Two of the freshest rebuilt/repainted Florida East Coast GP40-2s are ahead of a third matched-paint 'retro' unit consist of 434, 438 and 413 leading southbound train 111-23 over the San Sebastian ... (more)
Steamscape: The Snowshed Slide. "And by the time you get your hide past the Snowshed Slide.... You've had a ride on the Silverton, The Silverton Train." Those lyrics, penned over 4 decades ... (more)
The Blue Hour has arrived as it begins to snow once again and the temperature continues to drop. Seen here, BNSF ET44C4 No. 3997 leads the daily hot Alliance, Texas to Portland, Oregon Q-Train out... (more)
It has been 14 years since PRR 1361 was an operable locomotive and $1.7 million of federal taxpayer money has resulted in little progress of the restoration. The boiler was recently moved from Ste... (more)
"The door is closed!" Steve Barry's cry rang across the Ocotillo Wells desert, the four words none of us thought we'd hear on a 100°+ day. Nevertheless, the second departure from the US G... (more)
GG1 4934 rests at Cooperstown Jct NY
NP 6509A will become BN 9776 and then be retired in 1972
Cheating the Executioner By the time that this photo was taken in May, 1979, Conrail’s big Alco’s were making their last stand in Ohio ore service. They would soon be cut up, b... (more)
Kenefick Park is an impressive welcoming after crossing the Missouri river from Council Bluffs, IA into Omaha, Nebraska. It happens to be even more of a sight at night!
Angelic ALP. An ALP44 is on the rear of yet another rush hour southbound as the sun reflects off the Raritan Bay and clouds above.
Amid a wild sea breeze and surf along the Gaspe' Coast, VIA 616 crosses above the beach at St. Therese-De-Gaspe' at 10:52.
Passing through the wash looping around to the sunnyside yard, LIRR Harold tower in the background
Forty years ago, it was common knowledge that the Lehigh Valley Railroad would cease to exist on the coming April 1. I made a commitment to capture as much of the Lehigh Valley as I could in the f... (more)
Proving that there WAS a budget on the Rock Island for weed control, at least in 1976, as a crew work a sprayer in the yard at West Dav, getting a good tan in the process.
"DERAILMENT" NS T09 has derailed under the Apollo fuels loadout in Middlesboro, KY with severe damge to the supports of the loadout and one gon hanging on by a thread.
Union Pacific dispatched a rotary set today from Roseville, CA as the WRVTKF-25. They departed at 10am and made it to Colfax around noon. After waiting for a utility crew to remove some downed wir... (more)
Contractors assemble the driving rods, and perform other set up work on Chinese QJ 7081 at IAIS's Iowa City shops.
Twin Seams Mining Shay 5 (former Meadow River) working near Holt, AL in August 1962. This operation was a former Frisco line with wooden trestles with limited maintenance, so much so that crews wo... (more)
Rock Island's passenger Train 39, formerly called the "Imperial," derailed at Valencia, Ks., 11 miles west of Topeka, and two steam-powered derricks were slowly clearing the double-track mainline ... (more)
CSX I007 (North Bergen, NJ - Rose Lake, IL) stops at the Pixley Rd. crossing to receive water in the second engine CSXT 387 from a fire truck.
Amtrak's southbound Vermonter train #55 is seen crossing the 3rd Branch White River in the quaint New England town of Bethel, Vermont. The Vermonter has Amtrak commemorative P42, #184 leading thr... (more)
Less than a day after a rockslide wiped out a Canadian Pacific westbound and closed down the Yale Sub, Canadian National 2841 tiptoes gingerly over fresh track and spilled grain, while wreckage li... (more)
Union Pacific's daily Denver to Salt Lake City manifest heads west through Utah's Price River Canyon. Nine cars behind the power is a flat car loaded with a giant heat exchanger, built in Tulsa, O... (more)
"Take me back": As the sun continues to rise to the East, a Norfolk & Western J Class locomotive makes haste with a hot shot freight. Norfolk & Western #611 - October 2019
A late summer storm rolls across Indiana displaying one of the most spectacular light shows I've ever seen. There was a few times that I thought to myself "Am I totally out of my mind for shooting... (more)
In the winter of 1980 The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) abandoned almost two thousand miles of track west of Miles City Montana. The abandonment of the “Pacific... (more)
One of Santa Fe's older F3 passenger units leads the TEXAS CHIEF into Chicago. The unit has been updated with stainless-steel grilles and new side panels but the red portion of the unit is still l... (more)
A view taken c1930 inside the famous St.Pancras train shed designed by William Barlow opened in 1868. From next Wednesday, 14th November 2007, it becomes the London terminus for Eurostar trains fr... (more)
A trio of Insull interurbans bound for Chicago stops at the South Shore Station.
