In the shadow of the Bear Mountain bridge, two Conrail SD50's exit Fort Montgomery tunnel and cross Popolopen Creek, as they head down the River Line to New Jersey with a K-Line doublestack. By sp... (more)
ICE 70 passes one of many stone bridges of beautiful path, Bralos Lianokladi.
Just a few short years ago it was a nice surprise to actually have an unit in the AVR paint scheme on an AVR train. Since then, the shortline has taken great strides towards respectability; matchi... (more)
Southbound passenger train at the Station in Dwight, IL. Taken on Kodachrome II film with a Miranda G camera.
Sunrise west of New Salem, ND at North Almont. This is the 148th empty trip for this Superior, WI to Decker Mine, WY empty coal to make this year. 3 SD75M's due the honors on this trip west.
The first of three eastbound manifests that are tied down on Main 1 from Cheyenne to Borie, Wyoming can be seen patiently waiting for a new crew to take the train east to North Platte, Nebraska on... (more)
An interesting MOW move with a HiRail and 2-flat cars passes by on main #1.
A Maine Central GP-38 263 leads RS-11 801 plus two other GP-38's downgrade out of Crawford Notch in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Train YR-1 originated at St. Johnsbury, VT and is headed f... (more)
Waiting in the wings to take her place in the steam locomotive rotation at the Valley Railroad is this 22-year old Chinese SY. Purchased at the 2008 Knox & Kane auction, this locomotive ... (more)
This Belgina Tubize 2-4-0 steam loco crossing the Malaki stone bridge.
Heard, but not seen. A northbound CSX intermodal train slips through the dense morning fog blanketing the Hudson River Valley.
Three CN MR-14c’s have completed their work to the west and are returning at Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, seemingly running on sod on July 20, 1984 before the line was abandoned.
A brand new Motive Power Industries MK5000C, equipped with a 5000 HP Caterpillar diesel engine, arrives in Salt Lake City on SP's EUCHQ. Accompanied by Research & Test car 252, the SP 502, 503, an... (more)
"The Southerner" southbound at AGS Depot in Tuscaloosa. Taken when photographer was 11 years old with a Brownie reflex. Bicycle at left side of picture belonged to photographer.
Departures of ALSTOM and CAF units from Alameda central station of commuter service and middle distance operated by Tren Central, with the FEPASA Alameda yard accompanied the first 2 kilometers of... (more)
The weather sets the mood for the day as the skies get darker and darker, shortly after this photo it started to rain and continued through the rest of the day. Here scrappers discuss what the pla... (more)
Montreal bound freight is getting under way at Colonie. The big ALCOs are running out of time and big GE units also look forlorn by now.
The morning fog clears to reveal Bessemer & Laker Erie’s shops and roundhouse in Greenville, PA. Most of the buildings are abandoned and are rumored to be demolished in the future.
Surfliner turns Daylight... but it doesn't go to San Francisco yet! This is a locomotive wrap ad for Operation Lifesaver which is geared for the localle in Southern California.
The crew of CN L51111 12 has just cut off from the empties and prepares to run around their loads to head back to Wright's Cove. This mine is the world's largest open pit gypsum mine and is servi... (more)
When it's ok that someone steps in front of your shot! On the very dark morning of October 20, 2016, CSXT 874 leads a stack train through the Utica Amtrak Station. The man in the foreground is a r... (more)
Amtrak engine facility photographed from the Honeywelll St overpass.
I was standing on the platform of Utica station waiting for some action and I got into conversation with an employee of the Adirondack Scenic railroad. During the conversation he asked if I had be... (more)
760, coal loads for Duke Energy at Belews Creek, NC, comes down the back stretch approaching turn 2 on the Winston-Salem District. Dale Jarrett won the race.
An early morning move has two units easily handling an empty coal train returning to the Helper Yard.
Bored of the standard shot? Me too!
It is always a treat when they roll the big one out.
All in a Day’s Work The Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern serves a small explosives manufacturing plant at Mount Carmel Junction, Pennsylvania. Since there is no runaround track ... (more)
Closer picture of the nose w/ the DOT bar & doors hanging off the front.
After what seemed like turtle speed from Lincoln to Mt. Pulaski, the C788 is finally putting the hammer down through the small Central Illinois town of Latham. In the lead is UP’s Southern Pacif... (more)
The switch was not on the straight line position but possibly forgotten to the turn. So it happens....The night ic express from Athens to Alexandroupolis derailed and four coaches went to the fiel... (more)
The noise of 24Z is drowned out by tailgating Browns fan. Cleveland would beat Miami today to go 3-3, already beating their win total from last year in week 6.
