Norfolk Southern's "Pennsylvania" Heritage Unit no. 8102 made a trip from Beaumont, Texas to the oil loading facility at Swan Ranch near Cheyenne, Wyoming. After dropping off their train so it can... (more)
Mingo Monster A Rails Northeast article by Jay Potter, titled “The Monsters of Mingo Junction”, made the small industrial town of Mingo Junction, Ohio, a bucket list des... (more)
This week's installment of the VRS/PAR Saturday Slurry train may not be pretty, with MEC C40-8s 7627, 7585, 7635, 310 and 503, but for what the consist lacks, the sky more than makes up for! Seen... (more)
A timely meet? The 2 CSXT trains are actually moving! A well placed gondola allows us to see the WE 3046 on the point of the loaded ore train.
In an extremely cold wind, an eastbound Burlington Northern freight is veiled in blowing snow at Grizzly, Montana, on March 3, 1989, beneath the looming scenic and rugged mountains of Glacier Nat... (more)
Pre-Santa Train passenger special slams through the freshly rebuilt and now CTC-equipped interlocking at Linton at a cool 40mph (confirmed by Mr. AEI back there). Believe it!
This was the glorious return of a classic locomotive class that was (and is) wholly appropriate to the Settle & Carlisle route. 'Royal Scot' No.46115 'Scots Guardsman' thunders out of Stainforth t... (more)
Nestled inside the center of CSX's Russell Yard, Progress Rail's Raceland Shops in Raceland, Kentucky have tracks full of relatively modern EMD locomotives that have been cast off from Class 1 Rai... (more)
With Christmas card like scenery, this BNSF Military train rounds the curve as it comes off BNSF's high line, and enters UP's Canyon sub. This impressive train with make its way to a military bas... (more)
The rainy season was about to finished, but some scattered rainclouds could still be seen overhead. But it doesn't reduce our enjoyment to photograph this Dutch-tourist laden Lodaya train.
The GRAND CANYON arrives at Dearborn Station behind F3 A-B-B-B units late in the afternoon.
A look inside the paint booth finds CSX 2428 getting prepped for a coat of YN3B. The unit is former L&N 1274. Taken with permission.
As this grain train was arriving in Harrisonburg, Virginia today, an unfortunate derail occurred with several loaded grain cars hitting the ground. Traffic was blocked on the nearby Route 11 for ... (more)
In a significant milestone, driver #1 goes back under Southern Railway #630 while the locomotive continues its return to active service at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's Soule Shops in Eas... (more)
Departing Alloy yard limits and crossing the Kanawha River at Deepwater, NS-rebuilt GE AC44C6M No. 4181 leads over 12,000 tons of West Virginia coal into the Virginian's Deepwater Tunnel. It's an ... (more)
Shortly after the merger of GN, NP, SP&S and CB&Q there were many examples of mixed running and mixed consists. Witness this meet at Scribner, WA on the former SP&S with a GN U25B and a NP SD45.
The 6473 was the lead unit of a welded rail-train that became a runaway because not enough hand brakes were set on it. Its south bound journey came to a crushing stop after running head-on into t... (more)
Heading west with 1223 leaving a nice trail of smoke.
Empties returning to the mine
Conway Scenic 252, a former Maine Central GP38, leads a special over the impressive Willey Brook Bridge in Hart's Location, NH. The special is returning to North Conway after making the slow and l... (more)
This is the only time I've ever seen an E60CH and a P42DC together (although this was SOP in the late 90s, early 00s). The train is the "Three Rivers" from New York to Pittsburgh (and on to Chica... (more)
As the yard job slowly makes its way down the yard lead waiting to get authority to come out onto the Dixie controlled siding, a group of kids crosses the main. The kids had a few choice words for... (more)
Seen at the FrontRunner maintenance facility. Either they're starting elevated service or are getting ready to film an episode of "Pimp My Choo-Choo."
The derailment of CSX X439, 4 cars ended up in the water.
Eastbound D&RGW freight entering Gore Canyon.
Extra 21 East has just emerged from Snoqualmie Tunnel at Hyak, summit of the Cascades (2562'). Note poor condition of the siding, still in daily use. That's the Hyak substation in the background, ... (more)
The New York & Lake Erie Railroad Museum puts away the power on Saturday afternoon.
Behind the engineer seat on CN 2193 looking north.