PRR K4s No. 1361 drifts by ALTO Tower after a trip to Bellefonte. ALTO Tower was constructed in 1880, retired in 2012, and still stands today.
4141 east slowly approaches Winslow Arizona.
SP FP7 6458 and E9 6050 are backing out of LAUPT after arriving with Train #1, The Sunset. The era of the E-unit on the SP was nearing an end.
Much can be seen in this view of Canadian Pacific’s yard at Nelson, B.C. on June 10, 1975: the large depot and division offices under the red roof in the background, adjacent to the car shops; ... (more)
Bennett Levin's PRR E8s lead an afternoon excursion trip around famed Horseshoe Curve. Later in that day, they would head more)
Train #57, The Owl sits at LAUPT in the summer of 1956, awaiting departure to Oakland Pier. The Union Pacific train on the right is the City of Los Angeles preparing for departure toward Ch... (more)
Heading SP West, #6255 is entering SP's Newhall Yard in San Jose in May of 1966. The trailing unit is one of their Krauss Maffei hydraulics. It is likely that this train has just arrived from Trac... (more)
The Union Pacific Railroad worked with the Altoona Police Department for their department photo. The Chief of Police is proud of the railroad heritage that the city has and the role that the railr... (more)
Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 8477 and a standard UP ES44AC bring up the rear of Xcel Energy coal empties as the train scoots west through the magnificent scenery of the high country near Hot Sulphur ... (more)
Always Expect a Train.. Highway 30 follows Union Pacific's Transcon mainline across the state of Nebraska and along this line, there a lot of railroading crossings. In Lexington, there is r... (more)
"Gentlemen, we're in for a long night."
The Louisiana Steam Train Association yard in Jefferson (West of New Orleans) Houses some interesting equipment. Before becoming under ownership of the Bisso Towboat Co, The locomotive was built b... (more)
Norfolk and Western freight power is well represented at Shaffers Crossing. Class A 1221 faces Y6b 2173 while EMD GP9 721 sits nearby.
Off into the sunset! Cascades 509 crosses the bridge at milepost 15.9, just south of the Steilacoom ferry dock, heading for it's next stop at Centennial Station in E. Olympia. BNSF 2089 is fil... (more)
Even in 1966 a Baldwin Shark was a rare find!
Montana Rail Link's Gas Local heads east along the crystal clear Flathead River west of Perma, Montana, on MRL's 10th Subdivision. The Gas Local carries gasoline, diesel fuel, and jet or aviation ... (more)
Christened on April 18, 1934, at the PRR's Broad Street Station, this Philadelphia born, Budd built, articulated streamliner achieved a remarkable speed of 112.5 mph in May of that same year (1934... (more)
This SD75M is still in "Warbonnet" paint.
The hulks of a UP SD60M and a GP60 wait at Pacific Rail Dismantlers in the old Colton Yard to be cut up. These units were wrecked in the San Timoteo Canyon Runaway of August 26, 2006. The train wa... (more)
Today we see class 1 railroads making public relations investments in heritage paint schemes and classic steam locomotives. However, it's hard to imagine the business case for the D&H to purchase... (more)
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Erie Lackawanna inspection train. Railroad officials have stepped off their special train to observe westbound freight ES-99 on the "New Connection" track at Lake Junction. ES-99 was a CNJ-EL run... (more)
Two SP FP7s and F7Bs depart SP's Houston station with the eastbound Sunset Limited. SP 6455 was sold to Amtrak in 1972 and eventually renumbed AMT 118.
A Pennsylvania GP7 speeds through South Amboy with a PONY EXPRESS racetrack special for Monmouth Park. My friend and I had been hoping for a K4 on this train but it was too late in the steam seaso... (more)
Minutes out of Denver Union Station, Burlington 9988A sweeps past the 38th Street yard office with Number 10, the Denver Zephyr. It’s mid-January, 1965, and though the sun has barely set behind ... (more)
A switching move didn't turn out as planned and now the local crew has to resort to poling to shove this car clear of the switch and free their locomotive.
Virginian Railway 135 at Roanoke, VA in February 1957 sporting a thick coat of road grime. This 'motor' is preserved at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke. Bob Drake photo, collectio... (more)
Amtrak F69PHAC's 451 & 450 with EMD test car and 2 F40's street running through Jack London Square, Oakland on #11, Coast Starlight. Sometimes you get lucky.
From the archives II Lazy, Slow & Independent? I beg to differ! An old advertsing campaign image that I created for the LS&I a few decades late. A 1/15th pace photo<... (more)
A dmu passenegr unit makes a short stop at Gastouni station on the way to Kalamata. This rainy day the sky was very strange.