These two SD40-2's were leading A84 when they struck an 18 wheeler attempting to beat them at a road crossing. We as railfans and photographers hate to see all the high hoods and standard cabs goi... (more)
Scotland at its most picturesque, early Spring on the line to the Isle of Skye, with an appropriate Black 5 loco and train of maroon Mk 1 coaches crossing the yellow gorse lined causeway below Cra... (more)
After 56 year wait and a long trip from St. Louis, the N&W Y6a #2156 is finally reunited with Class J #611 and Class A #1218.
Y291, with shoving platform, has moved from the north yard tracks on the left to track 18 so that the locos for Q518more)
A pair of Alcos head on the fuel train, here is crossing slowly the Kakia Skala passage.
The soundbound Alaska Railroad Glacier Discovery Train has just passed through the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel which, at 2.5 miles in length, is the longest combined highway/rail tunnel ... (more)
Comment #4 was posted by my son Mark Bates ... he's my little helper and has 31 pictures of his own posted on railpictures.net
Wabash E-8 1004 leading the Chicago to St. Louis "Banner Blue" leaving the Decatur Station for the remaining one hundred and thirteen mile trip to St. Louis on February 21, 1958. Photo... (more)
HEPX 200 and 79640, both owned and operated by a Hydro One crew, move a transformer load from Hamilton, Ontario to Milton, Ontario where it will be installed.
The Northern Pacific Mainstreeter is splitting the semaphores at Stateline, WA on its way east.
DM&IR 405 leads a loaded ore train slowly past fatally damaged sister 401 (with blue tarp) and 5 equally scrap-worthy IC SD40-3s. A contractor will scrap all 6 units involved in the September 30 h... (more)
Cab view, engineman control stand CN 5436
Four F7 units get a roll on westbound Rock Island tonnage (and several 40-ft. box cars) out of Wellington, Kansas on Feb. 15, 1970, ten years before the road went out of existence. The second un... (more)
The cab of former Amtrak 582 is all that remains.
The Alaska Railroad crew aboard train 125N is seen backloading the CN-bound barge at the Port of Whittier with GP40-2s 3012, 3006 and GP38-2 2004 doing the honors. The trio of flat car spacer/idl... (more)
Resplendent in fresh paint and speed lettering, a Southern Pacific SD40T-2 awaits assignment at Roper Yard on May 22, 1994. The 8565 was built new by EMD for the SP in February 1979. After the UP-... (more)
While waiting on a westbound to depart Short Line Yard, the head brakeman of an eastbound R.I. freight with all U.P. power kindly posed for me in front of his borrowed 1957-vintage GP9 #338. The ... (more)
All reports are that the crew is unharmed, but NS I8T carrying BMWs derailed at Alston, SC headed down the Southern's old W line to the Port at Charleston, SC. The track is shattered, which will r... (more)
Former Santa Fe shops where CF7s were built.
Getting up early does have its advantages. Capturing an image of train crossing the Copper Creek Viaduct in the fog has always been an interest of mine. I was either too busy or too lazy to get my... (more)
Santa Fe Train #47 has just arrived at Phoenix Union Station from Williams Junction with F7A 309 and F3B 16A, coach 2934 and baggage car 3518. A trainman is just about to uncouple the engines so t... (more)
Former Conrail unit awaits further scrapping at Cresson Steel
A mid-summer severe thunderstorm associated with a major cold front terrioizes the small town of Nitro as it tears through the Kanawha Valley with heavy rains, thunder, and an impressive lightning... (more)
6 days after Hurricane Katrina devistated New Orleans, the Norfolk Southern line is still partially under water. These tracks lead to CSX Gentilly yard while the crossing tracks go to NS Oliver Y... (more)
Patrons of the January 2019 Pete Lerro photo charter were surprised to see a female in the fireman's seat of the locomotive. Being a fireman on a steam locomotive is a gritty job, but this lady wa... (more)
First day of summer in Cervo: Railway line Genoa-Ventimiglia. The Thello train, led by the locomotive E 444R, traveling to France.
