Engineer view after a meet. Conductor walking up to line the switch.
A Durango & Silverton train with a K-36 pulling, rounds the curves along the cliffs edge, and above the Animas River near Rockwood, Colorado. Unfortunately, the Animas has an unsavory orange hue t... (more)
I believe this was a New Jersey Transit train and the passenger car belonged to a railroad club.
Engineer Ed Dickens is at the helm of UP #844 as the train departs the greater Denver area through the suburb of Commerce City with a lucky lady sitting behind Ed.
Rock Island SD40s for sale. The Rock had 10 SD40s and here are 8 of them.
One of 2 RS1325's built rests at the I&M Enginehouse. Taken With Permission
The scrapping of a classic. The scrappers successfully remove the first chunk of car body, but not without a fight. A few more cuts of the torch were necessary before she'd let go. This is the ... (more)
On a beautiful fall morning, VIA Rail's westbound Canadian races along the calm Yellowhead Lake in Yellowhead, BC on October 1st, 2022.
Sandy's Aftermath: Raritan Central has the misfortune of being located adjacent to the Raritan River and Raritan Bay. The storm surge from Hurricane Sandy deposited a large amount of debri... (more)
H75 heads through some of the rural scenery between Bath and Bethlehem.
A long train of high wide loads crosses the frozen Nemadji River as it heads south for the cities and points west.
In Nov. 1967, Pullman-Standard built eleven 40 ft. High Cube Box Cars for the D&RGW for Whirlpool appliance service. D&RGW 67422 had Equipco load dividers and was assigned to load on the Erie Lack... (more)
West Portal Cascade Tunnel; What sometimes looks like a worm hole straight out of Star Trek or a time travel portal is the powerful headlights of a westbound locomotive highlighting the con... (more)
This shot, taken by my grandfather, Peter Beal while stationed at Camp Hale during World War Two looks down on Tenn. Pass Station, its wye, coal conveyors, and a freight in the siding at the tunne... (more)
A D&H relic telephone pole is about to topple as Jordan Spreader CP 402885 and GP20C-ECO CP 2266 work the main line at CPC 132 in Wadhams, NY.
Brand new South Florida Regional Trannsportation Authority BL36PH sits outside the Brookville Equipment Corp shops. Locomotive is part of a 10 unit order for the commuter rail service.
September 1970 saw Alcos working the slope in helper service, a C636 and C630 mate drift by. That same month also saw the debut of Monday Night Football, with Frank, Don, and Howard. The Centuri... (more)
A few hours behind schedule, the northbound Coast Starlight begins to stop at Eugene while several passengers look on.
New EMD SD70ACe units at BHP Billiton IO (see more at www.railways.pilbara.net.au)
Canadian Pacific Railway's Montreal to Saratoga Springs, NY, train 228-19, is high above Lake Champlain at Willsboro, NY, with the one-of-a-kind Every Child Matters ES44AC 8757 leading SD70ACU 702... (more)
Improvised helpers on the Hill... As a Southern Pacific eastbound was climbing the Tehachapis on January 20th, 1978, it stalled out at Bealville. So, a westbound descending the hill was s... (more)
DTFR 2003 sits outside the NRE shops. Waiting to be picked up by CSX for delivery to the Pueblo test tracks.
Taking The Long Way To Promontory. Well, the closest active rails can get to Promontory anymore: Ogden, Utah. UP 8850 leads a small, seven-car train through the iconic rocks of Chatsworth a... (more)
Having passed through North America’s 4th longest tunnel (6.2 miles), apparently the brakeman was going back to check an engine problem. Inside Moffat Tunnel D&RGW 5515 East crested the highest... (more)
In a scene repeated countless time in the 40's, UP 4012 simmers in the cool of a Spring evening awaiting some TLC from the hostler. This scene made possible thanks to the lighting of Lerro Product... (more)
Former CN 4-8-2 6060 now owned by Alberta Heritage Railway Society hauls a special from Stettler to Coronation on Central Western's former CP Lacombe Sub..This was 1st run in 10 years for 6060
The Conductor (or the Assistant Conductor?) on Amtrak train 19, the southbound Crescent (running 1 hour 15 minutes behind schedule), has lined the hand-operated switch into the station and ... (more)
Whats at the End of a Rainbow????.... Evidently BNSF9275 in a driving rain storm descending Mullan Pass as the rear DPU of an empty coal train. Who would have thought... lol :-)
As the sun rises over the Manzano Mountains, whose peaks are 3500 feet above the valley floor, a hot intermodel is nearing the crest of the long grade from Belen.
Too much exhaust?
