A young lady deep in thought waits for her passenger train as NKP 765 switches during scheduled photo trips for a Historic Transportation Preservation charter.
Heading to Araraquara to refuel
Bombardier's turbine powered Jet Train is on display at VIA Rail's Montreal Maintenance Center. Bombardier hopes to sell this locomotive for use in various high-speed corridors in North America.
The sun sets in Cassandra, PA on a cold winter day, as a Norfolk Southern manifest climbs the grade up the Allegheny Mountains. The vivid sunset has hues, making the snow appear purple on the grou... (more)
MILLVILLE APPROACH D791 sits just out of sight awaiting confirmation from the CSX BB Dispatcher to proceed east through Millville, WV. Meanwhile, the quarry crews had just taken a cut of empties... (more)
CN 2949 leads westbound train 406, as they hit the straight stretch approaching Petitcodiac, New Brunswick, with the snow on the trees making it seem as if they're heading through a snowy tunnel. ... (more)
The city at your feet: Already dropping the afternoon, the electric locomotives GE BoxCab and Soquimich train skirts the abyss of the "Cerro La Cruz" (cross hill) in Barriles gorge, beginni... (more)
UP 1111 at West Colton. (Photo taken with Union Pacific Employee escort).
Norfolk Southern poses five of its specially painted DC to AC rebuilds outside of the Juniata Shops in Altoona, Pennsylvania. These prototypes represent Norfolk Southern's commitment to recycle ol... (more)
BNSF 252 brings freight into Northtown Yard with the "Gritty Palace" private car on the rear. The car is in route to its new home at the Minnesota Transportation Museum. The yard has b... (more)
One of my favorite EMD units and a real rarity (They only had 10) on the UP. Fortunately even then I knew this. When I saw it I was on my way from Virginia to California and veered off the road ... (more)
Narrow gauge train Septemvri Dobrinishte
Head-on collision on single track mainline.
Union Pacific/Denver Post Frontier Days train at Union Pacific Depot in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Control stand of CN 2550 (GE C44-9W Dash-9)
BNSF 4792 looks more like a model train than a real one as it bends around tight curves through rock cuts on its 2.2% grade climb from Skykomish to the Cascade Tunnel. This stack/vehicle train was... (more)
The catenary poles were still close to the track near Stetson, Idaho as eastbound MILW 21 climbs up to St. Paul Pass and will cross into Montana in the Bitterroot summit tunnel at 4,170-ft. elevat... (more)
At the Squamish Docks.
PRR 9913 sits on the St. Clair Ave. turntable. If you look closely at the left side rails off the table you see the rail extender attached by PRR that the leased Santa Fe steam engines needed in ... (more)
Two of North Shore’s GP38-2’s sit derailed in Bellefonte with a strong odor of diesel fuel in the air
MARC 91, an E9AM which was originally built as a CB&Q E8A, sits abandoned in an industrial park in Bensenville, Illinois.
NP 6013D leads three other first generation units on ore loads at Minneapolis. This slide has been in my collection for year and was either bought or traded for. No photographer listed on slide.
Thurmond was railfan headquarters in WV. The town’s main street was the railroad. This location offered mainline freights and several mine runs to MT Hope and Fayetteville. The engine house was ... (more)
Vermont Rail System's former Ringling Brothers Pie Car (ex-RBBX #63010) turned Green Mountain Railroad 3010, is seen getting a lift (Pie in the Sky, if you will...) for the replacement of its whee... (more)
Reading crane 90906 and Jersey Central crane 5 and accompanying cars are at East Penn Jct. to clean up a derailment of several freight cars.
Milwaukee Road Little Joe E75 and a sister rumble through the yard at dusk headed for a train on the main line that they'll lead over the Bitteroots to Alberton, Montana later this evening.
Many ex SP Tunnelmotors get a new life as another looks on.
At least it blends in with the surroundings
No, this wasn't photoshopped. Apparently a shop laborer had a little time on his hands to modify UP's slogan on the side of Great Western's a-bit-worn GP-9. Note GW's jackrabbit herald in the ea... (more)
The electrics wait under blue flag protection at Meadows. The original design, seen in the carbody of 4726, called for a 4-6-4 arrangement, and they were used mostly in freight due to the success... (more)
It's all MARC at this end of MotivePower's locomotive stash. A dispute between MoPo and MARC has left MARC's three delivered MP36's out of service and the rest of the order piling up in Boise. M... (more)
As All Hallows Eve approaches this hallowed and doomed bridge, an eastbound freight hits the Illinois Approach side of the Baltimore & Ohio Turn Style Bridge at Vincennes.....The erie feeling of t... (more)
Stood on the nose of a train waiting for a signal to depart westward. The crew got a great show while they waited.
