One of the diesel-powered Trans Europ Express trains nears Hamburg on its northbound run in the late afternoon.
Number 14, the eastbound Land O'Corn, pauses at Dubuque to discharge and receive passengers. All of the railroad buildings in this shot were torn down for a major highway project in the 1990s. The... (more)
CP 7069 is one of the few pieces of equipment not under protective wraps as construction takes place at the TRHA's museum located at the old CP John St. Roundhouse. Shot from just over 1.100 ft th... (more)
Rock Island U25B 220 and GP40 4705 move a transfer train past Burlington Northern's Westminster Tower, seen at the top left. The transfer on former Great Northern rails is en route to Rock Island'... (more)
On Sunday, July 2, 2017, Amtrak Cascades train #506 derailed just south of Tacoma, WA. F59PHI #467 and a new Series 8 Talgo, the "Mt. Jefferson" were damaged. At the time of this photo, ... (more)
A 2900 Class 4-8-4, one of Santa Fe's finest, awaits its departure for Raton Pass with a heavy troop train. This locomotive was built by Baldwin in 1944. It will be assisted over the pass by... (more)
Amtrak #3, The Super Chief, descends La Bajada Hill, westbound for Albuquerque. Amtrak is just over 1 year old and is still using old ATSF Warbonnet power, and the train is still a combination of ... (more)
Looking very fancy, SP 4449 rolls over the Deschutes River and the twin bridges north of Maupin.
Where's the train? The tracks are still in but the C&O no longer serves the carferry in Milwaukee, WI. The lower level now hold autos, not freight cars. There were 3 car ferries that carried RR fr... (more)
Three Conrail GP8's lead the Saucon Drill across the Lehigh River as they travel from the former CNJ Allentown Yard to the former Reading Saucon Yard. Today, this route is long-since removed, alth... (more)
A classic painted F7 of green and yellow highlight this CNR westbound freight leaving Jasper, Alberta in the fall of 1967.
A Lot of Horsepower for a Transfer RunA quartet of six-axle Alco diesels (C628s and C630s) heads east out of the Southern Pacific's West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, on a... (more)
The Santa Cruz Rail Tours custom motorcar named Daisy crosses the Capitola trestle in the early evening bathed in the warm glow of the setting sun. Daisy is returning from Aptos after being invite... (more)
Pacific Locomotive Assn. operated a trip from Richmond to Stockton and return as a "Farewell to the PA's" powered by PA's 67 and 58. This was the a photo runby staged behind Martinez. The open spa... (more)
On the eve of Amtrak, we're in the cab of an ex-Burlington E9, on the point of the very last non-Amtrak combined Empire Builder/North Coast Limited/Afternoon Zephyr to Minneapolis and points west.... (more)
Bnsf 5392 sit's and waits for a repair. Meanwhile plenty of others await there fate.
And it was said, let there be light! UP 2673 breaks through the morning mist at Monolith and into the first light of the day as it leads a Roseville-West Colton manifest downgrade from the... (more)
Westbound out of Golden a plow extra plows the main and spreads the siding as it heads towards Rogers Pass at Dusk
The Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum (BSRM) is proud to announce the acquisition of First Light 1849 (nee Boston & Maine 1113), a 1941 Electro-Motive Division (EMD) SW-1, from the Mt. Tom Energy Pl... (more)
A school bus pulls up to the crossing just as NS local P07 activates the lights and bells.
The restoration work continues on Cotton Belt 819 inside the Arkansas RR Museum in Pine Bluff. I do not know when the restoration work on this beautiful looking locomotive is scheduled to be comp... (more)
Northbound Wisconsin & Southern train T003 rolls through Sussex, WI just after sunset. I'm looking out of an opening in a circa-1888 Lime Kiln located at the southeast corner of the crossing of Un... (more)
Norfolk Southern's experimental, battery powered, "green" locomotive on display at Steamtown during their annual Railfest. This prototype was developed by Norfolk Southern, in collaboration with t... (more)
Mamiya 645 color negative
CAT VS EMD! CN 7208 was involved in a sideswipe with CN 121 earlier in the day of February 23, near the "De Courcelles" street at MP 3.60 on the CN Montreal Subdivision. In the after... (more)
What Would You Do? In this situation a choice has to be made. Most choose to play chicken, some turn the other way, but me, I chose to stay put and shoot something 'Out of the Box', well re... (more)
CSX 533 leads a UP train through Nevada's Meadow Valley.
