There’s no lack of signage to identify this location, CW Cabin, at milepost 359 on the Chesapeake & Ohio main line near Hinton, West Virginia. The train is the New River Train, returning to Hunt... (more)

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.

the first EMD SD 40-2 ,in argentina ,a dream for local railfan s !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CN 911, Dangerous commodities Emergencies training Car

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)

A U-717 with 141 cars is loaded out and ready to depart United Taconite at 2200 hrs. with DM&IR 403 in charge of the trip back south to Proctor. A green glow from the yard signal and the plant it... (more)

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)

Cab shot of MBTA MPI MP36PH-3C 011. TAKEN WITH PERMISSION.

The freshly repainted N&W 1776 brings up the rear of a lite power moving passing by the restored Bristol depot.

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)

Photo taken by Glen Fisher, my father-in-law. He is is a railway consultant and was involved in the BC Rail Tumbler Ridge electrification during the early 1980s. Here is a roster shot of BCOL 6006... (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.

After disappearing for a while, Union Pacific GS14B Y2005 has returned to Dolores Yard in Carson, California. This engine was built by National Railway Equipment from Southern Pacific MP15DC 2690... (more)

A rare C32-8 (only 10 ever built) sits in Sayre, PA in 1987.

We had driven to the Sierra RR for steam trip which ended right about this spot where the Tidewater Southern unit was leased to switch the mill. Too late for West Side Lumber which used to come i... (more)

A Union Pacific freight, led by a DD35A / GP30B / DD35 / GP30B lashup, passes the old UP passenger station in Riverside, CA, on New Year’s Eve 1978.

Derailment during WW II

Norfolk Southern's traveling Locomotive Simulator is located inside of this RV

tiefa(diaobingshan)Steamloco

CN 595 around the curve approaching Utterson, southbound for Longford Mills.

A woman enjoys a smoke as she watches the grain train fight auto traffic on 7th Street from the Iron Horse Bar with six cars for the mill in Greenport.

Shot from the Roosevelt Road overpass with an old Kodak Rangefinder camera and Kodachrome II film.

Mid-mornings, Burlington’s 23rd Street engine terminal in Denver gets busy. Freight power is in from the east and has to be fueled and serviced, and passenger power must be made ready for the va... (more)

In my last TTI photo, several people asked about the Rock Island engines. The TTI 246 shown here is an ex-Rock Island U28B of the same number. The smoke from the scrapping of TTI 259 was spreadi... (more)

For nearly 20 years I have had a fascination for the bridges on Donner Pass and snow removal. I havent been to Donner much over the past 10 years, and only once in the summer since I have had a dr... (more)

A young lady rises over a ladder on the roof of the power car 410 101 of the German ICE-S high speed test train, which is standing in front of the north portal of the new Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT... (more)

CSX 3374 secured to Kasgro KRL 300380 is ready for the trip to the heavy repair shop in Huntington, WV. This unit and CSX 3438 were involved in a washout derailment on 10/11/20 at Lilburn, GA.

A911 at the port of Egio city.

Freshly painted Milwuakee Road 1603 heads past IRM during the parade of power.

Conway Scenic Railroad's "Notch Train" travels eastbound on the fabled ex-Maine Central Mountain Division. The mighty face of Mt. Willard looms in the background as peak autumn foliage ... (more)

Quite an interesting lashup rolls by Blue Bell Park as the Aggies are in the middle of taking on the Fresno State Bulldogs.

The Guadalupe perishable derailed due to a locked traction motor on the lead unit, a GP40X. Due to the Coast Line being shut down, the Amtrak "Starlights" and "Spirts of California" were re-route... (more)

Union Pacific was the only railroad to purchase the EMD GP30B units, buying 40 of them #700B-739B. The cabless unit provided some cost savings in not having the expensive operating controls ... (more)

The stark view of just another pusher set shoving tonnage up the mountain leaving town is in concert with the harsh July sunlight conditions this was taken in, some 60 years ago at the soon to-be-... (more)

The UP 844 does a "runby" while in a siding waiting to be overtaken by one of the "Cities". The 844 was enroute west from Cheyenne to Ogden with a Pacific Coast Chapter, R&LHS special returning f... (more)

BN U30C 5383, fresh from its repaint, heads through during the parade of power. Now it just needs its lettering and striping on the front.

