Winter Sunrise on Denver Westbound just after first light Amtrak 1105 the WPE is leaning into it at Leyden just after 0730.
Two veteran EMD units sit in the rain after completing a mine run from Phillipi.
The Broadway Ltd. pulling out of Englewood Union Station this April morning. There were five "View" blunt end sleeper-observations. I think this is PRR 8419 Mountain View. See floor diagram at: h... (more)
On steam, even in July!
Eastbound Penn Central freight with in the lead Alco FA-1 1330 ex-New Haven 0401. No photographer listed on slide, from my collection.
a pair of Warbonnet FP45's lead one of a number of passenger specials Santa Fe operated from LA to Cadiz located east of Barstow in the Mojave Desert in conjunction with RailCycle, an outfit promo... (more)
Northbound Denver RTD 216-223 plowed into coal from deailed UP 7330 South coal train. RTD 216 bumped TILX overturned coal hopper but didn't injure RTD operator. 22-cars thrown off main 1 into pat... (more)
VIA 14 drifts across the Upper Falls of Riviere-Du-Loup as it makes its station stop in the rivers namesake city at 00:34
Restored PRR 1361 is being prepared for a run up the old PRR Bald Eagle Branch, just north of Tyrone, PA
UPY 139 sitting at the North End of Settegast Yard waiting to be scrapped
Cab interior of CN 8886 (EMD SD70M-2).
A Fairbanks Morse Trainmaster is seen at College Park station in commuter service between San Francisco and San Jose
The high-and-wide extra arrives at its destination for the rail portion of the journey on the rebuilt 'Redstone Branch' (ex-MEC to Portland, ME). The load will be transferred onto a 12-axle truck ... (more)
Waiting for its next call to duty NP F7A rests at Seattle's King St. Station. In the background, is Union Station which, at the time still hosted UP passengers. Today King St. is modernized and Un... (more)
VB profile.
Rock Island Lines Silvis Shop is busy place in this picture. In the foreground four GP7 frames for the Conrail rebuild program. GP38-2 4309 is on one of the frame straighteners for an engine chang... (more)
D&M 4610 had worked its way up from Cheboygan and is backing to the ferry slip as it awaits the arrival of the Chief Wawatum from St. Ignace. Nearby a MN ex- Southern RS-3 is waiting to get southb... (more)
The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.
Tehachapi Summer. From miles away I hear it coming, nearer ever so nearer. Sound escalating than softening, running through heat rising. It runs by me with whining turbochargers and barking exhaus... (more)
An astonishing power consist that includes three F45s and four SD40-2s pull the Martin Turn east through Mapleton on Sept. 6, 1985. The train has 13 loads of ballast on the head with the balance o... (more)
Chessie 614 struts out of Thurmond, WV with the Chessie Safety Express after a photo run by. The train had begun the day at Cliftion Forge, VA.
Westbound N&W Y6b 2180 gets a run for Christiansburg grade at Elliston, Va
Executive train with all C&NW equipment at Portola.
Pennsy power waits it out at Altoona. PRR Class EH45.
Like fresh from the factory, locomotive Ae 6/6 # 11407 "Aargau" is standing on the turntable of the former Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik Winterthur (SLM), where she was b... (more)
This photo, taken by the late Hank Stuart, Jr., was taken at Tacoma, VA, on the Interstate's main line from Norton to Miller Yard, VA. The two colorful RS-3s on this "Hill Crew" are handling a rou... (more)
Unassisted the great old symbol of the the best rail in the eastern US attacks the steepest mainline grade in America on a great day when Carl and Bob Lehman met me to photograph the spectacle. T... (more)
Just another typical morning on BNSF's Marceline Subdivision... BNSF 8560 brings train H-GALKCK 2 26 through the small farming town of Baring, Missouri.
White Pass & Yukon Route #90 being moved to the Port of Tacoma after being rebuilt at CEECO in Tacoma in 2009. The #90 had to be transported from CEECO to the Port on a home made flatbed.
