The long train 1615 from Tirano to St.Moritz is rounding the more then 180 degree panorama curve in Alp Grüm, pulling is "Allegra" ABe 8/12 # 3515. In front of the railcar, flanger Xk #... (more)
#7218 beging unloaded from the ship, this is the first SD40-2 in Argentina.
This turbine load along with the generator on the next flat back comprise the bulk of the widest load to be shipped out of the Twin Ports.
Oops... A BNSF Big Stone Power empty coal train looks to have been sideswiped by some loaded grain cars from the Aberdeen Wheat Growers' Plant on the west end of town.
GM 2137 passes Maraziq with a Cairo to Luxor Express .
Uh oh. Trouble on the Jellico Branch.
A westbound intermodal approaches the newly built Truxton Flyover, as an eastbound manifest take the flyover track on a windy, October morning. After 10 months of construction, the Truxton Flyover... (more)
Local train formed of Budd cars converted to loco hauled vehicles, plus boxcars converted to basic passenger carrying cars.
A wide range of locomotive types and paint schemes can be seen at Amtrak's Beech Grove shops. This includes AMTK 1000 (GE 80 Tonner) in the foreground and #66 sporting Amtrak's Phase II heritage p... (more)
An astonishing NINE classic Alcos assigned as mid-train helpers, work a Utah Railway coal train approach Soldier Summit the afternoon of Sept. 3, 1978. The consist includes RSD-4s No. 301, 300, 30... (more)
The invisible train! I can`t even guess at the loco class. A train returning pilgrims from the final day of the Biswa Ijtema at Tongi heads for Dhaka Kamlapur. We were joined by a TV crew,here, t... (more)
Passengers enjoy the scenic view of Lake Blackshear from the platform of the Georgia Railroad "Dearing", at the rear of the SAM Shortline's "Presidential Flyer" excursion train... (more)
Restored. After being moved to a new location towards the end of last year, venerable boxcab CN 6710 has now been repainted and restored. CN 6710 was built by General Electric and delivered... (more)
A view inside the vast Strasburg steam shops shows CN 7312 under rebuild, along with a pair of 4-6-0s (one standard gauge, one narrow gauge). Of note, UP 844 drivers are at Strasburg for some TLC,... (more)
Power sits at the East end of Crowsnest Yard. Sentry Mountain looms over the scene
Hey kid turn around.
Unlucky 13: Stacks capped, three B&O GP7's and ten first generation EMD switchers wait to be picked up in Bethlehem, PA. Their presence here indicates that they are more than likely en route to Na... (more)
West Jersey Chapter NRHS Fantrip posing with a classic 1955 Chrysler Imperial.
A Japanese meter gauge loco pushing a crane in an open car.Destination: a derailed dmu unit
Training Day: A line of guide dogs in training is seen as NJ Transit Northeast Corridor Line Train 7828 pulls into Metuchen station on a Saturday morning. The dogs were brought to the sta... (more)
Tailgating the Nostalgia Special! In what has become a welcomed annual tradition, for New York Yankees Opening Day the MTA New York City Transit Subway/New York Transit Museum operated its 1917 IR... (more)
NS 5406 (ex-CR 6712) was retired from the active roster in early May 2013 and is seen here after being disassembled. As part of the SD40E capital rebuild program it will be rebuilt as NS 6354. To ... (more)
Readville to Selkirk freight is on the move again after picking up orders from the junction tower operator. Off to the side notice a smashed box car, one load that did not make the trip west that ... (more)
UP 4014 and 844 steaming in the sunrise
A doomed entity on its own, the Michigan Northern is pretty much summed up in this photo. Contracted in 1976 by the State of Michigan to operate the former Grand Rapids & Indiana line, the MIGN co... (more)
While my heart will always be with the Rio Grande's nifty fleet of GP30s, I did make an effort to photograph the GP40 and GP40-2 motors in local service. D&RGW 3101, 3111, and 3148 prepare to pull... (more)
E-3209 electric locomotive of Italian origin, built in 1960, returning to activity in 2014 after many years by mechanical problems. Built especially for the railroads of Chile by the Italian conso... (more)
CN 6060 exhausts steam from her cylinder cocks as she runs light through the GT's yard in Portland, ME. She was preparing to handle the second day of a Montreal to Portland and return roundtrip. ... (more)
Santa Fe power was serviced at HB&T's Milby St. Facility.