Here you see some fun at the United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey yard in Boonton, New Jersey. The "Century Green" paint on E-8 4083, believe it or not, is completely authentic for beg... (more)
Down the Dragons Throat All the noise from this eastbound train is directed out of the tunnel portal and shakes your body like the grand finally of a fireworks show on the 4th of July. Head... (more)
The Empress crosses over the High Level Bridge in Lethbridge, Alberta, on one of her many runs over the bridge that day. The bridge is 307 feet tall and one mile and forty seven feet long, making ... (more)
On the joint CSX/WW mainline through downtown Winchester. The locomotives have just passed the former B&O Station and WW Headquarters on it's way to taking 28 empties back to Gore.
Say goodbye to the former UP widecab! This cab is about to be cut up in the Cresson scrapyard. The locomotive itself is in Altoona and will become the first SD70ACU locomotive. It will receive ... (more)
Crews have been working around the clock to clean up a wreck involving two trains on the CSX Tranportation Mohawk Subdvision that occured just before 08:00 hrs on June 27th. The actual cause is st... (more)
The UP Big Boy basks in the morning sun in Scranton
Westbound A Lerro Production charter.
A grain train rolls east down the BNSF Clovis Subdivision as a thunderstorm moves across the distant sky in Bodega, New Mexico.
Southern SD45 #3167 brings a mixed reight off of the famous Saluda grade leaving behind a cloud of brake smoke.
The South Chicago & Indiana Harbor (Chicago Short Line for short) shoves east on the NS at CP 509, making way through the impressive lift bridges near the IL/IN border. SW1500 31 and SW1001 28 are... (more)
Metrolink train 608, en-route to Oceanside, prepares to stop at Fullerton, CA.
C&O was becoming more alinged with B&O in the late sixties. So it was fitting to catch a C&O and B&O unit sharing the turntable tracks on a light day.
Norfolk Southern SD60E number 6920 has been painted in a special scheme in honor of our Nations' Veterans and members of all branches of the Armed Services. Photo by Casey Thomason. For more i... (more)
Three former WP F units gather and pose at the Portola Railroad Museum in 1994 (now Western Pacific RR Museum). The 913 and 921-D are two of the “Fab 4”. The Fab 4 were the last four WP F unit... (more)
RUBBER WHEELS INSTEAD OF METAL
Heavy Stuff With the sprawling General Electric complex in Schenectady as a major on-line shipper, the Delaware & Hudson had to maintain a fleet of special-use flat cars. That flee... (more)
Mebane Fire Department trucks line the street just a block from the firehouse as Mid East Railroad Service crews begin the process of getting NCDOT 1792 back on the rails following the grade cross... (more)
A one-car BNSF local out of Bend crosses the spectacular Crooked River Bridge near Terrabonne, Oregon, on the afternoon of September 28, 2016. Powering the diminutive train is BNSF GP38-2 No. 2093... (more)
I could not imagine my self in my honeymoon without trains . So i did it in the wonderfull city of Paris with this subway the Eiffel tower and my nagging wife !
As soon as we pull up to Five Row, 154 pulls slowly by with a high and wide of this wrecked GEVO from a head on collision in GA.
Outside the UP Downing B. Jenks Shop, UP 6938 stands proudly.
Keeping the home fires burning. It's the fall of 1944 and America is waging war against the forces of evil in both Europe and the Pacific. With much of its able-bodied young and middle-age... (more)
If you like trains and trucks here's a shot for you...BNSF #7727 looks like it's sitting on the flatbed trailer behind the Peterbilt parked near the Vancouver Terminal.
Partially caked in snow, 3001 looks even stranger than normal.
AVR SD60M 6002 slows as it approaches the NS Island Avenue Yard, rolling through "The Trench" in Pittsburgh, PA.
Altoona's Juniata Shops continue to experiment with new locomotive designs. Their newest project is the this Compressed Natural Gas Mother Slug Set. NS 799 has been designated as the CNG Tender fo... (more)
Heavy overnight December summer rain resulted in the Amanzimtoti River coming down in flood and eroding into the supporting bank of the line down to the KwaZulu Natal South Coast at the mouth of t... (more)
Gutted for to keep the rest of the railroads fleet of 567 powered EMD's going, whats left of C&O 6243 rusts to the rails as trees and vines grow up around it at the railroads outdoor maintenance f... (more)
Eastbound Q398, with 6 units, crosses the Potomac River and is about to enter the tunnel at historic Harpers Ferry W.V.
Found this unit sitting in the backshop of Union Pacific's Taylor Diesel Maintenance Facility. I do not know what wreck it was involved in.