A Hospital train being run from Detroit to Indy with damaged equipment gets a new crew in Walbridge, Ohio. The damaged P42 and coach were from the 2/1/12 accident in Jackson county Michigan when ... (more)
Record snowfall was seen across the state of Arizona last week providing for unique scenes. In Kingman, reports were up to 13 inches of snowfall. Here, three GE motors ease their way into Kingman ... (more)
The next 3 Viewliner II cars were released from CAF USA in Elmira, NY on July 8th. On July 10th the 4 delivered cars, one of each type, were running tests at Rensselaer. Here is the first Sleeper ... (more)
As viewed from the 28th St. bridge, service tracks and a yard office hosted a pair of 1st generation diesel classics for commuter and local service. The view below this bridge today is vastly dif... (more)
Santa Fe's southbound "Texas Chief" crossing the South Canadian River in Oklahoma City
The 49er, UP train number 48, (8 cars 35 MPH) is seen near Echo Utah on October 23rd 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
All three of SP's BiCenntennial painted units were on a publicity special at Hiland siding adjadcent to Summit, CA
The riders of the California Zephyr are presented with a magical winter wonderland as the previous night's heavy snow blankets the trees and flatirons of Eldorado Mountain.
A fusee burns in the street as a a Canton crew uses a pair of engines in the new paint scheme to shove a cut of boxcars across S Haven St into the Overflo Warehouse.
Another Pickens Rebuild Oddball Switcher rests along with PICK 9504 in Gluck Yard outside of Anderson. The destination of this Rebuild is Unknown and is not at the current location as of to... (more)
Almost 19 years later, on August 14, 2016, Union Pacific's Tennessee Pass Subdivision sits silent, waiting for the next train that will probably never come. This is looking west at the west end of... (more)
Slow order in effect as NS 211 approaches the scene of last night's accident and derailment. Seen here passing by the damaged rear of the NS 214 which was struck by Railgrinder RG306.
In a wide view over Sheep Canyon, BNSF’s Cowley turn out of Greybull, Wyoming, snakes through through the spectacular abyss on the hot (100°F) afternoon of June 23, 2016. Two recently reactivat... (more)
A pair of NYC E8's lead an eastbound passenger on the Michigan Central through Canfield in September 1967.
Fall in Alaska can be spectacular if not short and catching something other than a passenger train in Healy Canyon during the daylight hours is a treat. During the Fall and it is even a bigger bon... (more)
Structural collapse of the Tolten railway bridge, near Pitrufquen city, while it was being passed by a freight train from FEPASA railway, falling into the river several tank wagons loaded with che... (more)
In near white-out conditions, 383 reaches the summit at Sand Patch and passes a helper set and a stopped R137. The weather on this day was constantly changing, intense snowfall at one moment, bri... (more)
Class Y6a #2169 goes for a spin at Shaffers Crossing.
On the 2'0" gauge Mulgrave Mill system Clyde HG-3R 0-6-0DH 19 passes under the 3'6" gauge Kuranda Railway with 19 ten tonne bins loaded with sugar cane from the Barron River.
Southern 8099, Norfolk Southern's second Heritage locomotive, is seen at DeButts Yard in Chattanooga along with a more familiar face of NS's fleet. Casey Thomason photo, copyright Norfolk Souther... (more)
We have just enough room to squeeze through the yard and, just enough power to make to Framingham. Considering all the railfan discontent with Penn Central, U boats sounded just as great here as a... (more)
The only active, wood-lined tunnel I've ever seen, at Quinwood, WV on the former NF&G lines radiating from Rainelle, WV. The CSXT 550 is working hard, pulling coal loads back to the yard. The slo... (more)
The grade and curvature are quickly increasing and the train speed is dropping as this empty coal train enters the depths of Clover Creek Canyon.
Fairbanks-Morse Trainmaster action in the Lebanon Valley, in a scene scanned from a slide from the collection of the late Hen Westenberger. The 863 was one of seventeen H24-66s (Hood, 2400 hp, 6 ... (more)
Former VRE GP40-2 V24 built in 1996 is now US Army 4672 and it along with V21 (4670) & V22 (4671) have arrived at Hill AFB, Utah for a complete going over by the Defense Non-Tactical Generator & R... (more)
Union Pacific really does clean their locomotives Unfortunately, they only have a few places that do so, and so many locomotives! GE AC4400CW No. 6390 gets sudsed up and scrubbed inside... (more)
F9 93A is doing transfer duty as she passes through Milwaukee Road freight yard in Milwaukee, Wis. It's February 1976 and the unit will have no need for its Cummins generator installed in the ear... (more)
Fireworks rain out in the night sky as a line of EMD SD9043MAC locomotives rest on track 57 of the former Rio Grande yard in Pueblo. These units will stay parked here for over a year as they awai... (more)
A track gang takes a tea break next to a derailed wagon near Haputale. We spent 4 days around here with no sunshine!
