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.
Stuffed and Mounted: Unfortunately, with the Grand Canyon Ry having purchased several EMD F40's for power, the MLW cab units that once ruled the roost have gone by the wayside. A couple FPA... (more)
Amtrak Regional 156 crosses the James River after leaving Lynchburg, VA on the morning of Sunday, November 24, 2019 with P42DC 130 (Phase II) in the lead. The side view shows the persepctive of t... (more)
Enjoyed a wonderful evening at the Railgiants Museum in Pamona. Learned some new tricks from Steve Crise, with some talented actors and actresses among their great collection of eguipment.
A westbound SP pig train was approaching Ferrum Jct near the shores of Salton Sea back when it was safe to swim in and a popular place to spend a weekend.
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.
New motors for Chinese National Railways, Hamersley Iron, and BNSF receive their final inspection prior to shipment to their new homes.
A string of stored units, mostly SD70Ms, sits in the dust and soot of California wildfires as a fuel truck passes after having just fueled up some active road units (hidden out of view on another ... (more)
RE 32739 on the way from Lindau to München.
Union Pacific's first two Heritage painted EMD SD70ACe locomotives arrive at the Qwest Center in Omaha Nebraska for the UP's "Heritage Celebration" event.
One of the luckier days of my railfan life. Screeched the rental car to a stop and caught this train on the George-Knysna line behind a small boat. Note the intermodal container behind the tende... (more)
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)
At this time this NYS&W boxcar was used for storage space at the Little Ferry roundhouse. The car was scrapped a few years later.
Jean-Marc Frybourg has recently loaded two photos of this engine after its removal from a plinth, where it had stood for 40 years, with the possibility of it being restored to working order. Here ... (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)
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)
EL 7091 is teamed with an Alco on this freight seen at the station in Salamanca, NY.
The old SP&S grade has been turned into a biking and hiking path from Pasco to Spokane. Although it was a well engineered (grade and curve wise) line, the cuts were narrow and prone to rock slide... (more)
The Legends of Steam head south across the lift bridge 14, enroute to Portland. The shortened trains features SP 4449 and UP 844.
The late evening sun casts a warm glow on a collection of goodies at CN's Woodcrest Shops. We have a GMD GMD1u, a CN GP9RM, a CN GP38-2W and a BLE tunnel motor altogether. It's no surprise seeing ... (more)
Stop the lights. Electric locomotive "class 350" of Slovak railways makes switch operations at the Main Prague station (Praha Hlavní nádraží). On this photo you can see a new ... (more)
A rainy and dreary day keeps us in the car, but it can't dampen the spirits of young and old alike who have turned out to see the famous steam locomotive my three year old affectionately calls "th... (more)
(Yee-haw! I've been after this photo for years!) After slipping past a stopped manifest freight on the other main, the eastbound Empire Builder hits the single tracked section across the Cu... (more)
A southbound train of lumber rumbles down the 2.2 percent grade through the spectacular Cheakamus canyon.
PNER 1751 GP9 is coupled to the tender to move UP 4012 a short distance for display purposes.
Coal Unit Train on the Tumbler Ridge Branch. A Roger Puta photograph.
With Kirk Yard's old EJ&E roundhouse at the center of it all, Norfolk Southern's eastbound B09 hustles east on the Chicago Line with a pair of SD40-2's. The only thing missing is a freighter comin... (more)
Lettered and numbered as a Clinchfield, the Challenger begins the 50th Anniversary Santa Train run.
#33 is tended to at the pit after a day of work around the yard. One of the workers has taken notice of the photographer in his midst.
A local railfan couple take in the action of the newest steam railroad in America during the 1960s as Strasburg Rail Road #90 hustles west with its daily passenger train along the Road to Paradise... (more)
The B&O would soon abandon Grand Central for the CNW Station until Amtrak brought B&O trains to Union Stration. For a shot of the B&O in CNW Station see: http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/sh... (more)
On the complete opposite end of the beauty scale from the U25C is the BQ23-7. Being a GE fan does not prevent the feeling that this is perhaps the ugliest locomotive ever built. But you can hard... (more)
We're on the ground! Something no one wants to hear. Some derailments are minor, some are not. The C&NW had a bad wreck in March of 1985 north of Milwaukee. The wreck happened right next to the fr... (more)
One of thirteen BB40-9W waiting to move west then east to be exported to East Africa.
A fixed semaphore stands tall in the faint glow of the 2017 eclipse in totality.
Yeard operations for this MLW in front of some split oils.
Just weeks away from abandonment, ATSF's "San Francisco Chief" is at Collier. The green hills in this photo are now covered with houses.
Train VIA 26, engine VIA 911, leaving Ste Rosalie Qc on the Drummondville sub, with a complete Renaissance set
Taken from the appropriately named "Dog Beach Park", BNSF 7660 leads a train off the long bridge into Sandpoint.ID. on a very warm June evening.
In the northeast part of Denver, Brighton Boulevard goes under the Brush Sub track. As you can see from the damage, it is not uncommon for trucks to get wedged under the overpass due to low cleara... (more)
Santa Fe's original CF7 rebuild, 2649, the only one that retained the original F unit cab from which it was built rests side by side with an F unit which will eventually be transformed into a CF7 ... (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)
Shoving at Highland Avenue - Metrolink Train #687 with a leased Utah Transit "Front Runner" car leaves the station at Fullerton California on a warm November morning enroute to Los Angeles.
"Bella Vista" dome sleeper and diner, running on the "Coast Starlight".
The scrapping process of old locomotives continues at the NRE shop in Silvis.
