Charging into Roaring Spring. After making a brief stop for water and lubrication, Everett Railroad Mogul #11 and her short mixed train make a spirited charge up-grade into the Pennsylvania... (more)

There’s a little problem in the Canadian National yard in Brockville, Ontario. It appears that two locomotives have tried to occupy the same switch simultaneously, a feat which has never success... (more)

Almost as it was in the summer time, a strong downpour comes out of nowhere as FEC 101 is starting its southbound run to Miami. Those are some big drops in the beams of the headlights and the stea... (more)

The sunlight was dramatic and the hills very lush as Y6a 2158 pushes the afternoon freight headed by two other Y6 locomotives.

No horn, gates open, slow "train" coming. Two workers push 'special' car from Organika Chemical plant, probably to check/repair side track

Along the tranquil waters of Brule Lake just east of Jasper National Park, Canadian National train No. 310 arcs through Robertson’s Curve at Swan Landing, Alberta, on the splendid afternoon of J... (more)

Comstock: MP 46.6. A V&T Freight traverses the wide, sweeping horseshoe curve at American Flat on a chilly winter afternoon, en route to its destination at Virginia City, roughly 5 rail mil... (more)

Scale is everything... Union Pacific ES44AC No. 5468 races along CO-HWY 131 at 50 MPH with Xcel Energy coal empties from the Public Service Company as it scoots west by the towering Fing... (more)

On weekends the commuter fleet did not get to idle around the roundhouse in San Jose. No, they had to work their way to Roseville and back. Here the entire SDP-45 fleets brings an EB reefer tra... (more)

Quite an interesting find off of a random side street in McKees Rocks, less then ten minutes from downtown Pittsburgh. Nearly as interesting, but not really, is the random blue switcher.

The 10:30am Employee Appreciation Special glides downgrade and around Horseshoe Curve, headed back to Altoona with the Pennsylvania heritage unit leading the way. Photo by Casey Thomason. For mor... (more)

UP 6900 (retired) being taken back to the South Yard after dropping off the passenger cars.

CN ET44AC 3026 shoves train Q111 onto the north track of the Edson Sub at Park Gate. While I would've much preferred the unit to be facing the other way round, this view gives a good perspective o... (more)

Reading 4-8-4 2109 is at the front of a line of stored T-1 class engines at Reading. There were still 20 of the husky 4-8-4s on the roster at this date and several had been used as temporary indus... (more)

I suspect that the complexity of a Big Boy's controls might prove a little confusing for the uninitiated!

First drive test for rebuilded baby Alco.

EMDX Demonstrator 90 sits at EMD's LaGrange Plant.

Old and new color schemes lead the Eastbound Fast Mail. ALCO leads EMD E 8 in a valley near Susquehanna, the location of the old Delaware Lackawanna and Western Shops.

A second photo of the damaged 2620 at Victorville. The other 3 units behind it all had bodyside damage but nothing like as bad.

Cabooses are Acceptable

What the sign lacks in spelling and grammar is more than made up for in meaning and intensity. I wonder where he got that guard rail!

Heavy load! A Baby Schnabel bears the tremendous weight of this transformer as the CP lugs it south to the Twin Cities.

The first time i have personally ever witnessed 2 moving westbounds out of Cumberland,Md on the 2 different subdivisions at the exact same time spaced out about as perfect as one can ask fo... (more)

One of the strangest sights I've ever seen on CSX.

Guess someone has finally decided that this is supposed to be a KCS locomotive after all and spray painted on the rightful owner initials.

An extra Mount Holly Springs freight crosses Route 34 after dropping off a hot car for NS at the interchange 'yard' a few miles north.

We're onboard the lead unit of the Canadian, VIA #1, on CPR's Mountain Sub holding for VIA #2 at Glenogle. The crew let me ride the head end from Field to Revelstoke. I was simply ecstatic the wh... (more)

Burn, Baby, Burn! BNSF 7903 blew its turbo during its eastbound trip on the Z LACCHI7 20L (high priority intermodal from Los Angeles, CA to Chicago, IL). Kingman Fire Department met up with... (more)

I happened across this movement completely by accident on my way into work. Nobody shot at me, and the black helicopters haven't shown up yet, so here's my photo of a cask train, westbound near t... (more)

After a collision with a truck on the lane crossing at the beginning of Nangis station, this diesel have been quickly removed from the track and put there to rebuild the track and station platform... (more)

4014_0897A January 26th, 2014. 8:36 AM, Union Pacific 4014 rolls westbound thru crossing gates and flashers protecting N. Azusa Ave, California Highway 39, on her way to West Colton California aft... (more)

The Magnificent Seven: after helping a Savage to Trona coal train to Soldier Summit, Rio Grande SD40T-2s No. 5345, 5410, 5349, 5373, 5400, 5392, and 5347 return to Helper Yard on Aug. 19, 2000.

ATSF A-B-B-A F3 units are pulling the SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF away from Joliet.

It's a gorgeous summer evening as a young woman makes a quick dash in front of the returning B765 local on Warren & 7th street after a single run up to the mill. The Sunday crew commonly makes ... (more)

Meter gauge Alco with a freight is coming back to the mountainious line of Tripolis after 5 years of renovation of all the line (250km).Here is crossing Eleochorion bridge.

