CNW 6706 rests at the end of a long string of stored C628's in the new ore yard at Escanaba. After being stored in December of 1986 the Alcos spent quite awhile in the number six ore yard with der... (more)
I don't understand the signal at left, which appears to be indicating 'clear' notwithstanding the oncoming "Hiawatha"
SD70M-2 leads NS unit trash train 64J eastbound at JU through this truss bridge onto the Lehigh Line.
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)
Pacific 564.36 'Temerloh' leaves the magnificent colonial-style Kuala Lumpur station with a photo charter for just 5 gricers!
At the machine shop at Steamtown, dedicated volunteers and staff continue the complex task of rebuilding PRR 1361.
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)
QNS&L SD70ACe #504 is one part of a 7-unit order for the Iron Ore hauler in Quebec built in December 2009. QNS&L 504 and 505 were taken out toward the 'Y' on this chilly Canadian December aft... (more)
The office car Yakima River brings up the rear of the NORTH COAST LIMITED as the train arrives at King Street Station.
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)
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)
I was just a kid and using my father's Voigtlander camera on occasion. We were fortunate to see Rio Grande No.1, the "Royal Gorge", as it made its scheduled stop in the depths of the Ark... (more)
Arriving of an army train in Immendingen. Military people practice unloading and loading of army vehicles on trains.
On Norwegians Nordland line Bodø-Fauske-Trondheim, six new "Euro 4000" dieselelectric locomotives from Vossloh took over freight traffic from CD66 (JT42GTW) shortly. CD 312 001, the first of the ... (more)
As a heavy fog begins to clear and the sun starts to come out, BNSF 6785 leads a southbound Roberts Bank coal empty through the forests near Samish, WA on January 14th, 2022.
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.
Copper Basin Railway engineer Aaron Nichols runs EMD GP39 No. 401 on the Smelter Job up the hill out of Hayden Junction to the Arsarco Smelter complex at Hayden, Arizona, on the morning of April 2... (more)
It's a busy evening in Fullerton, California, on October 25th, 2013, as Amtrak "Pacific Surfliner" 784 (Goleta to San Diego) makes a stop on Track 3, while Metrolink train 689, with a leased forme... (more)
Wayne Allen photo.
7,100 Horsepower at Speed!An ALP-46 races through the Garden State towards New York City as seen here in a Railroad: NJ TransitLocomotive: Bombardier ALP-46Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey, USALocomotive #: NJT 4601Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: May, 2010
The best dispatchers anticipate train movements far in advance - and as a result are probably pretty good at playing Tetris! "I've got an eastbound here, a track out of service there, and a westb... (more)
Tanks and trucks, westbound. CN 705 (an empty oil train) has a good 50 or so flat cars with military equipment destined for Wainwright, Alberta. For a photo of the head end of this t... (more)
Cedar River local is back up to 40 mph as they head south out of Charles City with a 30 car train. The crew fought their way this far with the heavy snow drifts, as seen by this pair of snow cover... (more)
Snow-plow action at Afidnai station.
A six unit consist alternating between Geeps and Fs races along the Columbia River, passing underneath WA state Hwy 14 near Underwood, WA as it makes its way towards Vancouver, WA from Wishram. Th... (more)
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)
Wildfire smoke has returned to the Puget Sound, at the cost of other's misery, we get an interesting sunset. Just in time is this UP oil train from Canada, complete with Heritage unit CP 7012. T... (more)
Special heritage service between Santiago - Limache by the old Mapocho - Valparaiso line, pass by the former Rungue Station, currently abandoned and normally only sees freight trains passing by th... (more)
Canadian Pacific 2-10-4 "Selkirk" class T1c. Built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1949, with 63 inch drivers and 78,000 lbs tractive effort. For more pics & videos from my collection see my websi... (more)
Union Pacific’s unique rail detector car DC-3 smokes it up a bit at is excellerates while inspecting UP’s Kearney Subdivision main line in July 1981. This car was originally built in 1928 as a... (more)
Me and My Reflection. The first section of the Valley Railroad's North Pole Express passes by a very calm Pratt Cove in Deep River, CT with a full trainload of families ready to visit with Santa ... (more)
After the Rock shut down, Milwaukee Road handled the traffic on the west end out of Davenport, the patrol seen passing the junction with the BCR&N at West Liberty eastbound. The station was event... (more)
A unique view with 4 MLWs, A508,A510,A509 and A461.
