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)
"Fred? Nobody by that name here!" This eastbound Rio Grande freight has an impressive six cabooses as it passes through Larkspur on the Joint Line.
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Grandsons.
A derailment on the morning of Saturday, May 11, 2019 in Tifft Yard in Buffalo, New York lead to an extensive and rapid clean up. A cut of tank cars found their way off the rails at the interchang... (more)
Vermont Rail System has actively been marketing new industrial sites along its affiliate railroads and on July 30, the newest industry to locate on the VRS is seen being serviced by the New York &... (more)
The rebirth of A9101 is coming.
N&W 611 ventured out of the Virginia Museum of Transportation for the first time in years to help Norfolk Southern celebrate the 125th anniversary of Roanoke's East End Shops back in September 200... (more)
NS 9722, NS 098, pulls six export locomotives through Altoona and down to CP Works for a Recrew. These are GE CM20-EMP for Indonesia.
A broad side view of a GE U50C sitting at the loco facilities in North Platte. Photo taken by Joseph R. Quinn.
Feather River Canyon
Ruins. Another look inside the wreckage of the Boston & Maine's Billerica shop reveals the open hall of what was once the backshop. Hard to believe this was once a good-sized indus... (more)
Here’s what’s left of two storage buildings that caught fire at Amtrak’s Beech Grove shops around midnight on May 2nd, 2021. Luckily no one was injured.
Coming down the hill, Z CHCSSE1 02A W Heading into Skykomish WA on a frosty morn.
The main workshop of Hellenic railways. Repairing-recostructing works for many locos,Alcos A303-A201,MLWs A458-A462-A510,Alsthom 356 and narrow gauge Mitsubishi A9403
American Orient Express - Spending The Day in SAV
"If you think you're gonna get an early quit, think again." The hog-lawed engineer discusses the fun to be had and money to be made on a dimensional load with multiple restrictions. Th... (more)
Northbound Auto-Train departs Sanford.
New York Central 4030 and 4082 leaving Union Station
Evening light glow catches a 7B hauling a passenger train over the most photographed bridge in South Africa. For once the wind was right!
Amtrak's Southwest Chief crosses the Ellison Creek Valley with the Veterans leading the Phase I specially painted P42's. BNSF is preparing to replace the Media Trestle this year.
At 00:40 CSX train S185 is enroute back to Fairburn, Ga. from Hulsey Yard when the crew encounters a grade crossing collision with an uneducated motorist at Westbrook Pl. No injuries are reported ... (more)
What a slow day. Only 4 trains all afternoon and nothing between 2PM and 5 (which is sunset). So seeing this Long Beach to Clovis stack train climbs over the crest was like the light at the end of... (more)
The ICE train heads west on Conrail's Chicago Line.
While railroad museums and tourist lines strive to faithfully recreate vintage scenes when operating photo charters, generally hotboxes are not part of that experience. This overheated journal on ... (more)
UP 9926 finds the morning light in the depths of the Feather River Canyon for the first time today as it leaves the Honeymoon Tunnels behind and passes the Rock Creek Dam - a popular focus point f... (more)
An aerial view of early morning at Copper Creek. CSX's running of The Santa Train will be extra special this year for the 75th Anniversary as Clinchfield Railroad 3632 (SD45) and 800 (F3) were res... (more)
A fast Hiawatha kicks up dust scooting between abandoned CNS&M abutments. The autos on the left clarify the age of this photo. At the time of photo Milwaukee trains were painted in UP colors.
Damaged FEC 433 and TTX double-stack well car sit in the spur track north of the Pineda siding derailment site as a Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center with 11 satellites on bo... (more)
Two 150-ton overhead cranes work together at the former Rock Island shop to load a former Santa Fe GP7 wearing Rock Island paint onto a BNSF flatcar. The re-incarnated Rock Island 1275 is going to... (more)
Westbound freight leaving Old Fort, NC in June 1983.
A tropical scene on a below zero morning in Staples.
