Controls and instruments on the footplate of the steam locomotive B 3/4 # 1367 of SBB Historic in Airolo. Electrolocomotive Ae 6/6 # 11411 "Zug" is coupled in front, to pull the steamer ... (more)
Brand new... Cab complete with a fridge, hot plate, and microwave. (photographed with permission and in PPE)
Westbound freight train behind D&H 1216 at Waverly, NY in July 1975. Photograph by John F. Bjorklundmore)
BNSF 9182 sits between EMD 90 and EMD 91 at La Grange.
experimental roadrailers ride on NS 251.
Steam Siphon in Action. Fireman Martin Hansen checks the level in the water tank on Mt. Emily Shay #1, as the locomotive's steam siphon draws water from the Lytle Creek and pours it into th... (more)
The caboose of a northbound C&NW freight gets a flyover from a United Airlines 747 landing at O’Hare International Airport at Bryn Mawr, Illinois, in August 1984.
After approximately 6 hours of work MMA 8595 was put back on the iron
Stuck in between cabeese, this UP "silver bullet" rotary runs on a museum train to Portola. Nikon D70 24-120. www.bayarearailroading.com
On the backside of Shreveport yard lies this old and rusting MKT passenger car.
BNSF 4560 has a conRAIL qualITY door.
The locomotive number has been blurred out in order to protect the security of the train crew.
With restored WP 2001.
The first push pull train I ever encountered swings the curve coming off the Maple Shade Branch. The other delight in this shot are the fallen flag freight cars.
Amtrak Adirondack approaches Cantic the Canadian Customs & Immigration stop with the Dome on its first trip north to Montreal on a beautiful fall day
Returning from New Orleans, Southern Pacific Daylight 4-8-4 4449 skirts the California coast, her old stomping grounds, as she crosses Gaviota Trestle west of Santa Barbara on her way to Sa... (more)
NS 26C derailment in Collegedale, Tennessee.
Those accustomed to Rock Island in maroon or red were startled in 1975 when the road’s new president John Ingram started painting cars and locomotives in white and blue. But Ingram had come out ... (more)
Train 14 had a consecutively numbered head-end on this trip north, the 192 and 191. Also, riding on the tail were three private cars: the Colorado Pine, Iowa Pacific Sky View obs and the Baton Rou... (more)
South Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) AEM-7 #2303 races North towards Trenton, NJ from Philadelphia in this commuter train pan shot. Perhaps my ... (more)
A "Baby Bullet" departing SJ on it's way to SF with my good engineer freind "Grandpa" at the controls
The Piedmont - with its usual cut of pigs on the rear - makes its station stop at Lynchburg.
The typical power for the Santa Fe Local that worked most days between Richmond and Christie, California was a pair of Santa Fe GPs. (the Local still runs today as the BNSF 011 Local). However, o... (more)
Deep in the trenches, the battle rages. On Day 2 of their 4-day mission to clear the line, the White Pass Snow Team attacks the worst of the snow pack, in a deep cut called Canadian Shed, a... (more)
Several of the new ore cars on a Two Harbors bound ore train from Minntac derailed as they rounded the corner from the Missabe Sub. to the Iron Range Sub. One of the power sets from the T-Bird tr... (more)
Steam, smoke and snow in the forest of Buda hills. (1/6 pan shot.)
