A Maryland State Trooper gets the story from the driver of a car wedged up against the mainline near the Weverton interlocking. The Q276 crew stopped just in time to avoid hitting the stuck vehicl... (more)
This CPR barge shot is very unusual in that there are 4 mechanical reefers on their way to Nakusp sawmill to pick up white pine lumber. According to the crew the white pine must be refrigerated o... (more)
Having just emerged from having the final touches added, Vermont Rail System's Vermont Railway SD70M-2 #431, ex-Florida East Coast Railway #101, has it's first official portrait taken at Rutland, ... (more)
Oil burning leased ATSF 5034 is in the process of being fired up for Sandusky coal service, an overhead view from St. Clair Ave. comes courtesy of friendly PRR employees. They had tipped John and... (more)
Hard to believe this was only five years ago.
The Baldwin 60000: The 60,000th locomotive built by Baldwin. It was designed to be the best locomotive that Baldwin ever made. The engine was very innovative, carrying aboard new technolo... (more)
The Date: 1965 and the Conductor helps a lady board Southern Train #14 to Asheville at Barber Junction while her 'finace' waits to board with their baggage in hand. A Special thanks to C... (more)
No less than 7 B&O Baldwin locomotives are in this photo at Salamanca, NY. 6 of them are shark nose A and B units. Wish I had taken roster shots of all of them.
The conductor of local P20 waits outside the Durham Yard Office for the light engines to come off the storage track after dropping their train as they put the locos away on another track.
Railroad officials and First Responders work the derailment scene.
As a Timken employee, I thought that I have to share this archive picture with the RP members. Timken 1111, also called the Timken Four Aces, was a 4-8-4 steam locomotive built in 1930 by American... (more)
Coming off the high line headed for Oroville, California
A sharp looking Builder with three units up front begins some fast running across the Hi Line. A pair of SD40-2 helpers wait on the rear of a grain load in the distance.
The Omen. Day 2 of the Durango & Silverton's annual Railfest dawned mostly cloudy and the weather just went downhill from there. When Eureka & Palisade #4 arrived in Silverton around 5 PM,... (more)
Class 66/6, 66604 heads East bound with a loaded ballast consist on the 6K22 10:23 Penmaenmawr - Crewe service
BNSF 9131, 933501 & 9130 (Refrigerated Liquid Methane) RLM Test Set ready to make their runs between Barstow, CA & Belen, NM. BNSF 933501 is actually ex BNGT 101 used to test RLM converted BN SD40... (more)
The World speed-record lok crosses the highest trestle along Semmeringbahn. The sun rose up to the perfect height, shooting trough the morning fog. Some said that a modern train is inappropriate o... (more)
Derailment of a eastbound manifest from Yermo to Salt Lake City due to heavy rain over the past week. Taken from atop the foundation of the old water tower, which the tank car is leaning against.
A Veranda turbine helps Big Boy 4020 with a reefer train over Sherman Hill. Photo taken by Jack Pfeifer.
Only the cab of Norfolk Southern 8941 remains at the Cresson Steel Company, were I counted 10 NS engines are in various stages of been scrapped. Too bad the cab of NS 8941 isn't destined for some... (more)
A wide angle view inside the cab of the PRR 8416 operating through the Bergen Tunnel.
Minnesota Southern operates a a section of former C&NW track in south western Minnesota primarily servicing a small ethanol plant at Luverne. This is an eastbound run with four ethanol loads and ... (more)
Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local crosses the Clark Fork at Paradise, Montana, on September 13, 2011. Powering the train today are two EMD GP9s, Nos. 113 and 127, heading eastbound to switch Tr... (more)
Ah, the sweet smell of spring railfanning.
IC 519 arrives an hour late with Tartaruga 018 on point just as EC 147 rolls in coming from Marseilles-Nizza-Monaco-Ventimiglia-Savona. EC 147 will continue to Milan after reversing. From left to ... (more)
KCS 1 along with its sisters make their first run in their new paint. How cool is it to see F units pulling a revenue train?
Woke up to a loud sound early this morning to find there had been a derailment. Just another average Monday!
A SD59M-2 behind the EMD plant, which is a rebuilt SD60. The rebuilds have been given the model designation SD59MX on the UP.
Train 262 is eastbound with Joe E20 on the point. They are approaching Alberton, MT for a crew change.
Amtrak No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr, has just exited 294-foot Tunnel 39 and is now threading 63-foot Tunnel 40 in the heart of Little Gore Canyon between Azure and Radium, Colorado, on t... (more)
In Stanley Yard Toledo PC 6306 has done what her tri-mount trucks were known for, picking of switches on uneven trackage. En route to get their train this all Alco engine consist has tied up the... (more)
Two new SD70M-2s from the first order lead a loaded sulfur train along Jasper Lake.
