Comparing rear ends... on P32s in Phase III vs Phase IV that is. These unique locomotives look similar to P42s until you take a closer look. They have no rear door in order to fit the extra equipm... (more)
An old Alco with the cab removed and a "phonebooth" added to the front for an operator, deep within the coalfields of Virginia.
The power for the northbound LA-Portland I-5 Express train builds it's train at the remains of the SP Cornfield yard, with the LA skyline in the background. Photo taken from the Broadway bridge.
The Great Goodbye: 6 "Streaks" lined up at Locomotion, Shildon, 3 under steam
CRI&P 486 with Inbound Morning Commuter
A going away shot of Talgo's strange looking new equipment as it heads North into Denver. This was a deadhead move that originated at the test track at Pueblo and was heading to Oregon where this ... (more)
Jet powered track speeder? No... But if I had this snow blower/ice melter it wouldn't take long at all to do the driveway! Construction at Walbridge has this MOW gem visible from the road at the m... (more)
Amtrak train 3, the Super Chief/El Capitan, departs that station in Pomona, California, but the crossing gates did not want to cooperate on this December 26, 1972, morning. (At this date, ... (more)
View of the dead line at UP's Downing B. Jenks Shop. UP 4014 can be seen moving east in the background. A series of locomotive receiving maintenance can be seen throughout the shop's complex. UP 6... (more)
Two fast machines sit side-by-side at Minneapolis Junction. Believe it or not, there is a connection! During season 2 of “The Dukes of Hazzard,” Bo & Luke raced their ’69 Charger across a... (more)
Right in front of the loco! Darwin award coming up... While the train was slowly entering the yard, this guy came out of nowhere and jumped the rails! It happened so fast the engi... (more)
44 0890 and 44 0194 as helper with an eastbound to Halle/Saale.
Cass Projects: Meadow River Shay #7. Sitting on the deadline in the Cass Yard is a little, 70-ton Shay that is missing an awful lot of parts. Were it not for the history that this machine ... (more)
Mixed train #211 makes a station stop at Spaniards Bay on the Carbonear Subdivision. The crew is picking up empty lumber flats from a spur track. The Carbonear Branch left the main line at Brigus ... (more)
The Union Pacific Railroad of the 1970s was very different from today's carrier, in particular with regard to motive power. UP's daily Provo to Salt Lake City local departs Provo Yard with a nice ... (more)
"Evening red and morning gray, help the traveller on his way." - says the sailor, and indeed the following day was dark and gray with minor wind. But it was a mayor heatwave (15 degrees ... (more)
No more room at the inn — Santa Fe’s Argentine Diesel Shop at Kansas City when there was a 1-day, 24-hour strike on that now infamous date — 9-11, the year 1965.
This door has been not used by a trainman since the fall of the once mighty Rock Island Lines. The door is located on the South side of the old "Rock Shop" now owned by National Railway Equipment... (more)
The Argentia mixed train #207 rounds the sharp curve at Seal Cove on Conception Bay as it makes its journey from St. John's to the port of Argentia. West of Whitbourne (at Placentia Junction), the... (more)
I wasn't sure if the man was trying to commit suicide or just play chicken with NS 9906. With horns blaring, he continued down the middle of the tracks but thankfully, he finally stepped aside. So... (more)
Little Joe E70 helps eastbound train.
Trans-Mongolian 2020 and 2021's summer and autumn railfanning photo tours available for booking now. Please join our fantastic photo tours and welcome to the Trans-Mongolian railway! Contact us:... (more)
traversing the loop at Farner on the Hiwassee River Railroad
Sneaking On To The Street! Selkirk based local B765 turns on to South 7th Street for a block of street running after coming through the town square and crossing Warren Ave. on t... (more)
Pushing up Williamsport Hill into Hagerstown
A Dash 9 DPU brings up the rear of a westbound manifest drifting downgrade toward Dilworth Yard, kicking up plenty of snow in its wake on a cold December evening.
