A pair of EMDX SD70ACe-T4s switch out Leesville yard in rural Louisiana.
Three of a kind - For a few years, there were three GG1's at the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum in Strasburg. On this day, PRR 4800, or "old rivets", the original GG1, and Conrail 4859 wer... (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)
Trona DT6-6-2000 51 and AS-616 52 idle outside the shops at Trona, California, November 7, 1970.
It's almost dusk, and more snow is forecast for tonight as ICRR 4028 leads her train past the depot at Broadview. The eastbound passenger train, maybe the Hawkeye or the Land of Corn, will arrive ... (more)
The Proctor Road Switch crew shoves loads of taconite pellets out on the dock as a ship takes on the cargo. Across the bay, a BNSF coal train dumps their loads at the MERC facility. Business is ... (more)
Left worker: Hey, man. I'm tired. This thing's heavy. Right worker: Shut up, just push it. It's we're paid for.
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)
It was a dull and gloomy day at Michel, BC where CPR H Liners 8727 and 8724 had a meet. Lots of crew interaction in this shot. This siding is still there today but everything else including the ... (more)
Soft early morning light bathes South Amboy New Jersey in September 1983. GG-1 4884, after delivering it's train from New York and letting diesels take it on down the "North Jersey Coast Line," is... (more)
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)
More than one transition in this shot: GN orange & green to Big Sky blue; train is now operated by Amtrak, on MILW from the Twin Cities to Chicago
On April 30th, 2017 around 9:30 am, Canadian National Train A420 rear ended an Oil Train at Money, MS. CN SD60 #5465 was the lead Locomotive of A420, it still sits at Money, MS. Beside the main li... (more)
A pair of classic Rio Grande GP30s emerge from the shadowy Jordan Narrows into the bright morning sun at Mesa, Utah. The UT04L would make its first stop at Geneva Steel before turning at Provo Yar... (more)
Full throttle for this 60mm 2-6-0 steam loco.
Deer! Its spring in the south as a pair of deer wander across the rickety tracks of the Mississippi Central. In the background MSCI 488 slowly approaches with a cut of cars from storage going sout... (more)
An eastbound coal train led by three Rio Grande Tunnel Motors curves through the stark, lunar-like landscape approaching Floy, Utah, on August 4, 1996. This is a view from a peak in the Bookcliffs... (more)
"Thorough Locomotive Truck Wash" One of New York & Atlantic Railway's Senior MofE Mechanics, gets down and dirty to thoroughly clean the under body of GP38-2 271. NYAR's MofE crew takes loc... (more)
The only caption that comes to mind is: "Truckin' westbound!"
UP 5031 (8/71, 37284) was retired 27 Feb 1978, scrapped 6/78 at Turner, KS before her 7th birthday. UP GP9B 173B (3/54, 19249) was retired by UP 1/77, but rebuilt at Paducah to ICG GP10 8305.
Union Pacific "Big Boy" No. 4014 and "Northern" No. 844 put on a fantastic show as they depart Rawlins, Wyoming, for Laramie, on May 17, 2019.
Friday the 13th brought an interesting pair of eastern high-hoods to Albina Yard. Does anyone know the story on this?
Foaming at Hamilton: First Responders apply some foam to put out a fire on an Amtrak electrical traction vehicle at Hamilton. Meanwhile, an Amtrak crew waits for the chance to move the ou... (more)
Remote-controlled AS616 #367 rumbles through Ensley, AL. I believe the guy with the Ghostbusters backpack is the operator. I also think this unit was re-engined with and EMD engine. I saw one r... (more)
Battery powered 999 basks in some bright sun while working Altoona Pipe and Steel Co.
The first public outing of the 148, bringing in the seasons first harvest of sugarcane to their processing plant in Clewiston. A small gathering was held with US Sugar employees and the good folk... (more)
Man on SEPTA Train: What was he thinking? As SEPTA Trenton Line Train 707 was about to leave the station to turn after ending its run, a man started running after it and got the engineer ... (more)
Santa Fe F7A-B-B-B-A 314 eastbound Super Chief/El Capitan at Barstow, California. No photographer listed on slide.
This ic express has just arrived from Thesaloniki. After 2 hours the port station closed for ever ?
