Both of these locos were sitting at CEECO (Coast Engine and Equipment Company) for a few years. When CEECO ceased operations last summer they were brought to the Tacoma yard only about a mile away... (more)
An eastbound SP Roseburg to Eugene lumber drag was attacking Rice Hill with all it's might.
IC 9613 leads a cut of cars to CN Harrison Yard after working the Valero lead and surrounding industries.
Huckleberry RR #152 is silhouetted by the rising sun as it drifts around the east loop on a lovely spring morning.
Penn Central was a year old in June 1969 but this scene at Poughkeepsie carried on the New York Central heritage. E8s 4066-4093 have arrived from Croton-Harmon on a commuter train out of Grand Cen... (more)
Vermont Rail System's VTR GP38-2 201 and GMRC GP40 305 are working south from Newport to White River Junction, Vermont, crossing over the temporary "Bailey Bridge" that was constructed b... (more)
With an air temp at -4F Erie Mining F9A 4211 leads DM&IR 193 and a train of empty BNSF steel hopper cars out of Rices Point. Who would have thought 4211 (or 193) would be powering an ore train, al... (more)
BNSF 7548 thunders through Sandcut as building storms fill the sky at sunset.
Desktop controls on an F9 ???
One of Canadian Pacific's three E8 units departs Montreal West with the CP and B&M RED WING from Boston. These units were built at LaGrange and were the only E units in Canada.
Previously uploaded images from this date in November 1981 have shown the front end of the 20 locomotive #790 eastbound coal train climbing Tennessee Pass at several locations. With seven GPs on t... (more)
See "Glamorous Embers" in the January 2006 issue of TRAINS for the story!
The remains from the December 20th derailment are still hanging around til Norfolk Southern comes back to retrieve the three locomotives, and the cars that was left behind after the holidays. On t... (more)
Curving along the banks of the Missouri River at Lombard, Montana, on the morning of September 12, 2011, is Montana Rail Link’s 840 local powered by a matching set of MRL SD40-2XRs, Nos. 252 and... (more)
Hooping it up! Crews would order meals at The IL-MO Beanery in Scott City and pick them up on the fly: one for the locomotive crew, one for the caboose.
An empty BNSF ore train passes by the Great Lakes Trader, which sports a nice ice mustache after its trip across Lake Superior.
Passenger train Hanoi - Ho Chi Minh
Marias Pass in known for heavy snow and my recent trip there didn't disappoint. I had shot the pass in spring, summer and fall but never winter. The Izaak Walton was a busy place with skiers takin... (more)
A few minutes past 9am C&EI E7 27 leads train #4, the northbound Danville Flyer, appropriately escorted by another flyer through 21st Street interlocking minutes from arrival at Dearborn Station. ... (more)
Devil's Gate High Bridge. The centerpiece of the Georgetown Loop Railroad is the reconstructed, 300 ft. long, Devil's Gate High Bridge, spanning Clear Creek and the station access road. T... (more)
An old man contemplates life, some ducks prepare for a swim, and an ALCO heads for Khulna loco shed for a rest. This loco is a 5 feet 6 inch gauge ALCO built at Schenectady in 1965.
The Lilly Belle heads up the grade to Main Street Station
A late NS 219 takes a detour into the Mississippi forest on the NS AGS South.
A southbound sits in the siding at Sheffield after bucking drifts out of Mason City. Sheffield is the 1st siding out of Mason City on the UP Spineline. This is the ex-Rock Island route from St. Pa... (more)
Two EMD A units separated by an Alco FA, rush a MoPac red ball freight onward toward St. Louis on June 3, 1961. A weed sprayer work train on the Cotton Belt RR was in the clear near Paragrould, ... (more)
C&O "Allegheny" 1604 on display indoors at the B&O railroad museum. The engine, which spent many years outdoors, has not been repainted but has been rubbed down with a special oil-based substance... (more)
Inside one of CP's newest locomotives. Note the video camera mounted to the left of the engineer's window.
Class U-4-b #6407 waits for a train to pull.
