"When tank cars kiss, up next on Maury Povich" A crew member didn't shove the car on the right far enough back to allow clearance for the car on the left to pass. Night switching can wreak hav... (more)
6004 leads an eastbound coal empty.
This locomotive couldn't handle it anymore!! UP 6906 sits stripped of all useable parts and awaits it's fate.
Something must have happened on the High Line as two Geeps pushes work train up north.
The Nickel Plate Road 765 and NS 8100 the NKP Heritage unit lead an NS employee excursion across the famed Rockville Bridge. Visible the lower left is the Bridgeview B&B.
Typical image image of a Tram in Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux
GWR 5029 'Nunney Castle' awaits the road with the 1535 Bridgnorth - Kidderminster as BR 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' arrives with the 1635 Kidderminster - Bridgnorth during the Severn Valley Railway's ... (more)
Nearly a half a century after the demise of the Great Northern Railway, GN 50-foot boxcar No. 319499 sits at the former GN yard in Sandpoint, Idaho, on October 12, 2017. Even though it is rusty an... (more)
An eastbound Union Pacific engineering special approaches Tunnel 1 at Plainview, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 13, 2003. The 11-car passenger train is powered by impressive EMD DDA40X “Ce... (more)
Rolling through Portland in the 50s.
Cab of SD40-2(B) 6057. Do not use the toilet! Click Here to check out my other stuff!
In an unimaginable move in the 1980’s, Susquehanna landed a stack train contract with Sea-Land Corporation. Although five C430’s were the carrier’s main road power, the addition of a CF7 was... (more)
The D&RGW has added a dome of its own (which came from the C&O) and with five F units, Train 17 California Zephyr leaves Denver Union Terminal headed through the heart of the Rocky Mountains. Th... (more)
I bet you've never seen a consist like this! This wasn't some posed, staged, fake shot either! The SD70ACe was visiting for National Train Day and the FP7 #2500 was departing for Spencer, NC for ... (more)
Acela #2007, arriving from Boston, captured in a glow of light during a frigid and brisk Winter snow storm.
Maroon and gold SW1 1378 moves loaded grain cars from Elevator M on a code blue afternoon. The shuttered lake vessel American Victory hasn't sailed since 2008 and its future is uncertain at best. ... (more)
An uncommon meet between 2 short lines at a 4 way stop. Crews exchange info during a meet at the diamond at Whitney, NC between the Winston Salem Southbound and the Atlantic Railway. Traffic at th... (more)
Inside the main shop building at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, locomotives assemble for rebuild and overhaul on May 19, 2015.
Ohio South Central 104 creeps through Coalton with one hopper for Aluchem.
As the sun ducks behind the clouds, 212 scurries north past the old blue horse farm just south of Thomasville as the double tracking project continues.
A UP train conductor takes in the spectacle of Bear River Gorge while his St. Louis to Oakland piggyback train emerges from 211 ft. Tunnel 155 while crossing Bridge 45.03 on detour around a Wyomin... (more)
UP 4014 concludes the fourth leg of its 'Return Home Tour' arriving at Ogden Union Station on May 4, 2014.
Who would have thought there would have been two Katy Heritage units on display at Dallas Union Station. Yep, here's proof, but one is 87 times smaller than the prototype next to it...National Tra... (more)
A new GEVO prime mover and it's alternator sit waiting to be installed in 501.
099 heads East through Rawl after a lengthy wait for a signal out of Williamson, with a Soo Line SD60M leading 5 Great Britain Railfreight EMD Class 66's, coming from the EMD plant in Muncie , and... (more)
A bird's eye view of CP Capitol as the Nickel Plate Road 765 and NS NKP heritage unit 8100 employee excursion back down the east leg of the wye onto the Lurgan Line. In addition to the track conf... (more)
A Burlington Northern freight heads across Java Bridge at Java, Montana, on a frigid March 2, 1989. Trailing lead tiger-striped GP50 No. 3126 is a SD40-2, another GP50, a B30-7A and a fuel tender.
