A few miles south of Davenport, the tri-weekly train is bringing home a light load back to Watsonville Junction. This train will be in view of the Pacific for most of it's journey.
Railroad car ferry "Chief Wawatam" awaits the arrival of the Soo Line train from Trout Lake as the early morning sun rises.
In 1969, Pacific Locomotive Assn. tried to repeat the "Last Run of An ALCO PA" they had run the previous year. If no PA was available, they then promised ATSF's lone E8. Well no PA and no E8 but ... (more)
A view of SP locomotives stored at Taylor Yard taken from Griffith Park.
Aerial view of Beech Grove shops, showing a long line of old Amtrak locomotives, some of which may be rebuilt in the locomotive shop behind them. Notable in the lineup is recently arrived #102, wh... (more)
An old one MAN dmu unit meets a new one MAN 2000 at the left.
Steamscape - Winter at Red Clay Creek. Delaware's Wilmington & Western Railroad follows the Red Clay Creek on its journey from Greenbank to Hockessin, crossing the waterway no fewer than 9 ... (more)
One of BNSFs ugly ducklings leads CN 457 northward along the Holly Subdivision near New Lothrop Road in Durand.
Milwaukee road Extra 21 East bends around a curve at Hyak, Washington powered by a quartet of SD40-2s. Nos. 21 and 22 are equipped with icicle breakers for knocking down icicles in tunnels to prot... (more)
Good ol' Smokey - one of my favorite "small" tourist steam engines, former US Army, now Great Smokey Mountains Railroad rides the grade closely following the Tuckasegee River in NC. She's current... (more)
Alot going on here... A CSX freight departs Rice yard with a LTEX SD40 in the lashup, as a quartet of old EMD's collect rust, all while the 9505 keeps an eye on two of its decapitated GE cousins ... (more)
Polson Logging Company No. 2 casts its own reflection at sunset in the still water below while crossing the wood trestle over Stasek Slough in Idanville, OR. This former Southern Pacific branch l... (more)
Conductor's side view of the jointly leased Providence & Worcester/Vermont Rail System GMTX SD60 9000 at the VRS Riverside Yard in Rockingham, Vermont on a crisp -1-degree F morning. UPDATE: This... (more)
The westbound Southwest Chief cruises through the six semaphores protecting the siding and main at the ghost town of Colmor.
Following engine change from diesels (at left) to electric for the trip to Grand Central Terminal
Light move in the light rain under a battleship gray sky.
Brand-new 1977 model-year automobiles head to showroom floors, rounding the Horseshoe Curve on an ex-PRR tri-level auto-rack.
Hello Ma? It's me - I'm in Monticello!
Former Pennsylvania Railroad E8A, built by EMD November of 1952, sits undergoing restoration at one of Monticello Railway Museums shops. This form... (more)
CN Buisness Train passes the CN 303 at Boston Bar East, pulled back to reveal more of the surrounding mountains
Porto Empedocle
An F9, an F3, some other F's, a couple geeps, and (looks like) a passenger car sit around in San Antonio.
A four car Amtrak Metroliner at speed lead by Snack Bar Coach 856 still lettered PC. The outline of the Pennsylvania RR Keystone emblem is still visible below PC 856's number.
This is the C&O Allegheny type at the B&O Railroad Museum. The sophistication of the steam piping on this locomotive is the most complex of any I have seen. A Big Boy looks relatively simple but s... (more)
The original Norfolk Southern heritage unit leads NS 19M, the new 189, westbound into Roanoke for a crew change a to work the yard. It is passing what is left of the dead line. Now it mainly consi... (more)
Elkhart, Indiana, is home to the National New York Central Railroad Museum. Among its collection of equipment is NYC E8 4085 and NYC "Mohawk" steam locomotive 3001. During this year's ... (more)
Santa Fe had visions of a company museum, and was wise enough to hang onto a variety of locomotives with that in mind. It never happened, of course, and the collection was donated to the Californ... (more)
Streamliners to Spencer! The invasion of Spencer, N.C. of vintage cab cars and streamliners has begun. The locomotive coming the furthest is Doyle McCormack's Nickel Plate Road PA-1 ... (more)
EMD and Alco products, in two PRR paint colors, are spotted side by side in the pit along Roundhouse Rd. at Lewistown. The edge of the turntable is seen on the left, it still shows as operational... (more)
Special tourist service between Santiago - San Fernando, crosses the Maipo railroad bridge at the south exit of Gran Santiago and metropolitan area. E-32 electric locomotive of italian origin manu... (more)
11 EMD SD-90MACs sit in the West Yard awaiting their rebuild while the Cab Run moves a small coal train east.
The original Steamtown collection included UP and N&W Articulated steam. The N&W is now at the O. Winston Link Museum. The Big Boy is still with Steamtown in Pennsylvania.
