A string of former Western Pacific GEs sits outside Union Pacific's North Little Rock shops awaiting disposition. Several of these units would be rebuilt to a Super7-23B for use on the Monongahel... (more)
Bullet Nose Betty poses on the turntable in downtown Toronto on a summer night in the late 70's.
Bordeaux tram line C (Les Aubrais - Terres Neuves), here stopping in front of beautiful Place de la Bourse. The water on the ground create a great mirror effect and highlights the wonderful city s... (more)
The crew looks over the RBMN 5029, a parts only SD50M. The engine has the middle axel removed on both trucks limiting the train to 10mph for the whole trip, Pittston to Jim Thorpe. This train has ... (more)
Staging outside of the locomotive shops are the hoods to several engines on a flat car.
Driver’s work office on the brant new MLW A460
A look inside the cab of UP #4006. It is such a shame that one of these locomotives can't be restored back to operating condition.
The first snow storm of year has hit Crozier Canyon during the afternoon of Christmas eve. Within an hour, nearly an inch and half of snow fell; turning Crozier into a winter wonderland. Here, a h... (more)
Brandt a company based out of Regina Sk has broke into the genset market by building this gen-xt out of a former CP GP9u 1592 and is the only engine ever built by the company. It is sitting on Ste... (more)
Spirit of '76' 1976. The second BN "Bicentennial" 1976, nee-GN 323/BN 9853/6397. Renumbered back to BN 6397 in January 1979. Only 20 SDP40s built - six for GN and fourteen for NdeM.
Two DDA40X "Centennials" and a GP9B bring a westbound down Cajon Pass.
The Canadian Pacific Saratoga Yard Job with the STLH 7308 delivers more cars to the latest Iowa Pacific venture. An ex Long Island bilevel set, SLRG 3007, is being delivered. Previously delivered ... (more)
This is a sister image to this photo. You see the rear of a manifest leaving Altoona and a set of BH50 Baldwin pushe... (more)
CP 8861 leads a unit coal train over the CN bridge at Cisco in the Fraser River Canyon under stormy skies. The bridge in the foreground is the CPR mainline. Since the 1990s, CN and CP have shared... (more)
GRW 324, a former EJ&E SW1200, passes a handful of older CN equipment as it shoves a train into Kirk Yard in Gary, Indiana.
A close up view of all the wires and hoses hooked up to the prime mover of UP 8394. The locomotive is currently being modified and tested for Tier 4 emissions standards. Railroad: Union PacificLocomotive: EMD SD70ACeLocation: LaGrange, Illinois, USALocomotive #: UP 8394Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: April 23, 2012
A powerful gust of wind derailed some cars on 21T, sending two containers into the river. The last car is being rerailed. Two sets of containers are being dragged to the west end of the bridge. A ... (more)
The 470 Railroad Club of Portland's annual charter train heads West passing under Route 302 at Cooks Crossing in Bartlett. The train will proceed West through Crawford Notch to Fabyan Station and ... (more)
Climbing out of Laurel, northbound trains on the Laurel Sub zig zag through areas once sparse and unpopulated, now one of the most popular and expensive real estate markets in the area. One of the... (more)
They were known as "buffalo", due to their somewhat ungainly appearance. The Union railroad had a large fleet of Baldwin road switchers that they re-engined with EMD prime movers in the early 1960... (more)
The N&W Class J 611 heads west under the CPL's at Webster with hundreds of interested spectators watching. Many in the huge crowd here had waited for hours. I don't think anyone imagined that such... (more)
A severe thunderstorm has moved off to the east, but the lightning continues to illuminate the sky over the Union Pacific Jenks shops and the impressive DD40X UP 6938 that is on display.
As the warm glow of a fall sunset fades in the sky, sparks fly from the tip of the torch. By dawn nothing would be left of 1639's cab.
Step into the Dziobko PRR-in-color time machine to 1956 as we crack open a box of closeted kodachromes taken at the Pennsy facility at Renovo. Here's photo #1..a hungry shark waiting for work on ... (more)
12R pauses at CP Front Street while a train clears ahead. Symmetry. Canon EOS 10D w/ 70-200mm F/4L lens. 1/500 sec @ F/9.