Dick Davidson and wife wave to the 41th President George and wife Barbara Bush on the walkway of the newly christened UP 4141 during a private dedication ceremony on the campus of Texas A&M Univer... (more)
Back in September 2018, Metra hosted an Operation Lifesaver demonstration on their SWS line in Manhattan, IL. A Chevy Trailblazer was put on the tracks to show what would happen to a car if it was... (more)
CSX C842-22 derailed in the Lothair Section of Hazard after loading at the Bluegrass No. 4 mine. 6 of the train's cars derailed with at least 4 ending up on their side. No one was injured this b... (more)
A crumpled Penn Central boxcar is being transported without its trucks atop a flatcar, perhaps on its way to the Sam Rea Shops in Hollidaysburg. I think this might be a PC class X43F boxcar, rebu... (more)
About to take the downword slide into Winthrop after topping the hog back.
Passing by Faria County Park, Union Pacific no. 6322 leads a Herzog ballast train southbound along the Santa Barbara Subdivision to Los Angeles and then on to Utah.
Chicago’s Iconic Tunnels. CN train L536 crawls through Downtown Chicago with IC 1000, the “class unit” IC SD70 leading a CN SD75I and SD70M-2. They are seen here tip toeing under the ... (more)
UP 8485 heads up this hot double stack headed west for the coast
This 112-year-old passenger rail car (Bk 357) is the oldest one that is still operated by the Hungarian State Railways. The train dispatcher and the switchman greet the engineer and the brakeman o... (more)
Pittsburgh's Mount Washington provides a great vantage point over the downtown area.
AWVR 7375 gets ready to lead part of the Unstoppable train south for some stunt filming.
Vermont Rail System hosts Canadian Pacific foreign power every summer when ballast trains are loaded at Vermont Railway’s Burlington Yard. On June 28, CP multi-Mark SD40-2 6067 leads dual flag ... (more)
On an mild early spring day with a good view to the alps and Lake of Zurich, Inter Regio 2356 from Lucerne to Zurich Airport is leaving Zurich main station over the curved bridge towards Oerlikon.... (more)
I really wish Alco had succeeded and these were everywhere. My favorite centercab of all time, with the right intermediate height cab and the right trucks. Unit is ex SP&S.
After 3 days of snow the sun is here.Special weather for train spotting ! A454 led on a freight to Athens.
Southern Pacific’s westbound KCOAF (Kansas City to Oakland Forwarder) negotiates the canyon between Pando and Red Cliff, on August 2, 1996. Two GE AC4400CW locomotives from the Minturn helper po... (more)
UP 4014 heads back west over the famous Kate Shelley High Bridge just west of Boone, Iowa.
Various locomotives await work at Union Pacific’s Omaha Shops in June 1981. UP No. 1221 is a recently rebuilt EMD SW9 that is now labeled an SW10 and was completed only days earlier on May 30, 1... (more)
Caltrain's freshly repainted leased SP GP9 3187 displayed on San Francisco Belt Railroad's now-removed tracks along The Embarcadero. The engine was spotted below Coit Tower high atop Telegraph Hil... (more)
Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight eases towards Oakland's Jack London Square with a Charger locomotive in the lead, a first for the west coast train. It's only a matter of time before the aging ... (more)
It's been a while since the tender of a steam engine was lettered this way! And unfortunately, none of the New Haven Railroad's original steam engines survive today. But thanks to the Val... (more)
Artist Jennifer M. Wood, daughter of long time SBRHS member Jim Wood, is seen here working on a pen and ink drawing of AT&SF steam locomotive 3751 below a just very nice marker rendition of same e... (more)
From the recent heavy snowfall in the region of Athens
By January of 1968, one of the last strongholds for SP's fleet of Baldwin roadswitchers was the Roseville yard and hump. Dound #5242 working the East end of the hump.
Hurricane Katrina assisted in washing out the tracks where the locomotives were stored during the storm. This switcher is leaning but keeping it's footing. There were others more off center but I... (more)
Finally done for the night. Amtrak crews make the final preparations before taking the train to the yard where it will await its next assignments the next day.
Good morning Capitola! The Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay Railway’s GP9 MH 89 pulls 4 tank cars over the historic Capitola Trestle on an inspection/test run from Watsonville, CA to Santa Cruz, CA. Th... (more)
What a great, interesting place Harpers Ferry is. Seems like no matter what you're intrested in, there is something for you in this extreme eastern corner of the WV.
One of Frisco's two Bicentennial cabooses, #1776, brings up the rear of the display train with SCL U36B 1776 on the point.
