Former Wabash F7 671 is relettered and renumbered in the Norfolk and Western scheme heading east on the Oakville Sub at Bayview on train 462. This was a GMD Canadian built unit and was one of a s... (more)
Two BHP Billiton GE AC6000 CW' back to back showing the massive radiators needed to keep the big 7HDL cool.
A pair of doomed GP60's from some apparent wreck are making their last trip over the railroad.
Double traction steamtrain with the two former Deutsche Bahn "Pacific" 01 202 (Association Pacific 01 202 in Lyss, Switzerland) and 01 1066 (lettered as 012 066) of the Ulmer Eisenbahnfreunde. The... (more)
Dark Side- Dark Future, CSX SD80Mac makes a welcome appearance on the CN Waukesha Sub, rolling down the foot of Byron Hill at Valley. Hwy 151 is vaulted on this new bridge, try not to stair at the... (more)
Steam at Morant's Curve. What could be better?
Little Joe E70 helps eastbound train.
All 4 of the demo SD60MAC's sit waiting for more testing.
The depth and ruggedness of the Royal Gorge west of Canon City is evident in this view perched on the suspension bridge over the canyon that is 955 feet above the Arkansas River. On July 26, 1996,... (more)
This pair of CLC CFA 16-4s were in their declining years when captured at Cranbrook, BC in April 1968. The 4104 survives in a historic locomotive collection in Alberta.
A look into the dark, dirty and gritty tunnels that are part of Toronto's underground transportation network. The northbound and southbound University line tracks are pictured on either side of th... (more)
Chicago & North Western H class 4-8-4 by the coal stage at an unknown depot in the 1930s. It was built by Baldwin in 1929.
The Reading Terminal:
In 1893, the Reading Company built a passenger terminal and its company headquarters at this location in downtown Philadelphia to better serve its customers and com... (more)
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)
The Northeastern United States Blizzard of 1978 was was finally beginning to melt away (nine days after the storm ended). Still this set of DL&W MUs needed help from an ex PC GP38-2 (the MUs' pans... (more)
An ex Santa Fe FP45 and three SD45's rumble through Grays Lake as they head for Schiller Park. They are about to hit the ex MILW diamonds that is now operated by Metra.
This northbound freight crossing the bridge of Penios river at Tempi valley on the way to Thessaloniki.
An E60CH on its last legs helps out a younger AEM7 "meatball" with a Northeast Direct train. The older unit was probably a rescue add on at Philly. At this point in time, the E60CHs were 'protec... (more)
Ex German (till 1945),then Polish Army (till 1973)armored train.
American Freedom Train 4-8-4 4449 (ex-SP GS-4 4449) arrives at its display stop at Anaheim Stadium in (of course) Anaheim, CA early in the morning on January 9, 1976.
There are two surviving NYC "Mohawks": number 2933 at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, MO and number 3001 at the National NYC Railroad Museum in Elkhart, IN.
Former WP units still occasionally led on home rails in 1985. UP 799 was ex-WP 3022, later sold to Watco's Palouse River RR. Kodachrome 64, Minolta X-700, Rokkor 50mm f2.
"Fox River" theater inspection car. Originally built in 1954 by Pullman-Standard for CN as a buffet-lounge-sleeper.
The hogger waits for a hand signal to highball. PRR Class M1a.
The Adirondack Scenic RR uses a Geep lettered for the Adirondack & St. Lawrence RR [#6076] and is shown southbound one mile south of the Thendara depot in a thick morning fog. Within three miles ... (more)
Derailed in the vicinity of station Retiro leaving a toll of 35 injured
The Eureka Southern was one of the more colorful and scenic shortlines in California during its all too short life trying to operate the north end of the former NWP.
The Mallet that flies on the clouds! Valley of the Dorfù Km 110
In pretty rough shape ...
