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)
Empty coal train on the S-curve at Sully Springs on a lovely summer day a few years back. I wasn't sure he was going to get sun, but he did...barely.
A Brand New Rebuild. SD70ACU 7319 sits in the afternoon sun in Altoona.
Canadian Pacific #2206 GP20C-ECO gets a workout on the test track on the morning of December 1, 2012. Unfortunately the skies were overcast but the image does illustrate some of the left side det... (more)
Street running over Piazza della Basilica: "Bernina Krokodil" Ge 4/4 182 with passenger cars with a charter special from Pontresina to Tirano.
THE most scenic passenger ride in Eastern North America, is an honor continuously bestowed to VIA 16/17 and it's route along Quebec's fabulous Gaspe' Peninsula. Amongst the jaw-dropping locations ... (more)
If these rails could talk... In what could be one of the best preserved stretches of the abandoned Jersey Central Railroad Main Line, these dual tracks through Hampton have not... (more)
A short train joins the UP mainline to head east to Omaha.
Class FM H10-44 #9080 works through the switches in the PRR A Yard at St. Clair Ave. This would be day one of a week-long adventure trying to capture leased Santa Fe steam working on the Sandusky... (more)
Drop off! The DPU of a Wastbound stack train drops off the face of the Earth and descends the 2.2% grade down the La Grande Sub at Kamela.
This locomotive is parked while waiting its turn to get worked on.
This might be the most ornate rail yard entrance in the world!
My father-in-law took this photograph when he was a young man living on a farm near Haigler, Nebraska, which is located on the Burlington Route near the Nebraska-Kansas-Colorado borders. Before h... (more)
A battle-worn 4-12-2 is seen speeding eastbound between Fremont and Omaha with the 91 cars of extra 9506.
Just before the world rail speed record. Speed at the moment of shot: 538Km/h=334.3 mi/h but shortly....
Another 30 feet, and the F unit would no longer be able to lead the Master's Train! Thanks to vigilant NS employees, the 951 stopped short of this obstruction, a shifted load of 2x6 lumber, which ... (more)
SP #7302, an ALCO RS32, rests at SP's San Jose roudhouse. Coupled to it is ALCO C628 #4845 and one track over is F7 #6245 still in the Black Widow paint scheme
Another Lackawanna Railfest, another derailment. In what has become a sort of awful tradition, while performing some switching moves on Friday night, a switch was reportedly thrown in front of CP ... (more)
Taken with permission On September 13, 2013, after the severe floods throughout Northern Colorado, everyone began to do clean up work and will try to get things back to normal. BNSF Railway... (more)
The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.
One of four SD60MACs built by EMD.
Ever since the CZRY ceased operations this pair of F7 locomotives has sat in the yard at Jacumba and has definitely seen better days. One is also left to wonder why a pair of A units would be cou... (more)
The Fort Worth to San Antonio manifest sits in Taylor Yard after the LAW51 crew finished setting out cars for the locals. Can't wait for the 4141 to be brought out of it's current storage at NLR.
After hitting an eighteen wheeler that got hung up on the crossing 5 hours ago, Q612 is getting ready to continue on. The train slowed down enough, that the tractor trailer was only push for 100 ... (more)
CSX 4840 ACe leads a westbound into fresh snow.
A westbound Southern Pacific lumber drag crosses Salt Creek in the Cascade Range of Oregon. During winter, the trestle marks the spot on Oregon Highway 58 where motorists chain up for the crossing... (more)
The fate of Amtrak P42DC #102 has apparently been decided following the Monday derailment of the Amtrak Vermonter train. According to reports from the scene, the locomotive is to be scrapped on s... (more)
This is one of my favorite Pennsy photos. PRR EMD E8a 5768 and an EMD E7A pause at Englewood Union Station in southeast Chicago, making a station stop. Englewood was a major junction between the P... (more)
Canadian Tire containers reflected in the Black Sturgeon River.
Soo Line 4-6-2 2719 is getting some TLC inside the Duluth restoration shop. It's scheduled to return to steam this fall for special trips on the North Shore Scenic Railroad.
WPAL-03 crew handling a PPL UFM Martins Creek coal train delivery.