This classic locomotive is on display outside the headquarters of the Florida Department of Agriculture in Tallahassee. A plaque at the site reads: "LURAVILLE LOCOMOTIVE (circa 1850 - 1855) P... (more)
After assisting in their duties of loading military trucks onto rail flatcars, four Marines at Camp Lejeune, NC, take the opportunity to salute the flag on the NS 6920 and honor our Nation's Veter... (more)
Snow continues to obscure the valley below while D797 climbs the grade toward Blue Ridge Summit as they approach the Leathers Rd. crossing.
East German diesel-hydraulic No V180 026 departs from Hof with the 07.14 Stuttgart to Dresden inter-zonal D-Zug. Note the rolling stock for this train appears to be all of pre-war construction.
TRANSCAER...TRANSportation Community Awareness and Emergency Response is a national outreach initiative designed to assist emergency responders in planning and preparing for Haz-Mat related incide... (more)
As a pair of workers pulling a Sunday shift poke their heads out of the door to see what all the noise is about, Union Pacific's "J-Yard Switcher" shoves back on track 842 to pick up some cars at ... (more)
Model Layout Nickel Plate 765 takes a spin on the turntable while preparations for the nights, night photo session begin.
Rerouted 663 takes its train over Dick Road and the Massive Holcomb Creek Trestle.
The Conrail train from Phillipsburg was well known in NJ due to its open porch observation car, a relic of a bygone era. Coming east in the morning however that observation car was up against the ... (more)
Mop meets Rock. On July 3, 1965, two weeks after massive floods shut down almost all rail service into Denver the situation along Colorado’s Joint Line is still far from normal. Missouri Pacific... (more)
At least they stayed upright. Just another reason why you should always take the camera with you. Luckily I had time to run home and grab mine.
Taken from the cab of my fire truck while deployed from Illinois to help Katrina victims, Crews putting finishing touches on repairs to the 5.8 mi bridge.
NYC second generation power heads into Nevins to pick up freight consist.. Brand new 1966 Dodge trucks on the left in the autoracks are probably all gone by now. In secret board rooms PRR and NYC ... (more)
The 473 switches an inbound train at the east end of the Durango yard. The boxcars were probably empties that would be spotted at the lumber mill for loading. Note the 473 is equipped with footb... (more)
"Thunder on the Nortwestern" For the first time since 2002, Union Pacific brought its mainline steam power back to Chicagoland, and they did it in incredible style. Here, UP 4014 whistles past ... (more)
Royal Hudson 2860 glides west along a reflection pond at Moberly, BC as it returns its train west to North Vancouver after touring eastern Canada and part of the U.S. as the Captain Cook Excursion... (more)
One of Union Pacific Railroad's most popular Goodwill Ambassadors is a miniature train. Built in UP's Omaha locomotive and rail car repair shops in 1956, the mini-train is sometimes called the "Pr... (more)
The tourist line between Tournon and Lamastre is reopened. On a part of the line, there is a rail-bike with a length of 12 km (7.2 mi).
Big derailment in Norris Yard.
CN 9435 is in the shop to give some of its part to another sister.
WM Shay 6 sits at the shops after being used on the day's Whittaker excursions
The Montana Rail Link's "Bozeman Bullet" descends Bozeman Pass during the final hours of light with 355 on the point.
The cab of Clinchfield No. 1, former Black Mountain, built in 1882. After being restored and used in excursion service in the 1970s, it was sent to the B&O Museum for exhibit in the 1980s.
A weathered Reading Fairbanks-Morse Trainmaster works in Rutherford Yard, near Harrisburg. Kodachrome original.
Having physically breathed it's last breath only hours before, coolants and fluids have just been drained and shop forces are going through and making this old warrior "ready for burial". Sad, sa... (more)
Following a low-speed derailment that knocked a couple cars on the ground. The lead has taken the upright portion of the train to Union Station and now the ground crews go to work on the downed c... (more)
R&N #425 captured in a more)
Former BN and SP Geeps sit abandoned at the Port of Tillamook Bay, not going anywhere anytime soon as the mainline was destroyed by storms a few years ago.
