The PAN AM Railways new diesel paint scheme has 2 different styles for the right and left side. Here the left side has PAN AM in big letters while the right side has Pan Am Railways plus the logo... (more)
A crewman walks along side Southern Pacific 4449 during a night session put on by Steve Barry, The Mountain State Railroad and Logging Historical Association and Lerro Productions. Part of Train F... (more)
Locomotive Ge 4/4 I # 602 "Bernina" of the Rhaetian Railway was withdrawn after 65 years in service in the year 2012, and exhibited in the Swiss Museum of Transport (VHS) in Lucerne since april 4t... (more)
The End Of An Alco. Grafton & Upton S4 #212 meets her fate in the railroad's West Upton yard. With the other S4 and remaining GE 44-tonner already cut up, the scrapping of #212 wou... (more)
New York Cross Harbor Railroad S1 #25 street running on 2nd Avenue near Bush Terminal in Brooklyn New York on May 1, 1998, gets some protection from the city's finest as the crew tries to figure o... (more)
One of the last EMD GP50s owned by NS leads the K&A Local compass south (railroad west) out of Knoxville. The locomotive has since been sent to Altoona, PA for a rebuild.
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)
Normaly this is always a night southbound freight.
Operating through Provo Canyon, HVRR's UP-618 looks as she did in regular service along with the freight consist ... " What a backdrop! "
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 beautiful summer morning in Minnesota finds UP 4014 southbound on BNSF's Hinckley Subdivision.
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)
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)
A foggy cold day at the beach did not detract me from photographing New Haven Shoreline trains For more Trubo train shotsmore)
Before her hopeful temporary retirement in 2002, the SLSTA ran a many excursions out of St. Louis, this one to Hannibal, MO. Note the Gateway Arch in the background.
CN 8915 leads a westbound CN freight, as they smash through a snow pile after a storm the day before dumped 15-20 cm of fresh goodness. Due to the time of day this train runs, shots like this are ... (more)
Danger Close! On the second day of the 2011 White Pass Rotary run, I stand with half a dozen other photographers atop a rocky bluff, overlooking a deep cut called Canadian Shed. Once the ... (more)
N&W SD45 1776 working the yard in Roanoke, VA. [4-75]
Note Cab Signal Display Unit
ACWR 6925 has been pulled from the moth balls and moved to the Candor shop in preparation for returning to service. See more of my work at www.vidivides.com or www.railpictures.net/adickson87 .
Here's a frontal on Camelback #758, a product of Baldwin Locomotive c. 1910.
A Rohr RTL-I Turbo (as delivered and not rebuilt) rests at the Amtrak service facility in Rensselaer near the end of its active life. This Rohr turbo, is one of 7 five car sets originally acquired... (more)
This 4-8-4 "Northern" steam locomotive was built in 1944 by Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. The locomotive is now on display outside the California ... (more)
BNSF 6209 heads a westbound coal train across Union Pacific's Joso bridge over the Snake River near Lyons Ferry, WA en route to a power plant on UP at Boardman, OR. This has been a regular movemen... (more)
The "Sunday Afternoon" passenger train is crossing the Menominee River southbound late in the afternoon.
Throngs of curious people swarm the spartan cab of a BNSF switcher at 125th Anniversary of Conquering Cajon Pass celebration. Engineer/host was very patient and informative.
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 being damaged during a derailment in Atlanta, GA, NS 6220 arrives in Altoona for repairs. The SD33ECO is a rebuilt EMD.
In the mid 70's these engines started showing up around here.
A Rainbow of Schemes or Merger SchemesThe Portland & Western 663 power has a remarkably colorful consist with five paint schemes on six locomotives! Here the 663 power is... (more)
Three Schemes Amtrak Coast Starlight #14 rumbles up the grade toward Cascade Summit under a light snow. A plentiful mask of snow coats the nose of AMTK 507 as it leads a trio of ... (more)
Peoria Rocket with elderly EMD E6 at the Blue Island Staion. This city is famous for having many railroad bridges.
