C&O F7(A) no.7004 sports an experimental paint scheme applied in 1960 to simplify the paint schemes, yet providing good visibility of the units at grade crossings. Two F7As nos.7004 and 7068, and ... (more)
UP 9912 drops down across Rock Creek trestle, deep in Feather River Canyon.
During a power shortage on the Clinchfield RR in the early 70s, this C628 was leased from MK for a period of time, seen here in Erwin TN during the spring of 1971 paired with a Clinchfield B unit ... (more)
A UP SW1500 starts a mile long line of stored locomotives at the yard in Nampa. More signs of a struggling economy.
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Canadian National train No. 112 snakes along the shore of the Athabasca River and soon will exit Jasper National Park east of Park Gate, Alberta, on July 12, 2014. The train is about to enter Brul... (more)
The Conrail office car train passes the still-operating Bethlehem Steel complex on a crisp December morning.
After a two hour wait, i was able to witness the future of passenger locomotives on a test train between Portland and Seattle. Built in 2016, the "Charger"locomotive was very quiet and pretty slee... (more)
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)
A down-on look just west of Ilmon reveals the roof-top hardware and details of Santa Fe SD45 5612.
The roasted shell of the UP 1407 sits yards away from the scene of the initial fire. After a small derailment, a diesel fire ensued completely charing this former SSW unit. Thankfully no crew was ... (more)
The eastbound CHIEF rolls into Raton on July 4th as the American flag waves in the breeze. This shot has always been a favorite.
This is a BNSF stack train at the Port of Tacoma, delivering a train to Tacoma Rail. As part of normal operations, this train comes west across Stevens Pass, through Seattle and down (south) to... (more)
Steam on the Denver & Rio Grande Western standard gauge in 1977? Yes indeed! A 150-ton Bucyrus derrick was called out of Roper Yard to clean up an eight car derailment at Provo Yard on March 4, 19... (more)
EJ&E's Bicentennial contribution is gleaming in the summer sun while on display at a U.S. Steel open house in Gary. Notice the white-painted air hoses on the unit.
North Pole Express Northbound. Valley Railroad No. 3025 leads the second section of the sold out North Pole Express northbound just past the Hadlyme station in Chester, CT. Two Lumedyne flashes ... (more)
Western Maryland K-2 Pacific #202 - Built by Baldwin in July of 1912, this engine was retired in 1952 and later donated "to the children of Hagerstown, MD". She is one of only two WM survi... (more)
The dead silence of the Don Valley is broken as the whine of the dyno's of a GP38 & 2 SD40's rumble westwards over the Valley and CN's Bala Subdivision in perfect morning sunshine.
Horsehead Helpers pass the Gallitzin Tunnels Park. Thanks to Gallitzin Tourist Council for the assistance! www.gallitzin.info
The 1220 has certainly seen better days, this is the result of a loaded asphalt truck running into her as she was crossing Court Street last Friday, no one was injured in the collision. more)
A packed to the gills local service arrives at the dusty town of Sumaoli in Central India. The station is part of the 2' gauge Gwalior - Sheopur Kalan section, part of the former Gwalior Light Rai... (more)
A ban on interchanging cars with cast iron wheels leaves these standard guage wooden US Army box cars locked in the old EBT yards just outside of Mt. Union, PA.
All is silent on the Gunnison Line... The Denver & Rio Grande Western stretched westward toward the booming gold mines of the mighty west bound for mines near Crested Butte and points west... (more)
CN 5749 leads a westbound train at Cisco, BC
This CP westbound avoids the tie/ forest fire at Kam. Things have been extremely dry this spring and things are not looking good for forest fires this year. In the picture you can make out the bla... (more)
Even a brute like this needs a sip of water every now and then. To see a companion photo taken at about the same time but from higher perspective, click Railroad: Pennsylvania RailroadLocomotive: Steam 2-10-0Location: Altoona, Pennsylvania, USALocomotive #: PRR 6314Train ID: light powerPhoto Date: June 11, 1953
The final end is approaching for ex CP Rail M-636 #4723 as the 16-251E engine block is being cut up.
Streamliners! Sixteen cab units, as viewed from above.
January 31, 1979- CR 6407 was the leader and CR 6377 was the trailing unit of a Buffalo-Enola freight that rear-ended a stopped Syracuse-Enola freight. Both trains were to stop for a northbound fr... (more)
Two Great Northern F’s await their next assignment at Portland, Oregon on April 11, 1969. Portland’s Union Station Tower is in the background.
