UP SD70ACe in Western Pacific colors
The Western Maryland owned just two BL-2s, Nos. 81 and 82. Both survive. This is No. 81, preserved outside the main entrance of the B&O Railroad Museum at Baltimore.
The Stone Mountain Scenic Railroad's former Southern Railway FP7 carries another load of passengers through some beautiful fall foliage around the Rock.
Pocahontas Division train U85 is seen soaring high above Gooney Otter Hollow as it crosses the former Virginian Railway curved trestle at Garwood, WV. The loco set is returning downhill to Elmore... (more)
Norfolk Southern Railway Company 8114 and Interstate 8105 shuffles a cut of coal from Norton to the storage track at Tacoma. The Interstate Railroad's mainline and wye can be seen in the backgrou... (more)
Looking like a model railroader's kitbashing project, Rock Island GP40 4710 sits in the deadline in North Little Rock, Arkansas, in May 1985. The deadline is made up of former Rock Island and Wes... (more)
A future GP9 rebuild project sits outside the CLCX facility in Gluck, SC.
They Live! Not one, but two old ALCO's have escaped the scrapper's torch in a remote section of Eastern Kentucky. Located in Martin County, KY. these were found sitting near the head of NS's Wolf ... (more)
IC E9 4034 and E8 4023 shove the Panama Limited towards Union Station as seen from the Roosevelt Road overpass. IC office car #1 adorns the rear of the train and former AT&SF hi-levels provide th... (more)
Would love to hear it run...
The only active SDP40F on the planet sees regular service hauling Rail Explorers' Railbikes and customers up the grade back to the museum in Boulder City, NV. The locomotive was built new by EMD ... (more)
Rotary snow plow no. X900207 and its permanently assigned F7B unit are in the company of NW2s nos. 665 and 666 at Milwaukee Road's Tacoma tideflats shops and yard 11 months prior to the end of the... (more)
A pair of Korail GT22C's lead a Mugunghwa (second class) through a busy crossing at the approach to Seoul Station. The crossing presents an interesting anachronism, a manned crossing on a line tha... (more)
This morning a number of BNSF cars derailed in the Denver Yard, falling off a bridge and into the South Platte River. The cars were empty hoppers and center beam cars so there were no issues with... (more)
It's only been a few years since the L&N takeover of the Hoosier Line (Monon) between Louisville and Chicago as a southbound manifest runs the streets of Bedford, Indiana. Seemingly continually en... (more)
E7 Heaven. Two rows of E7 units sit ready in the late afternoon at South Amboy. It was my first visit to the NY&LB in seven years and it appears that the oddball Alco PA units and Baldwin Sharks h... (more)
Hope I look this good (and still run) when I'm 130! One of Knott's Berry Farms' immaculately maintained C-19 narrow gauge Consolidations leads the Saturday train out of the Calico Ghost Town train... (more)
Two bottle cars and a ingot car remain on the site of one of the largest steel mills in the nation. Now this serves as the Duquesne City Center although most of the land isn't used, making for a d... (more)
Preheating the Rail - BNSF MOW (Maintenance of Way) workers use an Oxy-Acetylene torch to preheat the ends to two adjoining sections of 136lb. rail in preparation to welding them together... (more)
Turbopower no more. Once the pride of Amtrak's Empire Service fleet, the lone RTL-II Turboliner set is now slowly crumbling away behind the former Super Steel Schenectady plant. Thi... (more)
2514 has stopped at a signal at Karwan bazar, with a train of pilgrims from Dhaka to the Biswa Ijtema festival at Tongi. The train had been stood for around 20 minutes when I took the photo, but r... (more)
A Montana Rail Link work train with SD40-2XR no. 259 leading glides across the Clark Fork River in Clark Fork, Idaho. The 259 was rebuilt from former Burlington Northern no. 6324.
Eastbound Illinois Zephyr makes a brief stop at La Grange before rolling out its final miles in to Chicago.
UP is testing the newest GE's in coal service in Wyoming's Powder River Basin as GECX 2024 leads a southbound load near Bill, WY.
The Living Legend meets the Madame Queen.
The BB 9003 and 9004 locomotives were built by the MTE group (Matériel de Traction Électrique) in 1952. Their innovative aesthetics emphasised their body with their aerodynamic shaped ends which... (more)
Fall work weekend 2008 on the WW&F. This special night train was run purely for the enjoyment of the many hard working volunteers. The photo captures Dana Deering looking back into the darkness fo... (more)
The rebuilding of Central Railroad of New Jersey Alco RS-3 1554 at Delaware-Lackawanna's Shop in Scranton. The C425 was built in October of 1964 for the Erie Lackawanna. After service on the Erie,... (more)
Southbound BN WP run through "Highline" train on WP Keddie Wye
After a bit of a wait, POED with a quintuplet of ex CSX C40-8's (now patched for Maine Central) leans into the curve just east of Shirley Station
Modern Day RDC? - At first it seems a bit ungainly and dare I say ugly, but after a bit it really does kind of grow on you. I imagine this is how fans felt in 1949 when they gazed at the f... (more)
Two autoracks lay crushed up after a rear end collision between trains 116 & 104.