An earlier sunkink post reminded me of this picture. This is a sunkink on the former Western Pacific. The rail anchors here have a real challenge dealing the the expansion and contraction associa... (more)
After Pinakata station
A former Burlington Northern EMD SD60M still in Cascade green paint leads BNSF’s Cowley turn through rugged Sheep Canyon north of Greybull, Wyoming, on June 22, 2017. This arresting locale is al... (more)
BN 6110 and 9819 twirl around the turntable at Superior, Wis. before heading to the wash rack. BN 6110 is former GN 583, an SD9; BN 9819 is former NP 7010C/6709B an F9B that would be renumbered th... (more)
The new KLWX 3200 is seen pulling freight at Coster Yard in Knoxville, TN. The KLWX 3200 is a KLW SE32C-DE, which is a repowered SD40 equipped with a 3,200 bhp MTU 16V Series 4000 engine. Certifie... (more)
Santa Fe's all-sleeper, extra-fare Chief climbs westbound past the little coal-mining town of Morley in Raton Pass. Morley was a typical company town with company houses, a school, a post offic... (more)
The second of two morning commuter trains from Valparaiso, Indiana making its last stop before arriving at Union Station. It is about to cross the Rock Island tracks. Note roof mounted radio ant... (more)
Southern RS-11 #11 (a former Carolina & Northwestern engine) works in Winston-Salem, 8/72.
The Romainian-built "Faur Quarterhorse" spent her last few years sitting dead deep within the former LVRR Sayre, PA yard. She was scrapped there in the late 80's.
Scanned from a slide taken by my father in the early 1950s
*Taken with permission from the land owner. This was not shot on Norfolk Southern property*. First & most importantly, the crew of this engine made it out with minor scratches amazingly. This is w... (more)
A westbound CN intermodal train hugs the shoreline of the roaring Thompson River near Spences Bridge, British Columbia, Canada, ducking in and out of tunnels along the way. This aerial "un... (more)
A Mile Stone for the Pacific Imperial Railroad - [Vernal Equinox 2016 +1 Series] -Congratulations are in order on a job well done for the Pacific Imperial Railroad's first "Interchange Job... (more)
Once the companion of Alligators, this ex-SOU unit has a more mundane, ex-BN partner by this time. They have brought the daily train down to unload at the usual ambling gait. These old "Boats" m... (more)
Wrecked BNSF Loco on flatcar in Denver yards
Derailment of a Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn train near Mörel today, on the journey towards Brig and Visp, due to a grade crossing accident. A delivery truck had traveled on the private road, which w... (more)
The night hostler pauses for a moment between SP 4449 and NKP 765 to enjoy his cigar.
Rotary OY with aux tender, two engines, and a caboose plows up to the summit at Cumbres.
This is PR ARPW20 3830 emerging from summit Tunnel at Kolpur, at 1800 meters above Sea Level on the Mushkaf Bolan Pass section of Pakistan Railways. This (once highly strategic) line with its 1:2... (more)
Class A 1230 sits next to J 601 at Shaffers Crossing engine terminal.
Still adorned in Wisconsin & Southern paint, recently acquired MRL 391 sits by the turntable at BN's Northtown Yard.
Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad E9A type diesel locomotive #9913 on display in Miami, FL. Picture was taken while on a trip from Buffalo to Miami (on the 'Lakeshore Limited' & 'Silver Meteor'... (more)
Pair of GG1's waiting for work while parked on the PRR-PRSL west-bound connector (the line that connects Atlantic City NJ with the Pennsy main line north of Phila.) Apparently, not enough traffic... (more)
A trio of brand new EMD QNSL SD70ACe's hitch a ride east on train 308 behind a pair of ES44DC's.
Rotary 972552 clears snow dragged down from cut south of Stanton on ZAP Line.
UP reposition auto racks twist and roll down the Cuesta Grade.
The tracks are weed covered and the signals are without lenses but these old Milwaukee Road rails (former J Line) are still seeing passenger service in 1989 in the form of WICT excursion service f... (more)
CSX Local B721 runs right through the middle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Brain Research Center in Cambridge. The train is crossing over the "Grand Junction" which was originally... (more)
SOU 1004 hidden in the woods at Wadley, GA during the Spring of 2002. The locomotive was sitting on a wye track surrounded by thick vegetation and appeared to be in rather foul shape.