After spending a few days in Green Bay, my friends and I planned to move north to Escanaba to catch Chicago & North Western’s ex-N&W C628’s in ore service. While we were still in Green Bay, on... (more)
The last active SD40-2 in SOO livery parked at the diesel shop in Alyth Yard.
After a 28 mile descent from Soldier Summit, SP's Minntac to Geneva iron ore train throttles up for a short section of level track approaching the Thistle Tunnels on August 11, 1996.
The conductor of the TPW local politely requests a couple of trespassers who were fishing on the former PRR bridge to leave the premises so the local can proceed southbound to work industries loca... (more)
EMD's reign as top diesel builder is already in jeopardy as a B23-7 and two U36Bs lead a road freight past a pair of Uceta Shop rebuilds.
New pair of EMD ACE's power a Big Brown loaded coal train getting ready to be tied down at Rhea siding.
Tacoma Rail's Hill job (101) begins it's journey to Frederickson. After shoving in to the UP's Fife yard, the train takes the short northern section of the Mountain Division over the Puyallup Riv... (more)
On the Keddie Wye and heading north on the 4th Subdivision WP F7(A) 921-A is in change of a six unit consist, going to interchange with the Great Northern at Bieber on October 10, 1970. Photo ... (more)
ATSF F7A #37C leads a five-unit lashup into the steel plate truss bridge over Galisteo Creek and towards Lamy with the combined Super Chief/El Capitan in tow. US Highway 285, soon to be Interstate... (more)
R&N's engine facility takes on the appearance of a model railroad layout, with the variety of locomotives and paint schemes (and lack of space).
An eastbound coal train sneaks thru the high water in downtown Burlington. The Mississippi River crested on June 2nd at 24.48 feet. The crest was the 3rd highest crest on record with the record of... (more)
Somewhere in Wyoming west of Cheyenne the City Of SF/LA roars by. Speculation this could have been the coach section with the Pullman section following, clues being the single dome and predominate... (more)
Union Pacific Alco RS27 (2400hp) numbered 675-678 originally built as ALCO demonstrators, purchased by UP in 9/61. Units 675-676 sold to Montreal Locomotive Works as MLW 675-676, 4/71. Resold t... (more)
An aerial shot of Mojave, CA. The UP Mojave sub can be seen coming down from the mountains into its namesake town. Also visible on the right are several aircraft from the Mojave aircraft boneyard.... (more)
Scrappers have torn into 4615. Doesn't take long to cut a locomotive down to fit into a scrap trailer.
Metrolink PrideOn June 10, 2017, California’s Metrolink conducted tests with their first operable F125. SCAX 905 was built by Electro-Motive in May 2016, and delivered to Metroli... (more)
Late in the afternoon, Little Joe E70 holds the main with a dead freight, waiting for an eastbound symbol to emerge from St. Paul tunnel. Meanwhile, five Milwaukee Road MOW employees with a speede... (more)
"Erie Lackawanna Finery" Erie Lackawanna SDP45 3652 (with a freshly repainted pilot) leads F7A 7114 on arriving train PO-74 at Croxton Yard in Secaucus, NJ. The y... (more)
CPR MOW waiting in the yard for the next day's orders
The four SD-40-2s leading Milwaukee's eastbound freight come into view at the loop at Cedric, Montana as the caboose of the 120-some-odd car train sweeps by the camera in August 1973. Box cab el... (more)
Paying respect to my old friends from the Missabe. There are ten DMIR locomotives at the right side of this line. I confirmed 306,208,221,217,317. Also nine GP15s make up the left line.
A herd of zebras was spotted out on the prairies of Manitoba in June 1986 as CN inadvertently lined up a nice sampling of GMD power at Symington Yard on Winnipeg's east side. The prize was F7A 916... (more)
Baltimore and Ohio GP7 No.3400 proudly shows off what is generally regarded as B&O's finest paint scheme, in October 1953 at Bayview Yard Baltimore, Maryland. Photo part of my slide collection, n... (more)
Dmu unit on a local passenger train from Athens to Nafplio crossing the historical passage of Dervenakia.
EL Alco Century 424 2403 and two others are at Port Jervis. These were the only new locomotives delivered to the merged railroad in black and yellow and were built in May 1963.
Rail grinder going south on the ICE
Following Brown at Watsonville Southern Pacific’s Santa Cruz local crosses the Pajaro River and chases a UPS truck up Walker Street in Watsonville, California, on February 6, 1995.