WW&F No.10 with a trainful of merry passengers drifts across Humason Trestle, and the icy brook below. This year's Victorian Christmas event takes place Saturday, December 18th, 2010. Wish for sno... (more)
The Aurora Borealis! For years I've waited to see it, spending hours on "Aurora tracking" websites in hopes of there being an Aurora storm at the right time and with clear skies. Finally, o... (more)
NOHAB-Balaton III. The summer of 2013 was unforgettable for many European railway enthusiasts, because after 13 years GM's diesel-powered NOHAB locomotive hauled regular trains again at Lak... (more)
A rare Sunday Summerville Steam Special passes through the heart of Rossville, GA. The fireman appears to be getting the fire stoked for the grade out of town.
An RJ Corman Company train pulls a cut of cars through Cresson passing Cresson Steel.
Train Truck Standoff M&E 19 is street running down Monroe street on the Dundee spur on its way to the Dundee yard to pick up EL U34CH 3372, however it appears that a tractor... (more)
4008 "Spirit of Wasilla" sitting not running at the cruise ship terminal siding on July 15, 2005 with the NCL "Norwegian Dream" dwarfing it in the background
The "Jack Benny" locomotive returning from a lumber branch run with a matching caboose. I was surprised to see so many low nose first generation GP9s in 1972 on the Western Maryland. To see more c... (more)
Few photo locations would dwarf a pair of GG-1s, but Safe Harbor's vast amphitheater ringed by the river, steep verdant cliffs, sprawling electrical infrastructure, and monstrous bridgework could ... (more)
Pensylvania Railroad M1 4-8-2 No 6926 built by Baldwin in 1926 on show at Altoona in 1937. A5s 0-4-0 switcher No 1098 stands beside the Mountain. What appears to be one of the two K5 Pacifics, No ... (more)
An EMD SDL50 and SDL38 prepare to depart with SRO's second passenger train of the day towards Dammam on nice "winter's" day. Notice the extra-large air filters behind the cabs. The train's coaches... (more)
J 603 rolls downgrade with a complete streamlined set of equipment on the POWHATAN ARROW bound for Cincinnati. This is the 4-8-4 featured in O. Winston Link's long recording of train 42 at Rural R... (more)
The BT Turn is working the Susquehanna's Passaic Junction Yard. Call letters for this location are PD, and it is where the two one-time Erie Railroad subsidiaries, the Bergen County Railroad and ... (more)
NW Alco C-630 1134 broadside at Bluefield, WV
As Y JOL202 shoves east to the 51 Lead with Bluebonnet SD40-2 #1614, L CHI105 highballs west on Main 2 through the Kankakee River backwaters with a "unibrowed" GP50 leading the way. Wednesday even... (more)
How to get to the valley floor where the marble deposits are? 4.5% grades and a switchback. GNRR GP10 #7562 backs down the switchback with three hoppers on a mine run to Imerys on this former Geor... (more)
Snow Locked Flatirons Westbound, high out on the Flatirons above the Great Plains in full snow flock the Provo manifest swoops in and out of tunnel 2, 3, and onward to the Gr... (more)
CNR freight F7 9098 leads number 10, the Rupert Rocket, eastbound into Jasper, Alberta in September 1967. The train has a steam generator car to provide heat to the train.
Storage cars rot away at the inactive Bates Branch loadout deep in the C&O coalfields.
Duct Tape Can't Fix Everything... ...despite popular belief. Though the talented shop force at Juniata probably can fix anything. NS 4001, the AC44C6M that was involved in the 59... (more)
Santa is coming...Merry Christmas!
Model railroading at 12" to the foot scale. Looking every bit like some of the over/under arrangements that are common on basement model railroad layouts, Grand Canyon Railway #29 comes cru... (more)
The Southern New England leasing (SENX) Alco RS-36 #5012 is working at Greenwich, NY on April 17 at the mill. The Alco was never a Delaware & Hudson unit but the scheme is inspired by the D&H. U... (more)
The A&W crew go about switching the last customer on the original line east of Sanford - a very busy scrap dealer. The business has spurs in opposing directions on either side of a steep dip in th... (more)
119's lead GE doing what a GE does best, as it chugs up the hill away from Linwood through the heavily wooded area of Five Row
The prototype Gresley LNER Class P2 2-8-2 No 2001 'Cock o'the North' waits at Kings Cross while on show to the press. A Gresley Class N2 0-6-2T is beside the apple green 2-8-2. A photo by the late... (more)
The Nickel Plate concentrated on its freight business. Nevertheless the NKP did manage a comfortable passenger service, and in diesels opted for Alco's classic PA's. Chicago bound 'Bluebirds' 181... (more)
After living in Alaska for over four years I finally made a trip to our local "railroad" museum. They have a fascinating collection of Alaska rolling stock and it is definitely worth a look if yo... (more)
The first Viewliner II released from CAF USA in Elmira, NY rolls into Rensselaer, NY after an all day trip from Elmira. The Special Amtrak train consisting of AMTK 203, an Amfleet Café, the new b... (more)
Somebody knows something about this railcar ?