UP FEF-3 8444 was westbound between Barstow and Summit, enroute to Los Angeles and the subsequent race up Cajon Pass against SP GS-4 4449. K64, Minolta X-700, Sigma 80-200mm f3.9
BNSF yard job 711 shoved track 1231 "blind" (no one on the point or in view of the point) cut off not realizing they had shoved seven car lengths past the clearance point, through a derail (which ... (more)
The Starlight Slices Sandcut. Throttling up for the climb up onto the floor of the San Joaquin Valley, Amtrak's detouring northbound Coast Starlight banks through the final curve on the Moj... (more)
The objective was to see my first BL-2 and the Bangor and Aroostook did not disappoint. There were three at Northern Maine Junction, including 53 which appears to have just come out of the paint ... (more)
That others may live..... Running a fleet of 90+ year-old steam engines that have to work just as hard each day as they ever did back in the steam era is a very difficult endeavor to sustai... (more)
"Fellas, we're lookin' at some real Canadian Concrete up ahead!" White Pass Manager of Train Operations, Mark Schaefer (red jacket), holds a brief conference with the crew of Steam Locomoti... (more)
The sunset on the right time, the right place for this 3-foot dmu unit.This line is abandoned now.
Missouri Pacific’s far western extension to Pueblo, Colorado, completed in 1887 as a sign of its transcontinental intentions under Jay Gould, disappeared a century later, gobbled up by all-devou... (more)
Ridgely Tower's General Railway Signal Co. interlocking machine awaits dis-assembly only hours after the tower was demolished.
The storm its coming in a few minutes and A-470 with special vagons coaches of Orient express its ready to run
The last ic express of the day at the sunset on the way to Athens.
Starting life on the Illinois Central in 1954, KCS 907 has been through multiple owners and paint schemes before becoming a maintenance of way unit for current owner Kansas City Southern. This un... (more)
A unit train carrying sand in loaded low gons pulls south into Butler Yard on the Roundhouse lead where it will tie down for the night.
Reading T-1 2102 is being turned at Gettysburg having pulled an Iron Horse Ramble from Philadelphia. The 2102 relieved 2100 at Rutherford. The Reading had planned to end the Rambles in 1963 but fa... (more)
The DMVW runs a 50 car coal train from Falkirk Mine near Coleharbor to Spritwood once every 5-15 days. To run this train today the Max Local dropped off a 3rd unit to the coal train for the trip f... (more)
A pair of SD40E helpers assist a heavy eastbound down the hill around Horseshoe Curve in some foggy and wintery conditions
During the CN Family Day at Taschereau Yard, an GE ET44AC CN #3017 was open for the visitors. The ‘Little Obie’, a miniature train that helps teach children about rail safety, was also here.
Conrail 8039, with the old Penn Central paint clearly showing through, leads the WVUT-52 across the Main Street Crossing in Clayville, NY.
As part of the Conway Scenic Railfan's Weekend, a special steam freight was operated originally south from North Conway to Conway, then switched at Conway, before making a trip back to North Conwa... (more)
The Sun Still Rises Over the CNJ
Spanning an incredible six track main of the once thriving "Big Little Railroad", this former Central of New Jersey signal bridge can be found in Rosell... (more)
Showing off one of the more attractive paint schemes in existence these days, a pair of NECR GP 38s reflects in Mud Pond pulling train 324 southbound at 02:33.
In August 1958, three Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis EMD GP7s are in full throttle and on sand as they shove behind the caboose of a northbound through freight just above Tantallon, TN. This i... (more)
PRR freightyard scene in Trenton reveals lots of fallen flags.
SNCF 40110,SNCB 204-004 & NS 1213 line up On Roosendaal station as part of the Class 40100 & TEE Farewell.
The California Zephyr rolls through the barren and stark, yet beautiful countryside of Utah.