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing), Union Pacific Railroad sponsored the Shiloh Limited, transporting the reenactors cannon on the rear of the trai... (more)
Looking out over the nose of L&N E7 760, this is the view from the fireman’s seat as train 6, the New Orleans-Cincinnati “Humming Bird” approaches its final stop at CUT in the Queen City. Th... (more)
A chartered train for attendees of an event at Union Station rests at Hinsdale while the passengers board. The train ran west from Chicago, then changed ends at Hinsdale to head back east. This ke... (more)
Amtrak train 710 makes a station stop in Merced, CA, under beautiful springtime skies. In the lead are two ex-SP FP7s, one already repainted into Amtrak livery. The train is on the station track, ... (more)
A mini "Hill Lines" streamliner rests on CN in Duluth after having spent the winter stored at Proctor. The cars and locomotive are being brought back to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum... (more)
Kicking up the heelsNow that winter’s icy grip has arrived, another scene from this past autumn feels a bit nicer and warmer. On October 2, 2013, at Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Mon... (more)
a set of power is being switched at the shops in El Reno as the sun popped out of the clouds
MILW 195 leads train 202 around the curve as it approaches the west end of the Columbia River bridge and Beverly, WA. The next crew change is Othello, is 38 miles further east. Othello was the wes... (more)
UP Big Boy 4012 sits on display at Steamtown as CN 3254 heads in after pulling the AARPCO special to the Delaware Water Gap
In the lead Frisco EMD FP7 5051,with F3(B) 5117, F7(B) 5123, Alco FB-1 5309 and FP7 5043. Photo from my collection, the photographer was not specified.
L&N's company photographer posed three brand new SD35s on the escape track under the hump at DeCoursey one evening in 1965 for this scene. The shot was used on the cover of an issue of the L&N Mag... (more)
Kasgro Rail Corporation depressed center flat car KWUX 200, owned by Siemens Power Corporation, brings up the rear of westbound NS 37A as it passes under the Westinghouse Bridge in East Pittsburgh... (more)
Early morning sun, a tunnel and classic power with a frosty nose. Does it get any better? (Canon EOS20D, 16-35mm f/2.8L USM)
"STEPHENSON" Returning from Clear Brook, VA to pick up a few flat cars, The Sandman approaches Winchester on the former CVRR/PRR/PC/CONRAIL line. For this and other photos p... (more)
Arkansas and Missouri’s Fort Smith Turn departs Winslow, Arkansas, on October 20, 1995, powered by six Alco C420s. With the recent derailment and damage to A&M’s three EMD SD70ACes, it is like... (more)
A unique load on the Elgin Joliet & Eastern Porter Line in 1977. The placard reads "Do Not Hump".
Cascade 500 Derails Talgo power car on switch, leaving Tacoma. Present to be sure everything is going well, are reps from BNSF, Amtrak, Talgo, and I thing a UP dude (why aren't my trains moving).
A pair of EMDX SD70ACe-T4s switch out Leesville yard in rural Louisiana.
Lately, traveling by steam engines are becoming more numerous in Bulgaria This is a special week steam trip for English railfans, around the country
UP 9000 comes to life as part of Steve Crise's Night Photography Session at the Rail Giants Museum in Pomona, CA. Here's a shot of 9000 from the ground up.
Ex NdeM´s EA004 and EA023 will never see the rails again, they were bought by the BM&LP just for parts. Photographed stored in Page with the NGS in the background
Although this is listed as an EMD SW1, it's really an EMC SW1, from before EMC was purchased by GM. Beautifully restored by the folks at SCRM, SP 1006 has just shoved its train to the end of track... (more)
A steam locomotive returns to Santa Cruz for the first time in almost 60 years. The SCPC #2 used to operate at the Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company 90 years ago so this is a very special homecom... (more)
An empty coal train climbs through the Crater Loops on the former D&RGW Craig Branch.
A southbound Wisconsin Central freight treads as lightly as it can through the front yards of homes lining Division Street in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on November 18, 1989. Two children head down the s... (more)
Full throttle for this 60mm 2-6-0 steam loco.
Here is another view of the head on wreck at Gilchrist - see photo 401114 for more details.
Class N7-E built in 1969 for the Erie Lackawanna Railroad as their C-369. During Conrail, the caboose was assigned number 21169. When acquired by the Providence and Worcester, renumbered as their ... (more)
Western Maryland 303 slowly rusts away as it sits at the Georges Creek Railroad facility in Barton, Maryland.
D&H 1216 hides beside the ex-P&H crane facility in Escanaba. This unit ran only a few times for the E&LS before being parked, outside at first, but inside and out of sight since.
Friday the 13th brought an interesting pair of eastern high-hoods to Albina Yard. Does anyone know the story on this?