Recently released from Mid-America Car, Rock Island E6A 630 and E8A 652 wait for the KCS to pull them and a myriad of other units from the industry track. They'll interchange to the CP at Knoche ... (more)
"Splash"
The remains of the cab from a former EMD SD90MAC-H2 built for Union Pacific are seen resting on the ground these days instead of pulling a heavy trains as intended. Although the locomotive model ... (more)
MILW Little Joe E76 powers up and leads three SD40-2s (3009, 3018, 3000) eastward out of St. Regis, Montana across the namesake St. Regis River on August 9, 1973. Following the river was the Nor... (more)
It looks like this engine and her sisters managed to catch fire somewhere.
Fresh from the paintshop @ GMDD in London, this beautiful GP60M was put on display for everyone touring the plant during their open house. No cameras were allowed during the open house but a few ... (more)
First wreck at new South Dunlop Connection
The former DW&P railroad depot near the end of Chestnut Street in Virginia, MN is in the fog from the yet unfrozen Silver Lake on a cold December evening. A nearby detector from a northbound CN f... (more)
The first light of day arrives to lighten the valley, the tracks and the mind of this railroader/photographer to the world that he see's in his own eyes, waiting for the first daylight train to fi... (more)
BBQ unit
A northbound Upper Canada Railway Society special from Toronto to Gravenhurst with 4-8-4 CN 6218 meets the eastbound Super Continental at Washago. I understand this area is now down to a single tr... (more)
99 7238 with train 8945 will reach the end station on Brocken summit in the next moment..
General Electric's Tier 4 ES44AC at Keenesburg, CO. The demonstrator unit and GECX Test Car #100 are bound for the TTC Test Center in Pueblo, CO.
The new and rebuilt VIA 6400 going on her first transcon journey west in her new paint scheme ! A little more info on the 6400, she was brought into CAD in Montreal in 2005 and was released fully ... (more)
Mamiya 645 color negative
The floods of spring now gone, an eastbound intermodal shoots across the fill at the oxbow of the Bow River known as Muleshoe. Snow still lingers on the south facing slope of Massive Mountain, but... (more)
At 630 feet long and 186 feet tall, Goat Canyon Trestle is the largest curved trestle and second largest trestle of any kind in the world. It was constructed in 1933 when tunnel 15 (in the foregro... (more)
Built new for the St. Louis Southwestern Railway (Cotton Belt) in April 1976, an 89 foot bilevel auto rack moves slowly into Roper Yard in Salt Lake City on July 9, 2016. The SSW 80638, involved i... (more)
Wisconsin Central train No. 51 passes underneath the Chicago and North Western’s Adams Line at Sussex, Wisconsin, on April 16, 1997. On the point is WC’s only EMD FP45, No. 6652, followed by a... (more)
A dmu unit on the way to Kozani, crossing one of the many steam electric powers of Ptolemaeda plantation.
The final cut It was a long wait for a train in Delyatin. Wandering around the yard we found this rather elegant Soviet era coach. Soon, a couple of guys showed up in a picku... (more)
Built by the Marion Steam Shovel Company of Marion, Ohio in 1920 this unique item is possibly the oldest remaining 12" gun mount on a rail car. Once used as coastal defenses through the 1920... (more)
NS 072, reroute of Q741 juice train, crosses the Potomac River on the NS H-line (because of the CSX derailment in WDC). This was the only juice reroute.
The sound of 12,300 struggling horsepower reverberates across the Canyon Ferry Lake Valley as BNSF 9357 west crawls upgrade at Bedford, MT.
A San Diegan is seen backing out of the Union Passenger Station and is traveling around the north leg of the wye onto the ATSF main. Shot was taken from inside Mission Tower.
The sun pokes through the thick Virginia fog as K446 crosses the Copper Creek Viaduct.
One-hundred cylinders Within the fury of swirling exhaust and sand, five Montana Rail Link EMD SD45s shove hard on a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train climbing Bozeman P... (more)
A Challenger leads a southbound freight with a new Pennsylvania RR Alco switcher in delivery just behind the tender