This is the first time I have seen a John Deere tractor used as a locomotive to move railcars around (note the chain between the tractor and the railcar). The operator says it has no brakes and ne... (more)
A Canadian Pacific export grain train for the West Coast has just crossed into British Colombia from Alberta during a slow up-hill climb near Stephens, B.C., in the late wildfire smoke-induced Can... (more)
Six units—six models Cruising through scenic Abo Canyon, a westbound Santa Fe freight crosses Bridge 873.8 over Abo Arroyo east of Sais, New Mexico, on the afternoon of June 1, 1995. ... (more)
A diamond sits in the woods on an abandoned portion of Conrail's Reformatory Branch. One track connected the CNJ (later Conrail) Reformatory Branch with the former PRR/PC (now NJ Transit) Coast Li... (more)
Verne Brummel (photographer) / Dave Cramer (photo editing). Visit our websites at - www.trainsite.8m.com/rrslides.html ---and--- Railroad: Milwaukee RoadLocomotive: Alco RSD-5Location: Watertown, Wisconsin, USALocomotive #: MILW 575Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: April, 1976
Amtrak 91 gets rolling after holding for the P948.
Just after putting a two-car train away in the yard and spotting caboose No. 10286, the crew of SD9 No. 6223 have put the locomotive to rest inside the spiffy looking wooden roundhouse at Leadvill... (more)
For the 150th anniversary of Belgian railways in 1985 this streamlined Atlantic, No 12 004 was specially put back into working order to haul some special trains. Here it is seen leaving a tunnel n... (more)
This yard at Thomas was a collection spot for several local mines in the area. This whole division was torn up from Romney to Elkins after Chessie takeover. Also, the local mines had low quality v... (more)
First double cabin GE ALCo ready tu run. It was tested with freight trains from Buenos Aires to Rosario over FC Belgrano sud line ( CGBA). Photo digitally restored by Goldemberg.
Roundhouse of central workhouse of Athens (MAI)
She's seen a better day. I have now doubts that the JLS masters have since made her look brand new
Was there a more colorful, classy station sign than those of the Pennsy? This one is sans keystone. Welcome to Marysville, first station stop west of Harrisburg.
Buffalo Creek & Gauley #13 leaving Dundon with empty coal hoppers in March 1962.
Home at Last. Four years after Stadler was awarded a contract to build three Diesel Multiple Units for San Bernardino County's Redlands Passenger Rail Project, the first DMU was delivered t... (more)
Shortline railroading at its best….85lb rail meandering through the landscape, 40+ year old power, a one-man crew, 11 loads and 108 miles to the interchange. Rail was laid between Cheney To Coul... (more)
SP 4110 is street running with a twelve car Tehachapi, Southern Pacific train 56, in tow at 15 MPH, in 1937. Otto C. Perry photo, from my collection.
The Civil War locomotive Texas, involved in the Great Locomotive Chase with the General, is being removed from the Cyclorama Building where it has been displayed since 1927. The locomotive is hea... (more)
A trio of GG1s, led by 4867, pass a fire on the tracks at Princeton Jct.
In preparation for the upcoming movement of Union Pacific Big Boy steam locomotive 4014 from California for restoration in Cheyenne, SD70M's 4014 and 4884 along with a short train of support cars ... (more)
Something's not quite right here...
Norfolk Southern had a little derailment of 2 gondolas loaded with pig iron. an NS local was pushing up the lead to the KBSR to clear Lafayette Junction when the derailment occurred. The location ... (more)
Constructed at Progress Rail in Muncie, IN, this EMD export unit is on the final leg of it's journey to the Port of Baltimore Dundalk Marine Terminal. Once at the port the locomotive will be load... (more)
D&H U33C No. 755 was undergoing an overhaul at the Colonie Shop in Watervliet, NY on Sept. 14, 1976. It was one of those pleasant late summer days and I guess the workers figured they could enjoy... (more)
A "tunnel of trees"...and a tunnel...as seen in this time exposure taken from Amtrak NPCU 90230 on the head end of trian 510, just south of Bellingham.