Along the old Colorado Midland After Union Pacific closed Colorado’s Tennessee Pass as a through route on August 23, 1997, it still operated a once-a-week local from Pueblo to Malta, ... (more)
This won't work. This block of limestone will need some readjustment before it can make its trip to Manitowoc for a breakwall in Lake Michigan. These blocks were not secured in any way due to the ... (more)
The first revenue run of the new logo! Looking good as it passes through the curve at Belmont Road in Downers Grove on its maiden voyage. Railroad: BNSF RailwayLocomotive: GE ES44DCLocation: Downers Grove, Illinois, USALocomotive #: BNSF 7687Train ID: S-CHCTAC-3-07Photo Date: March 08, 2005
A new but dirty Centennial is held up at Grand Island, NE. as a storm goes through. The unit behind the Centennial is a very early U25B built by GE. Photo taken by Lou Schmitz.
A single dirty KCS ACe is on the point of the QKCNL 10 heading south out of Blue Valley Siding and ducking an abandoned RocK Island bridge. The bridge is on the far-west end of the KC-STL line tha... (more)
Every year, during Del Mar racing season, one set of Amtrak Surfliners are broken up to add a car each to the others sets (plus three more cars to one super set). To make up for the missing train ... (more)
Some GECX units, a BN green unit, a UP dash-8 all sit in the yard at General Electric. Looking further back into the yard you can see more GECX units along with a few green units which had Chinese... (more)
A view from the Second Unit of Q 116 as it rolls through Lansing, Michigan. In Deadhead status you get to enjoy the scenery passing by. Out the Right Hand side of the cab is the now retired coal b... (more)
A former Frisco GP38-2 with a new PTC brow leads Job 113 past the laker Lee A. Tregurtha as shipyard workers finishing painting its bow.
1 of the 2 CN painted E-units is parked outside the Centralia shop. Photo: taken on CN property by CN employee.
One of Jersey Central's unique double-enders smokes it up with a long westbound commuter train late in the day.
Its late at night and 3rd trick Operator Clarence Nelson, father of Mark and Mike Nelson, taps back the orders he's just copied on his Form 19 pad, confirming the Dispatcher's intent. These were ... (more)
CN 2242 works as the DPU on a typically heavy train 369 at Lovekin, just ahead of a heavy rainfall. This is the first DPU train I've managed to shoot on the Kingston Sub. 1553hrs.
Night fall down in the upper Valais. Our view is from the newly (in September of this year) opened section of the hiking trail " Lötschberg Südrampe " between Lalden and Brig, about 200 meters a... (more)
Both Music City Star trainsets getting ready to leave for the nightly test runs. The Wilson County Fair's balloon rides can be seen floating over the new commuter operation in this late evening v... (more)
View of the Amtrak and Metra yards from atop the Sears Tower. Amtrak is on the left, Metra on the right. The bridge going over the tracks is Roosevelt Ave.
Tthis coal train had alot problems climbing the .40% grade out of the Mississippi River Valley between Gladstone and Kirkwood. Eventually the train stalled here at Kirkwood and the crew is now out... (more)
BNSF 573 (B40-8W) engages the turbo afterburner to muscle a heavy load out of the bowl in the Denver Yard. Is it me......or does that turbo fire look....'happy'?
A pair of shiny, steam killing GP-9s idle away in the shadows of US 52. These are passenger units.
A eastbound Z train is seen in a patch of sunlight just before an approaching storm
The 0-4-0+0-4-0T Mallet steam locomotive #440.008 is seen with a mixed freight and passenger train at the "Devil's Gate" near Sheregeni in Eritrea. This scenic narrow gauge railroad betw... (more)
After purchasing the Clinchfield Instruction Car and cutting the brush back away from her. The long task begins of getting her ready to roll again to her new home.
Stranded. After record rain hit in June this year BNSF tracks both east and west of the Tate & Lyle chemical plant in western Duluth were washed out stranding 6 tank cars. Also washed out was the... (more)
Lehigh Valley EMD SW8 switchers 250 & 251 are seen from Bethlehem tower that controls the Reading crossing and interchange.
At this point she still escaped PC black paint. She's looking good.
Metrolink rolled out the new Hyundai Rotem car set with a "open house" at Union Station then a run up to Moorpark and a stop at Glendale on the return.
A great collection of western railroad motive power resides at the museum at the former Union Station in Ogden, UT.
Eastbound WSOR T8 creeps through Mazomanie with a short 14 car train as the autumn leaves peak out in central Wisconsin.
"Big Horn Pass", on the rear of the combined "Empire Builder/North Coast Limited" two days before Amtrak. Better not leave the cars sitting next to the business on the left...
A quartet of BNSF GEs lead an eastbound container train.
Winter is coming folks, Maybe. I sure knew it in 1966 when I was commuting into Boston. On this snowy day, the highways were parking lots and the radio said, "stay off of the roads." So, we took t... (more)