The Altoona Critter UTLX 1032, a vintage 2-axle switcher works Union Tank Car Company in Altoona almost every day despite its age.
Rio Grande Alco PA-1 #6011 and F7B #5712 slowly accelerate from Denver Union Station with the southbound Royal Gorge on November 15, 1958. Photo from my slide collection, photographer Lou Schmitz.
As the tie replacement continues along the WofA mainline, numerous crossings will also be upgraded with new ties, a fresh top layer of asphalt and new rail of course. Which is exactly the scene t... (more)
Hobo Fire Ring - Seats from one of the of the former Chicago Northwestern (CNW) commuter cars in the background on Dubbers Spur lie on the ground around a fire pit apparently used by some o... (more)
EMD Demo's bring empties south, railroad east, along CSX's Mon Sub as the sun breaks through the rain clouds, reflecting in the Monongahela River on a calm and peaceful Monday evening.
Eastbound making good speed on the superelevated curve the Geneva local roles thru the vineyards along Seneca Lake.In a matter of days on 4-1-76 trains stopped running here.
A Pair Of Bananas. Progress Rail 7214 and 7215 (SD70ACe-T4) sit the Electro-Motive Division facility in McCook, Illinois on the evening of Thursday, January 28, 2021. These units are back ... (more)
Just shy of the midnight hour, 16th Street Relief operator Madelyn Gonzalez jots down the passage of Metra Rock Island District's last train into LaSalle Street for the night, as its' MP36 locomot... (more)
A 1950s beauty crosses in front of Minaz 39020 near Cienfuegos. The train was actually stopped, so all is well. Does anyone know the model and year etc of the car?
We are standing just north of the Delaware border waiting on the Chessie Steam Special when a local freight passes from the other direction. This is the Baltimore & Ohio's Philadelphia Division, ... (more)
Was this Amtrak's only "lightning stripe" unit?
What do you do to make two different things come together and work as one?... "COMPROMISE" That's exactly what is done to join two different size rails. A 136 lb rail and 100 lb rail a... (more)
How about this view? A westbound grain train crawls down the hill at 15MPH, overlapping itself in the Lower Spiral Tunnel. The train is just about to emerge in a cloud of exhaust and brake shoe sm... (more)
Heading west at the end of the California Zephyr, business car "Denali" has just been remodeled by Colorado Railcar.
GP40-2 # 3002 switching at the shop
The Bangor & Aroostook colors took to home rails for its debut run with freight out of Millinocket, Maine on November 8. Central Maine & Quebec train #420-08 is seen crossing Twin Lakes south of M... (more)
The westbound Lake Cities makes its station stop, gets serviced and recrewed.
Mamiya 645 color negative (500 mm lens)
The Pittsburg & Shawmut Brookville turn has finished switching at Ringgold, Pennsylvania, and is continuing toward Mahoning with a train of loads from the mina at Dora, which can be seen above the... (more)
Sounder Train 1517 is crossing the new Sound Transit Tacoma bridge as heads for the Tacoma Dome Station. The remains of the historic Milwaukee Road S-Curve trestle are off to the right. Another ... (more)
Where electrics formerly ruled, Milwaukee Road Extra 21 East was reaching for the sky near Adair, Idaho on July 19, 1978 as it climbed the 1.7% grade toward St. Paul Pass and Montana in the Bitte... (more)
The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express is a rare guest on the Lötschberg line. Today it was scheduled to run via the Gotthard route, but since that line is closed for several weeks due to a landslide,... (more)
Ouachita Railroad GMD-1 #23 rests alongside Camden & Southern SW-9 #20 at the South Arkansas Intermodal Park in Camden, AR.
Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6704 is at the railroad’s South Morrill Locomotive Facility for an overhaul, with the new prime mover arriving from the staging area in the shop on September 14, 20... (more)
How do you move one of the the AAR type A switcher trucks from Coors Brewing Company EMD SW8 No. C989 into the shop? Use a P1050. What is a P1050? A Coors Chevy 3500 company truck equipped with a ... (more)
GECX 6002 is out on the GE Test track for tests with the first Hybrid unit, GECX 2010
Still wearing Family Lines heritage paint, work is about to begin on this unit.