Rio Grande #6001 Alco PA1+PB1+PA1 are in charge of the 'California Zephyr' at Grand Junction, Colorado. Both east and westbound were fueled and watered at facilities on either end of the depot p... (more)
Di 12 006 plows through a snow drift at about 100 km/h on a very windy day on the Saltfjellet. The train is on its way from Bodø towards Trondheim. Railroad: Cargo NetLocomotive: Di 12 Location: Lønsdal, NorwayLocomotive #: 312 006Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: March 17, 2011
Photographed from the Roosevelt Avenue bridge, New York Central train #28 the NEW ENGLAND STATES at LaSalle Street Station in Chicago . An A-B-A set provide the power with E8A #4089 in the l... (more)
One of the most popular passenger paint schemes, Northern Pacific's "North Coast Limited" Train 25 negotiates Homestake Pass in Montana, westbound on April 10, 1970. Butte will be the next stop, ... (more)
Three westbound freights line up nicely for servicing at the west end of Clovis Yard. The photo was taken from the Hull Street overpass, which has since been replaced by a new structure.
Even during the middle of a severe winter storm in the Pacific Northwest that caused freezing rain in Oregon and heavy snowfall in Washington, it's business as usual for the railroad as BNSF SD75M... (more)
Photo special sponsered by Historic Transport Preservation.
The day was overcast as we traveled east on Route 66 on our way home from California. You can imagine how excited I was when an AC-9 caught and passed us while I watched through the right rear wi... (more)
On May 24, 2014, Norfolk and Western class J #611 was moved from its Virginia Museum of Transportation display location to the Norfolk Southern locomotive service facility at Shaffers Crossing in ... (more)
New York Central 1066, Norfolk Southern's eleventh heritage unit, takes in the morning sunshine outside the shop in Muncie. For more information, visit more)
With a New Year's Day snow storm in full swing, residents of Hudson shovel as the CSXT B957 crew makes a heroic, near stall (round two) climb to 7th Street with two brutes and ten loads. What a ... (more)
BNSF 797 South begins its climb up the Tehachapi Mountains, as it passes under one of two remaining cantilever signal bridges still in service between Bakersfield and Mojave.
With newly rebuilt AC44C6M locomotives being added to the roster with numbers in the 4000 series, the Norfolk Southern Executive units had to be renumbered and repainted. Here, in Altoona, the F ... (more)
IN LOVE . . . with abandoned railroads? As I explained in photo no. 435007, the "sulphite bridge" in Franklin, New Hamp... (more)
The NS 4001 and NS 4000 "DC to AC" units lead the NS 757 into the West Yard in Roanoke after a trip from Belews Creek Steam Station.
Originally built by GE as standard-cab D9-40C number 8866, Norfolk Southern 4004 is the latest AC44C6M conversion locomotive to be rebuilt. The "horse mane" paint color variation denote... (more)
FEC 101 struck a dump truck that possibly was attempting to go around the gates at CR 13. Flagler County Emergency Services responded to the crash. The driver of the truck died.
SP 1 had arrived back at Owenyo on a standard gauge flatcar from the San Joaquin division shops at Bakersfield following an overhaul and what looks like a fresh paint job. SP 9, shown here helping... (more)
Southern Pacific 4449 and Union Pacific 8444 race each other up Cajon Pass at tunnel #1. We could see SP 4449 coming through the cut and were surprised when UP 8444 came out of the tunnel at the s... (more)
Sitting across one of only two roads into Banff, the CP Holiday Train is the center of action, although most of the crowds are on the other side being yelled at by the CP police to stay there, giv... (more)
D&H Sharks 1205 and 1216 sit outside near the CNW engine facilities in Escanaba. Soon, they will be moved indoors to protect them, but at a price of rarely being seen.
Taken from the 10th floor of the Buffalo Central Terminal we see Amtrak 281 crossing over from track 2 to the Niagara Branch while passing the remains of the old passenger platforms.
Once a railroad town…Salida was once a railroad town, where Rio Grande had a large dual gauge yard, two roundhouses, company hospital and many other functions necessary for a busy div... (more)
A Century of Excellence Assorted power rests around the turntable at Norfolk Southern's Juniata Locomotive Shop. Built as the Erecting Machine Shops of the PRR's Altoona Works (Juni... (more)
With its work order at Ethanac completed, BNSF's San Jacinto Local heads back toward San Bernardino on a stormy late December day, seen here a few miles east of Perris.
I'll let you write your own caption.
NS 7021 is Either meeting her fate at the torches or is getting prepared to have a new cab installed as 2 workers from JBS are taking her apart piece by piece
With the temperature hovering around the -30 Celsius mark without the windchill, G802 eases through the 25 MPH permanent slow order at the Brule tunnel.