Freeport McMoran #63 throttles up the start of the steep %.5% grade out of Clifton yard. This train will climb over 1200 feet vertical over the next 6 miles of railroad, the steepest operating fre... (more)
M&E MP15DC 2354 is pushing three NJ Transit locomotives toward the NJ Transit interchange. The locomotives were released from Alstom have the installation of Positive Train Control equipment at th... (more)
After a fresh snowfall overnight CSX E792 marches across the Potomac River at the confluence with the Shenandoah and with the snow covered Blue Ridge Mountains serving as the backdrop during a bri... (more)
I have no idea what those people down there were doing. The SD7 however was ex-CB&Q 309. The dinkey is inbound just minutes from leaving Aurora has a generator car on the rear.
NS 68Q a loaded Ethanol train was heading towards Conway PA. when it derailed around 10:00 pm on 10/20/06. This photo was taking the next day on top of a hill. The roads around the derailment were... (more)
Northwestern RR and Northwest Airlines: CNW SD45 #964 leads an eastbound train through Bryn Mawr interlocking toward Proviso Yard, while a Northwest Airlines 747 freighter passes overhead on fina... (more)
Sitting at EMD's factory in La Grange, Illinois, is Southern Pacific GP9 5643. Southern Pacific assigned class DF-607 to this order of 104 diesels (SP 5643 was the eighteenth unit of the order). ... (more)
The southbound CSX deadhead move of the Kentucky Derby Train gets underway at Corbin, KY after a quick crew change and fuel stop lead by F40PHs 9998 and 9993.
Anatomy of Leviathan: Authenticity vs. Practicality. David Kloke's beautiful Leviathan 63 sits on display in the North Creek Yard.
To date, the Kloke Locomotive Works has delivered two 1... (more)
The actual operator is the FC General Urquiza, a suburban operator in Buenos Aires that purchased all of the Pacific Electric PCC cars, 1100 series and a large number of ex Hollywood cars of the 5... (more)
Classic Baldwin hand fired light pacific #425 arrives at Temple, Pa on a hot & humid August afternoon.
Bringing up the rear of a Union Pacific weed abatement train is car Habco International car 214. HABX 214's heritage is fairly obvious, although the specific car is hard to pin down. This car, w... (more)
An Eastbound empty coal train is seen soaring over Interstate 80 in Auburn as they begin their steep climb up to Donner Pass. The smoke in the air is thick from the several wildfires burning nearb... (more)
The Southern Pride Mobile Painting contractors were completing the Vermont Railway SD70M-2 432, former FURX 103, nee Florida East Coast 103, while also beginning the body work and sanding of Provi... (more)
A pair of Pennsy RS-3's shove a coal drag eastbound at Silver Creek, NY in the summer of 1967.
"One Spot" One of the comments on my shot of #2 said he thought it was the lowest loco motive number he had seen; here's one better.
Ghost Town You would never think this to be the busy town of Gainesville, Ga by looking at this still, quiet, ghostly scene. It looks like an abandoned town out in the countryside. But no... (more)
A vibrant 35mm Kodachrome Transparency captures a warm sunny morning at Rio Grande's depot and engine servicing facility at Thistle, Utah. At the time, the Rio Grande Cafe (inside the depot) was s... (more)
Morning mists off the Flathead River drift through the swaying grasses, impartial to the passing of Montana Rail Link's "Day Gas."
Norfolk and Western 611 thunders up the steep North Mountain grade under threatening skies.
With the sun about to head below the hillside, train 406 crosses the trestle at Hammond River, New Brunswick.
The Patriot, mostly a mail train, at 800 PM doing one of the many great things the New Haven Railroad did for America. At every major stop between Boston and New York City this train picked up mai... (more)
Two PC GG-1 electrics rush a Flexi-Van mail train (with caboose) northbound just before sunset. Deans is about halfway between Princeton Junction and New Brunswick (Kodachrome X, significant cro... (more)
Destroyed autoracks rest in a field in Wytheville, VA in the aftermath of 23G's derailment here on July 15th, 2014.
Now that's a photo opportunity! (50th Anniversary celebration at LAUPT)
OOPS, the second shift yard crew shoved out the end of their track and into the side of a departing M316. No injuries or hazardous materials spilled in the incident. Damage was done to multiple ra... (more)
I couldn't not revisit this classic location whilst I was in Hanoi, although sadly the weather wasn't as kind to me this time. Just after a rain storm, a D19E locomotive departs south from Hanoi w... (more)
Amtrak is over a year old, but 1446 - which would become Amtrak 202 - still wears its B&O dress. The Floridian would grow to a point where 2 SDP40Fs would be required, but then would be discontin... (more)
