A Super C behind three 20-cylinder cowls races through Summit on its blistering schedule between Hobart Yard in LA and Chicago.
California has been inundated with rain from with Atmospheric Rivers coming across the Pacific Ocean this Winter. A large storm cell dumps rain on Ventura and along the Coastal Mountains as the ea... (more)
K4s running in reverse to the Meadows Engine Terminal after dropping either the Broker or the Banker at the Harborside Terminal at the Hudson River. This was the terminal for the Hudson & Manhatta... (more)
The Pan Am Grain Extra that originated on the BNSF with a pair (actually a trio but one was lost in Cleveland, OH) of Ferromex "Migrant Workers" hauling more than 456,000 bushels of grain for the ... (more)
AMTK 90220 cautiously rolls out of Durham-UNH in route for Dover in the middle of a snow storm.
Almost Home. Leased CSXT 9037 (C40-9W), CSXT 4589 (“Spirit Of Nashville”, SD70MAC), NS 6914 (SD60E), and NYSW’s own 3808 (SD60) have been recrewed for the remained for the trip to Bin... (more)
New York Container Terminal Rail shows off their brand new Genset switcher; a Process Locomotive (CLCX) PL1500-4RS, while running lite to pick up some empty cars from Arlington Yard. This engine i... (more)
With the snow/rain mix under some dark and dreary weather outside, the cab interior of former Erie Mining Company F9(A) 4214 looks a little rough and about the same as the weather outside, the r... (more)
Looking like a diesel with a jawbone or tooth ache, in its final years UP Alco PA 605 wore a cast pilot from a 4-8-4. There is probably a story what happened to its original pilot, but it didn’... (more)
According to the Farmer's Almanac, on Thursday, June 11, 1953, the high temperature was a comfortable 73 degrees with a slight breeze that must've felt refreshing as it blew in through the open pa... (more)
BNSF 6163, one of BNSF's 25th anniversary locomotives, leads a nine car officer special back to Topeka, KS as it crosses over the Truxton Flyer. These nine cars were part of the 16 car passenger s... (more)
Enroute to the Western Maryland interchange at Spruce with coal empties for Harper Mine, Shay No. 11 eases by the Old Water Tank, climbing in elevation through dense fog and light rain in this spr... (more)
"P&W SD70M-2 at Westchester Ave" P&W SD70M-2 #4301 leads Providence & Worcester CHFP (Cedar Hill/ Fresh Pond) stone train west past the abandoned NYW&B Westchester Ave Station on Amtrak's H... (more)
Various power sits awaiting its fate at LTEX
With a train of colorful containers highlighting the numerous power robbing curves up the western slope of Beaumont Hill, also known as San Timoteo Canyon, an eastbound Union Pacific stack train s... (more)
All three current CSX paint scheme line up on the shop leads under popular Ben's Bridge
The NS 3260 prepares to lead the "North Delivery" east by rows of stored power.
Rough track on the branch line to Maryland Metals in Hagerstown.
the Cab of 26
Derailment on the 402 kilometer long 75 cm gauge "Trochita" (Ing. Jacobacci-Esquel) at Norquinco. Nobody was injured. Baldwin built 2-8-2 locomotives # 1 and # 16. Charter train of Train... (more)
The FEC goes pink!, at least with it's new blue and pink Susan G. Comen Breast Cancer Organization paint scheme for these four axles! Today 457 carried a variety of different engines, other than ... (more)
Some of the last new DC traction locomotives acquired from GE and EMD by the Southern Pacific meet at American Fork, Utah on Jan. 2, 1995.
Thunder over Milepost 13 Chicagoland is still bathed in morning sun, but not for long as a storm moves in from the west. It’s August 10, 1986 at Milepost 13 on Burlington Northern’s... (more)
Cold and rain don't deter those who want to get a better look at No.1218 before it leads its excursion train back to Roanoke.
Rounding through the Horseshoe Curve at Glenshire, a Union Pacific unit train heads down the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains to Reno.
A sad lineup. Ex Canadian Pacific/CTCUM/AMT awaiting disposal. Photo taken with permission.
Mother Nature is reminding us that there are many sides to her moods. Bound for NYC, Amtrak Adirondack is kicking up quite a bit of snow as it rolls south toward the border.
Just minutes before the first rays of sunlight reach the Kalte Rinne viaduct, 2 OBB 1144-series locomotives pull a mixed freight train uphill towards Semmering. This viaduct is one of many on this... (more)
I was given a tour of there property annd given permision to take photos.
