An amazingly clean and bright AC4400 is bringing up the rear of an empty southbound coal train. [Edit] A re-paint after being used in the movie "Unstoppable" (Thanks Ivan.)
This desolate scene at Mingo sums up the state of the US economy and steel industry in the spring of 2009.
Because of a disruption (planned haevy trackwork) on the Arlberg line (Austria), the famous Venice Simplon-Orient-Express (VSOE) was diverted via Gotthard-Milan to Venice. The very long (17 cars) ... (more)
In emergency due to low airhose and waiting for conductor to walk a mile and a half of tri levels so I thought I would shoot a snowy night shot
Turbine 30 struts its stuff hauling stock cars on the front end.
Car mover and Switcher minus a truck out back of the engine facilty
An eastbound freight pulled by a L4 Mohawk comes through the Schenectady station.
NS 1069 pulls past VGN 135 an original Virginian GE EL-C.
B&O #4500
An impressive no longer possible view of B&O #4500 from 2005 when the engine was on display outside. This Baldwin engine was built in 1918 and is one of only 3 "modern" post 1... (more)
Metrolink 402 pulling into flooded Pomona.
After striking a large rock slide, all units and multiple empty coal hoppers hit the ground. All crew members survived the incident but were left with injuries. This is a scene of part of the afte... (more)
Dream Becomes Reality…
"The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) T1 Steam Locomotive Trust is a non-profit organization that believes in thinking differently about preservation. Through hard wor... (more)
Sharks!! Branchline railroading in 1973 was leaving the MRY offices in Brownsville to search for their only operational Baldwin Sharknose cabs which had taken a cut of cars to "Maidsville" WV. I... (more)
Refresment works for baby Alco A210.
One of Santa Fe's large 4-8-4s, 3782, is seen at the railroad's Redondo Junction roundhouse facility, just a couple miles south of downtown Los Angeles. The exact date, and the photographer, are u... (more)
A rare overhead view inside the Rock Island locomotive facilty at Silvis, Illinois. Unknown date and photographer.
A Boeing 737 Fuselage rides BNSF 800105 north on Colorado's Joint Line.
Passing a stand of colorful leaf trees, train 1 is making its way north on a late September morning in 1997. F's 1752 and 1750 are trailed by a couple leased VIA coaches and a rather scrambled up ... (more)
About half way to Magma Junction, the #5 made a stop for water at what was known as Desert Tank. The temperature was still hovering around 115 degrees.
An aerial view of Union Pacific's Salt Lake City Intermodal Terminal located at 56th West and 7th South west of downtown. The facility opened on September 21, 2006, replacing the Roper Yard piggyb... (more)
An empty "hot bottle" train arrives at Center St junction with the Republic Steel ore pile and blast furnace in the background. The entire mill has been torn down. That's the Chessie System main c... (more)
Mudhen! Of all the D&RGW K-series locomotives, the 62-ton K-27, nicknamed "Mudhen" gets my personal vote as the most photogenic. Built in 1903, these little Baldwin beauties had a distinc... (more)
Penn Central used a pair of RSD 15's for switching the Providence Freight Terminal up to the formation of Conrail. These units remained clean and new looking for a long period and had enough guts ... (more)
Amtrak P42DC's #138 & #82 brings Amtrak #6 'The California Zephyr' east through the Utah desert at 'Floy'.
Cab ride on Sierra Number 3. Railtown Engineer George Sapp and Fireman Warren Smith carefully coordinate the departure of Sierra Number 3 and her special Passenger Extra from the site of a ... (more)
Norfolk Southern SD70ACe #1028 pulls high with a string of empty coke hoppers for loading at SunCoke
The Hudson local B965 (Normally B765) is running up the steep grade to the Mill with 10 grain cars from Selkirk, Engineer John Roth throttles it out through the small section of street running.
A few loads of Liebeherr construction equipment heading west on CN 305.
Norfolk & Western U30B 8518 idles on a turntable track nest to the three-stall roundhouse in the Baltimore & Ohio yard in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. The N&W bought 110 of 295 total U30B’s prod... (more)
Waiting on the evening freight. WW&F Employees Stewart and JB await the arrival of a southbound evening freight train with the line's Model AA Ford Stake Truck. This is just one of many s... (more)
UP's Directors' Special from Seattle heads towards Portland and points east at Castle Rock, Washington on BN's double track mainline. UP exercises trackage rights on this former NP route, which wa... (more)
Piercing the clouds over New York City is the 2014 Tribute In Light, the once a year commemoration of the horrific events of 9/11 2001. 88 lights were used to produce the twin light effect. On the... (more)
The first ES58ACi to be unloaded from the ship Industrial Egret, been placed over his truks.
