The undulating nature of the SNCF LGV lines is evident in this view of a pair of Paris Sud-Est TGV sets on a southbound service from Paris to Lyon near St.Ythaire north of Macon.
An eastbound freight on the Grimsby Sub. switches the east end of Parkdale Yard. By late 1967, the green and gold paint scheme was a rare find on an RS-3.
Northbound passenger crossing Kifera bridge.
EX KSC SD45-2 now PCRC 625 is the last of three exKCS units to be worked on at Derby. This unit will have its engine rebuilt.
Amtrak ACS-64 Test Xtra 629 heads west past New Haven Yard during the middle of a "snow storm". This test included not one, but two Sprinters (629 & 630); with one on each end. After tra... (more)
A matched set of Alco PA's on the first morning train from New York.
UP 4014, the only 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" steam locomotive in operation, pulls a 25 car long passenger special over the 3,800 ft high summit of Cajon Pass on Oct. 12, 2019. Fans from all over ... (more)
Santa Fe Alco PA1 55 Even At the end having been traded into EMD it still looks Beautiful. As A kid growing up these and Santa Fe RSD15s were my favorite diesels. original Kodachrome from my co... (more)
BNSF remote control job 116 shoves two hoppers into the Rices Point yard while a nice matched pair of ex-Santa Fe GP50s (3183/3181) prepare to depart with a transfer.
TH&B GP7 73, GP9 401 and another Geep sit at Penn Central's Frontier yard. This was a nice bit of color in the midst of PC black-and-white.
Schnabel Car with minor damage from a trestle side swipe. Train is stopped waiting for a UP inspection team to inspect the damage.
BN 6603, former GN 430, operates Great Northern longhood first, handling train 3, once known as the "Pacific Zip" through Rock Island, WA on the last lap into Wenatchee where it will rec... (more)
Well ... That's a bit obvious ...
California Western RS12 55 (ex-McCloud River 32) displays its patriotic colors on the day after the Bicentennial as it prepares to depart Fort Bragg, CA, with the eastbound Super Skunk.
I think many people, including natives such as myself, tend to think that New York City is laid out on flat 4x8' plywood tables. I submit with this image that it is not. Looking west from the M li... (more)
No question about the wye – The protect set for weekend service sits on the Montauk Wye on the morning of 7/16/2017, DM30AC 500 facing east. The wye, which is still in service, sits at the rail... (more)
a westbound RI grain train comes around the connector at Sheffield Interlocking on the east side of Kansas City
The mountains northeast of the town of Jasper cling to the last diffused rays of sunset as a hot westbound intermodal departs for a Pacific terminal Railroad: Canadian National RailwayLocomotive: EMD SD75ILocation: Jasper, Alberta, CanadaLocomotive #: CN 5681Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: January 06, 2011
special photo shoot at Santa Fe Hobart yard in August '90 prior to running photo train for MAERSK shipping
A WP Pacific heads a well-loaded (!) passenger train east out of Lucknow. The coal pickers pay no attention to this commonplace activity, and continue their search for free coal in the shed exit r... (more)
The semaphore blade is just starting to drop as Southern Pacific Train 3, the Golden State, speeds south near Vaughn, New Mexico. Rock Island handed off command of the train for the remainder of i... (more)
MILW 261 is dressed up as DL&W 1661 as it arrives at the Binghamton station with an excursion from Scranton.
Fast & Slow, 180MPH Eurostar sweeps past a local train doing 60MPH. The local guy must have thought he'd stopped!
Delta Fire Aftermath. On September 5th, 2018, the Delta Fire ignited along Interstate 5, approximately two miles north of Lakehead, California. The fire grew rapidly, closing Interstate 5 a... (more)
The F engine would get repainted in 1992. Placed on display at the MKT Depot in Denison TX. It is the ugliest F engine I have ever seen. The door in the nose really kills it for me. Wish they woul... (more)
On a glorious November day Steve Lee poses with the 844 at the Steam Shops in Cheyenne. I didn't realize at the time how Historic this shot would be(at least to me) as Steve would announce his ret... (more)
Roseville bound tonnage emerges from the Norden shed, led by a 'Sierra 5200', with a classic SP signal bridge framing the snowy scene. At the time the searchlight installations at Norden were (and... (more)
The damage to CSX # 168 after the derailment of K429 on February 13, 2020. This was the lead motor of the train and went nose first into the Levisa Fork.