Having visited a car repair shop somewhere along the system recently, this aggregate hopper stands out from its neighbors with a fresh coat of paint. But what’s really surprising and noteworthy... (more)
Taggers must've taken a liking to BNSF 7767 shown here with significant graffiti covering the long hood. The unit is leading a manifest through Blue Cut west of the infamous Cajon Pass on a beauti... (more)
And the April 2008 Darwin Award goes to...the guy in the black S10. For those wondering, the loco was moving, if only at roughly 10 MPH. The pickup, however, barely cleared since the driver had a... (more)
Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Alco DL535 No. 101 rests in the afternoon sun near the roundhouse in Durango, Colorado, on August 30, 2021. The D&SNG purchased four of these six-axle Alc... (more)
Valley Railroad ALCo 2-8-2 is pulling forward to dump ash and the fireboy is going for the next switch. While this work was common years ago, it has vanished for the most part throughout the world... (more)
Waiting in the wings. As Monson Locomotive #4 retires (for the near term), the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company and Museum is actively working on the next locomotive, which will power it... (more)
This loaded Detroit Edison rotary dump coal hopper suffered some sort of problem before it was set out in aptly-named Hazard, Nebraska, on BNSF's Sand Hills Subdivision. It has buckled and sagged ... (more)
These units were recently brought in from the derailment site on the Front Range subdivision.
This is where you climb through the nose to get to the cab of a AC4400CW.
A CSX train returns from the ADM plant in Hudson, N.Y., running down 7th Street for a block past the Iron Horse Bar.
A couple bricks in the pit - two GE E44s await their next assignment in Meadows Yard in Kearny. This area was known as the pit and soil there was always black, but with poisonous looking rainbows ... (more)
The LIRR's Harsco Spreader dubbed "Darth Vader" makes its official mainline run in the snow, mainly for the media to show the tax payer that their $1.5 million investment isn't rusting t... (more)
This one began as C&O, then to CERA, then to Scoular Grain. That air conditioner arrangement seems to be popular. We saw others. The 110VAC comes from a little Honda generator. She appeared to... (more)
The Chicago bound Southwest Chief pulls into Fullerton as a family watches from the pedestrian bridge. A group of rail fans wave as the baggage cart, right edge, waits for the train to stop.
Sitting in Portola yard during the early stages of sunrise is the FRRS Dunsmuir Railroad Days Special with UP's famed DD40X "Centennial" 6936, sporting american flags for the 4th of July. Nikon D2... (more)
A fairly elusive locomotive to me was finally out in the open for a shot today. I've run across this one a few times in the past but it was always either on the way to TTCI at Avondale, CO or EMD... (more)
Amtrak's newest wrapped Acela trainset roars through Levittown, PA on it's second day of revenue service. After the success of their first wrapped train for the History Channel, TLC's hit show Cak... (more)
On a dreary day in Alaska's largest city, the Alaska Railroad Grandview Cruise Train idles on the ARR's impressive boarding platform at Anchorage International Airport. In a few minutes, th... (more)
GN 562 in Big Sky Blue handle home built caboose X-1 and a classic GN caboose along with a string of ore jennies at Allouez Yard 6 months after the BN merger. The jennies include a somewhat rare j... (more)
While following the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon, an eastbound BNSF grain train passes Toston Dam east of Toston, Montana, running on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision on the morni... (more)
An old Alco S2 or S4 converted to a remote slug works Red Ash Coals load out at Litwar W.Va.
Lehigh Valley 8104, Norfolk Southern's eighth heritage locomotive, rests outside the Juniata Paint Shop, sporting a new "nose job". For more information, visit ... (more)
To think this is how it all starts...
CP Presidential Train 40B is wasting no time as they head down the hill for St. Paul Yard. The BNSF westbound visible below on the St. Paul Sub is stalled out, and the conductor is in the process ... (more)
Union Pacific's EMD DD35B's mingle with stored GP9/SD24A and B units on the deadline at Council Bluffs on November 12, 1979. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer listed... (more)
The workers train has just departed west yard at Sandaoling on the 3rd of March 2014. Engine crews would change over at this location twice a day to work their 12 hour shift and service the engine... (more)
One of Utah County's biggest employers, United States Steel's Geneva Works, appears to be working at capacity as Rio Grande's Provo Switcher departs the mill with 60 cars for Provo Yard. Include... (more)
This unit became a trade in for a GP38 in 1966.