Reading Brill Motor Car #4079 makes a stop at Skillman. This gas-electric was utilized in Port Reading to Trenton service. Passengers could make a cross platform transfer in West Trenton to a Re... (more)
On a frosty December 1960 day, a Santa Fe westbound departs Gallup, New Mexico, with six F7 diesels, in an A-B-B-B-B-A configuration led by 232C, on the point. (Frank "Woody" Woodburn photo, Craig... (more)
Inside the renovated Canadian Pacific John Street Roundhouse - built in 1929. Now home to the Toronto Railway Heritage Centre, Steamwhistle Brewery, and Leon's Furniture - where this shot is taken... (more)
Crashed out 3994 sits @ Sugar Valley Ga after a head on collision.
What happens when the 174 runs a red signal with a west bound train still in the crossovers
More Phase III. The Amtrak business car "Beech Grove" is now painted in Phase III. The car is seen heading SB towards New York Penn on the 8:10am departure from Albany-Rensselaer.
A beautiful fall day at Harpers Ferry with the foliage near peak.Eastbound Capitol Limited is about to enter the tunnel after crossing the Potomac River. The day I took this picture CSX was replac... (more)
An old Southern Pacific flanger still in hard use today!
Emulating the famous photo of the Jupiter and 119, the UP 4014 and 844 are seen here after the ceremonies of May 9. Note the differences in driving wheel and pilot wheel diameters between the big... (more)
Santa Fe’s Train 2 San Francisco Chief now has a green signal to proceed at Woodford, Calif. after a 2-unit set of SP helpers got in the clear, headed back to Bakersfield. Soon the Chief will ... (more)
By 1979, SEPTA had repainted the former Reading push-pull set in the SEPTA paint scheme. Seen here at Bethlehem Union Station, the new paint is not an upgrade to the classic Reading colors.
This H9s 2-8-0 was encountered switching a local freight at Carlisle, Pa. as my father drove us down to Roanoke, Va..
B unit M.O.W. former KCS 683
WS-SB Mikado #834 resting at Winston Salem, NC in this March 1957 view. [Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink]
A Yardley Switch drags a cut of cars up to the N Freya Street grade separation on the "High Line." To the left are the Stockyards at Trent and Freya. They have since been razed for a wastewater ... (more)
The deadlines at NRE keep shrinking as NRE continues to purge the equipment at the Silvis facility prior to its closure this year.
This vintage SW1200 was built as the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy #9271 in 1955 and is now working for US Steel's Granite City Works as their #1191. Here, we see it letting out the smoke as it sho... (more)
Nearly 100 years of locomotive evolution is on display in Duluth as Northern's Pacific's first locomotive the Minnetonka (Smith & Porter 1870) poses next to one of NP's last locomotives SD45 3617 ... (more)
2 local girls ignore metre gauge YP 2358 as it leaves Kodaikanal Road with the Madurai Tirupati Express (note the headboard). This line is now converted to 5 feet 6 inch gauge.
Boston bound Commute, The newly repainted equipment and upscale Boston suburb suggest an optimism for PC' s future, which was not shared in the executive offices in Philadelphia.
More action from a Sept. '59 morning at 21st. St. includes this inbound GM&O suburban train. The 883A would later be repainted in the bright red GM&O colors before being rebuilt at Paducah and rei... (more)
Southbound at North Philly.
Getting ready to earn it's keep. Newly painted at CEECO.
CP 3716 takes a rest after subbing for BC Rail's Royal Hudson #2860 on an excursion from North Vancouver to Squamish and return. Or... apparently, I was once in Squamish. I do recall the chase -... (more)
Preparing Veterans For the Future. Tucked away in downtown Los Angeles, three BNSF GP60's and a Dash-8 look out of place sitting in Metrolink's Keller Yard. The four units are visiting the ... (more)
Head-on collision on single track mainline.
Former Conrail GP40 now repainted as Rio Grande 3151 leads a manifest through Castle Rock. The hill in the back ground is Castle Rock. Interestingly these former Conrail units never received Gyra-... (more)
Pennsy K4 1361 passes under the former PRR Bald Eagle Branch signal bridge on its way back to Vail after an excursion to Bellefonte.
We all take pictures of trains, and we sometimes forget about the human element, this will give you a idea of how important it was. The man second from the left end is my Great Great Grandfather. ... (more)
Climbing up to the Victoria Peak where you can have an overview of the Hong Kong's famous harbour.
A truck with 30.000Lts of gasoline chash with the locomotive and explode, fire and derrailment included. The 2 locomotive driver was die in the accident, included the truck driver.
