In one of the most unique scenes you could find in 1995 American railroading, custom electric wide-gauge ore transfer cars cruise through the Bethlehem Steel plant on the elevated line. Unfortunat... (more)

History is made, SP 4449 arrives into the city of Chicago. The skyline looms above the Daylight.

A view of the dual control stands common to N&W and Southern locomotives for easier long and short hood forward operations.

The last car of a sixteen car train encountered wide gauge and rolled over. It awaits unloading of it's plastic pellets before being re-railed. Derailment occured 04/15/07.

M338 has an out time of 20:00 at Waterloo for the trip to Kirk Yard, IN. As the days get longer that departure time give some time for some sunset photos east of Waterloo. Today's M338 left at 19:... (more)

The P&WV company news letter was named the 'Hi-Line' and for obvious reasons. By the time the Connellsville Extension had gotten under way, other railroads already coated the area's river valleys.... (more)

Close call. While the westbound empty coal train was slowly crawling by, smoke could be seen over the top. Luckily, AC4400CW 6709, the DPU of the coal train, cleared the crossing as 3985 bu... (more)

Freight with 2 units pass near Trenton

I1s #4420 seen at ground level. No modifications had been made to this locomotive at the time of this photo.

C&O E8 4016 at Cincinnati, June 1967 - Bob Drake photo, collection of Tom Sink

A miner takes his load to the waiting empty C&O hoppers. A little more safer than our friends in China (http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=351563&nseq=71)

A group of Union Pacific employees gather on the platform of Salt Lake City's new passenger terminal while a UTA FrontRunner commuter rail test train departs for Ogden.

Stark gray walls of the massive cut that was once Sunset Tunnel sees the passage of an eastbound BNSF coal train at East Stokes, Wyoming, on June 21, 2020. In the spring of 1998, BNSF daylighted S... (more)

It appears the San Luis & Rio Grande is expanding their fleet of SD9043MAC's. SLRG 111 (painted in Illinois Central colors and sporting Iowa Pacific Holdings lettering on the side) is a former Te... (more)

Sunrise casts a golden glow over "Old Rivets" as it proudly sits in the yard along with other classics from Pennsy's Golden Age of Railroading.

All 4 new Viewliner II cars that have been released from CAF USA in Elmira, NY are seen together on a test train at Rensselaer. The Amtrak test train consists of AMTK 79, Viewliner II Diner AMTK 6... (more)

As light snow falls, CN's newest purchase (EMD demo) is dead and drained as it moves north up Steelton Hill on train Q119, which is over 96 hours behind schedule due to the computer issues 8101 ha... (more)

D&S 107 pulls ahead to start switching out the next days 461, which it'll pull. One of the signs of the changing times on the D&S the last several years has been the introduction of road diesels-e... (more)

Train and bus collision in an accident simulation, for training to firefighters, paramedics and rescue teams

The Empire Builder makes its way through the Cascade Mountains on the Scenic Sub, passing over Sunset Falls. This is one of the most scenic places I've ever witnessed.

The first night of North Pole Express trains out of Essex, Connecticut on the Valley Railroad began with four runs to the "North Pole". Here the second run passes through the Centerbrook section ... (more)

Norfolk Southern train 24Z, led by the Lackawanna Heritage Unit, passes through Phillipsburg, NJ under a dramatic evening sky.

The sun has already set on the east side of the red cliffs as the Moab Uranium Tailings train heads north toward the junction at Brendel with around 5,000 tons of tailings where it will drop off t... (more)

Two classics. The left side locomotive is Vr1. She was built in 1927 by the Tampereen Konepaja. And the right side locomotive is Tk3. She was build in 1947 by the Tampella.

Brand New Tier 2 SD70-2 stretches its legs for the first time on EMD's Test Track

Early in the morning, with fog burning off as the sun climbs, EMD FP45 No. 98 leads a 971 train through the multiple reverse curves of Cable.