F is for First. At dusk on the first day of 2019, a Coney Island-bound IND Culver Line F train is approaching Smith-9th Street in Brooklyn, with the skyline of Lower Manhattan in the background. C... (more)
On Sunday, August 21st of 2016 Canadian Pacific train 235 collided with 118 at the Howland crossover in midtown Toronto just after 5am. CP 118 (taken away at time of the picture) was crossing over... (more)
Around 10:30 am this day, CSX derailed 22 cars in the heart of town. Most of the town lost power and the local elementary school was evacuated due to no power and precautionary measures. This to d... (more)
Creeping along in unfamiliar territory, Rock Island U25B 210 makes its way past damaged right-of-way at Spruce on Colorado’s Joint Line, on its way to Denver with piggyback and auto loads. The ... (more)
NS B23-7 # 3994 was involved in a head on crash with a pair of C39-8`s south of Dalton , Ga. Locomotives 8641 , 2799 , & 3994 were destroyed .
While touring NRE's Silvis facility with an escort and proper PPE, we were allowed to look inside the cab of former Metra E8 516. 516 was built as CNW 5029A and still has the CNW cab signal equip... (more)
For a long time it was normal practice for narrow gauge trains to handle standard gauge cars between Alamosa and Antonito and intermediate points on the three-rail. By the early 60's this practice... (more)
Steam returns to Bluefield... NS 060 is preparing to depart Bluefield Yard in southern West Virginia enroute to Grundy, Va., for a series of NS 21st century steam excursions. Two SD40-2s wi... (more)
An eastbound BNSF empty military train (Ft. Lewis, WA-Ft. Hood, TX) with KCS and UP locomotives, rolls under the former Milwaukee Road right of way at Lombard, Montana, on the Montana Rail Link. A... (more)
NS 5531 is seen loaded onto a flatcar so it can be transported to Altoona , Pa where it is still stored to this day.
With the Mississippi River slowly receding back to it's banks, the CP has resumed operations by "push/pulling" trains through the remaining high water. The conductor and student are rid... (more)
The Rock Island Lines Silvis Shop main bay was divided in half. East was called the ramp. This is where running repairs and FRA inspections were done. West was the back shop where heavy repairs an... (more)
I'd like to say these new BL20s are worthy successors to the FL9s they're replacing, but I'm afraid they come up a tad short in the looks department. Here's hoping the mechanics are better than t... (more)
An early morning commuter train stops at Newark Broad St Station en route to New York which is in the distance.
What a snow blower? This piece of equipment was used by the Erie Lackawanna [and D&H] for burning weeds in the summer and to clear snow and ice from the switches in the winter. Never saw it do a... (more)
UP local power, GP7 No. 101 and caboose 25097 rests at Kent, Washington between runs up and down the Kent Valley between Seattle and Tacoma. The local handled the Tukwila industrial park as well a... (more)
The towering red rocks of Moab make even thundering freight trains seem like children's playthings.
The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad's Cheat Mountain Salamander (left) meets the Cass Scenic Railroad's Bald Knob excursion at Spruce on Sept. 24, 2017.
Here you see Reading No. 2124 after her recent asbestos abatement project sporting a fresh paint job bathing in the warm setting Scranton sun. A few hours before I was part of the crew that placed... (more)
Got Horsepower?
Touristic steam train, at Chama - Antonito mountain route
MP "Babyface" DR-4-4-15s on a freight train at Myrick, Missouri during the Summer of 1952. Bob Drake photo, collection of Tom Sink.
End of the Cog Railway at top of Pikes Peak
The last operational locomotive (Baldwin 70497) from more than five hundred USATC S160 Class locos (2-8-0), which were bought by MÁV after the World War II. (In the background 109,109 and 424,247... (more)
A pair of 80MAC's lead 99 empty hoppers south through the fall foliage at Rockingham. The train is bound for PBS Coals' Shade Creek Mine in Central City to load. Once loaded and back to South Fork... (more)
Rio Grande GP40-2s 3122, 3120, and 3105 make a switch move across the Bingham Highway with two empties from SME Steel in the Bagley Industrial Park of West Jordan. July 26, 1996
An assortment of SD70ACe variants sit outside the EMD LaGrange Plant in McCook, IL.
Anxiously awaiting the arrival of C&O 614, a significant amount of railfans prepare for their shot while a short Amtrak train passes through the junction. Wellsboro was the intersection of the B&... (more)
