Three Lehigh Valley Alco C628's, (636 and 632 in "Snowbird" attire) lead an eastbound departing Coxton Yard at Pittston Junction in the late summer under threatening skies. This Allentown bound tr... (more)
This is a classic of East Texas engineering, check those weld lines. There is a prototype for almost everything.
Westbound stone train. Kennett & Avon Canal in the foreground. 4th Sept 2003. Fujicolor 200, Nikon FM, 35mm Nikkor
We don't like foamers here, son. Now git! When our Lerro Productions photo freight stopped at the concrete trestle over Tailes Creek, just a couple of miles west of Maydelle, our leader, P... (more)
It has been two and a half years since I visited this former Canadian National G8 and it has not moved an inch. This long nose beauty was built in 1954 and operated with the CN until somehow find... (more)
A Norfolk Southern "baretable" train crosses the Little Conemaugh River just west of South Fork, PA. This section of the Pennsylvania Railroad follows the grade of the Allegheny Portage ... (more)
Westbound local stopped at Metropark
Houston we have a problem?
Greyhound UP 844 heads down Medbury Hill with the Idaho Centennial Special. The train spent the night in Boise and is headed for Pocatello. DDA40X 6936 is providing the necessary dynamic braking. ... (more)
From 2/27 to 11/11/91 UP 3593 (nee-UP 8084, b/d 8/79, b/n 786218-20) wore this "Desert Victory" camo paint scheme in honor of the 66 UP employees who participated in Operation Desert Storm. Kodak... (more)
On October 27, 1965 the westbound Houston to Clovis train 75 the California Special behind Alco PA 53 and two PB's at Texico, Texas near Clovis, New Mexico. The California Special will connect wit... (more)
At 7.15 AM, about 5 minutes before departure for the trip back home from Dresden towards Lyss/Switzerland. The former Deutsche Bundesbahn 4-6-2 express train steamlocomotive 01 # 202 of associatio... (more)
A pair of Executive paint SD70MAC's (BNSF 9741 & 9434) are sandwiched between an ES44AC (BNSF 6212) and a SD70ACe (BNSF 8549) as the DPU's on an empty Miller coal (JHMX) passing through BNSF Tenne... (more)
Not looking any better. It had been a little while since I had checked in on 'preserved' M636 CP 4723 in Farnham and unfortunately it is not looking any better. It sits near the ex-CP stati... (more)
These Rio Tinto locomotives have the tiger stripes on their sides as they test into the setting sunlight.
The cabs from a Baltimore & Ohio S4 and a Conrail C630 sit among the detritus of reclaimed steel at "Scraporano." Naporano was not fan friendly, but on Sundays it was closed and there was a back g... (more)
"We Didn't Start the Fire" Big Al, one of NYAR's senior engineers poses by a switch being heated by the Track Department.
To Pennsy they were just another diesel model in the ranks, online in 1955, a year in service grime showing to prove it at the time of this photo. They're at Columbus, blending in with the produc... (more)
Not long after being repainted back into the red & silver, a pair of FP45s leads a Santa Fe 589 train up the steep grade out of Mojave, CA, on Tehachapi's southeastern slope. The smoke here is com... (more)
Walking on water: Wielding a "calibrated ballast density meter," fellow RP contributor Bob Harbison inspects the... (more)
FRESH YN3 PAINT
Making the most of a day! Following meetings in New Haven, CT for my wife, the three youngest of our nine kiddos that were along were given the choice of where they wanted to go. The chant quick... (more)
How about a hyrail school bus for your railroad? Before rebuilding a Santa Fe 4-6-4, the Abilene & Smoky Valley RR had one for its passengers, operating out of Abilene, Kansas.
Be careful at all crossings, especially where remote controlled locomotives operate.
I'm an equal opportunity panner - this is for those who prefer the engineer's side. A bit of blow-by made for an exciting photo op! A 1/6th pan at Helmstetter's Curve.
A block freight full of cars at Assopos creek. On the head is A509 MLW class 500, 3.650hp, 126t
Locomotive hit a loaded grain truck at a grade crossing at jesup Georgia
The track and concrete footprint are all that remain of the RJ Corman locomotive shop in Guthrie, KY after being destroyed by fire on 10/5/2014. The 3 locomotives are still in the same spot they w... (more)
N&W's Train 111 "Banner Blue" leaves Chicago's Dearborn Station headed for St. Louis on May 16, 1967. Don't know the heritage of E-8 3812 --- likely Wabash? Chicago & Western Indiana 254 Alco... (more)
About 70 miles west of, and headed for Chicago, the snow started in earnest, but Chicago Great Western F units don't slow their pace during my Christmas break from College.