KCS SD70MAC 3903 leads a manifest North through the Mississippi river floodwaters in downtown Davenport at sunset. Rapid snowmelt from Minnesota and Wisconsin has pushed the Mississsippi River ove... (more)
Special delivery for the Monticello Nuclear Power plant. BNSF 2973 is pushing the last couple miles into the plant. This is the first train the City of Monticello has seen in about 3 years, norma... (more)
Reading T1 Northern #2101 is temprorarily transformed into American Freedom Train #1 to handle the tight clearances in the east. From July 23 to July 25 of 1976, she made her Morristown visit at t... (more)
This wreck occurred sometime in the 1980s.
KA Argo Gede pass on the Padalarang Curve
Sunset is just minutes away as a San Bernadino, California, bound BNSF intermodal reposition train crests the top of Burkes Hill and dips into the sag approaching Milepost 21 in Louisville, Colora... (more)
Southbound BNSF local headed to Drennan tangled with a US Mail tractor trailer.
Charging into the future. Amtrak/Amtrak California has taken delivery of new Siemens Venture coaches for testing. The semi-permanently coupled five car set represents the future of train travel fo... (more)
These two engines are heading up to the coal loader at Morrisons. The old depot on the right was Western Maryland. The track on the right is the Thomas Sub.
A small herd of the idiotic class decide that waiting 2 minutes for the short switch job to pass isn't worth it, and risk their life by running in front. Even better, the straggler looking towards... (more)
The "other" Union Pacific Challenger seen here in North Platte on display. Was it under steam? Nope, all that smoke is from a bar across the street on fire.
Aerial View of inside Mount Wright with the Cartier Fire Lake Train getting ready to dump crude iron ore rock for further processsing. They make 4 to 6 trips to Mount Wright per 24 hour period.
Duke of Gloucester passes over Ribblehead viaduct with a special from York to Carlisle
An original Kodachrome slide from my collection; the photographer was not specified.
A Decapod gets some maintenence. John reports that nobody took notice of his presence taking photos in the pit, it was no big deal. PRR Class I1s.
A westbound intermodal sails through the heart of the Mojave's 'Grand Canyon'. There are few places in Southern California that are so desolate and ruggedly beautiful as Afton Canyon!
Saturday at Meadows Engine Terminal in May of '53.
[3/3] The 78G has turned the hill at Watkins and is now on the downhill slide all the way to Weber City. You can see the sillouhete of the conductor off of the pusher engines giving the roll-by of... (more)
6AM smiles warmly upon a Nickel Plate 700.
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 3450 was the first of ten 4-6-4s (road number 3450 through 3459) built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1927. As built they had 74 inch drivers, 25 x 28 inch cylinder... (more)
Two bridges, two trains. NS 11J and NS 13G paralleled their way west under the Westinghouse Bridge and the Triboro Expressway under a weird combination of moon, clouds, and snow.
Where are the tracks? Two E-44s and two GG-1s power a westbound freight over the weed-covered Columbia Branch. The 4429 was built by GE for the PRR in January, 1962.
A BNSF Kansas City-Pasco manifest freight, with a cut of Boeing 737 fuselages, rolls through Lombard, Montana. The train is passing the bridge over the Missouri River of the abandoned Milwaukee Ro... (more)
Tri-Met WES finally tests their newly aquirred RDC's bought from Alaska Railroad about a year ago to add to their 3 DMU cars for backup purposes. Ex-Alaska 711 and 702 now Tri-Met 1711 and 1702 ar... (more)
The control stand of the BN U30C at IRM.
Eurocity "Transalpin" arrives to Schwarzach im Pongau to meet the Northbound Tauern Railjet (started this day as timetables changed). After a 3 min stop it'll head East to Graz. I had luck with th... (more)
Patches of a previous snowfall remain on the ground and more is coming this afternoon in March, 1964 as Alco-GE GTEL 58 climbs Archer Hill east of Cheyenne. The turbine will take this mixed freigh... (more)
The steam engine in the foreground was privately owned by someone, it was later scrapped in the late 70's. Where the IC and PC E units are is where the Amtrak Facility is today. The long bridge in... (more)
Piercing through a deteriorating cloud deck and resting on the shoulders of the western Rockies, a June sun illuminates prairie lands of rural Colorado just outside of Trinidad. Pointed toward La ... (more)