CSX workers inspect the damage from a rock slide that hit the Q261 just west of the Catoctin tunnel. The head end struck a boulder while the remaining rocks struck the side of the train. This clos... (more)
UP's Portland to Fife Manifest crosses bridge 15.9 just south of the Steilacoom Ferry dock on a quiet sunny morning. Click Here ... (more)
Considering their normal assignment on the I5 corridor in California, the SD70 leading this train is as out-of-place on Tennessee Pass as the trailing WC unit.
boxcab #110 sits at the VGN terminal waiting for work.
Atlantic & East Carolina flat car with an unusual load.
Caterparrott 5000 makes its way south from Tennessee for use on their Azalea Sprinter excursion in the future.
Hurtling through Iowa City, Iowa, early on a June morning in 1966, Train 8, the Rocky Mountain Rocket, is running about five hours late behind E6A 631 and an unidentified second unit. Normally its... (more)
The sun has just risen above the tall rocks bluffs surrounding Lake Superior's Kama Bay in time to illuminate peak fall colors along the tree's lining CP 110's route to Schreiber & points east.
Guess Who's Back?NS 4001 rests outside the Juniata Locomotive Shop, finally out of a two year rebuild following its involvement in a derailment near McVeytown, PA on April 15, 2017.... (more)
Electrician Ben Hampson rewires the control stand of former Wisconsin Central No. 3025. The GP40 was acquired by MRL when CEECO (Coast Engine and Equipment Co.) closed in 2009. It sat indoors in L... (more)
A brand new NRE E3000CC-DC, originally built for Qube railway in Australia, looks great in a smart new livery for WPYR. It has picked up passengers from the cruise ship seen in the background on a... (more)
I don't know how long she had been sitting there, but WP #334 still looked pretty good when I took this photo in June of 1964. The big 2-8-2 would later be moved to the Western Railway Museum at R... (more)
November 16, 2014- the date which will forever mark the end of an era on Tehachapi. It was on this cool, fall evening that many original, Southern Pacific searchlights saw their last sunset as Uni... (more)
CN 2191 being transported to Silvis, IL by the Iowa Interstate to NRE shops for repair or scrap.
Not your everyday helper setup! After a long struggle up the grade from Hilgard, stalling out once below Motanic, getting going again at a 10 MPH grind, the crew of the westbound stack trai... (more)
"SANDMAN RETURNS" The Winchester and Western "Sandman" with empty hoppers in tow, returns from it's namesake town back into Gore, a tiny hamlet in northwestern Virginia and since 1944,... (more)
PRR steam lays over at Bay Head Jct. This 3751 did not lead an illustrious life after retirement like the one on the west coast, unfortunately.
Meter gauge Baldwin 2-10-4 No. 305 hauls a load of coal toward Tubarao. The Teresa Cristina had identical engines built by Alco.
ex CBQ 480 arrived into JBS for a overhaul and to be placed into OCS service
This is the remains of a grade crossing accident, fortunately the train did not derail, it only caused the articulated flat bed to break in half...causing damage only to the crane it was transport... (more)
Linking 13 Great States with the Nation, a hot shot local traverses the South Branch of the Potomac River with freight bound for Petersburg. Special thanks to the South Branch Valley Railroad and... (more)
9163 is already in the tunnel as 8212 fires up. Shot just after this is Here!
We can do it! That was the slogan on the recruiting posters during the early 1940s, as American women joined the massive effort to defeat the Axis powers in World War II. At the beginning ... (more)
4679 is switched into the Alton and Southern yard the morning after emerging from MEI as the second freight locomotive to wear Southern Belle colors. DMIR 301 was a definite bonus. Making the sc... (more)
A special test move of the RailMate system - a cousin of the RoadRailer concept. The 5 semi trucks are loaded with coarse taconite tailings loaded at Unitac for a road project in Central Minnesot... (more)
The Rock Lives! Buried deep in the Lange-Stegmann Company grain facility in Saint Louis, Missouri, on October 3rd, 2014, was a real "WABAC Machine" moment - a string with eight (ex) Rock Is... (more)
PRR motors at Pot Yard sit under the wired service track awaiting assignment.
Under the rainbow A double rainbow encircles a pair of venerable CP Rail SD40-2s after a good rainstorm in Cranbrook, British Columbia, on October 4, 2010. This image was on one of my l... (more)
BHP 4310 3090 working hard on a loaded ore train crossing an empty at Hesta in the Pilbara region of Western Australia
A shell of its former self. With the grain elevators of Hansen-Mueller in the background, BRAN 71 (Alco S3) seems to have found a final resting perch at Cox Contracting. After being built for the ... (more)
