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.

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)

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.

Px48-1907 with occasional train "Autumn in Zulawy"

CN power for Pool train service to Toronto crossing over to CP

In Eritrea, a few Russian Ural 375-D trucks that have been built in the Soviet Union in the 60’s and 70’s have been converted to run on rail wheels. They have been used in the Eritrean railway... (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)

A beautiful steam locomotive, by many connoisseurs said as one of the finest ever built, the Bavarian S 3/6 18 478 or 3673 (2 'C 1' "Pacific" or 4-6-2), built in 1918 by Maffei in Munich, is a fo... (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)

Catastrophic floods across the High Plains have shredded Union Pacific’s Kansas Pacific line, sweeping away miles of track and leaving not a single bridge intact between Denver and Limon. And so... (more)

Casey says: "Ya'll c'mon out to Spencer, see these Streamliners, along with 20 of their closest friends!" It's only a matter of a few days now until the North Carolina Transportatio... (more)

The brand new yard is being built for the Superior Silica sand plant located at Poskin, Wisconsin. Now Canadian National, this line used to be operated by the Soo Line railroad and then by the Wis... (more)

KCS 4704 and BNSF 4540 were sent out of Galesburg to rescue all the crews along the Mendota Sub. After spending all morning doing so their next assignment was to pull a stuck train out of a drift ... (more)

Trains rolled through the town of Lac-Mégantic, Que., for the first time since July when a train carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire. This morning a test train made up of five locomotives... (more)

It is Armed Forces Day 1970 and the Army has steamed up a couple of the Transportation Corps 2-8-0 locomotives to run on the post trackage. The 607 doubleheaded with 612 later in the day but my ph... (more)

On a beautiful April 19, 1990, a westbound Santa Fe intermodal train hustles across impressive Canyon Diablo Bridge at Canyon Diablo, Arizona. A quartet of GE B40-8s (Nos. 7419, 7418, 7440 and 742... (more)

A Lackawanna passenger train rolls eastbound towards Gouldsboro, PA as a local resident heads out in his 1938 Buick.

Amtrak 44 pulls President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural train south toward Wilmington, DE. In a few days, Mr. Obama will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States.

Long and lean, these beasts shove the train over the hill while the rear brakeman glances at the onlookers from the cabin window.

Montandon: Ending the day the last rays of sun illuminate the highest hills, this train of FERRONOR coming from CODELCO foundry and copper plant in Potrerillos, negotiates a closed horsesho... (more)

Rainy Paducah nights
On the eve before returning to home rails after an extensive rebuild at the Paducah Shops, Union Pacific’s A-B-A set of E9s sit in the fog and rain with a passeng... (more)

A workman has just finished washing recently delivered GE U23B No. 2258, and it gleams in the afternoon sun as water still drips off it.

CN Celebrates the 25th Anniversary of its Privatization!

On November 17th 1995, CN’s shares were listed on the TSX and NYSE. Since then, CN has acquired the Illinois C... (more)

Vermont Rail System train VTR is southbound at North Hoosick, NY as it crosses the Walloomsac River with the VTR SD70M-2 432 and GP40-2L 310.

Looking almost as if waiting for a long passenger train to arrive this beautiful if somewhat battered consist will take a freight somewhere. Cushy passenger jobs are long gone.

Mixed Train 2009! In an historic first, due to changing traffic patterns the ARR has chosen to exercise its FRA waiver to run mixed trains consisting of revenue passenger and haz-mat freigh... (more)

Railroad life can be dangerous!

On June 29th 2016, I was called to work on the YWTS60 assignment at Taschereau yard, in Montreal. CN 7266 with more than 55 years of ser... (more)

Clear The Scene. Looking from geographic south to north, the amount of brush clearing that has occurred at the the East Broad Top Railroad in Orbisonia, Pennsylvania is dramatically evident... (more)

A minor derailment at Saunders turned into something more as the airslide hopper landed on a propane tank. The flame is from the crews burning off the propane before they try re-railing the cars.

The Lewisporte switcher, NF-210 931, shoves a car of merchandise into the transfer shed at Lewisporte. Stevedores are waiting to unload the car and transfer the contents to the SIR ROBERT BOND (CN... (more)

In less than 24 hours, if the schedule holds, the first train will cross the new Sound Transit Tacoma bridge. The old 4 steel beam bridge across G street has been dismantled, along with the Milw... (more)

CP 281 had a little mishap this morning...

This meter gauge ic express approaching Diakofto station.

