It is safe to say there is no danger to anyone or thing here. The forlorn former DL&W MU trailer obviously has not gone anywhere for a long time. The Catskill Mt RR does have plans to move 2322 to... (more)
Virginian #215 leading eastbound train #4 at Victoria, VA || Nov 1955. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.
To quote an engineer: "Ive heard of ripping a drawbar before, but never I have never heard of ripping the whole a*s off before!" 2703 was pulling up Stevens Pass when it started to surge then the... (more)
Getting a spinAt the Union Pacific’s South Morrill Locomotive Facility in Nebraska on September 14, 2017, a General Electric 16-cylinder 7FDL16 from Union Pacific AC4400CW 6704 gets a... (more)
A toaster from another era waits for work with a boxcab.
The cab of one of CN's "new" C40-8s. Note that there is no DPU equipment anywhere to be seen.
A long string of interesting units occupy s the deadline at DeButt's yard in Chattanooga. First up is MP15DC 2420, which must have had a major problem to end up here. Of interest are the three GP5... (more)
A working roster shot of one of the new ES44C4s. the cylinders in the middle of the truck is what GE calls "Dynamic Weight Management." The center axle doesn't have a traction motor. These cylinde... (more)
CP 6644 made a rare appearance to the American Southwest. This locomotive is painted in Royal Canadian Air Force "Spitfire" fighter planes paint scheme, which pays tribute to the Allied ... (more)
On a frigid evening in January 1994, an eastbound Santa Fe stack train works upgrade into Abo Canyon and the sunset and across the first of seven bridges it will cross in the canyon. Ladrón Peak ... (more)
A Utah Transit Authority "FrontRunner" test train meets Union Pacific's MHKRO-16 at Grant Tower in Salt Lake City.
CN 7304 was rammed in by ONR 1517.
Empty QNS and L ore train heading back to Labrador City to get related with iron ore
Carloads are the lifeblood of any freight railroad. The huge Westvaco paper mill at Luke, MD provided both WM and B&O with a sizable revenue stream from inbound raw materials and outbound paper. ... (more)
There's time for a quick nap in between moves. The 1911 boxcab, a product of the Juniata shops, survives today at Strasburg stuffed and mounted. The GG1's on the left don't.
The locomotive with cargo train on the stage Tikchonovo - Toyma in Tatarstan run up hill
The bags are packed and she is ready to go home. PRR K4 1361 is days away from finally leaving Steamtown after an extended stay. Here is to the hope that in Altoona she may breathe steam yet again... (more)
All three Music City Star trains are waiting to depart for their evening runs.
East Portal of Tunnel 7 - Carrizo Gorge - Tunnel 7 collapsed at some point after the Goat Canyon Trestle was built and and before 1949 (the dates on the track). Instead of clearing and r... (more)
After the Lehigh Valley took over the CNJ lines in Pennsylvania in 1972, the LV main between Bethlehem and Lehighton was redundant trackage. The LV chose to keep the tracks operational, primarily ... (more)
The UP 8444 puts on a show for a photo runby.
An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train loops over the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon between Plainview and Clay, Colorado, on the afternoon of July 5, 2003. Leading the train are two GE ... (more)
Morning run. An intermodal train slows for a crew change at Altoona in preparation for its climb up to Horseshoe curve. Deadlines always fascinate me for some reason, especially when they are fi... (more)
New England Southern SW1500 2555 leads two empty tank cars from 3M in Tilton back to the PAR interchange in Concord, NH. The 2555 is passing the former B&M Concord Tower as it prepares to drop the... (more)
Eastbound CN container train crossing the Nicola River at Spences Bridge.
