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)
looks like they split the switch
One of a Kind…..Two of Them! EMD’s two demonstration/test bed electric freight locomotives rest outside of Conrail/Amtrak’s engine service facility in Harrisburg, Pennsylvani... (more)
During the CN Family Day at Taschereau Yard, a specially painted boxcar welcome visitors at the entrance.
On a summer afternoon, a couple of patrons from the Iron Horse Bar observe some impressive horsepower as the Hudson Grain local thunders up the big 3.22% grade to South 7th Street with 15 loads. ... (more)
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)
The control stand of CN's 5352.
A Loram Rail Grinder puts on a light (and noise) show for the residents of Tacoma and Ruston, at the site of the form Asarco Smelter. Tunnel #1, just under 400' long, is the lesser known tunnel i... (more)
Late afternoons in the summer of 1966, the place to watch the parade of passenger trains out of Denver Union Station is the 23rd Street viaduct. The sun has swung around to the west, catching Unio... (more)
CofG 805 leads the Savannah-Atlanta (via Macon) Nancy Hanks.
The last eastbound suburban of the night nails one 10 miles outside the city.
empties leaving the power plant at Page hit a nice sun hole at the right time.
Metra's newest heritage paint makes its first revenue run. Here the METX 405 arrives at Grayslake proudly displaying Milwaukee Road colors and decals.
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.
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)
Another archive photo taken at Springfield showing NYC 0-6-0 6829 proceeding through a junction. Note that amazing signal above the loco.
Two Tatras meeting at the narrowest place on the line: in the esses just before Hűvösvölgy. This light and mood got me to take out my gear again and take some shots.
The Royal Gorge Route! The eastbound return trip to Canon City passes under the Royal Gorge Bridge and is dwarfed by the canon. The bridge was built in 1929 and serves no purpose other than tha... (more)
Two of the Roy Hill General Electric Transportation System ES44AC6 locomotives - RHA 1001 and 1003 are seen crossing Water Street/Lawrence Parkway on the GETS test track at Erie, Pennsylvania on N... (more)
Shining in the afternoon sunA Wisconsin Central trackmobile has tugged newly-painted boxcar No. 47675 out onto the transfer table between shop buildings at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin,... (more)
It's the Philadelphia Auto Show! But, look a little closer and you'll note this is no ordinary building. ... (more)
If you ever visited Hawks Nest or the New River area you know how rare it is just to catch a train while your there let alone catch 2 eastbounds at the same.... I wonder who made it to Sewell firs... (more)
Alco A9111 on the head of a Ganz Mavag dmu unit. This strange passenger hired by European railfans.
Hotshot intermodal 213 races southward toward Atlanta over the 200 foot tall Wells Viaduct near Toccoa, GA on a foggy late June evening with one of just a handful of Ex Conrail SD60's on point.
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.
Former Erie F3 7101 leads an A-B-B-A set on an eastbound freight as the semaphore near the Endicott station drops. This late model F3 had been 710-A on the Erie and the type was sometimes referred... (more)
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)
Leased RF&P E8 1014 drifts down the Blue Ridge grade with tr. 25, POWHATAN ARROW. The class J 4-8-4s were mostly in standby or freight service after N&W President Stuart Saunders decided to hurry ... (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)
Men at work on Kefisos bridge. They dont give any care about the big freight.
The Western Star rolls through Fargo under looming skies.