On its last-ever run this far north, the Alaska Railroad Palmer Turn runs light up the 10 mph Palmer Branch enroute to JD Steel, which was located at the end of the in-service track at more)
Southern Pacific train No. 52, the southbound "San Joaquin Daylight," running south of Caliente in the Tehachapi Mountains of Southern California in January 1960. Photo by Southern Pacif... (more)
CFE GP38 3882 - freshly washed and cleaned up for the occasion - pulls a New England Central Railroad-bound welded rail train from the Steel Dynamics Inc. Structural and Rail mill at Columbia City... (more)
Nice view from Cab
One of a seemingly endless supply of empty grain trains making it's way east on the BNSF Stampede sub. This train and I, left Auburn at the same time. Traffic was good for both of us and I arri... (more)
CSX intermodal Q143 departs the Queensgate Yard intermodal facility and heads southeast to the CSX bridge crossing the Ohio River. An NS auto frame train heads north over their Ohio River bridge i... (more)
The eastbound Empire Builder accelerates away from its station stop at Shelby.
With the end of on era upon them, being replaced by flashing rear end devices (FREDs), Union Pacific cabooses are stored near UP’s shop in Omaha, Nebraska, in July 1983. The end of a freight tra... (more)
Challengers 3955 and 3950, along with those immediately behind, have most likely put in their final miles and are sitting cold waiting for disposition. For more color views from that day, click <... (more)
Another archive photo taken at Springfield showing NYC 0-6-0 6829 proceeding through a junction. Note that amazing signal above the loco.
From one of Barstow's many rocky hills just after sunrise, we can see down into Barstow Yard as a set of power moves towards its next assignment. In the distance, the Santa Fe's Valley Line bridge... (more)
looks like they split the switch
Salt Lake Garfield & Western's newest addition, FTRL 8201. I was pretty excited to get a decent shot of it. The Salt Lake Garfield & West can be a frustrating railroad to photograph. You can see t... (more)
27,000 green horses In the very early years of Burlington Northern Santa Fe, a loaded coal train claws up Crawford Hill at Windy Point (also known as Breezy Point) west of Belmont, Nebr... (more)
Perhaps the best-maintained Alco RS1 in existance, LAL #20 switches the Lakeville yard.
The control stand of CN's 5352.
Steam in it's last days of operation recorded in September 1955 at the CIM yard. The bulk diesel fuel oil tanks had recently been erected nearby. Anscochrone original.
The unmistakable profile of a Union Pacific DDA40X glides through North Yard by the powerhouse in Salt Lake City. The 6923 was built by EMD for the UP in Dec. 1969, and would be traded back to EMD... (more)
Looking more like the mid 1990's, three Warbonnets rumble through Kingman Canyon on a stunning Spring morning.
Well L572 isn't going anywhere for the next 20 hours. Contractors are working at MP 385 1st digging lite power out and then they will travel down here to work on digging this train out next. We ar... (more)
Taken on an excursion down to Perryville, the ladies and gentlemen railfans have completed a photo op at the substation. The ladies are in dresses and the men in coats and ties, no jeans, t-shir... (more)
Alco A9111 on the head of a Ganz Mavag dmu unit. This strange passenger hired by European railfans.
Ex-BCR GF6C Electrics wait out their fate at the CEECO leased section of the Tacoma Rail Yard.
A trio of Missouri Pacific SD40-2s (3205, 3215 and 3190) maneuver through the yard in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on June 2nd, 1983. Meanwhile, a coal train led by Burlington Northern C30-7 5006... (more)
Still showing Penn Central Livery but now working for Conrail, the mightiest of the mighty were hard to put out of service. The big Alcos noted for slow heavy hauling ended up in mineral freight s... (more)
"Kodachrome" (failed SPSF merger) painted 7497 still has its air baffles attached to the handrails on the rear of the unit.
Regular eastbound train en route to Craigmont over several spectacular trestles and bridges.
The last eastbound suburban of the night nails one 10 miles outside the city.
With a friendly wave and some exhaust, one of the interchange trains from Guilford at Barber, MA accelerates out of CP-83 and on to Springfield and the Berkshires. Conrail only had 10 C32-8's, ref... (more)
A rare sight, of two nose to nose CN Snowplows No.55421R and No.55265R parked in Bathurst, CN Yard April 06, 1986, and the good looking girl in the picture is my wife Amy.
Amtrak No. 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, backs into Denver Union Station under the new trainshed on the pleasant Colorado night of December 6, 2014.
With Fall quickly approaching, this again will be a very common scene here in Wisconsin during the Whitetail Deer gun hunting season.
