A lady from the information center of Winter Park Resort stands at the ready to answer any questions from detraining passengers as Amtrak’s Winter Park Express ski train arrives just after exiti... (more)
BNSF SDP40 6327 SAVED!. BNSF Railway donated BNSF 6327 to the Minnesota Transportation Museum. The 6327 (nee-GN 325) is one of six former GN SDP40s 320-325 built in 1966. MTM took delivey ... (more)
Small accident, when electric engine Škoda E499.2 (151 020-5) leave track. Now going on the fasttrains EC and IC again.
Tacoma Rail Freight heading home off the Mountain Division, crossing the old Milwuakee Road Trestle, also used by Sounder Trains
A pair of Burlington Northern EMD SD60Ms lays over in the Soo Line’s locomotive facility at Portage, Wisconsin, in a view from the cab of Amtrak EMD F40PH No. 357 leading the eastbound Empire Bu... (more)
I recently came across my father's old train log book, which he wrote at the age of 11 in 1948. He talked about going from Detroit to Collingswood, NJ to visit his great uncle, Robert F. Mckee, w... (more)
Sacramento Northern a Western Pacific subsidiary company. SN F3As 301-A and 301-D sit in the Stockton yard. Both covered wagons were acquired from the bankrupt New York, Ontario & Western Railroa... (more)
A pair of SP's C415's lead an eastbound Whittier yard to City of Industry yard "hauler" using UP trackage rights in Whittier
Union Pacific 4-8-4 No. 833 was donated to the City of Salt Lake in October 1972 and placed on display in Pioneer Park (not the best area of town). I noticed that the locomotive was looking prett... (more)
Here's a shot railfans don't see everyday: looking east over Lincoln's BNSF yard from about 500' AGL. The overpass is Rte. 77.
'Joe, do you think this was the cause of the wreck?'
NS 793`s power at Scottsboro , Al after a grade crossing accident with a log truck.
Two Baldwin RF-16's Sharks are sitting outside the Columbus, Ohio diesel shops surrounded by EMD F3's on October 5, 1957. Photo by M.S. Zak, from my slide collection.
The Southern heritage unit leads train 175 into Brosnan Yard while an SD33eco set works the hump. Photo by Casey Thomason. For more information about Norfolk Southern, visit more)
CSXT 404 and its loaded coal train fill the street in this otherwordly scene from West Brownsville!
Union Pacific's Joso bridge is 194 feet over the water and 3920 feet long. In the distance matched BNSF warbonnets are on a run through coal train.
Crew getting 4501 ready for its first run of the day et the Soule Shop @ Chattanooga Tn.
PRLX 24 in Cat paint awaits being delivered to the PHL at UP's West Colton yard.
CNW 8042 and mate suffered a derailment in St. Francis in June of 1992. At least they stopped short of the signal! Good thing that sprung rail didn't cause any more damage.
As the sun is close to dropping below the steely winter cloud deck near sunset, a northbound CSX freight train passes over the Ohio River flood plain after crossing the Ohio River at Rahm,IN 1/5/1... (more)
A bad day for this krupp loco, she hit a trailer truck loaded multiplex woods, the truck engine off when it passes railroad crossing and at the same time this cement freight train passing too, the... (more)
At twilight and after receiving a quick crew-change, No. 272 departs the yard at Bluefield, W.Va., behind a pair of brand new Canadian National ES44AC's leading the relatively light autorack train... (more)
12 hours after the derailment, MOW crews work to clear the Autorack cars from the CP and CN mainlines. The 2 closest tracks are CP's Thompson Sub and the farthest track is CN's Ashcroft Sub. The 2... (more)
Marooned On the Waterfront in Eureka California - SP 2872 and four other former Southern Pacific GP-9's sit rotting away in the salt air of the North Coast burb of Eureka. Once known for l... (more)
After waiting for a few trains to pass, CP 7010 continues the trip east through Banff National Park near Castle Junction, AB on September 28th, 2022.