McCloud 2-6-2 #25 steams on for the Oregon Coast Scenic Railway as it departs Garibaldi on a typical pacific northwest afternoon. Here the train is seen passing by the historic 1936 US Coast Guard... (more)
Amtrak GG-1 #926 on display at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse, NY. For more pics & videos from my collection see my website at http://northamericabyrail.info/
Motor Train #26 scoots along just south of Portales, New Mexico, en route from Carlsbad to Clovis. Trailing the motor is chair-observation #3197. Motor M.160 alternated with the M.190 on these tra... (more)
Oh … So the Flashing Red Lights Mean "Stop"? As Southern Pacific's Huntington Beach Hauler was heading west (compass north) on the Stanton Branch back to Anaheim, at jus... (more)
Brand-new Budd RDCs 9156 & 9155 sit on display at Bethlehem. The trucks and undercarriage were painted blue which brought to mind the 1937 streamlined G1sas Pacifics that pulled the Budd-built CRU... (more)
It is an unusually warm and sultry autumn morning. Three GP40's, basking in the hazy brilliance of the rising sun, have just brought in the northbound road freight.
Soon to be a thing of the past, the CPL's at Landgraff get silhouetted by an eastbound.
NS 16T crosses the New River with a colorful lashup as a beautiful Sunset looms over head.
Engineman control desk of CN 2441
Who paints BNSF's brand new locomotives coming out of GE's factory in Fort Worth? Chris does. Here he poses in front of a locomotive he'll shortly be painting.
It was a very steamy morning along the New River as a westbound manifest pulled through the yard at Quinnimont, WV on Aug. 19, 1975. The sun had just popped over the ridge and the local "yard dog... (more)
Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local rumbles along the Clark Fork just west of Eddy (east of Thompson Falls), Montana, on January 24, 2013. A build-up of ice on the rocks on the edges of a cove al... (more)
Looking west toward the setting sun on the Aurora sub in Chana, Illinois. A tiny midwestern town, Chana has no stores, no gas stations, amid miles of corn. I had stopped there looking for somethin... (more)
Eastbund with 2 Joes and a dead boxcab enters the yard while a westbound Joe Diesel combo sits on main waiting to leave
Blue Santa Fe units (4 Fs and 2 Geeps) among the Texas state flower Bluebonnets. ATSF 276C is southbound (RR East) at Landes, Texas, headed for Houston on April 4, 1971.
ATSF 2912 (4-8-4) has seen better days and with the main connecting rods missing, it is doubtful that she will run again.
Santa Fe EMD F7A No. 347C and F3B No. 347B soak up some California sunshine in Old Sacramento at the California State Railroad Museum on March 11, 2001. AT&SF No. 347C is the only Santa Fe F7A not... (more)
During the golden hour on a late winter afternoon, billboards and buildings provide the backdrop for this Long Island Rail Road EMD DE30AC, leading its train out of Long Island City yard to its fi... (more)
Penn Central train 62 between Chicago and New York was the nameless successor to the New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited and the ancestor of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited. On a hazy summer ... (more)
A westbound Canadian National freight crosses the Fraser River over Cisco Bridge at Cisco, British Columbia, on September 27, 2001. Powering the train is the interesting consist of EMD SD50F No. 5... (more)
"Removing a Car at Manhattan Beer" New York & Atlantic's RS-20 waits for employees to move their coworker's automobile at the Manhattan Beer Distributors Industrial Track on the Bushwick Br... (more)
CN #391 dropped 17 cars including 2 HazMat on Saturday morning. By the time we got there, the train had already been pulled away and Hulcher was hard at work.
10 locomotives are on the lead of a UP freight descending off the Huey P Long Bridge and almost into the joint UP/BNSF Avondale Yard. The locomotives in this monster consist are UP 8203 (SD9043MAC... (more)
N&W Y6 2-8-8-2 #2136 leads as southbound freight through Stoneville, NC in this September 1954 view. Photo by Bob Drake from the Tom Sink Collection
Amid the spectacular Book Cliff mountains of Utah's Green River Desert, Rio Grande Heritage SD70ACe 1989 heads west with a 67 car MNYPV-08.
Gornergrat Railway with the Matterhorn
I have long thought about getting a good photo at this location. Over the years I have had more than a few chances and captured a few decent photos but I always felt there was a better shot. It is... (more)
At 00:39 on 01/17/69, southbound Illinois Central passenger train #25 led by a trio of E-units collided with a northbound freight that went past a red signal at Indian Oaks. Three people, includi... (more)
The Storms over Denver & Big Ten Storms continue to leave heavy rain and hail over the suburbs of Denver and the High Plains. The evening sun brings out a rainbow and is ab... (more)
UP 8069 and company rest in the Departure Yard of West Colton as a pair of SD40-2's hurry back into the yard. The crew van has just arrived, the Carmen have inspected the train, and the blue flag ... (more)
Happy 150th North Little Rock! I have held my tongue long enough! This project to get the UP 6938 repainted started a month ago. They had to use heavy equipment usually seen in action at derailmen... (more)
I wrote this caption, "This lash up is a ABBBB set of F7s shown at the Grand Canyon Station with the seasonal train called the Grand Canyon in July 1962. This train made a nocturnal round trip (... (more)
The 2 UP engines that were involved in the head-on collision of Metrolink train 111 and the UP LOF65 back on 9/12/08 are seen heading east to Colton.
