Union Pacific 3985 is a four-cylinder simple articulated 4-6-6-4 Challenger-type steam locomotive. It was built in 1943 by the American Locomotive Company of Schenectady, New York. The Challenger ... (more)

With alittle luck with the clouds, we showed up at the right time to see an eastbound CP stack train past thru the small town of Pense at sunset. The sun is dropping under the clouds making for a ... (more)

Classic 6000 HP Gotthard locomotive Ae 6/6 # 11411 "Zug" of SBB Historic from Erstfeld is pusher on train 43075 from Duisburg Ruhrort Hafen to Gallarate (Busto Arsizio) on the 2.6 % grad... (more)

A Northbound autotrain passes through San Clemente as it heads up the coast

N&W 611 enjoys National Train Day weekend under the open sky rather than her usual shed on display in front of the ex-N&W station which is now the O. Winston Link Museum. The sun has just set and ... (more)

Having come to a stop at the western side of the Valentine siding, BNSF 7486 idles quietly in the hills of Cozier Canyon as it waits for a pair of fellow westbound to overtake it before continuing... (more)

An eastbound stack train waits for a higher-priority TOFC train to pass it under a vast illuminated sky in the Arizona desert.

Just days out of General Electric’s Erie works on June 28, 1964, and showroom fresh, Southern Pacific U50 8500 simmers under the El Paso sun, about to lend its considerable 5,000 hp to a westbo... (more)

Under a bright sun with no wind CN 634 eastbound grain train mirrors in the Athabasca river while approaching Park Gate Tunnel

A CSX police officer takes his report of the derailment.

Modern power mixes with steam in this 1955 view at Morris Park engine terminal.

Limestone loads behind a trio of C40-8 variants begins its climb up Proctor Hill while three DM&IR tunnel motors spot ore cars for dumping at Dock 6.

A trio of endcab switchers teams with a pair of slugs on a caboose hop about to drop down 'the slide' at Tilford Yard.

The 1744 is currently headed for excursion service over the ex-DRGW La Veta pass on the San Luis and Rio Grande. But this is the SP 1744 in 1958, on a fan trip on the Knights Landing branch. It ... (more)

I would have to say that being a railfan in Manhattan is probably a bit different than what most fans in North America experience. I live on an island of only 22.96 square miles of area but I sh... (more)

Honorary steam locomotive. It was 18 degrees and the DPU on a southbound train has some sort of cooling system malfunction. I called it into the UP and shortly after I heard the crew call into d... (more)

NS 3336 rolls across Arch St. and is framed in the ex-Cresson Secondary which taken out of service in 1995 to allow doublestacks to use the Pittsburgh Line.

Northern Pacific F units on the local perform switching at Whitehall, Mont. on April 10, 1970.

The marker is still in place on the tail end of Grand Elk Train 302. Journal parts were found on the right of way about 50 yards in front of the Nine car derailment in Three Rivers, Michigan today... (more)

N&W Class Y6A 2156 entering the Virginia Museum of Transportation

In a nice yellow sunset, CN 408 rounds the bend at Fort Beausejour, New Brunswick, as they approach the advance signal to Amherst, and cross over the New Brunswick/Nova Scotia border.

Bow Coal at Jeff Junction - 2

The Bow Coal train has pulled past the operator’s shanty at Jefferson Juncti... (more)

Seaboard Coast Line U36B 1776, the very first Bicentennial diesel, along with two Santa Fe cars (steam generator and display car) and Frisco caboose 1776 (all painted to match), toured from Richmo... (more)

A sea of Maintenance-of-Way Equipment covers nearly every inch of rail that makes up the 4,290 feet siding here at Roanoke. There's a lot of work that needs to be done, so a massive Tie Gang was ... (more)

BN 1750 and three other Geeps head a westbound Cle Elum turn from Yakima through the blades in the Yakima River canyon. The train will drop its cars in Cle Elum yard where another turn originating... (more)

SP workmen turn three new tunnel motors for a trip to Bakersfield pulling a manifest.

GN 314A and a B unit bask in the sun on a frigid January day between runs at Minneapolis. These units were originally ordered for iron ore road service on the Mesabi Division out of Superior, Wis.... (more)

CR 21313 an ex Conrail N21 Bay Window Caboose was released back into active service with Norfolk Southern. While that may not seem too interesting, the Caboose was refurbished and repainted into a... (more)

NJ Transit 4405 zips northbound to NY Penn Station from Atlantic City with the ACES train. I imagine most wallets on this return from the gaming city trip are rather thin. This is a follow zoom s... (more)

This special freight led by two Alcos,A9108-A9104, at Kakia Skala passage.The sea looks marvellous and the train to.