A pilgrimage called Palkhi or Wari is one of the most amazing events going on since 1000 years... (more)
Here's a loco new to RP. PRR 0-6-0 #60 is a 1913 graduate of Juniata. She has 56" drivers, 22x24" cylinders, and could make over 36,000 lbs. of tractive effort. Though numerous details indicate he... (more)
Guiding Light Norfolk and Western 1218 is guided out of the Virginia Museum of Transportation museum grounds to begin its short journey down to the O Winston Link Museum. Who knows what th... (more)
A MOW window West of Needles has caused quite a delay on the Transcon. Five trains are parked at Needles seen in this photo waiting to go West out of town. Three of the trains already have a crew ... (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)
Something New, Something BrokenRecently-released red mane (or Knuckles Bonnet, you decide) rebuild 8520 was posed out in the open for a few days following its official PR photos. Am... (more)
A friend was on the way to USAF OTS at San Antonio so it was an opportunity of a road trip. Thank goodness for such opportunities, and Kodachrome 25.
Not the Ritz! The cab interior of Soo SD60M No. 6062 has seen better days...
See Something, Say Something Upon chasing the M-SHNS to the NS Meridian yard I noticed a “rider” in the DPU of this train... (more)
The unique NS test bed NS 1000, the former Erie Lackawana 3632 and Conrail Q1 sits behind the shops in Altoona. Also visible in the photo is the NS F unit 4270 getting ready before its next run on... (more)
NS 211 slows for the hamlet of Markham on the NS B-line. Nikon D70.
For rock blasting operations in the Kräbelwand the catenary of the Rigibahn had to be dismantled. The work trains for transportation of the material were carried out with the steam locomotive H 2... (more)
The Roy O. Disney pulls out of Toontown Station headed toward Main Street Station
CC20327 is coming back!
Looking northward just east of the Altoona depot, centercab BS24m 8965 chugs by with a cut of coal. The freight depot is in the center of the photo.
The 'T' stood for 'Transfer', meaning the locomotive was capable of faster transition and higher sustained speeds than the regular 'S' - type yard switcher series. There were only 57 built and N&W... (more)
One of the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's ex-U.S. Army GP7s rests alongside the ex-Haysi Railroad F7B at the museum's East Chattanooga shops. The remote controlled equipped B-unit was sold by ... (more)
Fort Worth, we have a problem. Diesel fuel cascades from the walkway of BNSF 4019 as it departs Grass Lake, CA, following a stop to shut down the unit. Railroad: BNSF RailwayLocomotive: GE C44-9W (Dash 9-44CW)Location: Grass Lake, California, USALocomotive #: BNSF 4019Train ID: H-BARPAS1-20DPhoto Date: June 22, 2013
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)
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A busy scene at Karwan Bazar in Dhaka. A train for the Biswa Ijtema festival at Tongi has just cleared the road crossing, so life returns to the street. Note the small trolley following the train.
"Raggedy Ann" ...
As a result of the 2006 washouts on sections of the Port of Tillamook Bay's route, the railroad's 6164 was stranded on the eastern side of the Coast Range. This engine's life would not last long a... (more)
UP 1853 (former SSW 8054), Meets it's fate in Pocatello, Idaho. I remember seeing these B truck Southern Pacific locomotives when they were brand new in California, pulling the hottest trains on t... (more)
It's not everynight one gets to shoot a passing train from inside a brand new covered bridge! Even in Vermont. With snow falling at over an inch an hour outside, SD 90 MAC 125 leads a rare night m... (more)
The future for this unit? AMP is rebuilding three of these into road slugs for use out west.
Have a drink on me With no water in their second unit and not enough power to bring this loaded coal train south, U250 must come to a stop in downtown West Point and get a quick drink... (more)
An NS mine run loads met coal at the ArcelorMittal/Mid Vol Leasing Dan's Branch loadout
Salvage company Carney & Hancock workers transload a damaged FGDA covered hopper, moving the corn from the railcar to truck. This was in RI's Short Line Yard in Des Moines, IA back in the summer ... (more)
One of IC/ICG's rare GP28s - it's orange paint faded almost to pink - leads the daily train to Artesia, MS out of the yard. My best non-railfan buddy was with me on this trip, and he and the crew... (more)
Objects in mirror appear closer than they are! There is no need to bail out of the truck... With a protect against in place with 316, the train creeps up to the back of my hi rail to drop off a re... (more)
An eastbound empty auto rack train was just topping the grade at Summit taken from the old right of way for the wye that used to be here used to turn steam helper power. This vantage point was ver... (more)
This was the engine of my youth, CB&Q’s handsome O-5 Class Northern, which I watched from my grandmother’s backyard in Denver’s Globeville section. And just about the time I thought I would... (more)
NS 364 going past the Brook Park RTA station into Rockport yard with Reading Railroad T-1 2100. In the background is the Ford Motor Company engine plant. It is going to restored into operation at ... (more)
Crispy Critter
Here is one of CN's new locomotive's in its uncommon paint schemes.
An overview of Lehigh Valley’s Bethlehem Engine Terminal reveals a variety of power in various states of readiness. As an SW1 leaves the turntable and heads out to work, two RS-11’s are on one... (more)
Rio Grande's Roper and Helper steam derricks were called to clean up a 13 car derailment at West Gilluly on March 28, 1976. GP9s 5922 and 5932 handled the Roper wrecker with crane 027 while GP40-2... (more)
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)
It is a bittersweet story for the 450-foot-long, 60-foot high timber Lake Matawan Trestle. NJT, who owns the ex-CNJ Freehold Branch planned on tearing down the trestle in 1998 to prevent lawsuits ... (more)
Derailment occured across the street from Red Bank Fire Department Station #1.
848 leads SD75M 232 and Dash 9-44CW 687 climbing the grade towards Bealville.