There was a time when you could visit the yards without any hassles....no barbed wire and unfriendly guards
Upper Merion & Plymouth 9009 a SW9 works the UMP 800 Job (8AM OD in Coatesville, PA at the Brandywine Valley Railroad base of Operations) works the former Alan Wood Iron and Steel Company now a Ar... (more)
Built by David Kloke and his team, the Lincoln Funeral Car is now finally complete. As it tours the country, it serves as a tribute to a great President and an important piece of bringing history... (more)
In the pouring rain, a westbound (northbound) Indiana Hi-Rail freight slowly rumbles over the ancient Wabash River Bridge just east of Grayville, Illinois, on April 25, 1993. The train is powered ... (more)
During an otherwise dismal week, 'Tornado', Britain's finest achievement of the new millennium, finds a break in the weather as she heads out of Leeds. The brand new Pacific looks absolutely super... (more)
Russell to Waycross manifest Q693-25 with the CSX "Honoring Law Enforcement" heritage unit leading on it's inaugural revenue run crosses the Levisa Fork on a single-track thru-truss brid... (more)
Sometimes, Cajon Pass is too busy! A case in point is this meet between two trains. While waiting for eastbound train Z-LACNYC9-27 (Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal, Los Angeles CA to New York NY), w... (more)
Bethlehem Kaleidoscope 3 - During Conrail's early years, many foreign visitors spent time in Bethlehem mingling with the local power. Usually they were leased or run-through units. For a short tim... (more)
The Fort Pitt is readied for departure to Chicago under the open canopy at the downtown terminal due to construction. Click on "more" (above, after "PRR 5804") for the head-end view of this engin... (more)
The "Celebration at the Museum" at the O. Winston Link Museum is capped off with a night photo shoot of N&W A Class 1218, she is seen here just before nightfall with dark ominous clouds moving int... (more)
King Street Station as built by the GN and NP prior to the modern glass pedestrian bridge and sheds. BNSF has come to be but today, ex CB&Q GP40M, BN #3507 shares the station tracks with a vener... (more)
Crane A waits for No. 40 and the passenger to clear, before picking up a derailed flat car. This 100 year old steam crane put on a fascinating demonstration at the Winter Steam Spectacular.
With the Great Race 150 complete, the return trip to Cheyenne, Wyoming is under way for the Union Pacific Steam Team and the awakened Big Boy 4-8-8-4 #4014 and the 4-8-4 #844. The train is seen a... (more)
This former set of F7 A and B units sits with other first generation power, awaiting and uncertain future.
It's a beautiful summer evening with fire in the sky to stop at my favorite piece of rail equipment on Fort Lee. While she might look big, a Krupp V5 German railgun nearly twice the size sits in ... (more)
For a brief moment in 2001 the clock was turned back as three Rio Grande SD40T-2s lead a hot Z-train westbound at Castle Gate. As an added bonus, the crew saw fit to use the gyralight.
Cab shot of ARR Rotary #3 stored in Anchorage yard awaiting donation to a railroad display in Curry, AK. The rotary was built by the Cooke Locomotive Works in 1930 and operated under steam until 1... (more)
UP's Big Boy steam locomotive #4014 heads east of Cheyenne, Wy for Gering, NE on the first leg of it's "Home Run Express Tour" to Omaha for NCAA College Baseball World Series. Here, 4014... (more)
A 99.8 second exposure at "0419 in the AM" behind the Pennsylvania position lights mounted on Jamestown Road in Portage, PA. A couple weeks later, on June 10th, these signals were removed from ser... (more)
Standing track side in a cold rain while holding an umbrella over the camera and forsaking my dryness, I couldn't help but ask myself "Why?". Ninety seconds later I had my answer. Westbound thro... (more)
Doubleheaded QJ 2-10-2's cross the JiTong line's iconic Simingyi viaduct. This perspective on the bridge shows off the marvelous civil engineering of this relatively new line.
Providence and Worcester's train NR-2, on the Norwich branch, running along the Thames River at Goss Cove, past the Navy Submarine Base and the Nautilus Memorial at Groton. The Nautilus being the ... (more)
A trio of diesels prepare to outbound at Silvis, Illinois
The one-of-a-kind 10,000 hp EMD GM10B is waiting on a crew at the west end of Manor Siding. Both the locomotive and siding are long-gone, and most of the freight has been moved to the NS Harrisbu... (more)
After sitting almost exactly 24 hours, this engineer must have felt that the GMD-1's needed to "clear their throats". I never had a chance to talk to the hogger, and I always wondered if it was fo... (more)
Overview of the NH coachyard at New Haven reveals nuggets from the past..
SP SW1500 2638 heads south on Olive Street in Anaheim, CA on January 26, 1977
It's Black Friday, 1975 version, as it is the day after Thanksgiving when I watched Erie Lackawanna employees rerail 3 cars in Hoboken using 2 derricks. There was no Hulcher or RJ Corman at this ... (more)
Clearing the switch for the balloon at Fulda. Not much fun!