UP Ge U50C 5012 leads another U50c and A DD35B west out of Cheyenne in the spring of 1974. Sadly these units were a total flop. The aluminum wiring was a main problem as they tended to catch fire... (more)
A quartet of brand new BNSF ES44C4 Locomotives #4275, #4274, #4273 & #4276 power CSX Intermodal Train Q186-21 as they head North through Shocco Springs, AL.
In need of locomotives for Chicago commuter service, the CNW purchased E8Bs and E9Bs from Amtrak and rebuilt the locomotives with a home-designed "Crandall" cab in the early 1970s. This... (more)
In its final weeks of operation before Amtrak, SP's Del Monte passes its namesake station outside of Monterey. The Del Monte Hotel had once been a luxurious destination for passengers, but during... (more)
N&W 475 rolls into the enginehouse as the sun sets on another day at the Strasburg Railroad.
Hanging On By a Thread: On March 13, 2019, CSX Local B761 works a weed-ridden track to serve K C Refrigeration in Troy, NY. Troy once hosted four different railroads (New York Central, Del... (more)
Servicing in the Cumbres Yard. After a pretty arduous climb up the 4% grade out of Chama on wet rails, we see the Durango Railroad Historical Society (DRHS) crew servicing their locomotive ... (more)
Elementary, Watson! It appears the cab-end truck on Lehigh Valley C420 #411 has picked a switch point, thereby dragging the two adjacent locomotives off the rails as well. And check out the guy o... (more)
Switching at 11,000 feet. The C&S local on the Climax branch from Leadville switches the molybdenum mine at Climax. As noted in an earlier post this was the last standard gauge Class 1 steam ope... (more)
Three visitors sit in EJ&E's Joliet yard today. Ontario Northland GP40-2 #2022, and a pair of BRC GP10's idle in EJ&E's yard.
After a month long and successful trip through the mid-west states, UP 4014 arrives back in Cheyenne for some well needed cleaning and maintenance. Kudos to the whole UP steam team that showed of... (more)
DITCHED, part 6: THE DAMAGE. Work crews bend and lean to view the damage to the locomotive they just pulled from the ditch. The locomotive eventually went to the Hobo Railroad in... (more)
Mountain railroading in the Cascade Range with the typical cold and dark mood you have almost all winter in the Cascades. Taken during the 2008 Tracks in the Snow Event Railroad: BNSF RailwayLocomotive: GE C44-9W (Dash 9-44CW)Location: Index, Washington, USALocomotive #: BNSF 1010Train ID: BNSF 1010Photo Date: January 20, 2008
A pair of Pan Am Railways MEC C40-8s, 7605 and 7541, bracket a soon to be replaced SD40-2M 601, as the weekly slurry train, symbol BFPO, departs Vermont Rail System's GMRC Bellows Falls Subdivisio... (more)
Norfolk Southern dynamic brake slug RPU6D #892 tags along with SD33ECO #6210 to work a cut of cars at the north end of Brosnan Yard. The RPU6D slug provides additional tractive effort as well as d... (more)
Another shot from Dave Gross' D&S winter charter. The first day was overcast and raining lightly, and the engine had a serious steam leak. The second day was wall to wall sun and the steam leak ... (more)
IC 9637 and several other locomotives sit on the fuel tracks by the CN Yard Shops at CN Harrison Yard.
It was bad enough arriving Peach Creek, W. Va. to find C&O’s steam operations had just been taken over by diesels in 1956, but the dismal, rainy, overcast Oct. 6th day didn’t help the enthusia... (more)
A UP stack train snakes its way up the Columbia River Gorge, thru vineyard and orchard, village and hamlet.
Hang Time - CP trains 280 and 276 get hooked by an Alaska Air 737, on approach to Ohare...It's going to be a while before these CP hotshots land at their final terminal, only a mile behind me.
After an extensive rebuild SW9 Locomotive was restored to its original owner livery at B&P shops in Brookville, PA
I'm not sure of the story behind this boxcar but it is one of the more interesting ones I have ever photographed.
Ugh, Mondays.. Crew from Norfolk Southern begin clearing out a heavy pile of debris from a rockslide across the Kenova District mainline just west of the signals at Falls Branch following a... (more)
The GrandLuxe Great Northwestern National Parks train, looking rather small as it climbs up out of the Columbia river gorge and heads for the Trinidad loop, gaining over 600 feet of elevation. more)
Sort of the Hartwell's most interesting section as we near the namesake town. Curves and grades present a challenge to the 44-tonner. One gon has been dropped by this point for an on-line custom... (more)
MILW SD9 and four F's (one in pass. paint) have just crossed the Mississippi and are heading west.