Nice view of the Diesel Servicing facility in BNSF's Ex-Frisco Tennessee Yard including the turntable to nowhere!!
Extremely faded paint is visible on the AMMC (Arcelor Mittal) ES44AC #302 as it leads the QCM AC44CW #17 northbound with a string of 210 ore jennies for loading at Mont Wright. The train is north... (more)
The crew on UPY 2724 have a chat with a couple Anaheim PD motorcycle officers when the circus train came to a stop heading up Olive St. They were bringing the circus train up to meet up with the ... (more)
CSX Track Geometry Car derails just east of a previous derailment site while on inspection. No one was injured in this accident.
Norfolk and Western 2-8-8-2 Y6a #2156 stands magnificently under the canopy at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis. The sole survivor of the Y6 class, this powerful giant once applied brute ... (more)
Another try at showing a little motion on the rails.
Do not try to beat the train, these are the consecuences....ALCo 1 - 0 GM
For steam, time was up, even in freight service.
Rio Grande liked Alco switchers and the road bought two Alco PA/B/A sets for passenger service. But freight, not so much. Five RS3s found their way onto the roster in 1951 and, unlike competing E... (more)
An EMD F45 converted into luxury lodgings sits on the grounds of the Izaak Walton Inn in Essex, Montana. The locomotive, painted in Great Northern's "Big Sky Blue" scheme actually start... (more)
MILW’s track inspector was patrolling the mainline of the Milwaukee at Kohrs, Montana, on Aug. 15, 1979. Sharp eyes will note the green block signal on NP’s adjacent mainline, under the “Sâ... (more)
A loaded coal train glides West at track speed on a wet and cold Winter afternoon.
Green Means Go!: As NS 191 approaches the intersection of Sixth Street and Broad Street, the traffic signal changes to green as if it were in perfect unison for the approaching train. ... (more)
On a cold November morning, Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr races out of the fog in Tonville, CO with the Phase IV and Phase III heritage units 184 and 822 leading the train on November 5th... (more)
No 261, no problem! Just make a "guest" engine a Milwaukee locomotive (hey, the colors are pretty close to the Hiawatha). NOT a photoshop job, just some fun in the shop when Doyle wasn't looking... (more)
Young railfans (also railroaders of the MĂV Children's Railway, Budapest) take pictures of a special train on a cold and windy day in December.
Class EL-2B #125 makes a move under the wires.
Cab of 6930, which is rusting away at IRM. Taken through the window.
UP E9 No. 960 and E8 No. 928 face off in the late evening hours of June 22, 1978. No. 960 will be part of a quartet of E9s the next day pulling the Hinkle Special train out of Portland to celebrat... (more)
A rare treat was had on September 27, when after a colorful foliage day - and the reason I headed up to North Conway to begin with - the Boston & Maine F7A 4266 (sort of the ultimate heritage B&M ... (more)
After shooting the CZ at James, we hustled the 20 rail-miles back into town to find the 803-A had already replaced FP7 804-D which brought the train into town. Both power and crews would be swappe... (more)
The CR 4608 and its sister 4607 lead an eastbound manifest freight across the lower part of the unique two-level Safe Harbor Bridge over the Conestoga River. These 3,300 hp motors were built by G... (more)
The Translohr LRV runs on a single central guide rail with "V" shape guide wheels, together with rubber tyres. This is locally called the "Tianjin Modern Guided Rail Tram".
A-302 on a special train for railfan enthusiasts.
Southern Pacific 982 ready to depart Hermann Park after nearly 50 years. The trailer has 15 axles times 8 wheels each or 120 wheels. It can be seen at it's new home here http://www.railpictures.ne... (more)
Southern Pacific converted one of their tank cars into an experimental fuel tender, seen here sitting in the shops at Sacramento, California.
Favorite conditions for a winter night photo come together at Randolph as NECR 3478 and two sisters parade through the silent picturesque surroundings with 323s freight at 01:14.
Santa Fe 4-8-4 No.3776, the first of its class, built by Baldwin in 1941, has just left the station in Amarillo headed for Pampa with train No.2 The Scout.
Conrail big Alco Century C630 was involved in a pretty bad derailment and resided at the Collinwood shops like this until scrapped.
Three Burlington E7 units are on the MORNING ZEPHYR for Minneapolis from a very busy Union Station. The Atlantic Coast Line E7 is backing with PRR's SOUTH WIND.