Amtrak no. 8 meets its fate? Amtrak's Beech Grove facility has been the resting place for this GE P42DC for quite some time. This locomotive was involved in a head on collision accident several ye... (more)
Enroute to be smashed into little little pieces, former SP 6808 has been retro-fitted with an SD70M style cab for testing.
Deschutes Steam Special - SP 4449 led 12 beautiful cars through the scenic Oregon Trunk on a two day excursion. Great weather, wonderful people, amazing crew and a a beautiful train provided for a... (more)
This was an example of the quintessential New Haven Railroad Yard of the early 60s. It featured long freight houses, many old cabooses, tons of scrap metal, early generation ALCO’s and an outdoo... (more)
An eastbound BNSF intermodal train blasts over the flyover and Vaughn, NM. While originally set up for a shot of the SP 8273, I caught the BNSF train out of the corner of my eye. After falling in ... (more)
CNR F7 9074 was the unfortunate victim of a washout on the Three Hills Sub at Huxley, Alberta between Calgary and Mirror in August of 1968. A large thunderstorm took out the track which derailed ... (more)
Lightning races across the sky as the sound of thunder fills the air. The rain is coming down in sheets as I get soaked to the bone. A westbound has just rolled into Altoona and the EOTD can still... (more)
Comfortable Man - "A comfortable man in comfortable surroundings..", quoting an old trains article. The throttle is in the corner as 12000 horses do work on as many tons. Down to 15mph, the amp m... (more)
A chilly May day along Lake Champlain. Train was really rolling as it headed for Whitehall and a quick turnaround to head back to Rouses Point.
Soaring high above the Snake River, Union Pacific's 150th Anniversary Passenger Special rolls over the impressive Joso Viaduct at a cautious 10 MPH. The Joso Viaduct built in 1912 is 3920 feet lo... (more)
C777 travelling at a blistering 10mph struck a stalled vehicle, pushing the vehicle 60 feet before the train came to a halt. A Tenafly police officer looks over the damaged Audi while the train's ... (more)
The northbound and southbound tubes are clearly visible on the left, with a Northeast Regional about to emerge from the jaunt under the Hudson River. To the right, the tracks ascend up to the LIR... (more)
Soaring nearly 200 feet above the Snake River, a Boardman coal load stretches across nearly the entire 3,920-foot length of UP's Joso Bridge, its tail end still strung out through CPE273 on the fa... (more)
From the Dziobko collection, photographer unknown. This is a PRR display set up in Harrisburg, featuring T1 5548. These greyhounds were built for fast passenger service, used primarily in lines ... (more)
Rail America's Kyle RR derailed snow plow 06, CEFX 9282 and 9245 clearing December 29 & 30, 2006 blizzard snowfall (over 30-inches in western Kansas). Snow plow extra possibly derailed by ice buil... (more)
SC 1101 brings up the rear of the Polar Express as it moves down Beach Street on its way to the Santa Cruz Boardwalk. Santa Cruz would not be the same without trains. Long may they run.
A full house in the theater car Sandford Fleming as a CN inspection train rolls south on the former DM&IR. The train operated from Winnipeg to Superior.
The Mississippi River has caused alot of headaches in the Midwest with the railroads this spring. The river crested at Burlington, IA, (19 miles upstream) on 6-02 was the 3rd highest crest on reco... (more)
Monongahela 8025, Norfolk Southern's fifteenth heritage unit, rests outside the paint shop in Chattanooga. For more information, visit ... (more)
As viewed from a man made tunnel in the side of a hill, a loaded coal train steam up out of the pit at Sandaoling Coal Mine, North West China on January 16th 2012.
The thunder rolls. On a cold stormy day in Northern California, Union Pacific 6662 guides a heavy MNPRVX around the Williams Loop, east of Quincy. At over 7,000' in length, this train easily has t... (more)
DRGW Heritage unit UP 1989 under wraps at UPs Butler yard Engine facility, awaiting its trip to Denver to be unveiled.
The roundhouse at Conrail’s Conway Yard is mostly empty, but the outside turntable tracks are teeming with six-axle Alco Centuries assigned to drag freight service. Colors of the Lehigh Valley, ... (more)
Having outlived their usefulness, NS B32's 523 and 524 are being scrapped at the Progress Rail Scrapyard in Roanoke, VA. All of the B32's are now in storage and many await the same fate as these t... (more)
Trailing power on #13, a no name mail train to Pittsburgh is BP30#5816. Ahead, Horseshoe Curve and the climb over the mountain.
A EMD veteran brings loaded Savannah, GA bound coke train W221 through the first of many cuts on the Southside of Cumberland Mountain. The howl of the 40's dynamics could be heard for miles before... (more)
A GG1 in the woods! At the Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad, there are 2 former Pennsylvania Railroad GG1s stored at Cooperstown Junction, NY. Unit 4917 (ex-Amtrak 4934) is seen sitting on ... (more)
