Dakota Southern's shops in Chamberlain looks nothing more than an old junk yard. The track on the right is their main line which leads to the massive bridge (behind me) over the Missouri River and... (more)

Pickens #2 working at Alice Manufacturing in Easley, SC || November 1970

The D&R turn is not moving fast, but it is moving. Yeah, this guy will probably make it with time to spare. Unless he trips or blows a hammy or something. But that stuff never happens. Note th... (more)

Claremont & Concord #18 eases a single box car down the steep grade into Coy Paper... a move that was the slightest bit extra challenging on this icy morning.

Stewartstown Railroad #6 "Little-Mo" leads its train across a small bridge on the line from Stewartstown to Fawn Grove. Part of this line and the connecting PC branch were damanged by Hurricane Ag... (more)

Two class 33s and a class 35 are working hard up the hill at sunset through Cooper.

4343-330-309-4352 stop just short of the KCS interchange when the crew discovers that several cars split the switch taking the pass. The "abundance" of fresh ballast shows that this part of the M... (more)

NS 593 emerges from the Allegheny Tunnel as it heads westbound through Gallitzin PA on a rainy and cold October day. The train is passing a former Pennsylvania Railroad Caboose that sits at the G... (more)

RDG #2124 prepares for asbestos abatement. Asbestos fibers woven into sheets were commonly placed under the painted sheet metal of the boiler (lagging) to keep the boiler insulated. This kept th... (more)

Canadian Pacific Trainmaster is waiting on the caboose track at the Boston and Maine Yard. Freight train in the background is CP 904 arriving with rate differential traffic from Montreal.

Chicago Great Western F7(A) 156 and CB&Q E8(A) 9942B at CB&Q's Omaha Passenger Station in August 1964. A Lloyd Keyser Photo from my Collection.

"Eat Taters & Wear No Clothes" ET&WNC's two Consolidation 2-8-0's regularly operated tender-first (hence, the cut-down sides of the coal bunker) on their "eastbound" runs from Johnson City to Eliz... (more)

Goat Canyon Trestle - West Approach - Built in 1932 to by pass a tunnel that had collapsed in an earthquake (located to the right, out of the frame) the trestle at Goat Canyon in the Carri... (more)

Engineers Construction Inc. (ECI) has begun a cooperative project for the replacement of an existing culvert under the Route 5 and Washington County Railroad (WACR) embankments in East Ryegate, Ve... (more)

You can always find something of interest in Altoona! DD40AX 6944 sits at the Juniata shops awaiting a much needed cosmetic restoration, while a line of new Boston MBTA HSP46 locomotives fresh fro... (more)

The revised Abraham Lincoln under Amtrak operation. Some of the clarity and excitement was gone even though the original owners colors were still intact in 1972. For a view of same train and loco... (more)

Looks like I got the attention of the guys on the wire train. The front car is a "tool & riding car." It is followed by a tower car and a stake and paneled flat car. The tool & riding car's pant... (more)

#108 is still under steam in this 1955 view, as railfans have free reign to wander about recording photos. LIRR Class H10 was built by Baldwin in 1915 and was one of 19 acquired from the PRR betwe... (more)

"If a train falls in a cornfield, and no one is around to hear it..." ISRR's storage tracks in Worthington are the site of a rather interesting derailment - this is the aftermath of some of the mo... (more)

Wind energy: power for a new tomorrow.

2 class 500,A509-A507, 2 class 450,A462-A460 and an Adtranz 220 023 on the roundhouse of Athens.

SP 7863 sits down at the passenger depot at South Fork. Careful eyes will remember the sister locomotive was recently seen in an upload by Steve Sm... (more)

Slowly rolling past the sight of a derailment from 5 days ago.

Union Pacific No. 4012
Looking good in the neighborhood!

Union Pacific No. 4012, built in 1941 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Schenectady, New York, is one of eigh... (more)

Eastbound DASH train departing Wylie World with a pair of EMDX lease locomotives.

This used Ford Transit van has found a new home deep in the Romanian forests and has started a new life there. Difficult to imagine when it has been built that it would end its life on a forestry ... (more)

Passenger train on fire in protest of poor rail service

The George Washington A Roger Puta Photograph

Dead locomotives abound at the Milwaukee Road’s West Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Shops in this 1980 view from the 35th Street Viaduct. Earlier in the year, the bankrupt railroad had ceased operations ... (more)

FMI job ties onto the rear of the inbound AZER train and will shortly be screaming up the 5% grade to the FMI yard at the top of the hill.

