On a beautiful Autumn morning, D&H #931 heads south as it rolls above Lake Champlain's Willsboro Bay N.Y

A UP officer's special from Silver Bow, Montana crests 5432 ft. Apex, Montana (north of Dillon) on Oct. 11, 1993. After navigating the entire 255 mile Montana Subdivision, the 11 car train will ti... (more)

The Australia Streamliners 2016 weekend kicked off on October 1, with a colorful array of cab units representing all classes of locomotives. The B-class locomotive B61 was painted in a special sch... (more)

A Santa Fe eastbound crawls through a slow order past the site of the derailment just north of Highway 138 in Cajon Pass. Heavy rains cause track damage in the area, requiring work crews to repai... (more)

The smell of #2 diesel still in the air, UP 6545 and 6715 await heavy-duty cranes to get them back on the rails.

A pair of Alcos ,A9406 and A9111, led on a dmu unit.This passenger train will do the next day the excurcion for European railfans ,from Athens to the south. After 2 years a passenger crossing this... (more)

Great news for this grand lady! The Western Maryland Scenic Railroad announced today that it will acquire #1309, a C&O 2-6-6-2 mallet, and return the locomotive to operation. The 1309, the last ... (more)

Season's Greetings! Marquette Rail's 2010 Santa Train gets a friendly wave from a snowman as it approaches the tiny village of Fountain in northwest Michigan. This train makes multip... (more)

UP Local To TXI Perlite Plant With A Trio Of DRGW's Reverses Up The Rocky Spur As Manafest With UP 5811 Heads West Toward Big 10 Curves.

SNIM (Mauritania) SD70ACs #CC-122 is the first of its kind produced early this year at Progress Rail in Muncie, IN. The SNIM unit now operates in the country of Mauritania in North Africa. You w... (more)

The calendar says spring, but the weather says winter at Crescent, Colorado, on April 23, 1999. Amtrak No. 5, the California Zephyr, climbs the Front Range of the Rockies through a snowy wonderlan... (more)

Once in a while I try a view or image that I think might be 'too different' for Railpictures.Net. Is this one of them? Let the screeners and the viewers decide! For my part, I think it's probably ... (more)

The Upton Ave. Bridge takes another hit.

This EBT 70,000 lb. capacity hopper is in a fight for it's life. First the protective paint came off, and the rusting began. Then a little sprig of a plant took root near the front journal. Larger... (more)