A double or split window view of the world that only the GE 8500 Turbine crews had. What a beautiful view of the open rail ahead this must have been . . . modern in a way even still.

Mississippian Railway #76 switching boxcars at a cotton gin near Smithville, MS in August 1962.

N&W 1218 returns home to the Virginia Museum of Transportation after a few days on display at the O Winston Link Museum`s 10th anniversary celebration

Nickel Plate Road "Berkshire" 2-8-4 #765 departs Colby, Ohio (near Bellevue) during the last few rays of sunshine on its return trip home from Cleveland to Ft Wayne.

Abe Lincoln waits for PC freight to clear plant

New Hope & Ivyland No. 40 steams past an 1800s era home just outside the tourist town of New Hope during a snowstorm on a cold afternoon in December. One can easily imagine Reading steam locomotiv... (more)

Missouri-Kansas-Texas Alco PA-2 No.155A. The Katy owned 6 Alco PA-1 2000hp units built in 1949, and 8 PA-2 2250hp units built in 1950-51. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer l... (more)

Nice crome fender - a Russian built diesel-electric Co-Co pilots East German diesel-hydraulic B-B No V180 123 with a tank wagon train for the Ost Zone seen leaving Hof.

Tip rail branch where the locomotive will make the switch to start the service back to Aldo Bonzi.

The engineer of the the Super Chief checks his orders as he get ready to highball. Photo taken by my Grandfather, JC Weirich.

Following movie work in Southern California, SP 4449 makes a high speed run north through California's Central Valley. The Road Foreman would appreciate the economy haze, and that traditional SP ... (more)

National Railways of Zimbabawe Garratt steam locomotive #512 leads a special as it crosses the Zimbabawe River from Zimbabwe to Zambia, Africa. The mist from the famous Victoria Falls behind the c... (more)

Not much is left of Vintage Locomotives Inc. SD18 #7310 as it is being torched at the Southern Appalachia Rail Museum facility. VLIX 7310 began life as C&O 1810 and then 7310 until it was sold off... (more)

WP eastbound San Jose Turn bursting out of Tunnel one in Niles Canyon

Amtrak 68 the "Adirondack" had mechanical problems with the dash8 514 requiring a special move to bring an extra locomotive and coach from Albany to Montreal. Here is 68 passing through ... (more)

Several TOFC loads emerge from Tunnel 10. A cut is being made next to the tunnel to allow for double tracking, thankfully it looks like they won't "daylight" this tunnel!

A string of Union Pacific cabooses fill the caboose track at the railroad’s Council Bluffs yard in July 1981, just after a summer rainfall.

Western Pacific Railroad Museum, where you can climb on the equipment (metal gets very hot in the sun)!

Armored combat train "Štefánik" from World War II, built in september 1944 in a railway work in Zvolen, Slovakia, for the Slovak National Uprising against Germany. It is said to be the only mova... (more)

Monon FP7 #96 (Built by Electro-Motive in 1951 as Milwaukee Road #96-C), Milwaukee Road F7B #68B (Built by Electro-Motive in 1950), and Monon FP7 #96 (Built by Electro-Motive in 1951 as Milwaukee ... (more)

Dead Line SW1500s, SD40T-2s, SD60s, SD40-2s (UP 3300) C40-8s, CW41-8, B39-8s

Local train at a stone bridge of Strimon (Struma) river

3 Trailer Train flatcars bring an unusual load thru Duplainville, WI in March of 1987. The load is from Phoenix Steel and almost looks like the framework for some type of movable bridge.

For years, Colorado’s Minturn yard has sat empty, rusty and forlorn, as seen on June 4, 2018. The sand tower is now gone and weeds grow between the rails that once supported interstate commerce.... (more)

A view looking at the shuttered former LTV Steel Mining Company (Erie Mining) trestle and ore dock at Taconite Harbor. The ore dock hasn't been used for shipping ore in ten years (LTV quit in 2001... (more)

Special trip for Greek rail fans, in Septemvri - Dobrinishte narrow line.

Cab view, from an old emu of Athenian metro system.

This unit was a nearly flat. There was nothing left on the cab showing a number. This wreck was caused by washout due to a beaver dam breaking during a rainstorm. One unit was a total loss four mo... (more)

Darailment, luckily with no personal or severe material damage.

While turning the engine, much of the vapor in the lower part of the image is coming from the turntable's motor.

With three EMD F9's, Northern Pacific's westbound flagship "North Coast Limited," Train 25, ascends the east side of 6,356-ft. Homestake Pass near Whitehall, Montana. Next stop is Butte.