NS 8115 & 8075 were pulling an empty hopper train of KGLX aluminum hoppers for synthetic gypsum from USG Washingtonville Plant. A 3 car derailment occurred seventeen cars from the rear end. The de... (more)
A Tree Grows in Mount Union
A tree makes its way to Heaven, piercing through the trucks and around the belly of a narrow gauge hopper car. The rusting car, one of over 200, has sat in Ea... (more)
Westbound Erie Railroad train 5 The Lake Cities with in the lead Alco PA-1 856, with EMD E8(A) 823 in two-tone green Erie Railroad passenger colors,crossing the Nickel Plate Road tracks at Cresto... (more)
Aftermath of a staged grade crossing accident between a GP 40 and a Chevy Suburban for Warner Bros. production of “Lethal Weapon 4”. Accident was staged at the North Main Street crossing of th... (more)
The 20th Century Limited A Roger Puta Photograph
This gal doesn't get out much, but if you can coax her out of the house, she'll definitely show you a good time! Spokane, Portland and Seattle #700, a massive E-1 Class, 4-8-4 Northern Loc... (more)
How many Vandy tenders working these days? And with a vestibule yet. Yes, NWP. I've heard the story of why but have forgotten. Help! And with apologies to Jimmy Buffet.....I now know, I now k... (more)
It is a perfect, frosty and still, morning on the Severn Valley Railway in the English Midlands. Gordon has just crossed the River Severn (Victoria Bridge is visible to the left of the tree) with ... (more)
The curve through Loachapoka is superelevated, which is great for southbounds running downhill at 50+, but tough on the lower, inside rail when northbounds drag up the grade at 10-12 mph. This so... (more)
A pair of Union Pacific GP7s, 119 and 114, assist a passenger train over southern California's Cajon Pass. The eastbound passenger train, most likely train #10, the "Domeliner" (Los Ang... (more)
Two leased N&W ex-Wabash F7s headed the High Bridge Local north to interchange with NYS&W
EMD E8 4029 heads A-A units on the inbound PANAMA LIMITED at 57th St.. This was one of only three all sleeping car trains in the country at the time, the other two being on the Pennsylvania.
UP Centennial 6900 inches through south Omaha on its way to its new home at Kenefick Park.
C&O Hudson #490 Occupying a prominent spot in the B&O Museum's car shop exhibit hall is this odd-looking steam locomotive from the post-World War II "streamliner era." You are lo... (more)
Writing on fuel tank says "Don't worry be happy!" Click Here to see some of my more recent photos.
”When Empty Return To…” Well, maybe not this time. This Air Products and Chemicals liquid oxygen tank car is on a one-way trip to an appointment with a torch. The PC mill gon... (more)
Two years ago on June 12th, floods hit Iowa hard. Here, 10 days after the crest of the Mississippi, Burling... (more)
Conductors go over paperwork during a stop in Whitefish, MT. It is a cold and foggy night but the Empire Builder stays on-time.
A light snowfall dusts DM&IR shop forces at Proctor as they pose on the first (of four) rebuilds they did for sister railroad B&LE. Proctor rebuilt 907-910 for the B&LE using kits from Boise. To... (more)
For a long time the Santa Fe war bonnet F unit was the standard Ikon of American Railroading. It was Lionel's big seller, it was on the cover of Athearn Kits and it was associated with Hollywood s... (more)
Norfolk Southern's one of a kind to date AC44C6CF rebuilt DC to AC locomotive sits outside the Juniata Shops in Altoona, Pennsylvania after being posed here for a company photo. Along with the 852... (more)
The Colorado Eagle waiting to depart. In the distance is GM&O E7A 102 with Train 4, The Limited. A Roger Puta Photograph
Before there were centerbeam bulkhead flat cars, lumber was nervously shipped aboard standard 40-ft. flat cars. The loads were always vulnerable to shifting and being set out and delayed to be co... (more)
Train travel, Indian style! We had travelled overnight on this train in a first class sleeper. Others had not been so comfortable.
Scrapping asphalt down is not what these plows were intended to do, but on this rough stretch of track, is indeed what they do. This local, nicknamed “The Sidewinder”, works out of Mobest Yard... (more)
Arrival of the newly minted steam locomotive from China, JS 8419 is destine for Iowa and the Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad. Note the damaged cab. © 1989 Steve Crise.
A CN crew spots ore cars at ore dock number 6 while a BNSF switch job rolls past underneath. Two vessels from Canadian company Lower Lakes Towing are loading at the dock (Manitoulin and Michipicot... (more)
Heading to Sacramento from San Jose, the four units make up one of the early OLS trains
Former Chesapeake & Ohio 6253 is slowly rusting away in a siding near Levisa Jct.
MLW A507 and Caterpillar A223 led on this freight.
Rounding a twenty-degree curve on a 1.7% uphill grade, H802 with 2 AC's and 37 loads of coal are down to 3mph on wet rail.