A derailment at Division Street in Davenport has forced the Rock Island to bring out the Big Hook from Silvis (RI 95022) to clean up the mess. This is on the mainline to Kansas City, several bloc... (more)
Repair works for a lot of dmu units on the workhouse of Athens.
A real passenger F-unit. It was 1970, I was on a little pre-Vietnam fling, the railroads ran passenger trains, the big city was dangerous, fascinating and I got there on the real "to hell on a da... (more)
Amtrak engineer Phil Secor has his work cut out for him as he tries to maintain a Talgo schedule with P32BWH 509. This time exposure is on the head end of train 517 en route from Vancouver BC to ... (more)
Pacing shot of UP #844 - fascinating to watch as the procession of fans can attest to. Going at it solo, I had my camera attached to a monopod wedged against the driver seat ... (more)
NS 340 has just finished pounding the NS/ABS interlocking in Tuscaloosa as its DPU, a no longer grey KCS SD70ACe, shoves hard in preparation to climb the hill a few miles away. A junkyard adjacent... (more)
Santa Fe GP60M #146 was painted in the Maersk scheme and given a matching set of containers for use in a promotional film.
C&O F7A 7051 and B&O F7A 4607 at Western Maryland yard, Hagerstown, Md., June 6, 1965.
'He leadeth me beside the still waters' ... These words from the 23rd Psalm are what I think of when I see this view from the Mississippi Palisades at sunset. It was a beautiful, very quiet eveni... (more)
Passing through Napa Street, BNSF’s Chewelah Turn approaches Yardley at Spokane, Washington, on October 6, 2018. Powered by an impressive A-B-B-B-B-A set of EMD locomotives—GP60M No. 105 leadi... (more)
Making a rather odd appearance beneath the Colton flyover, UP 1111 leads an engineering special off the BNSF San Bernardino Subdivision and onto the Union Pacific Yuma Subdivision. The unusual rou... (more)
Storms and fog don't slow down crack Union Pacific Bridge crew. Pile drivers going 24/7 Monster crane ready for whatever
Little Joe leads XL Special along St. Joe River near Avery.
The snow-covered peaks of the front range rise mercilessly from the foothills, utterly dwarfing the man-made machinery that traverses through this unforgiving terrain.
A "Little Joe" is seen leading a eastbound manifest in the Bitterroot mountains east of Avery. The EF4 class were 10 strong, and lasted another 2 years. Originally destine for Russia, they were le... (more)
The Southwest Chief out runs a thunderstorm across the flat New Mexico landscape west of Albuquerque.
#89 and 31 pose side-by-side in the East Strasburg yard in what could pass for a scene from rural Ontario in the late 1920s.
An ATSF F7 leads an A-A-B-A set of units on a westbound freight at Lubbock. Some of the Santa Fe's F7 units were delivered without stainless steel grilles making them look like later F3s.
Locomotive "Red Devil"
Rock Island 652, still in it's Bicentennial scheme, heads for Chicago in this busy Joliet scene. An ATSF westbound waiting and a Chicago bound Amtrak making it's station stop round out this view.
Only 40 GP30B diesels were built, and all were owned by the Union Pacific.
Gentilly Yard with MP15's 1144 1140 looking like pre-Katrina days. Bridge transfer train from UP's Avondale Yard enters yard to right.
Westbound NS freight 17M with a colorful mix of power rolls across the large double track bridge at Coopers enroute to Williamson, WV and points west.
HURRICANE/TROPICAL STORM IRENE AFTERMATH IN VERMONT: Mud and debris clutter the rails at this grade crossing in Sunderland, Vermont along Vermont Railway's Bennington & Rutland Subdivision ... (more)
A westbound empty coal train takes the siding at East Stokes as it passes through what was once a massive tunnel. The BNSF demolished the tunnel and created the trench in 1998 in order to lengthen... (more)
After months of prep work and lots of hours painting, GLC 393 has finally made its way into GLC Blue and unconventional silver as a secondary color as part of the 10th anniversary celebration of t... (more)
The train from Lhasa to Xining is one of only four passengertrains a day on the new Qinghai-Tibet railway. The locomotives were built in 2006 by General Electric, Pennsylvania, USA
The thin layer of fog has just begun to burn off in the early morning sunshine as a westbound Wheeling & Lake Erie train rumbles through Douglas, Ohio on its way toward Creston, where the crew wil... (more)
What once was a celebrity SP unit (displayed on the cover of 'Southern Pacific Oregon Division', by Vic Neves and Brian Jennison) is now just another peice of RR equipment that is sitting, rusting... (more)
The lead locomotive of a ballast train derailed while ballasting the new third main near the depot. Mechanical guys contemplate their next move to get the 415,000 lb locomotive back on the rails.