Burlington Northern train 34 heads over Two Medicine Bridge at East Glacier, Montana, on February 29, 1992. The eastbound vehicle train is powered by EMD SD40-2 Nos. 6384 and 8165 spliced by SD40 ... (more)
CDTX 2101, a new Siemens SC-44 Charger sporting the Amtrak California paint scheme, shoves a cab car out onto the wye and becomes the first unit of its class in the state of California to operate ... (more)
CZRY walking their sand train over a previously "rolled" rail
Westbound BNSF trackage right train wiggles in the curves near Kyunne on Soldier Summit. Loaded down with steel, 4 Dash 9's on the head end and Utah Railway helpers on the rear, work hard to get t... (more)
In May 1961 a westbound Southern Pacific (T&NO) train derailed on the Colorado River bridge between Winchester and West Point, Texas, on T&NO's DALSA main line between Hearne and Flatonia, Texas.... (more)
The daily freight between Superior, WI and Minneapolis 'rounds the corner and approaches the NP diamond at Hinkley, MN on Memorial Day weekend in 1970. The missing Rocky logo is a sign of the BN m... (more)
The WOW Trail is the subject of the 2019 debate over whether or not to extend the trail from Laconia to Weirs Beach, NH, removing the rail between those locations on the Plymouth & Lincoln and sev... (more)
The Bayshore Roundhouse is approaching 100 years old and the yard is completely gone now. Once a very busy place, it has been a vacant lot for almost 20 years.
The Cle Elum local from Yakima makes a back up move between Cle Elum and Ronald, and is about to do a bit of street running in Roslyn, WA en route. Plenty of help on the caboose will help make thi... (more)
This train was at the end of my August 1958 visit to Roanoke. It had rained quite hard that afternoon but then the sun broke through dramatically. Two Y6s pull on an eastbound freight and the lead... (more)
The Norfolk Southern drill H02 from Dover, NJ would be the last freight train to operate on the New Jersey Transit Gladstone Line. A view from within the NS H Zero Two heading East on the New Jers... (more)
A memory of the disappeared railway that climbed to the CODELCO Potrerillos mining zone, FERRONOR copper train going through the most difficult and spectacular section, between Montandon and Potre... (more)
Milwaukee Road 1947 Dodge Sedan Hi-Railer 30 sits on display in North Freedom.
Light power to pull Lakehead pulls down the Hole Track while DMIR 408 and two sisters spot empties high above on Dock 6. The sun was out for a cumulative of 15 seconds in the few minutes I was on ... (more)
Extra 7005A-West, with four F-9's (A-A-B-A) between Livingston and Muir, Montana September 2, 1960. Photographer Ken Crist. Slide taken from my collection.
Providence & Worcester train MFS-9, a Department of Defense extra bound for the Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, CT, blasts through a snow pile at a grade crossing in Oxford, MA. The train is ca... (more)
B&M transfer cut from the Central Vermont on the main thoroughfare beside the station. Black Alco Switchers were every where on the old B&M. This is a real grab shot. My dad stopped the car long e... (more)
A B&O "Big Six" 2-10-2 gets turned in Brunswick.
More stored power rests on the West side of the 10th Street bridge in Roanoke. The lines of locomotives are a continuation of the photo that was submitted and became a Top Shot the week of August ... (more)
Making close to track speed, a westbound intermodal is almost at the top of one of the gentlest crossings of the Rocky Mountains at Yellowhead Pass. Snow dusts the trees, and sub-zero temperatures... (more)
TEMCO Switcher 1611 collided with a string of Grain Hoppers, two of which derailed and are obstructing BNSF's Main 1. The NB BNSF train is preparing to back up to the 21st St crossovers and use Ma... (more)
A splash of color among a predominantly solid Norfolk Southern roster sits at the railroad's Linwood Yard engine facility on the morning of May 29th. A high five goes to the first person who provi... (more)
Removing the prime mover. CN 7208 was involved in a sideswipe with CN 121, causing it to derail very early on February 23rd, 2014 in the St-Henri neighbourhood of Montreal. Its frame... (more)
Forgotten, but not gone... Two junk yard survivors sit in the field across from the KRM. L&N #2152, an 0-8-0 was later renumbered 285 and then eventually sold to Republic Steel Corporation.