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe double-stack train heads east at Grizzly, Montana, on the beautiful spring morning of June 4, 2002. The snow-covered peaks of Glacier National Park dominate the back... (more)
Crews are on scene of an eleven car derailment near Rich Bar, California in the Feather River Canyon. Here, a couple of those crew members analyze how a wheel axel tore up the side of a grain car... (more)
HG 3/4 # 4 (former Furka-Oberalp Bahn) is crossing the Furka pass road near Km 48.9, a Fiat 508 Balilla 3 marce from 1932 has to wait.
ABe 4/4 47 and 48 are leaving Morteratsch station with train 1621 towards Bernina, in the rear an open top car with a group of real snowmen enjoying the trip over the highest open railwayline of t... (more)
Frost living up to its name as a westbound intermodal makes its way over the flyover and toward Cajon Pass.
Metra F40PHM-2 #209 shoves an inbound morning scoot east towards LaSalle St Station, flying high above the Norfolk Southern mainline across the Englewood Flyover. This image demonstrates why the ... (more)
MILW train 202 climbs east out of Kittitas, WA over Renslow trestle on its way to Beverly, WA and Othello for a crew change. The bridge which still stands in 2016 spans a valley that interstate 90... (more)
Lift-off! All is quiet on the Florida East Coast Railway in Melbourne as a Delta 4 rocket lifts off from Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral. The rocket is carrying an Australian satellite and ro... (more)
East bound cement train waiting for a parade of west bounds just west of cima california
Another transitional model, the C39-8's boxy form-follows-function look reminded some fans of late model Alcos. That's CSX's former Western Railway of Alabama that 8572 is crossing, and the shado... (more)
A meter gauge ic express on the way to Patras crossing through a typical village of the north coast of Peloponessos.
O. Winston Link's CP ten wheeler being moved from Newfoundland NJ storage to Rome Locomotive Works (NY) with hopes for a restoration that never came about.
With a little imagination, you can almost believe this old workhorse is still running!
February was a month to remember In Southwest Virginia, where heavy snow fall and strong winds created several snow banks along the 55 mile Abingdon Branch. N&W 4-8-0 #382 is captured here edging... (more)
A pair of brand new FEC units await delivery, seen here on the CSX-GE interchange track. This will more than likely be these units' only encounter with snow.
The newest addition to the SARM family, Seaboard Coast Line SD45 2024, backs three container flats across Blair Road.
Galloping home early in the afternoon at Rocky siding, Rio Grande number 10, the Craig-Denver Yampa Valley, is 35 minutes from a 3:20 arrival at Union Station. Three coaches and a baggage car behi... (more)
To help supplement the 4 axle fleet on the railroad, the Clinchfield purchased 10 GP38's in 1967. The units were great all purpose units that could be used for mine runs, extra units for mainline ... (more)
Running at full track speed, CB&Q 9911A heads through Somanuk, Illinois just as the last rays of the sun hit the stainless steel trainset.
MRL in North Dakota! 60 cylinders of leased EMD goodness screams out of the White Earth Valley with the Minot-bound GREX slot train and leans into "Whiskey Curve", where decades ago, a whis... (more)
A double ic express at Asopos passage on the way to Athens
Another AT&SF grain train derailment on rain-softened roadbed, this one 6 miles south of Silsbee, Texas on May 7, 1971 for grain headed to Port of Beaumont for export. It pours rain in southeas... (more)
Trona train departing Searles late in the afternoon with the UP Lone Pine Local in the background
Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad owned Dearborn Station in downtown Chicago and provided access and terminal facilities for Erie; Wabash; Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Monon; Atchison, Topeka & Sa... (more)
How many Alcos can you count? I arrived just as this Century began to smoke up the air on Tax Day in 2004. Up above, a string of Alcos on a storage track, while another sits in the shop and anoth... (more)
The former Amtrak SDP40F #644 spending some cold days in Portland!