With brake shoes smoking, a freight heading down Horseshoe curve passing under the recently-removed signal bridge while another freight rumbles uphill. Note switcher "in transit" about 3 cars behi... (more)
Backwoods of central Russia at the north of Tver region. Local time 2-10 AM. Late summer night. The beam of the train searchlight appears from the fog that rises from the river Msta... Railroad: Russian RailwaysLocomotive: TEP70Location: Msta, Tver region, RussiaLocomotive #: UnknownTrain ID: UnknownPhoto Date: June 16, 2018
Attention passengers of the California Zephyr...please pay no mind to the burned out shell of an engine on the starboard side. Sit back and relax as we head to the Moffat Tunnel and onto San Fran... (more)
Sittin' Pretty: The Rock Island's freshly painted duo of GP38-2s bask in the evening sunlight, as a friendly neighborhood pup enjoys the view of the beautiful engines adorned in "Rebor... (more)
As the hills of Cuesta Pass wear their annual coat of summer brown, Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight prepares to ascend the grade of the GoldTree Horsehoe curve as it crosses the Stenner Creek ... (more)
Climax over Leatherbark Creek. Darkening the sky like an approaching storm, the former Moore-Keppel & Co. Climax #6 charges toward the short trestle over Leatherbark Creek, just outside the... (more)
In the wee hours of the morning of March 20, 1976, an eastbound manifest was climbing Newburg Grade at Austen, WV when the head end got into a wheel slip situation. Four SD35s on the rear shoved ... (more)
A rainy Monday morning finds famous H1b Hudson 2816 stopped at Montreal West with a long suburban train from Rigaud.
One of only two applications of friction bearings to flexicoil trucks that I know of. You have to be hard core backward to ask for that option. Upon reflection I think this may have been Granite... (more)
Beauty and the beast. The beautiful snow dusted mountain peaks contrast sharply to this once proud Milwaukee Road passenger engine. Not sure what became of it.
Southern E8 6910 leads an E7 under the bridge at Blue Ridge with train 45, TENNESSEAN, on a beautiful fall afternoon.
There is still a bit of fall color hanging around Alaska and the back lighting helps to show it off along with the jointed rail along Turnagain Arm at Indian. The company work train has just made ... (more)
A pair of mlw with empty ballast train approaches the longer bridge of Kifera village
1/3rd of Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad's locomotive roster - GP7 #205, CF7 #2486 and GP18 #300 - are seen working the unloading building for corn at the Tyton NC Biofuels ethanol biorefinery locate... (more)
The SW1 is coupled to "Mountain View." There were five "View" blunt end sleeper-observations. See floor diagram at: http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=997986 The Coach Yard... (more)
Two bull dogs in the junk yard. Photo taken with permission.
There’s a brief lull between passenger trains at Brockville, Ontario, so the dispatcher has let a Montreal-bound freight out of the Brockville yard. This is a heavily travelled passenger corrido... (more)
CNJ hopper is on former Rutland; diamond crossing now gone
Western of Alabama's local train 6 waits at the crossing as an eastbound freight rolls by on Southern's former Central of Georgia Birmingham-Columbus, GA mainline. The crossing was not interlocke... (more)
On the morning of December 3, a week worth of anticipation came together when CP SD70ACU duo, heritage 7010 and D-Day tribute 6644 were paired for a run from Montreal to Saratoga Springs, NY. The... (more)
Florida East Coast 4-6-2 145, Class 151, was one of 87 ALCO built 4-6-2s purchased between 1907 and 1922. FEC 145 had 68" drivers, 22 x 26 inch cylinders, boiler pressure of 180 lbs, and produced ... (more)
A pair of Birmingham Southern SW1001's switch out the Fairfield yard. The ruins of US Steels Ensley works sits in the background.
Steamtown's UP No. 4012 "Big Boy" enjoys tranquility with the season's first snow.
Perhaps with the ugly-duckling on the point, Santa Fe’s Super Chief-El Capitan Train 17 climbs the Colorado side of Raton Pass near Morley on Aug. 1, 1970. GE 7902 U28CG; EMD 5944 FP45; EMD 593... (more)
Resting up before the next run to Phoenicia
CP 9768 pulls its train up to the east end of Chinook siding near Blairmore. In all my years of railroad photographing, I've only been out to the Crowsnest Pass a few times. I've always wanted a p... (more)
Going over the hump at RF&P's Potomac Yard. A Roger Puta photograph.