A look inside the cab of Fore River Transportation's 1969 GP38, which was originally built for Penn Central.
The view out this DC meatball reveals Amtrak's only SW1 and the 156.
Santa Fe's Eastbound "San Francisco Chief" is pulling into the Stockton, CA, depot. On the adjacent track is the excursion train that was operated to mark the "Last Run of an ALCO PA". It has al... (more)
Missouri Pacific Alco PA-3 67 former 8024 in the Jenks' dark blue being serviced at St. Louis, Mo., diesel shop in November 1967. Unknown photographer photo, from my slide collection.
Snowy Wonderland at Summit - Rail enthusiasts, photographers, and patrons just out enjoying a snow day greet a Northbound UP stack train as it rolls around the curve at Summit. The pass was... (more)
Southern Pacific Railroad Police caboose No. 4709 rolls west on the rear of a SP freight at Vail (Cienega Creek), Arizona, on April 22, 1990. SP had several of these cars that were used by special... (more)
How Stupid! 653 had a near-miss with a bicyclist as they departed Old Town today. A correspondense with the engineer revealed he didn't even know he nearly highballed into a bicyclist until I sho... (more)
Someone stole the number boards! A long line of C40-8s and SD9043MACs slowly waste away an afternoon as they sit in the Roseville Yard. All of these units need repair and are waiting for "their tu... (more)
Back on the Palouse, with no light rail or streetcars for me to photograph, I guess it's time to head out from under the wire back into diesel country *sigh*. Working around Marshall means two dif... (more)
CSX's "stealth" paint scheme was one of the ugliest ever, and at first I thought that's what was being worn by the 8960. Photo comments indicate that it's actually wearing a coat of primer.
GOOD MORNING OAKRIDGE!!! A northbound UP manifest is in the right place at the right time.
"So we'll go no more to SiMingYi". 2 years ago it was hard to imagine the viaduct at SiMingYi without the endless parade of QJ's lugging their 2300 tonne trains up the 1.2% grade. Steam is gone f... (more)
The westbound counterpart to photos #640955 and 640956 holds the main passing tidy frame depot at Bonner, just a few miles to Missoula.
Fish Creek Canyon lies on Milwaukee Road's Pipestone Pass. The 5 mile Canyon section of the pass was amongst the least photographed of the many miles of spectacular mainline due to its inaccessi... (more)
Burlington K-2 class 4-6-0 637 was built by Rogers Locomotive & Machine Works in November 1892 as Burlington & Missouri River 309. In 1949 this locomotive was refitted with a diamond stack for exh... (more)
The Turn Hole Tunnel: Constructed in 1866 by the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad, this tunnel eventually became part of the CNJ and carried the line's two track main into Railroad: Central Railroad of New JerseyLocomotive: N/ALocation: Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, USALocomotive #: N/ATrain ID: UnknownPhoto Date: July 04, 2010
The most beautifull loco of Hellenic railways, on the turntable of the central roundhouse
Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 202 was one an order of 30 S-2 Class locomotives delivered from Baldwin In 1937. These locomotives were given road numbers 201 through 230. A second order of 10 Class S-2s wer... (more)
The cab of brand new CN 8873 on one of it's first trips to the west coast.
A pair of smokeless Alcos,A9108-A9104, on yard operations.Where is greenpiece ;
Amtrak 273's shell was chosen to be used to put rebuilt Amtrak engines in it to be tested before shipping to Poland.Notice the number 325 on the engine being installed in 273. This came out of Amt... (more)
New Reading GP35s lead westbound freight into Falls Yard.
"Unstoppable" moves west over the former B&O at Evans City.
A quartet of former MARC engines sit in storage awaiting an uncertain fate. These engines were purchased by MPI many years ago and have been sitting long enough for moss to start growing on them. ... (more)
Amtrak and SCL power working at Raleigh, NC in August 1973
Santa Fe PA #58 (along with #67) is resting on the service track at Richmond after pulling the "Last Run of a PA" excursion to Stockton and return. Forty years later, with the exception of the tur... (more)