Norfolk Southern RP-M4C #648 and GP33ECO #4717 are paired up as a mother/slug combo outside the Test Shed at Juniata Shop in Altoona, Pennsylvania, being prepared for service. The set will be ass... (more)
New units will soon be heading to GWI's Maryland Midland Railroad which consist of four SD40-2s or SD40-2Ms. The units are former CEFX/OFOX SD40-2 models which were built as SP SD45s, the units ... (more)
Northern Pacific Alcos 912 and 908 are at the shops in Pasco, WA in the summer of 1970. Note the differing style of numbers and a roof mounted bell on only one of the units.
Gare Montparnasse viewed from the Montparnasse Tower. 9222 is visible in the loco holding sidings.
Restoration activity is buzzing around PRR 1361's boiler inside Conrail's Altoona Car Shops. Photo taken from overhead crane.
Passengers on the "Notch Train" enjoy a spectacular view as they cross the Willey Brook Trestle near Crawford Notch. This location is a steep hike up from the highway, seen down in the valley floo... (more)
FA-1 set as delivered in red and black Rocket Freight (RF) scheme.
A trio of Milwaukee Road GP40s leads train #213 past the west end of Muskego Yard.
Rock Island likes General Electric’s U25B. The road bought its first in spring, 1963 and by November 1964 has acquired 39 of the 2500-hp locomotives, including the 207, seen here eastbound with ... (more)
The Train of Tomorrow! ALP-46 4623 trails a sleek eleven car train of multi-level coaches towards Trenton on the Northeast Corridor. ALP-46 4618 was on the other end of the tr... (more)
CN 7312 handles a cut of cars as the sun rises on the horizon on a chilly autumn morning.
Passengers begin boarding the eastbound Texas Eagle, at Temple, TX. In the distance, a southbound hauling military vehicles waits on the mainline behind NS and UP power.
SW1 DS 50, pulls the Leviathan Southbound heading to Fishers down the famous street running in Noblesville.
Stack train rearended a stopped empty grain train, the car they hit went up/over/through the top of the cab. Both crew members jumped before impact at aprx 15mph.
Built between 1926-1930, Alco's 4-12-2s had the longest rigid driver wheelbase of any steam locomotive (until Russia built a 4-14-4). Number 9083, designated a UP-5, is seen here along the Lincol... (more)
The overhead slide detector fences are ever vigilant as eastbound Rio Grande Zephyr Train 18 negotiates one of the most rugged canyons in Colorado — awesome Gore Canyon. The canyon was named a... (more)
A nice set of 3 MLW FA units are on the head end of an eastbound freight on the high line in Toronto. This was a freight bypass line that went around Union Station.
This is the first train in three years to come down this line. This transformer is for the Excel Energy Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant and is being pushed in for the last couple miles of the... (more)
Pulling away from the Fremont Depot and ready to enter Niles Canyon on its way East.
Steam in the Transylvanian countryside this autumn.
Transloading activities are underway on a four-car derailment that occurred on the east end of the bowl at IHB's Blue Island Yard. Tom Golden photo.
Streamliners at... Winslow??? Three cab units line up for a portrait during a railfan event on the Southern Railroad of New Jersey. In addition to SRNJ's own ex-Bessemer & Lake Erie F7 No. 727, th... (more)
In a stunning view, the eastbound California Zephur is crossing Keddie Wye trestle in the Feather River Canyon on a brilliant August 18, 1967. Leading the CZ is FP-7 #805-D and two 'B' unit ma... (more)
D&RGW Freight. A shaft of localized sunlight illuminates Freight Extra 315 as she emerges from the shadows of the Animas Canyon and crosses the river for a final time before entering Silver... (more)
The double track leaving Mechanicville was one of many great photo spots to catch the Adirondack heading north to Canada. The D&H rebuilt the PAs to power their passenger service into the 80s. Whe... (more)
Delivery Day. The MLW plant switcher has just dropped this brand new C630M on the CNR delivery track outside the plant. A CNR switcher will pick it up and deliver it to the CNR-CPR interchange t... (more)
A Richard Beal photo: A Consumers Power coal train picked the diamond at Pleasant Street leading to this mess, the diamond was then removed (as it wasn't used anymore anyways). Dig that jacket!
While bypassing a previous grain train derailment, a rail roll-over adds to the congestion.