Local DMU to Inoi, in Sfendali station
A trio of Chessie GP-40-2's pull east through Center St in a view that has seen much change since this photo was taken.
There’s quite a bit to see in this shot taken by my good friend Ken Marsh. This is northbound Clinchfield train 95, a through scheduled run from Spartanburg to Elkhorn City, KY—the length of t... (more)
A Decauville dmu unit aproach the abandoned station of Triklia. It is crossing a stone water bridge.
This is the cab of the 2005, leading KCT Train 505. Not much has changed in here since it was a Santa Fe unit. It is still turbocharged, and still has the siren type alerter installed. This uni... (more)
The Three-Spot Lives! Were it not for a strange twist of fate, the little 10-wheeler you see here might have led a very undistinguished career for a California railroad and been scrapped 80... (more)
Burlington Northern SD45 6463, caught on August 29, 1973 in Denver, Colorado, is the former Chicago Burlington & Quincy 522. The Q's SD45s were delivered in their green scheme that presaged the B... (more)
A re-engined Alligator and a rebuilt GP35 sit outside the classic shop building.
UP 1111's First Coast Trip. Having just joined the Pacific Ocean for the first time, UP 1111, adorned in a special paint scheme honoring the employees of the railroad, belches smoke as the ... (more)
My oldest prepares to depart North Platte with a westbound hotshot behind Centennial UP 6922 as Challenger UP 3977 stands nearby. The railroad display at Cody Park is a lot of fun!
A Roadswitch job spots ore cars on the top of Dock 6 while the large 1000-footer Edgar B. Speer is in position to load (the ship is also owned by CN through its purchase of Great Lakes Transportat... (more)
Run-through Burlington Northern power is serviced at Western Pacific's Oroville yard in northern California. The BN power, combined with a WP engine, shows how colorful the first few years of the... (more)
Predawn NS yards.
In 1947 the "Train of the Goddesses" (one of the second pair of Twin Zephyrs) hit a bulldozer (which had fallen off a freight train on the middle track) at about 73 mph and then hit this station s... (more)
RB-2 has arrived in Cincinnati and exchanges paperwork with the Southern Yardclerk on Mehring way. Shortly the train will be at its destination, the Southern's Gest St. Yard.
Here's what is left of 2 WC SD45's. This is a sad thing to see happen to a locomotive. Photographed at the CN IC Woodcrest Shops. Some of WC's SD45's were old BN loco's.
Regional train Palermo-Messina
An assortment of power sits at NRE Dixmoor waiting for an unknown future.
Moments before 1361 would move again under her own power in over thirty years.
"Point-no-Point Fire"
At dusk, electrics E75 and E29 wait silently for tonight's assignment: to haul a heavy eastbound freight over St. Paul Pass, with E75 as lead unit, and E29 cut into the train as helper.
Marksuhl
Seaboard Air Line No. 8, "The Sunland" is working through the now suburban community of Raleigh, NC known as Millbrook. The consist of No. 8 on this day is typical of the era, heavy on the mail a... (more)
MHWA Alco C425 #805 is about to come across the appropriately-named Railroad Street bridge in Rome, NY after switching Rome Strip Steel. The street and the tracks run alongside each other through... (more)
Reading F7 A-A units are eastbound to Philadelphia under the suburban multiple-unit cantenary.
L&N #152 making excellent time on her way to Boston, KY. A pan shot at 1/13th. For more panned photos Railroad: Louisville & NashvilleLocomotive: Steam 4-6-2Location: New Haven, Kentucky, USALocomotive #: LN 152Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: August, 2008
Having seen better days, SLRG 576 & 578 sitting waiting on a dinner train that will never come. They should soon be back in New Jersey. Note the cracked windshields.
DC to AC conversion engine NS 4005 spends Saturday night in the yard at Delanson after catching fire around MP 487. At the time it was leading NS 11R south towards Binghamton with the NS 8101 trai... (more)
Two officials inspect the damage to the cab of Chicago and North Western EMD SD38-2 No. 6651. A switching mishap where two trains tried to occupy a diamond at the same time is being cleaned up at ... (more)
Very first GG1 with the original riveted body. Locomotive was only one painted in the blue Conrail scheme.
McCloud River Railroad #25 spent 86 years on the McCloud before the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad purchased her in 2011. We're glad they did as she put on a show leaving the yard on a crisp winter... (more)