Comet VI 7504 full of press, brass and cheese. ALP-46 4627 is ready to lead the first revenue set of Comet VI's to NYP. I later got on to ride the full trip in Cab Car 7002, 2nd window from the fr... (more)
The Juniata was one of the few passenger trains that could reliably be seen on Horseshoe Curve during daylight hours. To see the westbound Juniata, Railroad: Pennsylvania RailroadLocomotive: EMD E8(A)Location: Altoona, Pennsylvania, USALocomotive #: PRR 5716Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: April, 1966
Amid threatening skies, Pan Am Railways office car train made a trip from Mechanicville, NY to Waterville, Maine on October 14, with the white 'extra' flags flying on the lead Pan Am FP9 #PAR-1. ... (more)
I believe this is former CN 1166. Seen near Havana Central station in 2003. Are these locos still working there?
Carmageddon is upon us as Metrolink train 262 races up the Valley Sub as it heads for its next station stop at Vincent Grade/Acton. A full set of Metrolink's new guardian fleet cars make up train ... (more)
The Westbound "Canadian" stopping at Dorval while enroute to the Pacific Coast. When I was ten I had a friend who had a whole basement full of Lionel Trains. That was where I saw the Canadian Paci... (more)
Back in March of 1979, a group of Provo area railfans found out that a UP officers special was headed east from Las Vegas, Nevada. In order to catch this special move in the daylight, a carload of... (more)
Burlington Northern’s turn to Climax, Colorado, has returned to its base of Leadville, and the crew is putting the caboose over to the roundhouse before spotting the two cars over on the interch... (more)
National Locomotive was a start up locomotive rebuilder on the propery of the Morristown & Erie Railroad in Morristown NJ. They had a bunch of retired Norfolk & Western RS36s and RS11s that they w... (more)
Two of the three completed RTL III Turboliners sit in the Albany-Rensselaer yard on a freezing cold winter night. Note the frozen rain drops and icicles hanging off of the nose shroud of the 2158.... (more)
Brand new and just delivered to BC Rail, three SD40-2's numbers 764, 763 and 765 are being readied for their next assignment in the Lillooet roundhouse. While the red, white and blue color scheme... (more)
Former US Army Alco RS-1s that were shrouded for use on ARR passenger trains in the 1950s. Unit 1072 is shown with "B" unit 1053 at Fairbanks.
Word had gotten around that the Reading was going to doublehead the previously advertised October 15th Ramble to West Milton, Pa. and the fans really turned out. The big 4-8-4s have the 22 car tra... (more)
Inspiring - They call this "Inspiration Point" for a reason! The White Pass & Yukon's "rotary fleet" consisting of vintage snowplow #3 (Cooke - 1899) is marching upgrade trailed by twin ste... (more)
Train of empties hit a coal truck and derailed at Nolan, WV, just west of Williamson. The truck driver was killed. Some of the derailed cars came to rest blocking the eastbound lane of US 52.
Southern Pacific Fairbanks-Morse H24-66 3031 makes a station stop with train #147 in Sunnyvale on February 3, 1975 before continuing its run to San Francisco. By this late date 3031 was the last o... (more)
Built in 1898, Steam Rotary #1 was being pushed by WP&YR 73 and 40.
V&T Survivor: McKeen Motor Car #22. The Virginia & Truckee's McKeen Motor Car was capable of carrying 54 passengers as well as baggage express. The passengers were carried in two cabins, ... (more)
New England Central continues to recover from last month's CN strike and traffic levels remain extremely high. Cold weather and snow cause some delays to switching, throwing the normally nocturna... (more)
With a crescent moon shining over them, the crew of the ''Canton Cannonball'' works at sunset in LaHarpe, Illinois switching out a train bound for points east. Engineer Doug Henry will be on duty... (more)
One of the most recognizable railway views today. It`s also a rare place where we are glad that trains no longer run. This is Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp where trainloads of Jews arrived... (more)
On May 23, 1997, at the east end of Alliance Yard, a coal load departs eastbound for the Sand Hills Subdivision while three others wait their turn. Coal trains in this era are the domain of EMD’... (more)
A French co-co loco on the head and seven bo-bo Japanese locos at the workbench of Patras. The time to scrap is not so far away.....
I've had this photo in my head for a few years, but haven't made the time to head out to Moab very often. Since I first wondered if it was possible, I've seen the train framed through Corona Arch ... (more)