Brick Some of my friends have been known to refer to N&W/NS high-hood units as bricks, as they have the profile of a dark, nondescript rectangle. Perhaps the only locomotive more f... (more)
Around Milwaukee and Chicagoland lately, we've been graced with the presence of CP SD40-2's on ballast trains. It's been at least eight years, however, since I've seen SD40-2's leading a high prio... (more)
On the day of his final run with Amtrak, a waving hand is seen in the cab as George Landrock arrives at Portland's Union Station for the last time. The smoke rising from the rails is the result of... (more)
Nickle Plate 765 and Perre Marquette 1225 simmer in the Owosso Yard.
Seeing the excellent shots by Jean-Marc Frybourg of the holiday rush at the Gare de Lyon Paris on Rail Pictures I thought viewers might like to see this shot taken at the same station 80 years ago... (more)
The first GenSet on the FWWR. These 2GS14B Locomotives are very good looking. The old style cab suits them very well.
BCOL C40-8M 4626 leads train U743 down the north track at Clemina passing a ballast regulator turned snowplow parked in the backtrack.
Canadian Pacific Royal Hudson (H1) #2839 sits outside of an amazing automobile museum (actually two of them, across the street from each other) in Sylmar, CA. While this is the Nethercutt Collecti... (more)
627 was just a youngster back in 2001 during this family day at the Cumberland Shop. She's drawing a lot of attention! This photo was made with a Nikon Coolpix 990, a great little 3.3 megapixel ca... (more)
Classic Sunday afternoon action is underway at (Original) NS's Glenwood Yard in Raleigh, NC. Train No. 63 is doubling out for its' evening run to Charlotte, NC. This afternoon is a real treat wi... (more)
Saratoga based local SC4, lead by the ex LV 325, has just entered the Adirondack Park region of New York as it approaches the small yard at Corinth where the spur to the large International Paper ... (more)
A heritage unit leading a road freight long hood forward isn't something you see everyday. Usually something out of the usual has to occur for this to happen and this was case was no different. Th... (more)
And the winner is: RAILROAD, AGAIN! Demonstration of an accident. Although only two engines hit the car at 20 kph, the brake distance was around 50 metres long.
In the 1970s a lot of locomotives ended their time on the planet at Naporano Iron & Metal in Newark NJ. This is all that is left of Norfolk & Western C424 #421 two days before New Years. The engi... (more)
Southern Railway 250-ton Industrial Brownhoist derricks/wreckers #903026 and 903016 work to place Conrail flat car #716074 and its load back on the rails. Wrecker train operated as Southern Railwa... (more)
During last years gravel season the balloon track was removed at the Palmer load-out making it necessary for the crews to make a long back up move, so the RR re-instated one of the three remaining... (more)
On May 4th, 1980, The Rock Island ran their last train out of Council Bluffs, Iowa. This train was powered by RI 4355, RI 4352 and RI 4513. It consisted of all RI-owned equipment out of CB in tow ... (more)
BCNA Rake with cement headed by Dual KJM WDG-3a 14615 waits at Makalidurga for the Bangalore-Guntur passenger to cross.
Final pre-Amtrak "Super Chief/El Capitan" departs Chicago into the sunset
Southern Pacific 9010, the last remaining Krauss-Maffei ML4000C'C' diesel-hydraulic locomotive in existence, poses for a mini photo shoot at Brightside Yard at the start of her 50th Birthday Celeb... (more)
A southbound CSX mixed freight eases through the street running trackage in downtown La Grange, KY on a muggy summer afternoon.
The economic recession of the late-1970's - early-1980's ended the service of many older locomotives. Here are two tracks of N&W locomotives, including many GP9's, that were stored and out of serv... (more)
Tgv trainset 97, delivered in May 1986 is passing through Villeneuve, bound from Lille for Lyons. It carries nowadays the grey Tgv colour scheme, and is authorized for 300 km/h, formerly 270 km/h ... (more)
UK Class 66 Nos. 66068, 66070 and 66066 under construction at GM EMD plant in London, rare view of assembly line, including a SD90 in the middle background
Humping cars at Chattanooga Tn
Wabash Alco FA-1 805 with an EMD F7(A) 635 and two GP9s. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer Listed.