On a bright but very cold February 20, 1969, GP7 2811 rolls the (almost) daily local out of Santa Fe, headed down the 18-mile branch to a connection with the main line at Lamy. In 1880, the AT&SF ... (more)

Damage looks bad but shop forces were able to rebuilt unit for many more useful years.

A 10 and a half hour late Amtrak 30, the Capital Limited, makes it's way east through the Schenley Tunnel in downtown Pittsburgh, right below Carnegie Mellon University. Delays were due to trackw... (more)

It was a busy day on the west side of the EL yard/shops in Marion -- just a few weeks before Conrail.

Metra 512 , Westbound at the Union Pacific Western Ave. tower in Chicago Illinois. This leader is one of the new SD70MACH units that METRA purchased recently.

Maine Central had only two RS-11 #801-802. The U25B #226 was an ex Rock Island unit with the same number.

Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 departs San Bernardino with a short freight on as it relocates from San Bernardino to its new home in Los Angeles on January 12, 1999.

A slight touch of hidden flame is quickly extinguished as mop up operations continue on this container box that caught fire on this east bound stack.

The engineers seat in Union Pacific SD70AH No. 1943.

The daily garbage trains sit quietly at Oak Point Yard in the South Bronx as they wait for the overnight lull in Metro-North's commuter train schedule along the Hudson Line. The small window will... (more)

CP 9731 shoves CPKC 112-22 over the Ottertail River, on the aptly named Mountain Sub

Days before the end of ferry service by EL, the commuters from Hoboken to Manhattan via ferry started here on the New Jersey side of the river.

Three SP SD7's rest outside the NWP's Willits roundhouse in August of 1966. turntable was located behind the building and can be seen the the open door. This facility has since been razed.

The timetable allots ten minutes for train 23, Santa Fe’s westbound Grand Canyon, to make its Raton station stop, more than enough for the few passengers waiting to board or disembark. Somewher... (more)

Cab interior shot

Lake State Railway ran a series of passenger specials for company employees as part of the Family Day events on October 15. The train - with GP40-3s 800 and 1166 bookending the passenger equipmen... (more)

A pair of BNSF switchers roll past the laker Joseph L. Block unloading limestone at CN's Dock No. 6. The limestone will be loaded into ore cars for movement to the Minorca pellet plant near Virgin... (more)

Warm spring-like weather provides a nice puddle for reflections as this unit was moved into position to handle storage cars.

The last day before becoming a fallen-flag, the Lehigh Valley terminal at Sayre was the object of a last-minute attempt by the photographer to capture pure LV before the startup of Conrail, some 3... (more)

Couple of units WP engine facility Stockton

Bethlehem Steel’s Grace Mine in Joanna, PA provided countless trainloads of iron ore for the company’s main steelmaking plant in Bethlehem, PA. Joanna was located on the Reading’s Wilmington... (more)

The SAR class 26 number 3450 is better known as "The Red Devil" because of its bright red paint job. This 4-8-4 showed that 1950's steam had by no mean reached the limits of performance. It was de... (more)

Class 66, number 66152 is seen on train 6L69 from Peterborough West Yard to Bow. This is the first loco from this class to be repainted in the DB Schenker colour scheme.

Driver’s view.

Remote controlled engine had a little mishap

P&LE power in the tracks next to the shops at McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania

On a west

Grinding up the .82 percent to Hermosa Tunnel and the 8014-foot summit of Sherman Hill in late September, 1965, Union Pacific 418 leads a motive power consist that could be assembled on no other ... (more)

In April of 1983, the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad yard and the small town of Thistle, Utah became victims of of a landslide which dammed the Spanish Fork River. Residents of the small tow... (more)

Alco on platform.

Southbound Clinchfield freight behind an F unit and two SDs passing through Spruce Pine, NC in the summer of 1970.

A curious driver of a southbound freight train,looking the crashed Adtranz loco

Amtrak's third refurbished Turboliner rests in the yard, with the first RTL III visible in the background.