A cold, wet, gloomy November day greets the Rock Island and its commuters at La Salle Street Station, Chicago as E8 649 and another E wait for their next assignment. In addition to running commute... (more)
Jersey Central TrainMaster 2412 raises the dust in South Amboy with that railroad's RACE TRACK SPECIAL for Monmouth Park. This is one of my few diesel pictures that really shows action. It looks a... (more)
Sharks in storage
A pair of relatively new SD70MACs lead a westbound freight through Newark, NY. Date is approximate.
The westbound Denver & Rio Grande Western Zephyr is seen with a helper to assist in the climb of the eastern slope of the Wasatch mountains to Soldier Summit.
PHIL-A-DELPHIA!
The engineer on the Arkansas & Midland invited me inside the cab to take photographs of the old Alco number 34. The train had stopped and was waiting for clearance to cross the Arkansas River bri... (more)
The new Black Thunder West coal loadout facility is now operational. The coal runs from the Black Thunder mine along the tracks and then up and over the mainline just North of Reno Jct. You can se... (more)
Southern Pacific 2472 is moved onto Niles Canyon Railway property for the first time.
Four A&O GP 38-2's throttle up as the lead Carter Roag loads back to Grafton on the Pickens Sub.
A nightmare for Guilford as this track was out of service for a few days and what trains they could detour went on commuter priority tracks which led into Boston and had to use them mainly at nigh... (more)
CN 911, Dangerous commodities Emergencies training Car
Trying to avoid the stinging wind and blowing snow, the conductor on L-593 opened the nose door on 4214 to protect a shove to the diesel house.
I think I can! I think I can! It's getting to be twilight time for finding any steam on the PRR at this juncture, but lo a spirited #685 blasts past one of those damn diesels at Camden. PRR Class... (more)
Nickel Plate 765 charges past for this run-by as part of Train Festival 2009.
The Cornhusker was either on the first or second say of its operation. The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.
The freshly repainted N&W 1776 brings up the rear of a lite power moving passing by the restored Bristol depot.
Wabash shows up with a suburban train inbound at 21st St. on a September morning in '59.
A loaded coil train with an interesting lashup (including BNSF GP60B # 341) climbs out of tunnel 10 just above Tehachapi Loop on its way toward Mojave.
Various first and second generation EMD's await an uncertain fate at Keokuk Junction's shop facility. A new investment group in charge of the railroad has sidelined the famous matching set of A-B-... (more)
The Reading depot in Skillman was the closest railroad location for CKF growing up and was where he developed a lifelong love of the Reading. He was 12-years-old when he took this photograph. Not... (more)
Abandoned on the site of its former employer, Tennessee Coal & Iron Works/US Steel Ensley Works. The US Steel plant having been demolished in 1982 around this desolate old Alco.
They say it is good luck when a single fox crosses your path...
There is a tale told of a fox that once stole fire from the heavens to provide to humankind. Here, posed along the track... (more)
Nothing unusual to see here, just an F7(A) on a revenue freight train in 2020 in California, shoving LPG cars for storage between Fillmore and Piru on what was once the mainline of the Southern Pa... (more)
Southern Railway of BC didn't start the month of December well. Only minutes into Monday morning, a train departing Trapp Yard encountered a broken rail toppling four hoppers onto their side. The ... (more)
the first EMD SD 40-2 ,in argentina ,a dream for local railfan s !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One third of the Union Pacific’s roster of Alco Century 855’s, number 61, is on the move westbound, having topped off its 4,000-gallon fuel tank at North Platte. On October 2, 1966, the 5,500-... (more)
The NS/Progress Rail heritage engine move, train #961, rolls thru Indiana farm fields at Oakville, IN. For more information, visit www.... (more)
Y6 2138 leads another downgrade at the Davis Rd. crossing in Bonsack with westbound empty hoppers.
Reversing west past Viaduct Tower on No. 2 Track, we pass the DODX 902 caboose on the rear of a dimensional train carrying spent nuclear fuel rods.
CSX A733 with SD40-3 4066 stands in the siding at the South End of Union City, Georgia after a meet with Q542 on the Manchester Subdivision. Just after 542's rear end cleared a local sightseer who... (more)
As EMD E units came online In the late 1950's, Norfolk & Western's famed class J streamlined locomotives, having been in service less than a decade, were reassigned to freight service. The enginee... (more)
Milwaukee Road 22 crosses the Columbia River with an eastbound freight after descending Boyleston Hill, and after meeting a westbound at Beverly will have an easy run to its crew change at Othello... (more)