A Northern Pacific U boat and SP&S Alco FA2 are at the throat of Yardley waiting to depart westbound.

Strasburg employees take a break from cleaning the switches and run around at Leaman Place to watch and photograph an eastbound Keystoner fly past.

By the looks of the pic one could not tell that this is a 2 track main. but today it looks like a farm field with rail cars and lots of MUD.

Numerous pieces of equipment sit at the TVRM's Grand Junction Station near Chattanooga, Tennessee. Closest to us is TVRM 5288, a 4-6-2 built in 1918 by Montreal Locomotive Works. It served on the ... (more)

Burlington's Denver Zephyr surprised me while I was waiting for the mail train in the background (shown in image 354169). It came out of nowhere and was by me in a flash. It had to be hitting at l... (more)

A passenger train to Havana makes a short stop at the Guareiras station. The locomotive 61611 has been built in 1974 in the USSR by Kolomna. These engines were also very popular in the eastern blo... (more)

Rise of the Rotems. After many months of extensive testing and fixing a radio issue, Metrolink's new Hyundai Rotem cab cars can now be seen leading trains around Southern California. Here w... (more)

A trio of Canadian Pacific SD40-2's, each in a different paint scheme, sit around the turntable at CP's Nahant Yard in Davenport, Iowa. The roundhouse that still stands here was built by the Milwa... (more)

Great celebration in marriage union machinist Carlos Avila Beseler and his wife Pauline who conmomero facilities in the Pablo Neruda Railway Museum Temuco. certainly a very beautiful celebreacion ... (more)

Another view of UP Turbine 3, at Cheyenne, Wy on May 11, 1968. Do not ask me why the coupler is freshly painted white --- I do not know. But I could suspect the locomotive or the tightlock ... (more)

With the recent influx of older BNSF EMD's, the collection at Larry's has grown even more colorful. Now, in addition to the usual schemes of former DMIR, NS, BNSF and other miscellaneous railroad... (more)

As the SP's WSRVM departs Ozol Yard near Martinez, the brace of older 1st and 2nd generation diesels do their best to hide their escape from town with a serious smoke screen. The consist as I reca... (more)

This little switcher is still serving it's country. Started out in 1942 and still going, while the USS Independence (CVA-62) has come and gone (1958-1998).

Where do you find parts for a 100 year-old steam engine? The answer is....you usually don't FIND them, more often then not, you have to MAKE them. At the Nevada Northern Railway Museum, th... (more)

Among the local cotton gins, BAYL 500 rests for the night. LRWN 500 was built as GM&O 707 in 8/1969. After the GM&O/IC merger, it served the ICG as 9526. It would go on to the Bay Line as 500. Whe... (more)

A westbound BNSF vehicle train curves along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River as it exits Tunnel 4 just east of West Glacier (Belton), Montana, on October 10, 2018, surrounded by the beauty of... (more)

Hustle Muscle pulls muscle cars. CNW train #483 was a Janesville-Twin Cities manifest, seen here from the top floor of the old CNW depot with what appear to be Chevy Novas fresh from the Janesvil... (more)

John gets another stare-down from the crew on this yard job. Note the lineup of power in the distance including what appears to be an articulated steamer. PRR Class L1s.

A former CBQ GP30 rebuild switches the TEMCO silo with a SD60M. The bulk carrier Stella Ellena from Singapore loads in the background and is bound for Taiwan.

A nortbound Monon passenger train cruises up the 5th Street trackage in downtown Lafayette. Photo date is approximate. [From the collection of my grandfather, J.T. Childers I]

CN 4904 is leading the Pointe St-Charles Switcher with GP9 7060 over the southern end of Montreal's Old Port with the first lock of the Lachine canal in the foreground.

Dawn finds Canadian National #529 rolling through Pointe St-Charles as it enters Montreal on its way to Tachereau Yard. Ironically, the CN locomotive is a former Chicago & North Western.

Here you see four dual gauged turnouts leading away from the enginehouse in the Mt Union Yard of the East Broad Top Railroad

From Tom Sink's collection, this photo by a Buffalo Creek & Gauley company photographer shows BC&G 2-8-0 #3 at Widen around 1923-1924. This locomotive was scrapped in 1930.

Former Santa Fe passenger F7 339 now wears a yellow warbonnet as it leads 4 other F units on a westbound freight around the roller-coaster hills at Rogers, Texas on April 1, 1973. New signals a... (more)

The Wrath of Conrail

This old signal bridge once spanned the Lehigh Valley Main Line on the approach to the Delaware River Bridge. Conrail abandoned the Lehigh Valley alignmen... (more)

JOHN 3:16. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." This Missouri Pacific boxcar sitt... (more)

The power off inbound CSX Q640 heads for the engine service area with "new" power for the Finger Lakes Railway in central NY. The unit was rebuilt and painted into the Finger Lakes New Y... (more)

The Awakening of Stampede Pass; BNSF has really ramped up train totals on Stampede after years of seeing either 1 or 2 trains in 24 hours or no trains at all. The new "Triangle" pool runs ... (more)