Truck vs Train - You decide.
"Christine" (EMD re-engined Alco DL109) leads westbound passenger train past 'UD' int. Tower and into Joliet Union Depot. Collection of James Humbert.
UP X4014 on the first leg of it's journey to Cheyenne, seen here passing through Ontario on the way to West Colton.
The scrapper is hard at work as a wounded 2044 looks on. Was a sad sight indeed.
On Monday, November 24, Florida East Coast Railway’s first pair of GEVO ES44C4 locomotives – FEC 803 and 804 – spent the day with shop forces doing familiarization training, but they would b... (more)
Butler, we have a problem..... A train bound for the C&NW's terminal in Butler, WI, is on the ground in Saint Francis near the junction of the New Line and the Old Line. The snow plow on the SD60 ... (more)
On June 27, 1965 nothing along Colorado’s Joint Line is as it should be. Ten days after massive floods shut down almost all rail traffic into and out of Denver, trains are just starting to move ... (more)
Wheelsets and other carnage from the derailment in Glencoe are stacked into a pile in a field adjacent to the busy mainline.
The NS 3667 along with the NS 8105 Interstate slowly lead the NS 272 south over a flooded section along the Mayo River. This area received over 4 inches of rain in a 16 hour period.
Even though the passage of the last train was 18 years ago, the summit tunnel on Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande line over Colorado’s Tennessee Pass appears in remarkably good shape as seen ... (more)
Freight train with museum loco ahead, passes 116 Km bridge, Between Edessa and Agras, NW Greece
N769 loaded coal train passes the Point of Rocks station onto the Old Main Line sub from the Metropolitan sub with a load of coal destined for Curtis Bay in Baltimore, MD. Some old school power ha... (more)
Dense fog is finally burning off in Utah’s Heber Valley on the morning of February 6, 2007, as Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 storms past with a freight train operated by the Heber Valley Railroad,... (more)
A look at the set up of this Norfolk Southern C39-8. This unit is set up for long hood forward operation.
Less than 20 hours after Chesapeake Western's "Hot 70 car Grainer" had a car jump the track in "Boiler curve" some 20 cars behind the diamond, which then struck the trestle over Black's Run. The... (more)
Built in 8-1949, this ballast car was likely hauled over the pass in revenue service by massive Northern Pacific articulated locomotives. Designed for ballast service, this car also saw heavy u... (more)
Organ donor at the morgue - This locomotive has breathed its last, and is being stripped of usable parts before being sent to the crematorium. Piles of donated parts from earlier patients lay in t... (more)
An IRR train yard in Baghdad. Trains were sparse and the air was dusty as usual. Taken from the open door of a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter while I was out on a mission in Baghdad.
This is the sight of the NS Exeter derailment on Virginia State Hwy 68 as 38 of 54 loaded cars derailed on the 3.5% grade. Hwy 68 was just reopened yesterday with the derailment occurring at 8:40p... (more)
The Illinois Railway Museum sent their former Santa Fe FP45 92 to NRE to be rebuilt to operating condition while other cosmetic restoration will be completed at the museum at a later date. The Io... (more)
If any photograph is worth a thousand words this is the one I'd choose. This remarkable scene was not 'set-up' or 'posed' in any way. This was everyday life in the Inner Mongolian village of Xiake... (more)
Durango and Silverton Narrow Guage steam engine #473 in her "Bumble Bee" livery.
B&O E9A 1441 looks to be ready to head out of Washington Union Station while a PRR GG-1 looks on in the background. The old B&O livery was very dignified.
The second in a series of 6 (so I've been told) mother/slug rebuilds in a Heritage paint scheme for CN.
