The shop switcher at Argentine, commonly referred to as the beep
\W&W 915 switches out Marshallton Yard on a chilly day after some April showers.
The crew aboard the CLP GP16 802 have just finished switching out an unrelated to the windmill project customer and awaits the NYOG SW900 14's shove move to clear empty cars before retrieving them... (more)
Vermont Rail System participated in a historic rail move, providing the delivery to customer, on the largest windmill blades ever to be moved by rail. The NYOG is working on the second cut of cars... (more)
Ellis & Eastern"s switch run is interchanging cars with the BNSF at the downtown yards using SW900 No.17 and SW1200RS No. 7.
Operations in the private switch yard of the company
SW9's resting at the main office. These are ex Pittsburg & Shawmut units.
Awaiting its fate
Little engine looks dwarfed by the large auto carriers
Former CR #2226 SW1500's engine sits in Norfolk Southerns Juniata Locomotive shop, to be scraped or be re painted. NS 66J is in the background. It is not an SW1200, my mistake.
EFA SW1500 #5 resting at Santana yard.
SP 2475 and DRGW 3105 settle down in Grand Junction for Christmas Day.
ICG SW14s 1409 and 1408 are paired up on a caboose hop at Markham Yard, Homewood, IL on June 30, 1979. These units had uniquely rebuilt cabs, similar to a GP35 changing their look quite a bit from... (more)
The daily 7am ETR job works the interchange yard with CP in Windsor, ON. ETL 104 is an ex IC SW14 as evident by the unique cab.
The brakeman of a CN yard job rides the steps of one of the venerable SW14s as they pull a cut of cars out of the yard.
Sitting behind the old IC Homewood Shops, a rare SW14 rests among power of it's new owner.
A trio of older SW's work a cut of cars at Homewood.
The crewman stops what he is doing to pose for the picture with the thumbs up at Homewood, IL. As of July 23, 2013, IC 1490 was added to the scrap line here in Homewood after a recent CN auction.... (more)
Rare trio of SW14's working the yard.
RTEX 8183 (Rail Trusts Equipment Inc.) sits along the Norfolk Southern mainline, at one of the many northwestern Ohio limestone pits, at Maple Grove, Oh., as it waits its next switching assingment... (more)
Abitibi Consolidated SW1200RS 1305 is dropping cars for the Ontario Northland to pick up.
Amtrak 792 rests in the Locomotive Maintenance Facility at Holgate Street. To view the rest of the photos in this album, cut and paste http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/archivethumbs.aspx?id=16127 ... (more)
Amtrak 790 shoves a string of mail cars into CUS, its like a real frieght.
AMTK 792 shoves a CN private car down toward Chicago Union Station.
LLX 164 shuffels some grain cars around the plant at Bedford Park. This location also has a SW1000 #68 in the same paint.
DCRR 64 a SW1001 switches some cars around at CN South Yard at the USS Great Lakes Works main Entrance.
United States Steel's switcher transports molten steel in bottle cars to another location.
102 and 104 are often the HAROLD protect engines
American Motive Power Inc. had a Trackmobile and their home constructed shop switcher, constructed from a variety of locomotive parts that were on hand, completing what they jokingly call a SW10.5... (more)
American Motive Power Inc. constructed their own shop switcher from a variety of locomotive parts that were on hand, completing what they jokingly call a SW10.5 in 2008. There is no frame number ... (more)
Still sporting its Canadian Pacific colors, NREX 1287 is a long way from home in the hills of Eastern Kentucky.
This former SW9, now affectionately called a "Hammerhead" by railfans and UP crews alike.
This former SW9, now affectionately called a "Hammerhead" by railfans and UP crews alike, is putting out some unwanted steam through its exhaust stacks.
The UP 96 took a spin with turbine fuel tank now used to carry water UPP 814. Where else can you catch a combination like this in 2005 other than Cheyenne? The West is best!
Working the Yard. This switcher apparently was built in 1957 for Sand Springs Railway, a Class 3 in Oklahoma. It worked for Sand Springs for many years before being sold to MVPX at some po... (more)
The brakeman of one of the CN yard jobs monitors the progress of his train, as it's shoved back into the yard.
Hostling former UP SD50s around the facility
A quite, but cold and windy night down at the Amtrak Coach Yard.
On August 18, 2011, Amtrak's new Los Angeles Preventive Maintenance Facility was dedicated. Seen in this view are a variety of Superliner cars receiving routine maintenance. Coach 34008 sits hig... (more)
Amtrak "Superliner" coach 34008 has had its body raised by one of the two sets of permanent car jacks at the new Preventive Maintenance Facility at the carrier's Los Angeles engine and car shops. ... (more)
One of the Superliners in Surfliner paint.
Various equipment in the yard on a sunny but frigid day.
TFM Super 7-30C 2368 rebuilt from a U30C coupled to a KCS GP40-3 ( Former CN GP40-2L ) at KCS'S Yard in Meridian, Ms.