An Eastbound hotshot intermodal train is seen barreling across the Arizona desert crossing the 544-foot bridge at Canyon Diablo. A Westbound is seen meeting the train on the bridge as if it was pe... (more)

This is quite literally, my favorite place to shoot on the CN Waukesha. When I heard "NS 1056 South, stop indication, South Duplainville", I knew exactly where I had to get to. Some creative drivi... (more)

The Lark has just pulled in from it's overnight journey, 18 cars, all sleepers, per usual. The last two cars were Oakland cars.

Another image from a whole plate glass negative showing Philadelphia & Reading Railway 4-6-0 No 182. Note the dangerously large gap between tender and engine which the fireman is demonstrating wit... (more)

CSX is on a real roll safety wise with the Oneida derailment of earlier this month and this crew at South Philly Yard makes their contribution with this tank car proving too much to handle for 2 l... (more)

The freight train from Thessaloniki to Athens crossing the famous Asopos creek, that before 2485 years,Greeks fight against the Persian empire(now Iran),battle of Thermopilae(480bc)

4063 was part of Southern Pacific’s fourth order of GP20s, built between 1/62 and 4/62, and the last order of GP20s that EMD made. It was part of a fleet of 69 SP and SSW GP20s, which included t... (more)

Built in 1971, serial number 1435. This spreader is based out of Havelock and the Havelock subdivision.

WP 258 at Oroville, CA 1950. Unkown photographer from my collection.

Just west of Hillsdale, Wyoming, Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 1995 leads the "MNPPC" west at a whopping '20 MPH' as it approaches a grade crossing and Operation Lifesaver display, on Januar... (more)

A "Cumbres turn" much in the way the DRGW would have hauled cars to the top of Cumbres pass 50 years ago. A Steam Specials charter. A similar scene taken 50 years ago can be found Railroad: Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-2
Location: Chama, New Mexico, USA
Locomotive #: DRGW 484/DRGW489
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: September 28, 2015

This new 6-car EMU was stabled at ISAP Piraeus depot, a few 10th of meters before the end of the line at Piraeus port. During internal clearing procedures and for unknown reasons, the train starts... (more)

Northbound local to Madras from Bend heads past Mt. Jefferson. Old habits die hard, and this crew called themselves the "BN OT" for the time we were with them.

Three tracks nearly full of stored NS GE power paint await future work and/or repair at Roanoke alongside a string of freshly rebuilt coal hoppers in this July 2013 image. As of late April 2014, t... (more)

Still stranded. MMA 8583 and the 9 cars behind it have been stranded on MMA's Stanbridge Sub since last summer. The reason for this is the poor condition of the track, which led to T... (more)

NS CB10 local crosses the old Pennsylvania Railroad steel bridge, which crosses PA Route 36 (24st) here in Altoona. Also of note is the Juniata Shops built Prototype leading the Local. NS 2423 is ... (more)

NS & Progress Rail Caterpillar Power Waiting To Be Pickup By The NS

I came across this salvage operation when I was on my way to the Tehachapi Loop for the first time. This wreckage was from a BNSF intermodal train that was involved in some form of accident. I n... (more)

Milwaukee Road Little Joe has just cut off of westbound after helping it over St. Paul Pass.

Eastbound oil train 66W passes the derailment site of 12G in downtown Altoona. Around 2:30AM 12G derailed approximately 6 loaded grain hoppers while proceeding east on "MAIN 9" into Rose... (more)

The last surviving Virginian steam locomotive doesn't get out from under the shed at the Virginia Museum of Transportation much. But in the course of some switching to position the newly repainte... (more)

Great scenery

Southern Pacific #9010, the last remaining Krauss-Maffei ML4000 diesel-hydraulic locomotive in existence, gets restored at the Niles Canyon Railway's restoration shops located at Brightside Yard. ... (more)

It’s in the very early days of Burlington Northern Santa Fe as train 14 heads east through the snow at Grizzly, Montana, on February 28, 1997. The railroad still looks like the Burlington Northe... (more)

FEC 101 struck a dump truck that possibly was attempting to go around the gates at CR 13. Flagler County Emergency Services responded to the crash. The driver of the truck died. A head on look.

This may meet the "Special Scheme" category. I was wondering if anyone knows which posting meets the most categories. How about a contest?

Lalaguda depot Latest accquistion WAP-7 30253 rests after shower at 4 am at Kazipet station.

Not much left of 8972. Scrappers have been carefully removing parts that can be reused, the rest will be hauled off by truck. Sad.

A Scottish tourist watching a new Siemens Eurosprinter CP locomotive, towing a empty wood train (Mangualde-Pampilhosa),in an international railway line.

A Santa Fe "Streamliner". Santa Fe 300 Class "Streamliner" ATSF F7 306C, renumbered from 37 Class 39C for Amtrak service, leads an A-B-B-A locomotive consist on timetabl... (more)