Reading 2100 on its first revenue run.
Alameda Speedway entrance from approach to LAX. This is apparently Butte Street Junction. Two (looks like UP) Gensets are visible in the southwestern (photo upper) section of the yard.
32 years…… It had been 32 years since the symphony of steam had last echoed through Soledad Canyon as former Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 returns to her home in Los Angeles after being on hand at Vince... (more)
Operations in the middle of a dark and cold night.
In early 1968 the New Haven retired its ten Loewy-style Fairbanks-Morse H16-44s (590-599) and lined up eight of them at Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT, to await disposition. They would be scrapp... (more)
An Operation Lifesaver special heads South down Burlington Northern's Front Range Sub. heading towards Denver.
In the late 1970s BN was power short and continued to use older Fs and Geeps on secondary trains. This seven unit consist waiting its next assignment at Auburn, WA features BN 706, former GN 260A,... (more)
A Railfan's CEO The well known and loved NS CEO Wick Moorman gives a friendly wave as he and fellow guest ride inside the “Buena Vista” car while the Norfolk Southern OCS slowly rolls ... (more)
Taken on a cold but fairly clear day Thanksgiving Weekend in 1966. Kodachrome II film.
An interesting Carolina Southern consist (GP18 951, F9B 6622 and GP38 4002) is tied down in Mullins, South Carolina, and protected by a smashboard at the CSX diamond. The CALA line was originally ... (more)
A ten-hour late Southwest Chief with a BNSF Dash 9 leading and some private varnish on the rear drops down off the Redondo Flyover as it heads into its very last miles before reaching Los Angeles ... (more)
A dmu unit on the way to Athens crossing one of the bridges at Andritsa creek
As the new World Trade Center rises in the background, a Lehigh Valley tug that's mostly hidden behind the second car eases a loaded carfloat into the railroad's Jersey City float bridge. Rail mar... (more)
A group of old locomotives from various railroads sit in storage just outside of Paducah, KY.
The cab driver on the new dmu unit,class 620 200
Approaching Cumbres Pass. With her pops lifting and her Fireman's injector going full-blast, DRGW 453 hauls a mixed freight the last mile up the eastern approach to the 10,000 ft. Cumbres P... (more)
Fire Train Photo by Rick Burn taken from Lodge property, posted with his permission. "The attached photos were taken 3 hours before US 2 and the BNSF (ex GN Mainline) were shutdown by the "Sh... (more)
The Cleveland skyline has changed quite a bit since this 1979 view. Terminal Tower remains pretty much the same, but a lot of new buildings have sprung up. The upper level N&W (NKP) yard is gone a... (more)
Maine Eastern FL-9s at Elliott St. in Thomaston, Maine eastbound
Surrounded by emerald green hills brought to life by Winter rains a monster Roseville to West Colton manifest crawls its way up the western slope of southern California's Tehachapi Pass. Highlight... (more)
Every now and then you come across a real gem. This former Canadian National G8 built in 1954 was spotted in Boulder, Colorado. It used to provide the muscle needed to move rail cars at a shale a... (more)
A Southern Pacific westbound approaches the large West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, with a typically eclectic late-1970s consist that includes U33C, SD40T-2, SD45 and SD45T-2 models. I... (more)
Excursion train with old French loco, passing Papadia bridge.
This is a display of big power stationned at the railroad museum in Ogden.
"LiDAR Test Train at Westfield Plate Co." Amtrak's LiDAR Test Train heads north past the old Westfield Plate Casket Company building on the MRS Line in Enfield, CT. On the rear of the trai... (more)
A pair of QJs hoist a perfect exhaust plume into the cool morning air as they accelerate away from Jingpeng, building speed for the gradients and curves that lie ahead.