A couple of horribly wrecked BN units sit at the Auburn Roundhouse. There is a WP unit in the same shape nearby.
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry., with two of the four F7A's own by the railroad.
You bent what now??
Grievous and sad accident that involved the passenger service Santiago - Chillan, which impact at high speed to a hopper truck that crossed a rail pass not enabled. The enormous magnitude of the i... (more)
A Union Pacific undercutter works in a curve after the passage of a TRT (Track Replacement Train) east of Radium, Colorado on August 5, 2009. UP No. 902051 is a Plasser & Theurer RM80 undercutter ... (more)
Here is my favorite miniature railway and my favorite locomotive from that railway. The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch was built in the 1920's and it runs 13 1/2 miles of 15 1/8 gauge track along the s... (more)
roster photo UP East LA facility
A former ATSF B-boat leads a stack train threading it's way through coal train territory.
The return of Brian Mulroney? Last year in this exact spot Exporail had CN 6765 decorated for Halloween with a figure ... (more)
A former Pennsylvania Railroad E8 has been transformed and repainted in Southern colors, and will soon play host to Trios BBQ, located at Grants Mill Station shopping center in Irondale, Alabama.
The North Bay deadline with several classic tucked away. RS18's, RS3'3, GM aA and B units and two QNS&L GP9's.
BN's Northtown engine facility was always a fun place to visit (and still is). Lots to see in this shot during a key transition time between first and second generation diesels.
3890 adorned with several daring individuals (albeit fare-dodging ones) enters Qalyub with train 332, the 05:47 from Abu Kebir to Cairo Limun. Qalyub was to become the scene of one of the worst a... (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)
CP 9545 made a surprise appearance at Cisco, running westbound on CP while a westbound CN train crossed overhead. The CP train was deemed hot enough that CP ran it against the flow of normal joint... (more)
Getting a train on the Montreal River bridge at mile 92 on the former ACR can be a challenge. The road in from the Trans Canada was(and probably still is)owned by Great Lakes Hydro and is normally... (more)
Just north of Duluth at Munger is where CN's former DW&P (Rainy Sub) crosses over their ex-DM&IR track (Missabe Sub). For years I have tried to capture an engine-over-engine shot here but given th... (more)
NS 11J under the command of the 8102 PRR, PRR on Home Rails, Under PRR signals. What more can one say!
Clean and well kept best describe the engines of the P&N
Yes, it's really that steep. The Madison Incline is the steepest 'mainline' grade in the US, at just under 6%, it's steeper than Saluda and Raton pass. The grade wasn't on a true mainline, that is... (more)
CSX's trio of "Pride In Service" locomotives were gathered together for the first time at Rice Yard in Waycross, Georgia, seen here accompanied by vehicles from the Waycross Police, Ware... (more)
The sign may say Goshen but the museum grounds are actually in Elkhart. 4085 had the honor of leading the last 20th Century Limited long before making this "station stop" their resting place.
A Swiss 'Krokodil' in its hey day. No 14281 stands in Fluelen station with a northbound goods train on the Gotthard line. Photo taken by an unknown photographer in c1927.
A locomotive as big as Texas. Squirreled away in a shed on the grounds of the Texas State Railroad, sits a locomotive worthy of the Whyte Classification "Texas." This monstrous 2... (more)
While Amtrak No. 5, The California Zephyr, does its station stop, IDTX Siemens Charger SC-44 No. 4601 is one of two demo units seen parked on one of two of Amtrak's tracks at Union Station in Denv... (more)
On Standby
N&W class Y6a #2156 sits by N&W class A #1218 awaiting a call to service. No. 2156 is a 2-8-8-2 and the sole survivor of the railroad's Y5, Y6, Y6a, and Y6b classes. This loc... (more)
Steam wrecker rainbow A rainbow forms in the dry desert air as a member of the wrecker crew blows down the boiler of Nevada Northern Wrecking Crane A at Lavon siding on the Adverse Bran... (more)
Hostler George Clark is backing the NP 2626 onto the turntable at the Seattle Roundhouse in this rare color photo taken on a rainy February day in 1956.