Northern Central Railway, ca 1865. A Northern Central engine crew pose with their locomotive at New Freedom, PA, just a few miles north of the Mason-Dixon Line, shortly after the Confederat... (more)

Two weeks before it was moved. The big news is that this stranded MMA engine and train were finally moved over a two day period on June 22nd and 23rd, away from their nearly year long stay ... (more)

K4s approaching the station in Burlington on the old PRR Bordentown Branch. As noted, this line is active today as the NJT River Line. The Nellie Bly ran from New York City to Atlantic City, NJ... (more)

SNCF four-cylinder compound 4-8-2 No 241P34 departs from Belfort with the 15.40 Basle to Paris Est train. By the end of that year these magnificent engines had been replaced by diesels on this rou... (more)

The recently restored Hamlet Depot serves as the Amtrak Station.

Amtrak's Theater Car, the "American View," completes a trip on the tail end of The Vermonter with this stop in St. Albans. The Lake Champlain region often provides wonderful suns... (more)

Amtrak's 30th Street Station stands majestically in the glow of the city lights while several SEPTA commuter trains arrive and depart the upper concourse. Finished in 1934 for the RRR, it sees 25... (more)

Collided with a dump truck on March 7 2006 in Yukon, OK. Killing the driver and injuring 3 others.

UGLY!!

A Arcelor Mittal SW1500 and GP15 pull a massive cut of steel coil cars from the Arcelor Mittal plant on a rainy day in East Chicago.

Locomotives:
MTSX 305 SW1500
MTSX 417 GP15-1

An 05:30 start was necessary to be here in time to see this. Absolutely still and near freezing temperatures that gave a good exhaust plume even though the loco wasn't working hard. If only the su... (more)

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to race day at Strasburg. SRC #31 is dressed up as CN #7312 and is a regular here at Strasburg. The shops have put a lot of work into her and though the lack of gui... (more)

A full moon rises over Lucerne, BC as Q198's train slowly makes its way towards a congested Jasper, AB with CN ET44AC 3115 bringing up the rear.

Waiting outside the shop: One GP15-1, one SD45 with "L" windshield, 5 ancient U25Bs, 2 GP38-2s, and two U30Bs.

C&S 641 backs into town to pickup its train for Climax on an absolutely glorious winter day in the Arkansas River Valley. In the background are several peaks that exceed 14,000 feet. I think one... (more)

Soo Line no. 397 taking a spin on the turntable at Shoreham Yard in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in August 1962. The locomotive was one of four center cab Baldwin DT-6-6-2000s acquired from the Duluth,... (more)

The Nebraska Zephyr rolls east on the ex-Rock Island through Silvis on its way to Bureau and back.

Kodachrome II, Yashica TL

The first CSX RP20CD Genset assembled by NS at Juniata Locomotive Shop in Altoona, awaits delivery as it rests at the Altoona shops..

The aftermath of a head on collision between an empty runaway suburban train and a parked V/Line train in platform 2 at Spencer Street Station.

fresh out of the paint shop.

One of the few (if not the only) remaining standard gauge, Baldwin-Westinghouse, 3 axle, electric locomotive, sits abandoned deep in the woods of the Anthracite Coal Region. Railroad: Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company
Locomotive: Baldwin-Westinghouse
Location: Locust Summit, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: January 03, 2009

With rotating cutting drums, the powerful snow blower X rot mt # 95404, pulled by the dualpower diesel/electric Gem 4/4 # 801, is ready in Alp Grüm on track 1 to drive back to Pontresina, after t... (more)

Showing some of its faded New Haven orange paint, Penn Central E40 4974 has been put out to pasture in the Harrisburg engine terminal. Sadly, none of these classic electrics eluded the scrapper.