Cascade Green Quartet! Coal moving over Mullan Pass behind four Cascade Green ex. Burlington Northern SD60Ms! The sound of big DC motors exploding out of Skyline Cut and over the Austin C... (more)
Still Santa Fe’s elegant flagship and one of the last of the great passenger trains in February, 1969, the Super Chief, Train 18, slows for a meet with a unit coal train just south of Glorieta, ... (more)
At dusk on a clear day in the Queen City, 8835 North passes 8380 as she switches containers. Note the differences in the ostensibly identical EMDs.
Y6a 2167 pushes hard on the wood-sheathed caboose of a coal drag pulled by a single Y6, number 2152.
Another in-cab view of the Norfolk Southern Croxton yard relief crew NS HC60 running amok beneath Jersey City, NJ with a short ballast train for Oak Island.
Amtrak F40PH 231 speeds "San Diegan" #779 west through Fullerton, CA on February 19, 1997.
You never knew what would show up on the Lachine Spur. Back when it was in use, you never knew what engines would be ferrying to or from Canadian Allied Diesel on CN's Lachine spur. CN 2684... (more)
My first visit to Denver showcased the look and feel of modern BN road power in the early 1980s, which consisted mostly of SD40-2s and U30C/C30-7s. A few cabless GEs are also lurking plus a few fi... (more)
DPUs crossing the slide near Fields, Oregon on the Cascade Subdivision. DPUs here take a beating from the smoke in the many tunnels between Oakridge and Cascade Summit.
B&O EMC EA No. 51
The first streamlined diesel locomotive delivered to the B&O, No. 51 set a stylistic precedent for future generations of EMC /EMD streamlined diesels. Seen here in the... (more)
Western Maryland 734 and crew including Rosie the Riviter pose after the April 2nd Photo Special
BNSF 3261 leads an eastbound train out of Barstow as the moon sets in the distance.
On the way to Sacramento and Railfair 1981, UP #8444 and a coal burning #3985 have emerged from Shed 10 on SP's Donner Pass line and are crossing Butte Canon trestle. Railfair '81 was held in conn... (more)
Brand new GE ES58ACi locomotive for VALE (former CVRD) been unloaded from the ship in one of the berths of São Luís Port. The VALE bought ten of these giants to pull the new standards of the iro... (more)
RS-1 1269 in new ICG dress teams with two more Alcos still in GM&O colors to take the northbound leg of the daily Union Camp turn off the Alabama River bridge. Geeps are on the way, so the Alcos... (more)
This very rare picture shows a chemical generated aurora that comes from two NASA Rock probes launched over Northern Norway (Aurora Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment) additionally a light natural ... (more)
After the unveiling of Rock Island Rail's new GP38-2, number 4373, it and 4310 begin a photo charter run south to Swan Lake.
Pan Am Railways' first repainted ex-CSXT C40-8 #7552 is seen on a three-car office car special train over the GMRC Bellows Falls Subdivision diamond at Bellows Falls on the way back to Maine after... (more)
Let's go to Wolsztyn with one of the last real steam train in europe !
Chicago city transit bilevel commuter cars on their way to Montreal to be worked on make an unscheduled stop at Aldershot. This derailment apparently involved three trains when it happened some 15... (more)
Gleaming in the setting sun Amtrak No. 11, the Southbound Coast Starlight, rolls along a very dry Central Coast of California.
Living on borrowed time and the last of its kind, 1804 is the last LS&I RSD-12 known to be left unscrapped in the United States, it is also one of only two LS&I Alco's in exsistance, and one of on... (more)
The ERIE LIMITED departs Paterson late in the afternoon of a hot July day.
I could not find anything about this tiny switcher sitting in a small industry south of Johnstown, Colorado. The locomotive is lettered J&E Railroad #2771. The tiny engine is dwarfed by the ex. B... (more)
Crickets and birds chirp, thunder rumbles to the South, while AC traction motor whine and a Canadian tuned Nathan 3-chime scream disrupt serenity in the small town of Bowbells, during an incredibl... (more)
The early morning fog lingers in the Clinch River Valley as a northbound CSX empty coal train rumbles across the Copper Creek Viaduct on its trek to the coal mines of Eastern Kentucky.
At dusk, some of MNNR's finest 4 axle switcher power assembles at their shops in the Twin Cities.
A bright moon illuminates the struggle of machine against the mountain. In this case, the mountain won. With two units on the front and a single DPU on the rear, this train could not make it up th... (more)
Santa Fe FP45 No. 90, built by EMD as ATSF 100 in Dec. 1967, is pictured on display at the Grand Canyon Railway passenger station in Williams, Arizona on Sept. 29, 1990.
Missouri Pacific Alco PA-1 No.50 train 15 Allenton, Missouri July 15, 1965.