In the days before it became a conveyor belt for Powder River Basin coal, the Joint Line offered drama and variety. Here on April 9, 1966, Denver & Rio Grande Western 5313, one of ten SD9’s on t... (more)
CN's 1954 "Super Continental" came even closer to perfection with the addition of the ex-MILW domes. How nice to see a train where everything matches. Here the "Super" treads lightly through Sa... (more)
Three cars can be seen sliding down the hump into the CP Hump Yard on this view from the top of Daytons Bluff
The amazing maze leading to a multitrack terminal
CB&Q F3A 124-A, F3B, F7B & F7A to create a combine 6000hp consist eastbound at Neponset, Illinois in July 1963. In tow was train 88 bound for Cicero, Illinois. Photo from my collection, Photograph... (more)
After switching scrap gons at Omni Source in Legion Street Yard, ETRY 214 crosses an original Clinchfield bridge in Johnson City, Tennessee on it's way to the CSX interchange. East Tennessee Rail... (more)
Intermodal train number 21V rounds Horseshoe Curve as part of its journey from Harrisburg, PA, to Chicago, IL. Leading the way is the Lackawanna heritage unit, SD70ACe number 1074. Photo by Case... (more)
This is the interior of L&N's Shop 17--the running repair facility built for diesels at its South Louisville Shops complex. Two F7As--824 and 811, coupled--are in for traction motor attention. In ... (more)
A BNSF westbound train led by Dash-9 No. 766 blasts out of Tunnel 9 at Walong, California, on March 28, 2001, as the train’s DPUs pass overhead. The action takes place on the famous Tehachapi Lo... (more)
EMU of Athenian tramway system
The EDDTC hauled coal from several mines to the port of Imbituba. This is a train of empties leaving Imbituba.
National Railway Equipment in Silvis, IL completed the new Rock Island 1275 last week. Iowa Interstate's Rock Island heritage was at NRE for wheel work and the pair were put together for a few ph... (more)
At 7:43 p.m. on April 15, 2013, dusk settles in on the fuel track at Union Pacific’s North Yard in Denver, Colorado. Snow is still coming down hard on this tax day blizzard, and the Denver area ... (more)
Sunrise as seen from the cab of 136.
The KCS Veteran painted SD70ACe leads an empty oil train northbound on the Canadian Pacific between Montpelier and Buffalo, IA on the run to Winnipeg. The trailing CP engine would be added to the ... (more)
Mobile was more generally B-B territory in GM&O and ICG days, but the C-Cs did make their way to the Gulf shores occasionally. On this nice January day 6044 - one of ten ex-CRI&P units acquired af... (more)
The two IORE locomotives 109 "Abisko" and 113 "Bergfors" from Bombardier Kassel with a power of 5400 kW each are pulling an empty ore train with 68 cars and about 700 metre length along the Tornet... (more)
A CSX empty hopper train rolls into Norfolk Southern's Natural Tunnel.
Ely's Engine House Queen. Parked in the far back of the East Ely Engine House, sits the one piece of Nevada Northern's historic equipment that has not moved an inch since I started visiting... (more)
A rare Bird UP U 50 # 43 Rests in CNWs Proviso Yard In early 1974. A number of these units were in the CNW at the time as they were considering buying them. But the CNW bought the N&W C628s inste... (more)
A pair of Boeing 737 fuselages take a ride west over Bozeman Pass.
A pair of commuter locomotives break up the sea of yellow at the impressive servicing facilities at Bailey Yard, North Platte, NE. The east bowl tracks are to the right, with the east hump visibl... (more)
The Borax brush sprayer is almost to the telephone pole on the Rock Island at Pleasant Hill, Mo. Aug. 28, 1965. Such work trains could disburse over 100,000 gallons of herbicides in a day. Then... (more)
This ex-L&HR C-420 is on the ground due to a vandalized switch.
One of three. Found in the Santa Fe yard in San Bernardino, California, was an unusual visitor – Waycar 999639. In 1969, Santa Fe rebuilt just three cabooses (what the Santa Fe called W... (more)
SR 3804 leads a line of 10 GE CC's stored at Inman, some with capped stacks and chained doors. It isn't the end of the line, though, as they will return to service for a few more years.
NJT 4500 has yet to touch American rails as it sits on a trailer in Port Newark. The 4500 is the second of NJT's new dual mode locomotive to be delivered. NJT 4501 is currently in Pueblo, CO under... (more)
For the 9th order of modern widecab GEs, the CP opted for the AAR control stand. Here's brand-new No. 8782 in Glenwood, MN, just three weeks out of the GE factory at Erie, PA. Note the teapot!
Southbound intermodal train Q143 tops the Raccoon Mountain grade and will now coast down into Wauhatchie where it'll tie down on zero track.
On this day in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, the BEDT was off to a rough start, but nothing that a few oak blocks couldn't handle, although repairing the track structure may have taken a litt... (more)
Climbing in reverse by the hard slope from Rio Blanco by switchback junction and detour to CODELCO Andina copper mine in Saladillo, in the Andes mountain. Rio Blanco is a little village and former... (more)
While flying over Chicago's southwest side inbound to Chicago Midway Airport we are greeted with a great view of the BNSF Corwith Yard Locomotive shop.