The tracks are down there somewhere. An almost unrecognizable West Portal of the Cascade Tunnel as BNSF goes into full-blown snow removal mode in early 2008 after an insane series of storms... (more)
Close Call! Not even a mile into its annual journey, Conrail's Browns Yard Santa Train comes within inches of hitting a car at the Bordentown Avenue (CR-615) grade crossing in ... (more)
NS Derailment at Bucyrus on the Sandusky District, 10 cars came off the tracks
This trainman's night has been made. No doubt the beautiful jade shade "Century Green" E8(A) has put the young lady in receptive mood to the handsome young trainman's attention. Alas it ... (more)
Though they occupy adjacent numerical spots in the L&N roster, 5019 and 5020 exhibit different paint schemes, with 5019 in the older slanted lettering with black outlines and scalloped nose, and 5... (more)
Westbound Metropolitans traverse the Atlantic Avenue Viaduct along the border of the Brownsville section of Brooklyn (across the street through the viaduct legs is Bedford-Stuyvesant). Built in 1... (more)
Power off The Rumford Freight gets positioned on the turntable. Photographer ken Patton reports that it was still possible to roam around railroad property in the sixties with out being thrown out... (more)
Slapping branches, moving 20 directions at once, splashing through water and mud, MAW 4 arrives in Defiance as it passes under Clinton Street. Those branches not only block my camera, they block ... (more)
The Lake Champlain and Moriah was a six mile shortline owned by Republic Steel that was used to bring iron ore from Mineville to Port Henry. It operated two NW-2's, one lettered as LC&M #19 and t... (more)
WW&F Railway No. 9, that's right, No. 9, hauls Victorian Christmas passengers across Humason Brook Trestle on her first day of "revenue" service in 82 years! The word 'revenue' is in quotes becaus... (more)
The new Elkhorn line had been in service only six years. Working hard with clear stack, sanders and rail-washer working, N&W 2198 is about to enter Elkhorn Tunnel. Sister 2181 is pushing on the re... (more)
Local news crews roll tape and interview witnesses for the 12 o'clock news following the grade crossing accident and ensuing fire this morning.
It is very unusefull to shot a ballast train with push-pull Adtranz locos.In appearence of MLWs you can use anything you have.
Although it appears this elephant is exiting this animal car she is actually backing into the car for the ride to the circus' next stop in Lafayette, LA.
"Game over" for steam
Well since North Dakota doesn't plow gravel roads in the winter this was as close I could get to the 1st drift the Bro's Rotary was going to hit near MP 429. After my short walk in I waited to get... (more)
A train waits on track #15 while a work gang tackles trackwork on adjacent rails in the open shed of the Pittsburgh terminal, June 1953. PRR was in the process of renovating the station platforms... (more)
A work train is pushed/pulled through Union Station by a Z1b 2-6-6-2. Three employees ride a Jordan Model 2-180 flanger with wings. It has pneumaticly operated "wings" on either side that are ext... (more)
A former ATSF GP40X and green 2921 stand out in a sea of modern high horsepower EMD and GE locomotives at BNSF's ex-Great Northern engine facility in Superior, Wisconsin. On the left are remnants ... (more)
Showtime
Wood smoke fills the valley as 5348, 5408, 5087, 5123 and 5108 head east from Boston Bar on an eastbound empty coal in August 1985.
In a lush Spring setting, No. 925 climbs Christiansburg Mountain with a GE wide-cab leading three EMD's, while passing through the beautiful hamlet of Shawsville, Va., in gorgeous afternoon light.... (more)
Returning from Rutland
Its owner's plans for renovation never realized, this B&O observation car rests forlornly trackside at Hyndman.
A Southern Railway whistle sign stands at a tilt waiting for another train that will never come to blow by it on the SB line.
Testing, testing... Amtrak's newest electric locomotive model, the ACS-64, is undergoing testing runs on the Northeast Corridor. On Friday night, a test train went north to Boston, and ret... (more)
Surgery on the Island of Sodor. A problem with Thomas has necessitated emergency repairs before he can get back out on the Main Line hauling the children around the island in Annie and Clar... (more)
Texas & New Orleans #982 2-10-2, was built by Brooks Locomotive works in 1919 as #3651. It was donated to the city of Houston (and the Houston Jaycees) in 1957 and was put on display at Herman Par... (more)
Train 501, just left bridge of Thavmakos
On a sunny Spring 1948 day in Kansas, R. G. Janzen photographed a typical scene in Norton, Kansas. A Rock Island R-67b class Northern was captured as it passed eastward through town. Rock Island... (more)
On Friday, July 29, Central Maine & Quebec Railway (CMQ) took delivery of its first of eight rebuilt Electro-Motive Division (EMD) GP38-3 locomotive, #3812, in the company’s new corporate paint ... (more)
Working back towards Ottawa, Illinois, the Illinois Railnet Eola turn sails across the Fox River just outside of Sheridan. Thanks to Don Kalkman for the lighting assistance.