Diesel locomotive SU46-026 in new paint scheme of PKP Cargo at Bydgoszcz Glowna yard.
Diesel locomotive SU46-033+Steam PT47-65
Diesel locomotive SU45-131 leaves depot.
Passengers train from Gdynia to Chojnice led by a diesel locomotive, which can be quite a unique sight, considering that this part of the line is electrified.
Diesel locomotive SU45-021
Diesel locomotive SU45-111
Diesel locomotive SU45-092.
The steam locomotive Su251-86 (2-6-2) stay in depot Tsvitkove before a trip retro train #7601 Tsvitkove - Zvenygorodka - Tsvitkove - Tarasa Shevchenka (Smila). This steam locomotive was built 1949... (more)
The steam locomotive Su251-86 stay in depot Tarasa Shevchenka, before a trip retro train #6102 Tarasa Shevchenka station (Smila city) - Cherkasy - Zolotonosha
Office car.
Former Montreal streetcar #957 is tested before making a "service" run.
#957 pulls out while the working GRS dwarf semaphore displays a stop and proceed signal.
1931 Joseph Booth steam crane unloads a underframe railcar Fiat 12 opposed cylinder diesel engine.the truck another classic from Argentina ,Mercedes Benz 1518 turbo.
For the first time the new freight shuttle train of Railogistics (Carrier: Rail Traction Services RTS) has reached his future starting point, Felsberg on the 1 m gauge network of the Rhaetian Rail... (more)
Trolley Workshop. Iowa Southern Utilities Co. no. 1 (Stephenson Car Co., 1896) and Hartford Electric Light Co. no. 1 (GE, 1949) are seen sitting outside the workshop at the Connecticut ... (more)
Iowa Traction steeplecab# 51 (built by Baldwin-Westinghouse in May 0f 1921) spends the night in the Emery yard.
One of the Hegang Coal Railway's extensive fleet of electric locos marshalls coal cars in Hegang City's Jipei Yard.
Here is another picture showing two oldies at the Hershey shed, the Brill #3006 and the General Electric steeple cab #20803 from 1920.
Nice collection of oldies at the Hershey railway. From left to right can be seen: the Brill railcar #3009, the ex-Barcelona EMU #506 and the steeple cab #20802.
The Strasburg crew puts #90 away with one day left in the 2006 season.
Preparing for an excursion run.
Nevada Northern Railway classic steam crane built in 1907 by the Industrial Works of Bay City Michigan host what appears to be a crew picnic on her boom. Steam Crane "A" was delivered new to the N... (more)
Cleaning up a little mishap. The Nevada Northern Railway's 100-ton Steam Wrecking Crane A makes short work of a empty derailed ore hopper that ended up on the ground during switching moves ... (more)
Dead Lined..... Squirreled away on a little-used, overgrown siding off the C&O Durbin Branch, sits a rather rusty piece of machinery that I never expected to see as I hiked along the Greenb... (more)
Anatomy of a Big Hook. Here is a little different view of the Nevada Northern Railway Museum's Big Hook...the 1907-vintage Steam Wrecking Crane A. This contraption weighs as much as a st... (more)
Big Hook: A very useful engine. Wreckmaster John Henry watches as this Nevada Northern wrecking crew rigs a derailed hopper for a lift back onto the iron in the East Ely Yard. Nevada No... (more)
The 1907 100-ton steam crane re-rails an ore car in the Ely Yard. Thanks to the dedication of the museum members, this historic piece can still be seen working as it would have over a century ago.
This night shot is of Nevada Northern Railway's Steam Wrecking Crain A & part of the 1909 Alco 2-8-0 locomotive #93. What a treat it was to see and photograph an operating steam crane, and at ni... (more)
Big Hook in action. With the snow intensity picking up, Nevada Northern's 100-ton steam powered wrecking crane commences lowering one truck of a derailed hopper back onto the iron. The Wre... (more)
Preparing the hook. Members of the Nevada Northern Wrecking Crew scurry around Steam Crane A as they prepare her for a late afternoon operation to re-rail a hopper that has become a victim ... (more)
Hand signals are given to the crane operator to position the big hook to where it needs to be
A Richard Beal photo: In the Stratford CN shop area, a ancient steam shovel scoops coal into a hopper
Shay number 2 is topped off at the watertank as she leaves the old C&O Greenbriar Branch for Mower Lumber Co. trackage. The water tank belonged to the C&O and once had a penstock on both sides. ... (more)
Mower Lumber Company Shay Number 5, now working for the Cass Scenic Railroad is 100 years old this year. She is the only locomotive on the Cass Scenic Railroad that was purchased NEW for operatio... (more)
Back home in Skagway. After a full day of plowing between White Pass and Canadian Shed, White Pass Rotary #1 and her consort, Locomotive #73 sit on one of the shop tracks at the Skagway Sho... (more)