D13 shoves into the Finch Paper Spur on the Glens Falls Subdivision over Shermantown Rd, the crew protecting the shove aboard one of Canadian Pacific's cabooses often used on the locals for purpos... (more)
CNW's Milwaukee lakefront depot sits unused and ready to be torn down in this view from September of 1966. The destruction of this beautiful and historic building caused Milwaukee to rethink their... (more)
Running down the middle of Interstate 10 on Metrolink's San Gabriel Sub, Santa Fe 4-8-4 steam locomotive #3751 powers a special east to San Bernardino to help celebrate railroad days which is bein... (more)
Foss River Bridge; Amtrak number 8 lights up the snowy valley as it makes it way east up the 2.2% grade on Stevens Pass. Taken during the annual Tracks in the Snow Event with fellow RPix co... (more)
Sitting by itself on August 1st, 2014, is Union Pacific 8875, constructed in June 2014. EMD calls this an SD70ACe, but UP calls it an SD70AH to indicate that it carries extra weight (the "H&... (more)
I believe the shops - except for part of the roundhouse - are gone.
(Correction: Whitewood, Virginia) Extremely overcast and heavy snow conditions, are the perfect backdrop for a gloomy abandonment photo such as this. Looking southwest in the little community of W... (more)
GM’s Everywhere There are GM automobiles as far as the eye can see in the open racks of a train approaching Tunnelhill, Pennsylvania at Bennington Curve. On the next track, Santa... (more)
The sun drops below the overcast and highlights the lush hillsides on the coastside. We haven't hand a a rainy season like this in years and can only hope the drought is over. The southbound Gaua... (more)
Rail photographers, in action
It's business as usual at the steel mills of Burns Harbor as the 728 foot Joseph L. Block makes its arrival.
2016 was a good year for me on Donner. In fact, it had been the first time I was able to shoot Winter there since 2010. We had a lot of trains, a lot of snow and heck the rotary even came out for ... (more)
RILX 4310 is seen here on the main at Sumner ready to depart for a days work after recently being painted back into the Rock Island blue and white scheme.
One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six! What seems to be a Monday thing, FEC 226 comes north with 6 motors, deadheading power from 202 and 222 that did not run the day before.
Tuscan red NW SD40-2 6175 runs light with cab west of Williamson, WV along US 52
East of Glenogle, the Trans Canada Highway cross over the Kicking Horse River and the track of the Canadian Pacific. Since August 2007 the TCH swings high about the canyon over the new 90 m high P... (more)
CP 6704 switches one of the Detroit-Windsor railroad ferries in Windsor, ON in October of 1962. Little is left of railroads in this area today. John Ingles Kodachrome from my collection.
Remnants of a derailment on Christmas night
ROCK ISLAND Recollections. RI 4584 is less than two months old in this photo at HB&T's Milby St. diesel facility in Houston. RI's 18 U30Cs 4582-4599 were delivered October-December 1... (more)
A lifeguard prepares to end her day while Amtrak's Surfliner 785 slips by Richard Nixon's old Western White House behind her.
It is a rare site to see a steam locomotive in Staunton. In this case is former Canadian Pacific G5d tenders rest on a flat car, waiting to move out from Staunton. Ultimately, they will head to ... (more)
Horizon un-level....oh wait it's just the truck The A end truck of this rail flatcar has run over a piece of wood cribbing used to separate the layers of rail that were once inside th... (more)
Santa Fe FTA 180L leads a Clovis-bound freight west of Littlefield, Texas, on the First District of the Slaton Division. This is the "Texas main line," which connects Galveston, Houston, Brownwood... (more)
Calumet Yard, on Chicago's south side, was the home of the last roundhouse built in the United States, completed in 1952. By this late date, NKP 173 was used as protection power for the ALCO PAs o... (more)
one of a kind specially painted for MAERSK shipping
The "Sunday Afternoon" passenger train is crossing the Menominee River southbound late in the afternoon.
An eastbound/southbound empty BNSF grain train approaches the "loop" on its winding way up the mountain.
A monstrosity of a machine, a Fairmont Tamper Ballast Cleaner idles away in the small Morley yard. Not sure of the age but possibly a leftover from a CSX predecessor.
VIA 6537 encountered a freight head on at Ingersoll Ont,here by the grit blast,she remained there 2 years before everything good was taken off her.
With it's final trip over Cajon Pass almost complete, UP 4014 and it's pair of diesel helpers ease their 23-car passenger train downgrade into Devore as they head for the train's final destination... (more)
A shifter shoves PRR gon #317762 with a load of shop scrap off the turntable. PRR Class B8a.