A NYC Mohawk refills its tank on the fly just after leaving Schenectady westbound
Western Pacific derrick 79 finds itself in Union Pacific's North Yard in Salt Lake City on Feb. 29, 1984. Any information regarding the builder of the WPMW 79 and its disposition would be highly a... (more)
Fresh out of the paint shop.
"Allegra" trainset ABe 8/12 # 3510 with spur plow Xk 9144 in front is leaving Alp GrĂĽm station through the tight S-curve.
You can't make this stuff up... I arrived in Montreal at my spot to find total muck and clouds this particular morning. I figured I wasted gas and a trip and simultaneously with that thought, a ha... (more)
ACL passenger car sitting on display at Rocky Mount depot
A late arrival on a glorious evening light in the famous Paris Gare de Lyon station. One can see the famous clock tower in the center of the picture and four TGVs ready to start their journey to t... (more)
You would have chosen to get the parking ticket (no time to feed the meter) also, right?
Canadian Pacific Railway’s SD70ACU 7010 is making a rare appearance in the Albany, NY concrete canyon and passing the former Delaware & Hudson headquarters building at 0800 hrs on May 30, 2020. ... (more)
A view of the other side of the shops rarely seen from this angle. Taken from the hillside with a Sigma lens at 400mm
Pan Am knows how to take the Ringling Brothers Circus Train out in style! On April 17 (for my birthday ;-) ) Pan Am Railways operated the last northbound Ringling Bros. train from Worcester, MA t... (more)
RS-3's 1505 and 1517 haul JS-2 southbound with interchange traffic from CPR and CVR handed off at White River Jct. Vermont. This train has cars for Greenfield and Springfield, Massachusetts. The w... (more)
After setting off one car on the elevator lead the A&M Monett turn with new SD70ACe's 70 & 71 is continuing their trek south. Note the new bell applied to 70's nose between the number boards. Th... (more)
An empty ethanol train navigates North through Jack London Square, on its way back to the cornfields of Nebraska.
BNSF 782 running downgrade, about to enter No2 tunnell at Allard in the Tehachapi Mtns
metre gauge 2912, built in 2000 by Hyundai Rotem in South Korea, nears Dhaka on 0715 from Chittagong,The "Mahangar Probhati". Slums line the trackside here. Many of the residents scrape a living b... (more)
The California Zephyr was about an hour late this morning getting into Denver's Union Station due to a small fire which started in the last car. The train went into emergency stop in Commerce Cit... (more)
The Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay Railway’s Train To Christmas Town heads towards Wilder Ranch after being switched on to the west leg of the Santa Cruz wye. The Santa Cruz Big Trees & Pacific Railw... (more)
NYC J-3a Hudson 5414, with a long mail train and several rider coaches bringing up the rear, departs Chicago's La Salle Street Station on a cold winter day toward the end of New York Central steam... (more)
On a cold quiet night the SD-40-2's can be heard growling in the distance. The horn sounds as the train crosses Hwy 59, the growling becomes a roar, bells ring, lights flash and the Janesville to... (more)
Passing Storm King Mountain in opposite directions is the American Star, a river cruise boat of the American Cruise Lines, while a CSX manifest heads down river. The CSX River Line has really expl... (more)
One of NYC's first E7 units is paired with an E7B on the MICHIGAN inbound to Chicago. This unit and 4003 were delivered new in black with simple white striping which didn't last. The two units als... (more)
After dumping the ash pan a Steam Railroading Institute crew member rakes the ashes from under the 1225.
Amtrak Adirondack slams into snow drift leftover from a snow plow as it heads toward Rouses Point N.Y
A beautiful morning in Seligman Az. with fog to the west, after 11 days in a row of rain from monsoon storms.
Tracing the banks of the Missouri River through impressive Lombard Canyon is Montana Rail Link's Missoula to Laurel manifest freight just west of Lombard, Montana, on a perfect June 26, 2015. The ... (more)
A Luminant Power SD50 shoves a train of hoppers back to the mine for another load of lignite on the Oak Grove Railroad.. This operation joins other in TX as a conveyor of lignite to a mine-mouth ... (more)
A view of SP locomotives stored at Taylor Yard taken from Griffith Park.
Sparks fly as a CSX MOW crew member uses a grinder during rail repair. Waiting for clearance about 2 miles off in the distance is CP's X500 en route to Montreal.