Erie-Lackawanna 3309 west, crossing the Delaware River into Mill Rift, Pennsylvania. The two U33C's are joined by an SDP45, GP35 and wreck damaged EL GP-7. This location is west of Port Jervis N.Y... (more)
Canadian Pacific Railway train 252-11 is seen southbound at Comstock, New York, on the former D&H mainline that is now the Canadian Subdivision, with the Strathcona Tribute SD70ACU 7030 leading AC... (more)
Manufacturing makes the Peoria area rather unique. It seems like almost every went to, but not througn. All the terminal traffic has resulted in this unique short line. There's something we lik... (more)
614 looking neglected with RBMN SD38 2004 sitting behind her.
As the sun sets in the background, BNSF 5968 leads a Roberts Bank coal load through Bellingham, WA on September 11th, 2022.
Young ladies on bicycles await this unique ALCO product to clear the Vermont Street crossing in Blue Island IL. The Rocks 10 C415's were assigned to the Chicago Terminal Division during their ent... (more)
Were They Plotting This Move? Perhaps there was something the veteran EMDs knew on May 29, 2014 at the "Streamliners At Spencer" event at the N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer... (more)
SD70M-2 leads NS unit trash train 64J eastbound at JU through this truss bridge onto the Lehigh Line.
CC20145 has just cut off from KA 1315 tanker train and will run back to Purwokerto. CC20154 is now ready to take KA 1315 for the rest of the trip to Tegal.
Merry Christmas! On the last day of operation in 2007, #734 leads the train around Helmstetter's curve with a fresh dusting of snow on the ground, ice on the trees, and fog in the mo... (more)
At the machine shop at Steamtown, dedicated volunteers and staff continue the complex task of rebuilding PRR 1361.
CP GP7 8418 and a pair of GP9s are smoking up the valley with their train brakes as the westbound rail train finishes its descent into Field, BC along the Kicking Horse River.
Motor train #25 (Clovis to Carlsbad, New Mexico) has just left the Clovis wye and is headed south on the Carlsbad District. Motor cars M.160 and M.190 alternated on this run until the trains were ... (more)
The office car Yakima River brings up the rear of the NORTH COAST LIMITED as the train arrives at King Street Station.
Power for Winchendon and Ware local freights standing in front of the station.
From the archives... #7312 was built in 1912 and #911 two years earlier, in 1910. B&W photo taken in the early part of the (this) century. Canadian National. Railroad: Strasburg RailroadLocomotive: Steam 2-6-0Location: Strasburg, Pennsylvania, USALocomotive #: CN 911Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: November 05, 2007
A work train dumping rock on an obscure UP branch line? Think again. This contemporary railroad scene was brought to you by the Illinois Railway Museum, which has seen fit to preserve a 1988-bui... (more)
I don't understand the signal at left, which appears to be indicating 'clear' notwithstanding the oncoming "Hiawatha"
Fireman Joe Dailey throws in a final scoop of coal in preparation for the morning departure.
The northern lights flare over the lovely arches of the old Soo Line High Bridge over the St. Croix River.
Goat Canyon Trestle - 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 Carrizo Gorge is over ... (more)
Canadian Pacific ran their "Starlight" train on CN from CANPA JCT to HAMILTON JCT where it diverged onto the old TH&B Hamilton Sub. NYC 7430, 7431 and 5820 were common power on the Starlight usua... (more)
The newest electric romanian locomotive, presented at the RailWay Exposition 2009, in Bucharest North RailStation. I want to thank Serban Stanescu because he helped me to do this picture. Zilele F... (more)
Snow-plow action at Afidnai station.
Pacific 564.36 'Temerloh' leaves the magnificent colonial-style Kuala Lumpur station with a photo charter for just 5 gricers!
A 1960s mix of power - F3A&B, F9B, and a pair of GP20s are heading into the yard to take a train out of Superior, Wisconsin, in August of 1976.
A northbound BNSF vehicle train cruises along the south Puget Sound on it's way to New Westminster BC from Richmond CA. The train is only seconds away from meeting a southbound empty UP oil trai... (more)