This water tank is rarely used anymore, but it remains for emergency use. The tank is an old boiler shell from the power house of the Cass Mill. Notice the brakemen on the caboose and flatcar. ... (more)
Canadian National U-2-g 6218 sits at Drummondville having been cut off the passenger excursion from Montreal. This was the cleanest steam locomotive I've ever seen even having run over 60 miles wi... (more)
Amtrak 80 and sister locomotive 187 hitch a ride on NS 314 as the damaged units head toward Norris and a possible journey to the Amtrak Locomotive shop in Chicago. These units were involved in a ... (more)
Y190 had to stop on it's journey back to Clark Yard because a trucker parked his rig a bit too close to the tracks. The conductor had to get out and go find the trucker to move the truck. Shown he... (more)
We can do it! A group of female railroad workers pose for a War Bond campaign photo at the end of their workday in a Norfolk & Western railyard. With serious looks and a little bit of grea... (more)
Union Pacific Centennial within the Union Pacific Steam Shop at Cheyenne.
This Ex-Pennsy Unit has had a hard life the past few years sitting out in the elements in Jackson, but supposedly they have money to repaint it. I look forward to seeing it shiny again.
From the grounds in front of the old Ford Plant, we see a NYSW local working with two nicely painted RS1s. By 1980 the RS1s were pretty much relegated to the Edgewater Branch. Today, both the bra... (more)
Partially stripped on a flat car! MEC GMD GP40-2LW #513 painted in Guilford livery, sits on a flat car (OTTX 93348) in the SL&A Richmond yard. MEC 513 is ex-CN 9653 and was acquired ... (more)
Beamish museum's annual 4 day steam festival took place this weekend and the main attraction was the activity on the narrow gauge line. 0-4-0 locomotives EDWARD SHOLTO and HUGH NAPIER are in the y... (more)
When Santa Fe's F passenger units began wearing out, new steam-boiler-equipped GE U28CG's began service on the trains to Texas. Two U28CG's bring northbound Train 16, "Texas Chief," into Purcell,... (more)
Action at Converse Junction As a Chicago and North Western coal train loads at Antelope Mine, two other coal trains cruise through Converse Junction, Wyoming, on May 12, 1995. A loaded ... (more)
Vermont Rail System’s “Little WACR”, the Washington County Railroad affiliate Montpelier & Barre Subdivision (M&B Sub for short) re-launched granite-hauling service from the Rock of Ages Qua... (more)
The backbone of the Pennsy's fast freight fleet was the group of 301 M1-class 4-8-2's. Only one survived the scrapper's torch, seen here shortly after a cosmetic restoration at Strasburg.
Happy New Year and All the best! The quietness is momentarily broken as D&H#930 rolls south through a rock cut on the Canadian Subdivision with a pair of brand new locomotives on the first day ... (more)
Quiet on this sunny Sunday, this ancient Alco still earns its keep shuffling freight cars at Eastern Shore Railroad's Cape Charles yard.
Power changeout at Rahway
In a view from my campsite off the old Denver & Salt Lake Railway’s grueling, long abandoned route over lofty Rollins Pass is Union Pacific MGJNY exiting the 6.21-mile Moffat Tunnel. It’s 8:45... (more)
UP stored power consisting of mostly dash-9s and SD9043MACS. 9766 was formally CNW 8662 and was recently repainted.
Three Alco PA’s rush SP’s first section of Train 11, “Cascade,” past Canby where it met Extra 5349 in the siding, 25 miles out of Portland, Ore., on April 11, 1964. Tomorrow the train wil... (more)
098 stops at the signals at College waiting for congestion ahead in Williamson Yard to clear up. The single SD70M-2 has 13 covered units, EMDX 3018-3030 in tow, presumably for export.
The early morning sun greets an empty CSX Brice coal train E321 starting into the cut beside the Levisa Fork in Pikeville,KY.
As an eastbound manifest arrives at Butte, boxcab No. E45 waits in silence to help it over Pipestone Pass.
Finally done this shot at sunset, I could capture the prototype Alstom AGV.001 (Automotrice Grande Vitesse) = High Speed EMU, also known as "Pegase" that a few months making a series of tests for ... (more)
Mini-train passing standard gauge equipment. The Toronto Railway Museum's mini-train passes some preserved equipment, including GP7 CN 4803. In the background at left is the base of the CN ... (more)
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Series 500 "NOZOMI" passing Odawara station.
"Don't go to Pasco, dude. They're a bunch of nepotistic tire slashers who hate anyone from the Coast"...This was music to my ears as a 24-year-old new hire fresh out of the Corps (Marines, not Pea... (more)
A family photo passed down through the generations, this is one I am glad wound up in my hands. I remember being in awe seeing this photo as a young child, knowing someone in my ancestry was at t... (more)