In a winter of Nor'easters, hopefully this is the last one. A rake of Bombardier-built R62A cars heads uptown from 125th St on the No 1 train. Instead of 100' underground, we are 100' in the air a... (more)
MLW M-630W 729 undergoes load bank testing after overhaul at the BCR Workshops at Squamish in August 1985 - a repaint into the then new red, white, blue and silver livery beckons.
At Oroville, UP 1996's conductor gives a roll-by to an EB stacker. A perfect 5-pack of 53' Pacer containers gives an interesting feel to the shot. After being called into the 'Spatcher as a "suspi... (more)
Following substantial flood damage to the New England Central Railroad's Roxbury Subdivision at White River Jct. and vicinity, Amtrak's July 1 northbound Vermonter was canceled at Windsor, Vermont... (more)
Train 501, near Thermes village.
Originally New Haven PA-1 #0783 sits outside the D&H Colonie shops in Watervliet, New York. Delaware & Hudson most likely acquired this unit for spare parts, for their four ex-Santa Fe PAs #16,17... (more)
IC 41-47, near Davlia station, between spring and winter
One of 3 of Kennecots unique GP39-2's that would stay at the plant site after railroad operations were sold off in 2002, I was dumbfounded to find it operating in 2019! Equipped with its recogniza... (more)
On its last day in service SP 9 heads south to Keeler from Owenyo on the Southern Pacific's narrow gauge Owens Valley line. SP 9 was handling the chores while SP 1, a GE 70-tonner was at Bakersfi... (more)
UP Trains are lined up at UP Armourdale Yard. From left to right we have, UP Train UEWKDD 13, CNATU 13, UEUMOT 13 , and MNPFW 13.
Note protective grilles on end windows; 5 car set.
New Allegra trainset is pulling train 1636 from Tirano to St.Moritz over the famous spiral viaduct of Brusio, lifting the train about 20 metre in a grade of 7.0 %.
Thunderstorms move across the plain as Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 1989 "Rio Grande" leads an eastbound stack train along US-30/287 just east of Medicine Bow, Wyoming, at Como on June 1, 2... (more)
The Big Boy doing what it was designed to do, move freight over Sherman Hill fast. No photographer name listed on slide.
This C&O coal train was a daily run serving a New River Coal mine near Pax. On the right is a mostly unused new River Co. storage facility. On the left a work train serves a crew rebuilding the tr... (more)
Canadian National U-4-a 6402 is stored servicable at the railroad's large engine terminal in Toronto. It had recently been withdrawn from commuter service.
Three SD40-2s - the leader in L&N paint, with the two followers in Family Lines attire - lead a coal train out of Augusta on the former ACL. This looks like a pretty substantial bridge, but it sp... (more)
#1361 in regular service, under steam. PRR Class K4s.
Lake State Railway recently took lease of the former Grand Trunk Western Port Huron Track, a 3.9-mile branchline that extends from the former GTW yard in Port Huron to the Dunn Paper mill along th... (more)
"Great Northern 423" (a former C&NW F7 owned by Wisconsin Great Northern, painted GN colors and sporting magnetic GN lettering) crosses over the French River Bridge with a Railfan Weekend excursi... (more)
Chicago & Eastern Illinois E9A 1102, F3B 935B and E7A 1101 are moments away from a late afternoon departure from Dearborn Station with the combined Georgian/Humming Bird in October 1967. The C&EI ... (more)
Friday the 13th!!!!! This is what happens when you have 6 locomotives in notch 8 on the head end of a 12,000 ton train going up a 2% grade and the laws of physics catch up to you. This occured at ... (more)
Introducing the first Lake State Railway MP15AC, LSRC #1501! Stripes are no stranger to the first Lake State Railway end cab as it was built as M-K-T #57 in 1980 and later went on to become Union... (more)
When RS3's were not available, the big E units were assigned to commuter trains. This E7 seems to be leaking. I hope the crew makes it to Framingham before they run out.
Before it turned dark, the staging for the triple crossing night shoot at the 1983 NRHS convention in Richmond, Virginia was complete. While waiting for the main event, taking a few daylight shots... (more)
One of Metrolink's new cab cars is backed into Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal for display on National Train Day on May 8, 2010. These new cars, built by Hyundai Rotem in South Korea, featur... (more)
On a sunny afternoon, the Escalante Western arrives at the Western Fuels' Association Generating Station with 24 loads of coal. The second unit suffered a failure at the Peabody Mine and the crew ... (more)
These fuel tenders didn't last long in service.
Around 3 pm on June 6, 8 cars of westbound train 293 derailed at the bridge over the North Fork of the Crow River just west of downtown Paynesville. There were no injuries and no hazardous materi... (more)
GW 90 passes a '31 Ford Model A Pick-up