Taken in the East Altoona pit during the steam-diesel transition era with a PRR Police escort. The Alco diesels were classified RSD-7 on the Pennsy.
Nothing says welcome to the South more in summer than over abundance of the imported vine, Kudzu. Originally brought to North America to control erosion, the fast growing vine rapidly did it's job... (more)
Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad has repainted its former Algoma Central SD40-2, shown moving storage tank cars in preparation of its first service on the Hayward Branch as part of a switching ag... (more)
A crash damaged carriage is seen on it`s side, loaded on a flat wagon at Laksham Junction.
Normally nocturnal Q594 battles snowdrifts as it traverses the former B&O east from Decatur, Illinois.
Winterail has come and gone, but the trains still roll on. At a point about halfway between two elevation gaining horseshoe curves about 3 miles west of Summit, a short 9 car Hauler creaks and gr... (more)
Man-made lava pours out of a slag car on the Baiyin Non-Ferrous Metals Railway. This slag tip was relatively hard to get to and was not visited by many enthusiasts who stopped by Baiyin over the y... (more)
An export unit out on the test track even has the pedestrians taking a look. It is believed this unit is bound for Angola as part of a recent contract for 100 locomotives to be built in Erie.
Burlington's big O-5B 4-8-4 5632 is serviced at Galesburg enroute from Lincoln, NE to Chicago. I rode the NEBRASKA ZEPHYR from Chicago to intercept the excursion during daylight.
One of four SD60MACs built ... coupled with a shiny new Union Pacific C41-8W. The SD60MACs were never ordered as anything but demonstrators, but they were successful in proving the AC motor desig... (more)
Delaware & Hudson's sharp pair of Baldwin RF16 sharknose diesels take a break at Whitehall. These two units began life as part of the New York Central's fleet delivered between 12/51 and 2/52. The... (more)
Reading (Blue Mountain & Reading) 2102 in its "Iron Horse Rambles" paint sits outside its birthplace.
An empty ore train makes short work of a plow ridge created by the Lake County truck in the distance, which was coming back and sanding the opposite side of the road.
Blue hour at the railway station at McAdam, New Brunswick, about an hour after the westbound departed towards Maine.
Theres never a dull moment at the Durango Yard. Rio Grande #480 takes a turn on the table while #473 and #481 are serviced. Photo taken at a Lerro Productions night photo session during the annual... (more)
Flash floods washed out the tracks over Racoon Mtn before this L&N tonnage train could stop.
Two Generations of F-units - F7s Meet F45s. ATSF 314L leads an A-B-B-A F-unit lash-up on Amtrak #16, The Texas Chief, as it passes HB&T's New South Yard Tower 117 about 10 minutes af... (more)
Bessemer & Lake Erie 643 is stored outdoors in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKees Rocks. This 2-10-4 was fully restored in 1988 but was only test-fired, not operated in excursion service as intended... (more)
The only woman driver of car and locomotive in Romania and Europe.
N&W Y6b 2179 and Y6a 2157 roll down the Blue Ridge grade in reverse during a light engine move.
J1a #6403 poses for a picture at Columbus. It was likely part of the PRR motive power force defending the turf on the Sandusky coal trains v. the 11 Santa Fe 2-10-4's brought in to augment the fl... (more)
Freshly repainted Rock Island #2127 sits outside the yard office in Sumner, MS during a light rain fall. Yes, the unit is now classified as a C42-9. Rock Island made some software and horsepower u... (more)
A Northern Pacific observation car brings up the tail end of the North Coast Limited as it begins its journey east from Seattle, WA. Notice no vests, hard hats or safety glasses on the workers.
Waking up the Chama Valley. With the alpine sunrise now just minutes away, our early morning Cumbres Turn charges up the 4% toward Coxo Crossing, with her stack beats echoing across the en... (more)
One of the formeer TEE diesel units, now branded Inter-City, leaves the Bettunnel south of St.Goar on the west bank of the River Rhine on a southbound working.
A 3-foot intercity express on the way to Keparessia crossing the area of the reck.
Santa Fe F7As 304L (in Yellow Warbonnet) and 306C (in the traditional Red Warbonnet) lay over in San Diego waiting to hustle westbound Amtrak San Diegans north to Los Angeles.
Knoxville/Asheville train 136 works it's way eastbound along the former Southern Railway "River line" in western North Carolina, seen here crossing the French Broad River near Hot Spring... (more)
A Christmas Eve snowstorm produced some significant snowfall in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. My alarm went off at 0300 Saturday morning to drive down and see what kind of shots I could ge... (more)