The Semmering railway (German: Semmeringbahn) in Austria, which starts at Gloggnitz and leads over the Semmering to Mürzzuschlag was the first mountain railway in Europe built with a standard gau... (more)
At the old South Shop of Southern Railway (later renamed Pegram, in honor of retired v.p. Robert B. Pegram), Ps-4 Pacific 1408 is in the processing of receiving a Class 3 (heavy repairs) overhaul.... (more)
Founded in 1903 as a way to give the powerhouse Southern Pacific railroad competition into northern California, the Western Pacific was built to connect the Rio Grande railroad in Utah with the Sa... (more)
An indoor-flying drone spies a unique view of the Beech Grove locomotive shops, featuring NPCU 90221 in "Salutes our Veterans" scheme, and one of the shop's remote controlled overhead cr... (more)
In the early 1970's several railroads had begun to concentrate their unique fleets built by the smaller builders. The B&O had many FM's assigned to the Baltimore area including these roadswitcher... (more)
Six Vale exports from Erie head east on 326 eventually making their way to Norfolk for export to Brazil. The road numbers in this consist are 2008, 2001, 2010, 2009, 2007, and 2006. The tracks on ... (more)
As the old saying goes, sometimes it IS better to be lucky than it is to be good... Such is the case on August 5 at 0200 hrs at Fire Lake, Quebec! Having set out on the road on Wednesday, August ... (more)
Inside VIA Rail dome-observation “Banff Park” at the forward portion of the rear lounge is a stairway ascending to the dome. On the right is a small coffee bar, while under the dome and access... (more)
Lehigh Valley 518 is still in the original Cornell red color scheme as the A-B-B-A set of F3 units backs up at Lehighton late on a May afternoon.
The Raritan River Railroad local turned a rail on this hot day. We found the train sitting like this, with the hammer beside it, indicating that someone had at least started working on fixing thin... (more)
Cannibalized for parts, RI 421 like the railroad had seen better days.
I think that is safe to assume that the engineers that designed this Service and Inspection Facility for Amtrak at their 8th Street Yard in Los Angeles never envisioned that a steam locomotive wou... (more)
Although this was 15 years ago, I'll never forget the hot blast of oil smoke gifted to me about 4 seconds after this shot was taken. All for giving the engineer a roll of film for his camera.
Union Pacific's 'Katy' heritage 1988 unit crosses the Truckee River in December 2017 near Verdi, Nevada. Union Pacific 1988 is an EMD SD70ACe locomotive owned by Union Pacific Railroad. It is one ... (more)
Out of the Maw Winter Dreamscape - Part 2 The prior Saturday I got this amazing image at State Line Tunnel: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/680266/ ... (more)
It's 1939, and Soo Line's brand new diesel unit is heading over a bridge with a boxcar... no, wait a minute. That is a BNSF car, and this is in 2011. After Minnesota Northern's usual power went do... (more)
Overhead shot of an ES44DC.
The Milwaukee Road's shops in Milwaukee were huge, and virtually inaccessible to most. Unless you ventured up to the viaducts that crossed the Menomonee Valley. Here is a shot from the 35th Street... (more)
Richard Beal photo In your face railfanning! GP30-led NW drag roars past the old tower as the conductor readies himself to grab the orders, the engineer with his hand out just in case he misses... (more)
Having passed this pond a number of times, always wind blown I was pleasantly surprised to find this reflection early one morning.
Here's a look at the doings at the PRR Trenton enginehouse on a overcast Saturday afternoon in May of '53. K4 3768 is under steam, but one track out of view the steam deadlines are growing. Back... (more)
Backing Up On Bridge After Doing A Photo Runby , Engine Is Ex Reading T1 2101
The 3rd La Mirada local passes a disabled stack train at Fullerton. Today's R CAL0061 has a pair of warbonnet GP60Ms for power.
The Roebling Museum, yes the Brooklyn Bridge Roebling, recently opened on the site where the cables for the famed bridge were made way back when. This critter was found on the grounds after a Sup... (more)
A freshly painted wood-sheathed caboose sits in Turcot yard.
The one of two SD70ACe/LW locomotives bound for the new coal hauling Tavantolgoi-Gashuunsukhait Railway in Mongolia take a ride onboard flatcars on their way to Morehead City, NC for export. This ... (more)
A long string of 19 former CSX locomotives, which now have PRLX markings, are stored on the Arkansas & Missouri in Springdale, Arkansas. The line of locomotives curves to the right and then throu... (more)
As maintainers maintain the fire burning on the rails while track work is completed, Amtrak 8 flies by Rondout with the "bloody nosed" Phase I 156 on the point. Shortly after, Metra 2140... (more)
Derelict on display This poor old girl sits rusting away with moss growing in all the dark places in Algonquin Park's Logging Museum. Look closely and you can see a green spot on the smokeb... (more)
