddballs wait it out at Columbus. #9720 in perfect pinstripes, built by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton, and #9471 built by FM at Erie, 1600HP & 2000HP respectively. The head... (more)
Pere Marquette 1225 hits the diamonds at Durand as a waiting Amtrak passenger records it on his cell phone. 1225 will proceed north to Saginaw, with two passenger cars and a 15 car revenue freigh... (more)
Southern Pacific steam locomotive no. 4449 arriving at Oaks Park in Portland, Oregon, with the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation's Holiday Express train on December 12, 2009. The 4449 operated on De... (more)
With all the RP contributors out one might have thought it was the first day NS released a new series of heritage paint scheme's.... wishful thinking for now! From left to right Robert (Freddy) Sh... (more)
In the morning at 7.26 AM the snow fighting crew from Pontresina is clearing track 1 of Alp Grüm station with the snow blower Xrot mt # 95404 and diesel locomotive Gmf # 23403 (D3 Albula).
Original slide from my collection. Thanks to UP we will see another Big Boy in action again.
Touristic steam train, at Chama - Antonito mountain route
591 heads south towards the mines of Southwest PA, rolling through some beautiful fall color nestled deep into the hills of the Mon Valley near Mather, PA.
A Reading Alco FA-1 AB combination pull a westbound freight onto the main line at Wayne Jct..
The crew of this coal train had a great view of the 32nd Pennsylvania Pump Primer Fire Muster event as they cross the former Reading Bridge. Fire trucks lined the Susquehanna River as part of the ... (more)
CEFX 1025 and CP 8578 ready to depart Glenwood Yard for St. Paul.
The evolution of grain is what I call this photo. An empty BNSF shuttle train passes the long closed elevator and water tank at Des Lacs, ND. Over the years, the efficiency of the small rural elev... (more)
Treasures of The Henry Ford: The C&O Allegheny. According to the docents at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, the most heavily photographed artifact in their building is this ma... (more)
Ex Amtrak F69PHAC's 450 & 451 (EMD/Siemans owned?) powering the ICE demo train when not under wire, San Francisco Caltrain depot.
The shell of a Milwaukee Road Hiawatha tail car grows older in the weeds at a small railroad park in western Minnesota.
It appears CN has returned this leased LNG tank car to the UP after testing it in Alberta.
Kansas Prairie Dawn. Just minutes after sunrise, an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe local makes its way across the Kansas prairie east of Abilene, with a few passengers, some small freight item... (more)
#38 fell victim to arson on March 16, 2008. Personnel have moved all 4 of the involved pieces from the engine house in which the vandal(s) broke into and did their destruction. The engine house ... (more)
Nikon D1
Silence in the snow covered Rocky Mountains is broken up as BNSF's Provo, UT to Denver, CO manifest snakes down Big Ten Curve on UP's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on January 12th, 2019.
Now there's something you don't see every day! Pulled over on the side of US Route 130 was this tractor trailer carrying NJ Transit Arrow III Single MU no. 1308. Shortly after this photo was tak... (more)
The last operating Erie Mining RS-11 is used by Cliffs Erie to power a "clean-up" train that is picking up bad order and MOW cars off the line prior to its being shut down.
Bensenville Yard from about 6000'...and I still can't fit it all in the frame! O'Hare airport is just out of the picture to the right.
On one of the nicest Easter Sundays in the Chicago area in decades, a UP SD70ACe-T4 sits at the EMD LaGrange facility.
What do you do when a traction motor seizes up on a locomotive in the middle of nowhere? Call a Mantis 30011! At Cadiz in the middle of the Mojave Desert east of Barstow, California, Burlington No... (more)
The Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line – where the beach reaches the rails. Keeping Mother Nature at bay is a full time job for the crews of the Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay Railway.
The Alcoa local returns across the Tennessee River to Knoxville in the morning fog, framed by the classic arches of the Henley Street Bridge.
An XL Special meets an eastbound fruit block at Avery.
A Little Joe leads a westbound Milwaukee Road freight out of the Deer Lodge Yard in June 1974, just a few days before the end of electric operations.
Five-unit A/B/B/B/A lashup of cab units in CGW's handsome chocolate brown and deep red scheme moves a "mortgage lifter" consist of over 100 cars westbound west of the Indiana Harbor Belt interchan... (more)
Along the journey from St Louis to Roanoke, Norfolk and Western Y6a #2156 was able to greet an old friend: The coaling tower at Prichard, West Virginia. If these two relics could talk, they could... (more)
Forty years ago, in 1973, the last train rumbled across this line. Today, this is a place for the intrepid explorer to enjoy solitude while pondering the vestiges of a lost way of rural life. It... (more)
Dashing through the snow.......
NS 8641 after head on collision with NS 3994.
SD10s were rebuilds of EMD SD7s and 9s. Three of them prepare to spot some 40 foot boxcars for grain loading on the line which ran to Rapid City, SD. K64, Yashica TL Electro-X
A former GN snow dozer dusts the Prairie River east of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. A rare (for northern Minnesota) pair of FXE units provided the power.
A string of Rio Grande SW-1000s moves through the diesel service area in Denver.
With the sun nearly set for another summer day, eastbound train 408 heads by Fort Lawrence, as they approach Amherst, Nova Scotia.
Found at Metro East Industries, Incorporated, in Alorton, Illinois, is a long string of former Union Pacific diesels. There are at least 13 locomotives in this string, primarily MP15DCs. Photo... (more)
Motor train #26 has just arrived from Carlsbad, New Mexico, and is rounding the east leg of the Clovis wye. Baldwin switcher 2253 is waiting to couple to the rear of chair-observation 3197 and wil... (more)
Stacked train?
Under the guidance of five standard cab EMD locomotives, CSX Q317 navigates the original B&O street running in downtown St. Marys on New Year's Day. The consist is led by three West Virginia-rebui... (more)
Kodachrome II, Yashica TL.
A New Model from EMDAn 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, ... (more)
Two BNSF jobs with geep/switcher combinations work Duluth in the early evening. MP15 3702 is on the close set while SW1500 3429 is on the far set. GP39M 2825 began life as GN GP30 3003 in 1963 and... (more)
The biggest attention grabber out on the rails this season, Canadian Pacific's Holiday Train stops on top of the Grand River bridge allowing residents of near by Cambridge, Ontario to view the ful... (more)
The sun rises on another day in the long life of UP 4012. After sitting out in the elements year round, she looks like she could use some TLC.
A Super C behind three 20-cylinder cowls races through Summit on its blistering schedule between Hobart Yard in LA and Chicago.