An old and beat up C39-8E is among the interesting locomotives scene at Norfolk Southern's Juniata Shops in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Also of note is the yard slug and the road slug wearing the green... (more)
On a frigid January morning, Chicago bound intermodal NS 21J crosses the historic Rockville Bridge over an icy Susquehanna River following days of below freezing temperatures in central Pennsylvan... (more)
Amtrak 176 sits damaged and alone in Portland after hitting a semi-truck earlier in the year. Here, it awaits transport back to Chicago on the Empire Builder.
Mississippian #76. Tucked away on a small stub of track in the SRI Yard in Owosso, a little Consolidation waits patiently for a chance to return to the rails. Built in 1920 by the Baldwin... (more)
A new piece of equipment for the New York & Greenwood Lake Railway, an ex-LIRR Power Pack built for the SP&S in 1949, being drilled out at Croxton Yard.
This ic moving slowly through the old houses at Piraeous area station.
Photographed on Kodachrome Slide film a few minutes after sunrise, Southern Pacific's 'San Francisco Overland' arrives at Bridge Siding, emerging from the famous redwood trestle across the briny w... (more)
The PRR steam deadlines at Trenton are growing on this date. PRR Class H9s.
It was Easter Sunday, 1971, as SP #6461 leads Train #51, the Westbound San Joaquin Daylight, at Fresno, CA. The third car after the baggage is one of SP's "automat" cars. The louvered buildind beh... (more)
Two days after a heavy blizzard covered eastern Colorado.
Atlantic Coast Line E3A 501 (ex-ACL 50) soaks up attention at the EMD 75th Anniversary Open House in McCook, Illinois, on September 21, 1997. (The EMD factory is often shown as being in La Grange... (more)
GM&O EMD E8m 100A on the Chicago to St.Louis "Abe Lincoln" in St. Louis, Missouri May 11, 1968. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer listed on slide.
History passed this way: Near tiny Romeroville, New Mexico, where wagon trains bound for Santa Fe once made their way, Santa Fe Train 23, the Grand Canyon, on July 27, 1967 begins the climb to Glo... (more)
A PRR (Penn Central) E44 waits in Greenville (Jersey City) for a clear signal to take 3 cars and a caboose (er, "cabin car"!) to Newark. Kodachrome scan.
EL 7091 is teamed with an Alco on this freight seen at the station in Salamanca, NY.
It wasn't often that you could photograph the rear of an EMD SDP35, but the opportunity presented itself on this day in January 1967. The yard crew at Raleigh is in charge of the road power for p... (more)
Memorial Day weekend happenings at IRM from above.
The Conrail and Penn Central heritage units pull train 27N west up track three around Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, Pennsylvania, on a cold and windy night. Photo by Casey Thomason. For more i... (more)
Lehigh Valley's carfloat terminal was just north of Jersey Central's Communipaw ferry terminal. Across the Hudson River, the World Trade Center (North Tower) is under construction.
"Santa Fe Progress"
A 110-car loaded unit soybean train from Breckenridge, MN to Seattle, WA derailed 20 cars today just west of McKenzie, closing the heavily used Jamestown sub. The cause of this derailment was foun... (more)
Headed west
Reading and Northern JEQA-09 is tied up for the day at Tamaqua Yard.
One of five (the other four are Tri Rail's in Florida) double deck Diesel Multiple Units (DMU) made by Colorado Railcar Mfg which went bankrupt at the beginning of 2009. For additional exterior a... (more)
On May 12, 1984, Southern Pacific SD45E 7399 (ex-SD45 8837) and SD40E 7342 (ex-SD40 8470) rest in Mojave after assisting SP GS-4 4-8-4 4449, on its way to Los Angeles, over the Tehachapi Mountains... (more)
The southbound Ontario Northland train 214-01 is passing the beautiful depot in Temagami, Ontario, on the way south from Englehart to North Bay with SD75Is 2104 and 2103 leading SD40-2 1734 on Mar... (more)
Two of BNSF's rarest locomotives sit together in the San Bernardino engine facility: PR30C 1320 (one of four Progress Rail-built PR30Cs on the railroad, with only two of them painted in full BNSF ... (more)
Time is running out for Southern's branch connecting Columbus and Griffin, as a GP30 and maybe a dozen cars roll into Concord. That tree trimmer's yellow rig is doing a good job of pretending to ... (more)