Having barely slipped through the gate onto the Virginia Museum of Transportation's property- veteran steam program member Bobby Saxtan, in the high visibility vest, focuses on the large Y6a negot... (more)
As severe storms start to roll in from the mountains, a few rays of sun peak through the clouds over the James River as 212 makes their way north with the New York Central and Penn Central heritag... (more)
P07 uses all the real estate available to make their runaround move at Carrboro as they stop by the old station in town. Once they run around the train, they'll shove a single cement hopper to a f... (more)
A Canadian Pacific coal train arrives at Boston Bar on CN trackage where it will stop for a crew change before proceeding to Roberts Bank, BC. The train is using the double track extension that CN... (more)
An in-cab perspective of 1948 built Western Maryland EMD BL2 No. 82 on the grounds of the West Virginia Central Railroad in Belington. Notice the unique windshield glass that enhances visibility i... (more)
Two ABe 4/4 II EMUs are pulling "Räumer" 9132, which scrapes snow off the sides onto the track, such that the snow can then be removed by the rotary Xrot d. The point of this is to create enough ... (more)
The Famous D&RGW Hanging Bridge as seen from the cab's left seat. The 130 year old bridge is a 175' plate girder suspended on one side by an A frame. It's original 1879 cost was $11,759, a large ... (more)
UP8828 charges into Tunnel 1 of the Moffat Road with a loaded sand train... The heavy westbound consists of a total of 5 big motors distributed 3x2. Note the C44-9W second out in the head-end cons... (more)
Out of the most "uneventful" winter in the Puget Sound, comes a stunning sunset. Finally, passengers aboard the Cascades get to see something in the sky other than gray or black.
CNJ #113. This large 0-6-0 is being restored to operation and is one of only two CNJ preserved steam engines. The other is more)
The Tidewater section of the eastbound Sportsman makes the station stop at Gordonsville. The station was unique, sitting in the middle of a wye.
A "Westerner guesting on the D&H" as BNSF 9854 brings CP 930 past the ex-D&H Station at Plattsburgh at 03:21
Long Island Railroad C420's are dragging cars over the mini-hump in LIRR's Yard A in the view from Honeywell St. viaduct. Meanwhile, the Amtrak service tracks in Sunnyside Yard are filled with GG... (more)
In honor of 4449 returning to Minnesota this summer, here's one of my favorite shots of the 4-8-4. During the American Freedom Train's visit to the state in 1975, the train was displayed in Minnea... (more)
With 21 covered hoppers, 3 support cars, 2 water bottles, and diesel 8167 on the drawbar Big Boy 4014 begins its great trek across the American Midwest by storming east up Archer Hill just a few m... (more)
East Switch, Rox Siding, washout from storm. ~ http://www.trainweb.org/brettrw/derail/uprr/mvwashout/mvwashout.html
Covered old carriage of the Lorenbahn (light railway) on the island Hallig Oland. This vehicle is still in use, the day before this car wasn't there
The inaugural run of #425 panned out very well and the crew had the engine moving a quite a clip! The tender sports new paint while the boiler and newly refurbished cab await fresh paint. A ... (more)
Plow Extra MMA 2003 crosses Gordon Rd
GMRC train 263, Saturday slurry with VTR SD70M-2 431, GMTX GP38-2 2684 and VTR GP38-2 202 had been having a good track speed run from Rutland to East Wallingford, VT, when at the Route 140 crossin... (more)
UP maintainers lift a searchlight back into position at Cable, after it was knocked down by the derailment that morning.
The Signal box need more space
Sitting in the deadline in Union Pacific's Yermo Yard is UP DDA40X 6920. This engine was built by EMD in November 1969, one hundred years after the driving of the Golden Spike, and being construc... (more)
This old Baldwin Switcher sits, waiting to be rescued!
The 27th of September 1981, the first TGV line opened to the public with its first line going from Paris to Lyon and back, making the two cities 425 kilometers (265 miles) apart only at a mere 2 h... (more)
The Shasta Daylight is burning up the Cal P near Elmira on a hot summer day in 1956. This image was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.
A flurry of activity in Pig's Eye is always a good sight.
Being hit by dozens of trains a day wears out the diamonds in Marion, so they need welded up and ground flush monthly like this one.
Santa Fe F7A 301L leads an 11 car Amtrak San Diegan #770 along the beach in San Clemente, CA, on a foggy July 29, 1973 morning.
B&O E7 #74 at Cumberland, MD in July 1955. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.
Erie's first PA-1 accelerates from the Ridgewood station with a morning train bound for Hoboken. It looks like GM, Ford and Chrysler are all represented in the parking lot at left.
One of two newly refurbished Superliner coaches being leased by the State of California for Amtrak California service.
A BNSF train lost its air brakes and turned into a runaway train that ended up in CP's Pig's Eye Yard.
In Eritrea, a few Russian Ural 375-D trucks that have been built in the Soviet Union in the 60’s and 70’s have been converted to run on rail wheels. They have been used in the Eritrean railway... (more)