Passing through a Cajon Pass landmark, the Mormon Rocks (created by the San Andreas Fault) is Union Pacific “Big Boy” 4014, leading a 23-car passenger train from Barstow to the railroad’s We... (more)
Tucked away deep in Metro East Industries facility, where locomotives and rail cars are rehabilitated, are Herzog 181 (marked MPM XIV on its flanks) coupled to Burlington Northern Santa Fe SD70MAC... (more)
CSX 5226 Leads the I026 Intermodal NB, over the Rahm Indiana Viaduct. The Viaduct runs over the Ohio River and is built above the flood plain.
The sun trying to burn off early morning fog creates a surreal setting over some locomotives at SARM.
Ah... the chase is on! Triple header steam at speed - convert you to a steam fanatic in seconds. Former Jitong Railway QJ #6988 & 7081 along with a bit of Milwaulkee muscle - #261. Railroad: Iowa InterstateLocomotive: Steam 2-10-2Location: Mineral, Illinois, USALocomotive #: IAIS 6988Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: September 16, 2006
"Removing the Wreckage at Eagle St."
On the afternoon of October 17, 2022, Avenue Auto Towing crews begin removing wreckage at the scene of an earlier grade crossing strik... (more)
Pavonia Yard at night had all the action that was fit to view.
Two shades of orange are represented in Huron today, one shade is on W&LE locomotives and hoppers, while the other is some rusty orange on a “De Witt” geep.
ATSF 5379 and CR 5070 lead a train up Cajon Pass.
A Reunion between EX Western Maryland 39, now George's Creek 39 poses at the New Page Papermill with GCK 25 in Luke,Md before it undergoes restoration back to WM Circus colors. A spec... (more)
Amtrak #36, the eastbound Desert Wind, detours over the Santa Fe Pasadena Subdivision in Highland Park, with 'Pepsi-Can' class unit 500 leading an F40PH.
Three PRR Alco RSD-12 8670, 8664 & 8666 were assigned to the pusher role in August 1964. Every freight departing Altoona for Gallitzin and the West was assigned a pusher on the rear to assist th... (more)
West Absolute Signal Pence Springs, population zero. Alone with my thoughts while the camera paints a scene invisible to the naked eye. The crescent moon obscured by a layer of clouds, coupled w... (more)
Conrail is so new that they haven't even had time to screw up a really nice paint job yet. Sometime folks I just get depressed and think we ought to say the heck with it, merge everthing into one... (more)
VIA Switcher at the Montreal Maintenance Center Montreal
Rebuilt Sentinel railcar No.261 performing international passenger service Arica (northern of Chile) - Tacna (Southern Peru), passes by the Chinchorro beach on his return to the Chilean city durin... (more)
Sometimes a GP38-2 Isn’t Enough While I don’t recall the exact problem, the crew of a Conrail local switching a readi-mix concrete plant in Bowie, Maryland encountered an issue... (more)
CSX is replacing the swing span on the old B&O Wabash River bridge at Vincennes to allow double stack loads to cross. Work began Saturday morning 8/4 with an expected completion of Monday 8/6.
The first of the new Amtrak Acela trainsets being built by Alstom is enroute to the Transportation Technology Center in Pueblo, Colorado and passed through Erie, Pennsylvania on February 17th, 202... (more)
Lehigh Valley class AF-27, Alco C628, was the backbone of the LV’s latter-day road fleet. After purchasing eight of the six axle beasts new from Alco, the LV jumped on the opportunity to get ni... (more)
580 rolled the rail at London Road derailing KRL 300302 and a number of hoppers. This is a close-up of the derailed B-end of the car.
Need a facelift? CNW 402 needs a crane and a forklift to re-rail the front truck after a minor derailment near the enginehouse in Marshalltown, IA in May of 1985.
Retired DD40X No. 6938 makes a wonderful display outside of the Jenks Locomotive Shop in North Little Rock. The Union Pacific rostered 47 of these massive machines, which measure in at 98 feet lon... (more)
SLSTA ran Frisco #1522 on an excursion from St. Louis to Hannibal, MO in September of 2000. The St. Louis Steam Train Association Board of Directors made the decision to retire this beloved engin... (more)
Px48-1907 with occasional train "Autumn in Zulawy"
Southern Pacific's West Colton Yard opened in 1972, and for use on the hump the railroad purchased six SD38-2s to be mated with slugs built from retired Alco C-628s and C-630s. But the SP kept ex... (more)
UP's Granville Job LTN-70 heading back to Butler Yard. Freshly painted Katy heritage SD70ACe 1988 has just been picked up from the WSOR interchange at Granville, on the far northwest side of Milwa... (more)
Milwaukee! Cream City, Brew City, Beer City, Brew Town, Beertown, Miltown...whatever you prefer! A Canadian Pacific ballast train with a pair of SD40-2's attracted a lot of attention around town t... (more)