I remember my father showing me this photo, and, if my memory serves me correctly, he took it while on an extended work assignment in Indianapolis in 1960. This is a real rarity, 1 of 22 center-c... (more)
Making the case about the Safety of rail passenger travel, Amtrak California no. 768, the morning Surfliner from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles, passes morning commute traffic on Hwy 1 and Freeway ... (more)
The lines formerly operated by Dakota Southern are now being operated by WATCO's Ringneck & Western, meaning that the Dakota Southern equipment has to be removed. A former Missouri Pacific Jordan... (more)
Maine Central EMD F3(A) #672 and GP7#564 in Bangor, Maine November 1966. The end is near for 672 and her sisters, a dozen new GP38's were on order to replace them. No photographer listed on slide... (more)
The eastbound "City of Los Angeles" is seen climbing the grade out of San Bernardino and the smog filled LA air.
3 GP38-2's and 3 flangers return from doing battle with Sierra cement on SP's route over Donner Pass.
Various power sits in the deadlines of NRE in Silvis. A lot of what you see here will soon be scrapped due to the impending closure of this facility.
Christmas EveChicago, Burlington and Quincy caboose (waycar in CB&Q parlance) No. 14602 glows in the gathering twilight of Christmas Eve 2007. The Izaak Walton Inn at Essex, Montana, ha... (more)
The Union Pacific's Anaheim Branch was in need of a little weed abatement, and the railroad sent a weed sprayer down to Anaheim and back to spray some weed killer along the right-of-way. The trai... (more)
CSX CM44AH 7203 leads a northbound manifest to Cincinnati, Ohio on its very first revenue run. The unit was rebuilt from CW44AC 215 with a new cab, upgraded electronics, and other goodies.
An interesting load, a pair of cracking towers from Hooper Welding in Oakville make their way into Hamilton for Railink.
transfert de la 241 P 9 de Guitres à Toulouse où elle sera remise en état de Marche
On the 3rd annual URHS Heritage Festival, unfinished GG1 4879 was on display in the engine shed. Maybe one day, with the fantastic efforts of the VRA, this GG1 will be restored.
With temperatures hovering around 50 and snow melting the Highland Cut is quickly filling up with fog. For the first time this day sun pokes through the overcast as Norfolk & Western heritage lea... (more)
We could only assume this was bought as a spare for the RDG cars.
Cab view, engineman control stand CN 2668
As a series of severe thunderstorms build over the Colorado Front Range, BNSF 8253 leads the Denver, CO to Lincoln, NE manifest east through the small town of Roggen, CO on June 17th, 2019.
New New Haven Alco C-425s 2554 and 2553 head South Boston to New Haven (Cedar Hill) train BN-1 at Readville Yard. BN-1 reached this yard via the Dorchester Freight line and is about to take the si... (more)
Experimental/demonstrator. Rather than buying new electric locomotives, Conrail will discontinue electric freight operations.
NKP 587 leads the Indiana State Fair train south as it departs Fishers.
A set of Milwaukee Road Geeps and a leased Precision National SD24 back down into the yard to pick up their train.
Rio Grande SD40T-2s No. 5365, 5392, 5354, 5373, 5410, and 5406 are swing helpers cut into 105 coal loads approaching Kyune in Price Canyon on July 1, 2000.
A westbound train crosses a bridge near Ottertail.
Three nights and a couple hours later after our prior visit, we return to see how the foliage is doing at the SLR crossing of Wild River in Gilead, Maine. Same leader, slightly different angle wit... (more)
Southern Pacific 4-8-4 No. 4449 was built by Lima Locomotive Works for the SP in May 1941. Its active career was spent hauling passenger trains on the Coast Daylight between Los Angeles and San Fr... (more)
Leading BNSF Railway train Z-LACNWH3-19A (Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal; Los Angeles CA to North Baltimore OH) is BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4709. It may not be obvious, but this locomotive wears a unique ve... (more)
In the northern Bronx New Haven EP-4 number 361 slows for the junction of the New York Central and New Haven railroads. The EP-4 was dual voltage, 11,000vac (25hz) under the New Haven Wire and 66... (more)
A southbound passenger is throttling up as it leaves the IC station.
Westbound Penn Central freight train at Bay Junction in West Detroit, Michigan, on October 14, 1973. The large building at the left is General Motors' Cadillac plant. Photograph by more)
The 261 lives again. Under steam again for the first time since 2008 after undergoing its federal mandated overhaul on this 1944 Alco 4-8-4.
Some ex Bn F7's and Wc Sd45's sit rusting away.