Ghostly Remains, Part 1. With Halloween approaching, and with the warm tones of autumn quickly fading, a series of twilight photos of the abandoned train station at Gerrish Depot, New Hamp... (more)

NMRX 105 leads a test train south down the median of I-25 at La Cienega, NM on December 13, 2008. The train was used to familiarize and qualify crews on the new Santa Fe Extension.

UP's shops in Cheyenne were open to the public May 17/18 and I was lucky enough to get up real close to 4014. No-one was allowed on the locomotive but it was possible to get a shot of the cab in... (more)

A 12 axle flatcar with a total capacity of 730,000 pounds holds an approximately 150 ton new Rotor for a 600MW generator.

D&H 302 (actually ex-RDG 2102 in disguise) steams through the Allegheny River fog on a Pittsburg & Shawmut fantrip. Kodachrome II, Yashica TL

A final look inside the cab of DMIR 222.

On October 4, 2022, Montana Rail Link’s 844 local departs Logan, Montana, with a lone, weatherbeaten, but unique car. Northern Pacific observation car No. 391 is headed to a new owner, and will ... (more)

"This here is one of our finest," said the UP Manager. In a staged scene part of the annual night photography session at the Rail Giants Train Museum in Pomona, a Union Pacific executive p... (more)

Amtrak train #36, led by SDP40F 526 and F40PH 221, passes through Mormon Rocks in southern California's Cajon Pass on March 27th, 1981. This is the eastbound Desert Wind, which ran from Lo... (more)

Canadian National's Clinton Local shoves into the south end of the Illinois & Midland Railroad's Shops Yard in Springfield, as a Sunday morning easy rider heads out on the open road, Sunday, Au... (more)

Early morning Sunshine shines down on the Kinzua skywalk some 12 years after being hit by a F1 tornado.

In the remote reaches of northern Quebec it is common for QCM employees to ship their private vehicles south on the railroad's supply train versus a long and dusty dirt road to Port Cartier. I cou... (more)

before SP sold off it's copper concentrate operations on this branch to the Copper Basin Railway SP used GP40-slug-GP40 sets to power the copper concentrate trains from Ray Jct, where they were in... (more)

RBMN 425 leads the Tunkhannock to Jim Thorpe excursion across the Lehigh River at Glen Onoko at the south end of the Lehigh Gorge.

It isn't very often you see Santa Fe hoppers up on stilts. These hopper cars are located at the Triple Nickel Inc.- West Plant along Railroad Avenue in Muleshoe, Texas.

The Panama Limited

A mixed passenger/freight service winds its way down the valley, and will soon cross the border to Tirano in Italy. At the time the photo was taken, there was no agreement on customs between E.U. ... (more)

A passeneger to the south. The brick red coulour is everywhere.

Back on December 8, 1982 Conrail had an industrial spur that served local industries in Herkimer, NY part of the old main line, now long gone. During a shove move, Caboose 18651 picked a switch an... (more)

I counted five SD9s that day at Balmer Yard in Seattle. Pretty remarkable that these are still on property and at least one is working the Yard. This unit was built for the Colorado & Southern in ... (more)

Reflecting on a day filled with rain, the Amtrak and NS Veterans locomotives are posed for display at Rose Yard for the "All Aboard Altoona" event. Joining the patriotic duo is Amtrak's exhibit t... (more)

Every city has its ruins...

Rome has the Coliseum, Cairo has the Pyramids, and Newark, NJ has NX Drawbridge over the Passaic River. Once a key point on the Erie Railroad's New... (more)

You had to stand at trackside to get the full effect: Union Pacific’s final class of turbines, the 8500-hp Class 23 and 24 Big Blows, were BIG, almost 166 feet long overall, 16 feet tall. And lo... (more)

"Train No. 68 for Cherry Hills, Willoughby, Carpenters, and Riley Crossing departing at 8PM. If you're not going to any of those places, ladies and gentlemen, you're on the wrong train. 'BOARD!"

CR 4429 West is running long-hood forward on a hot August day near COLA Tower. These locomotives had a distinctive, loud vacuum cleaner-like roar when operating, and were called "Hoovers&quo... (more)

A solitary double-deck, cab-control coach leads Milwaukee's amply-powered commuter train at Grays Lake, Illinois, on Aug. 12, 1964, as it is about to cross the Soo Line. How would you like to be ... (more)

Everyone that ended up being interested in trains probably has one particular unit that "did it" for them...well this model was mine. My earliest childhood memory of trains revolves around the big... (more)

In 1968 North Vietnam railways built this Mikado class steamer of parts from scapped engines originally delivered in 1953 by Société Alsacienne de Construction Mecaniques in France

the "William Mason" on its return from Camp Carroll and a Civil War Encampment.