CP "Red Barn" 9000 is on display for the CP employees open house at the former SOO Shoreham Shops. CP 9000 is one of only two CP SD40-2Fs painted in the CP Rail System "Dual Flag" "A... (more)
Tune in on April 30 at 2:30 PM ET, for Amtrak's 50th anniversary celebration livestream from Philadelphia, PA as Amtrak kicks off its 50th anniversary featuring remarks from President Joe Biden! ... (more)
‘Tis the day after Christmas, 1965, as GTEL Big Bow 9 makes its noisy way past Tower A at Cheyenne’s west end with an extra for Laramie. The C&S overpass offes a fine view of the action, and, ... (more)
On the westbound leg of a Los Angeles to Chicago round trip on a Santa Fe Railway Employee Appreciation Special in 1992, restored Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 3751 flies over Canyon Diablo Bridge on Septemb... (more)
611 departs Williamson with Train No.15 The Cavalier
2714 heads a train toward Dhaka Kamlapur at Karwan Bazar. This train is surprisingly full as it is heading in the opposite direction to the millions going to the Biswa Ijtema festival at Tongi!
A couple of unexpected locomotives in the form of SD80MAC's sit coupled to a string of coal hoppers at Ashtabula Harbor, if anyone is interested, the second 80MAC is the 7207.
The first of the U50C's is caught in brief evening light on an otherwise rainy day. The validity of the cab-side slogan is questionable, at least where the U50C's were concerned.
The 603 passenger approaching at the end of his trip, on the head 220 008 and 220 027.
Four E-units The lead E8A once was PC 4616 and PRR 5716A
Pan Am detour train 11R-24 is pulling toward Riverside Yard in Rockingham, Vermont, on the GMRC Bellows Falls Subdivision. The train is on the causeway splitting the Connecticut River (NH) and We... (more)
A rare 14CRB class 4-8-2 passes the Red Wall at Rooikrans in late afternoon light. Light only strikes the wall in January, so today it's black!
I would love to see her run again.
Working upgrade out of Cold Stream Canyon, UP 8444 has reached Andover doubleheading with UP 3985. Bringing the UP train to Railfair 1981, it was 3985's first major outing and it was still a coal ... (more)
A few bulbs and a few minutes allowed us to capture this night exposure at Eagle Rock.
Grafton, West Virginia, engine servicing tracks in the days before the downgrading of the B&O mainline.
Norfolk Southern ships a wide variety of commodities, including locomotives for foreign railroads: NS train 361 has arrived at Brosnan Yard in Macon, Georgia, and is taking its locomotives to the ... (more)
ICG's second BiCentennial painted unit leads an eclectic mix of power including three brand new GP28s for Sonora Baja California Railroad out of Markum yard in Homewood IL. The original unit was d... (more)
A sight probably never to be seen again with these engines. All four were under steam! Cotton Belt #819 - N&W #1218 - UP #844 - Frisco #1522
Wrapping around Lake Superior's Mink Harbour, CP 5982 WEST exits the famous 110' Mink Tunnel.
With "Polar Express" replacing the Pere Marquette lettering on her tender, the 1225 leads the final North Pole Express toward Chesaning in single-digit temperatures.
Unusual situation: The passenger train waits until the freight train has left the track. I don't see a stop sign for the passenger train. The conductor watches the situation. The photo is taken fr... (more)
Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer name listed on slide.
The only reason I fished this one out is how many viewers have ever seen the top of a UP "Big Blow" Turbine where all that noise came from. (They were eventually outlawed from running in Sou. Ca... (more)
Timing is everything. As a pair of GMTX SW1500's unload coal cars at the KCBX Terminal, the Alpena makes a timely appearance as she navigates her way through the Calumet River, bound for the LaFar... (more)
The hostler was moving five locomotives in reverse when he sliced a semi truck in half that drove onto the track at a warehouse. The trucker was not injured. Photo from the 1980s.
Freshly painted Colorado Pacific-CXR 316 at Alamosa, CO. New owners for the former San Luis and Rio Grande RR. I will be back again, hope it all pans out for them.
Eastbound NS 358 cruise by what remains of the wreckage of the NS 206 derailment that happen around 6:00 AM February 18 2010, just west of Butler, Indiana at CP 360.
4020 leading a westbound train of Comet Is to Spring Valley. This is the first ever solo run of a PL42AC in revenue service after spending 5 months on property in testing.