After serving its purpose in Texas, UP 4141 leads the return train to Council Bluffs of 21 office cars across Lake Eufaula in Oklahoma during heavy rainfall. Six "Alien Bee" strobe ... (more)
On a stormy evening, a lengthy Union Pacific passenger special heads through Little Gore Canyon.
Two employees confer while working on GE C44-9W No. 9632 in Union Pacific’s North Platte Diesel Shop work on May 4, 2011. UP Dash 9 No. 9632 is former Southern Pacific No. 8168.
Engineer Mel Baughman pauses outside the depot at Helper, Utah, with Rio Grande SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motors” sitting in the yard behind him on October 5, 2004. Mel was born in Rifle, Colorado, on N... (more)
Among locomotives sold by RRPX to C&K Scrap Metal was Morristown & Erie C424 4231, a former Canadian Pacific locomotive. On April 3 it was being scrapped in Morristown. The rising smoke resulted ... (more)
Snow and ice packed in the frogs could have been the cause of these cars splitting the switch.
I was too young, and Rock Island was just out of reach, for me to have photographed the railroad in its last days. I sure wish I could have, but only saw bits and pieces of it as the years wore on... (more)
The westbound Super C blasts through Chillicothe with a warbonnet GE leading a F45 and SD45 at high speed on a relatively short train. Note the jointed rail and the dust trail being kicked up by 9... (more)
The last run of the San Francisco bound SP Train #75, "The Lark". "The Bird That Couldn't Fly" as the SP called it in their efforts to abandon the train. The loss of its RPO a year before sealed ... (more)
Valentine’s Day 2009, Mother Nature brought some snowfall as did the Union Pacific. Donner has always been an obsession of mine since I was 18 when someone said " you don't want to go the... (more)
A Conrail MoW gondola sits on the remains of the old Lehigh & Hudson River main. The L&HR railroad was a bridge line running northeast-southwest across northwestern New Jersey. This was the L&HR m... (more)
The "Chief" approaches the Mackinw City dock to be swirched by the D&M Railway.
BN 9503 is one of 4 AC drive demonstrator locomotives built in 1991-92 for Burlington Northern RR to test an AC drive system in heavy haul service. These 4 locomotives were the ancestors of the th... (more)
To Wilmington, post haste! A Railroad: AmtrakLocomotive: ASEA AEM-7Location: Perryville, Maryland, USALocomotive #: AMTK 916Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: November 11, 2011
Anyone want to take a stab at what train this might have been? Figure mid morning and westbound, pulling NH baggage/express and heavyweight PRR/Pullmans in the 1100-series, this pair of EMDs pau... (more)
Union Pacific's eastbound MOARV (Oakland to Roseville Mixed Manifest) rolls out of Oakland yard, into desert yard, and onto RD2 as a big layer of Bay Area fog rolls in during sunset. A mile or two... (more)
Working at Thunder Bay North.
George's beautifully repainted SD-9 seen at Albany working for the AERC Railroad
On November 11th, 2019 (Remembrance Day in Canada), Canadian Pacific unveiled 5 brand new SD70ACUs at their Ogden Yard wearing various military schemes. In order from right to left, CP 7020 wears ... (more)
Looking like it's missing it's two front teeth, a westbound EL train was about to cross PC at Kenton with the nose door wide open giving the crew a little relief from the hot summer weather.
UFOs on the rail! Empty nuclear rod cars enter Enola yard off the Pittsburgh line
about 25 miles west of Houston
D&SNG 473 Pulls the Presidential Special underneath the Spectacular (This time of the Year) Cataract Falls at MP 494.8, two miles south of Silverton. Most of the time, this falls is either slowed... (more)
It's not often you see Rock Island business cars, nonetheless painted in Blue and White! Original shot by Jim.
LMIX RG 301 basks over and tries to put out a grass fire started by the sparks. The fire kept burning after they moved on.
Families and friends of NJT employees walk around the shops at the MMC while freshly repainted "CNJ" GP40PH-2 4109 sits on display among other units that are in for repair.
BN F45 no. 6620 leads two SD45s and a GP30 on an eastbound freight stopped at Skykomish, WA for the addition of helpers. Soon the train will climb through the Cascade Tunnel and head to Wenatchee,... (more)