Loaded GWA/Arrium Southern Ore service 9612s is seen gliding downgrade over Yorkey's Crossing towards Spencer Junction Yard Port Augusta with GWA units GWA008 & GWA004 on the front and GWA010 in D... (more)
The newest addition to the UP roster is this little bugger. An all original NRE built genset switcher, not re-using any cores or frames. Here it is pausing between jobs at Proviso yard.
White Pass & Yukon Train 2, consisting of containers, piggyback private vehicles and no-two-alike passenger cars, leaves Whitehorse, Yukon en route Skagway, Alaska on Sept. 2, 1978. Up ahead ar... (more)
Tonnage rolls near the Duquense Incline at the confluence of the three rivers. The bridge in the background is the West End Bridge over the Ohio. PRR Class EF45.
Good morning Cumberland! A Western Maryland helper locomotive and crew enjoys the warm, sunrise light as they make their way along the C&O canal basin toward the depot in downtown Cumberlan... (more)
CN 2665 leads an X474 eastbound, as they cross the 3,920 foot Salmon River Trestle in New Denmark, New Brunswick on a cool Fall afternoon.
DM&IR 227 is the best preserved of the three Missabe Yellowstones, thanks to the efforts of the Lake Superior Railroad Museum and members of the Missabe Railroad Historical Society. The Society ... (more)
A rare EMD Model 40 on it's way to it's new home a the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. The roof was cut off for clearance issues being truck to Duluth from the Mohall Sun Prairie Grain Elevator in ... (more)
Spreading ballast on Reading Company Bethlehem Branch at Lansdale.
This locomotive derailed at Greenwood, BC, leaving a brutal mark on the nose
UP 2768, former EL SDP45 #3668, passes through the east end of the yard at Pepper Ave.
Three Heritage ACe's undergo testing at the plant in Muncie. For more information, visit www.nscorp.com
Four Alco's FA1-FB1 and two RS-3's leads this New York Central train near Detroit, Michigan on December 22, 1966. Photo from my collection, no photographer information on slide.
A westbound Union Pacific coal train traces the Colorado River through Tunnel’s 39 and 40 in Little Gore Canyon west of Azure, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 21, 2014. Tunnel 40 in the for... (more)
Train 350 passes the derailed Lake shore limited on the busy Chicago main line near Whiting, IN.
Mfr 1937.
The size of Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014 is evident as it passes by in the middle of snowstorm in the Denver area on November 26, 2019. With a two month tour of the southwest wrapping up and aft... (more)
A rebuilt GP20 (originally GP9 #2399) leads an eastbound Hiawatha, IN to Louisville, KY trackage rights train down the former Monon (now L&N) street running in New Albany, IN. These rails, while s... (more)
A westbound manifest paints the scene with light, as it rolls through Afton Canyon along Union Pacific's Cima Subdivision. The bridges in the foreground are one set of three different spans that ... (more)
A battered and bruised M1 6973 gets a refill at the coal chute in Renovo.
A crew works on repairing the track off to the left as the derailed cars still sit on one of the hump leads in Buckeye yard.
Nevada Northern #93 operating on Heber Valley Railroad line for the Salt Lake Winter Olympics.
LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 45407 sits with its support coach at the North end of Birmingham International station. It is about to take"THE XMAS CHESTER CHUFFER" railtour from Birmingham Internation... (more)
From the last order of new cabooses, Santa Fe 999574 trails a westbound auto train through Arizona's Coconino National Forest on April 3, 1989. The 999574 was a member of Santa Fe's Ce-11 class of... (more)
You see a locomotive, and I see a movie star. Runaway Train is one of my favorite movies, and not just because it starred four locomotives racing through the Alaska wilderness at high speed. Rid... (more)