Coming and going at Cheyenne’s west end, outbound 8500-hp GE turbine 15 encounters an arriving extra behind GP35 749, two DD35Bs and a DD35A, a 17,500-hp combination. Union Pacific likes to do t... (more)
Control stand of Monon BL2 #32
CSX Local B761 fights through some brush after dropping a couple open hoppers on the American Rock Salt track in Troy, NY. For many years, CSX delivered road salt using this track, however trucks... (more)
Retired SP conductor Gary Smart recalls with fondness the day he was called to work the RODVF train with engineer Kenny Leighter from Roper Yard to Grand Junction. He arrived at Roper on Oct. 15, ... (more)
An eastbound DRGW freight behind three FTs and a GP is seen here meeting the westbound Yampa Valley at Crescent Siding about halfway between Denver and the Moffat Tunnel. (Editorial ... (more)
"Enjoying a Cigar in Front of the Boxcar"
On the evening of October 7th, 2021, a father is seen enjoying a cigar on the bed of his Ram pickup while watching his son at football pract... (more)
Engineer Doug Busler inherited a late Southwest Chief, and BNSF train Z-LACWSP8-20U (Los Angeles CA to Willow Springs, IL) holds at Frost (just south of Victorville) for the meet so as not ... (more)
With a crescendo of sound two Santa Fe types lead a freight of some thirty cars out of Raton. Another 2-10-2 is pushing. Raton Pass lies ahead.
Two F's and two Geeps cross over at Menoken Jct. west of Topeka to get westbound tonnage rolling to North Platte, Nebr. The track in the foreground is the "K.P." across Kansas.
CN maintenance crew work to get CN box car back on the rails.
A westbound Canadian Pacific train detours on the Soo Line’s former Milwaukee Road main line between Chicago and the Twin Cities due to its own main line in Ontario blockaded by protesting First... (more)
The nylon tow cable is working at full capacity as the Cat 988 front loader tows Union Pacific 4014 is pulled over another section of panel track on its way north towards the Metrokink / Union Pac... (more)
Florida East Coast Railway GP40-3 425 and 436 were unveiled on September 30, complete with pink stripe and highlights as well as a large pink ribbon on the end of the long hood as part of the rail... (more)
Route of the "400" and tiger stripes? Builders photo of EJ&E #100, known as the Golden Goose. This photo was attached to a July, 1946 letter to C&NW's Chief Mechanical Engineer. It toute... (more)
An Amtrak Acela Express descends a roller-coaster-like profile of the NEC through West Windsor, NJ just shy of Princeton Junction. The effect of the undulating ROW, captured at last light on a wa... (more)
Diverted Intercity Zürich - Stuttgart is crossing the bridge above the Rhine Falls.
Lehigh Valley power gathered at Sayre, PA in May 1973. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund and cou... (more)
A Wheeling & Lake Erie SD40-2, with AWVR graphics for the Unstoppable movie rolls through downtown Bellaire. It is pulling three tank cars so a stunt double for one of the actors (rumorred to be ... (more)
New Haven PA w/steam generator at South Station.
FIRE IN THE HOLE!!! Shot just before this is Here!
Q steam parked at Galesburg
A trio of former WICT F-units rests with NP round-end observation car Ranier Club at the E&LS shop. The passenger car is being repainted for the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth. At the bot... (more)
The 5050 and a GCFX unit await their crew in front of the Mar-Jac feed mill.
During one of the best NRHS conventions ever the grand engine rolls WB on a runby. I was lucky to find a high spot. It was in a pulpwood yard as I recall.
765 sits on the turntable, while two crewmen check on Daylight 4449 and PM 1225.
The ONLY low-nosed N&W SD45.
Plenty of eyes... on the ground, on board the train and even in the air carefully watch the special move as it departs Crowford Notch. CSRX 573 leads FP9s 6516 and 6506, a two-piece electri... (more)
As the morning sun peeks over the rim of Lombard Canyon, eastbound Montana Rail Link No. 4300 rolls a manifest along the Missouri River and the Lewis and Clark Trail.
Reflection at Stasek Slough. Polson Logging Mikado #2 poses on the wooden trestle over Stasek Slough, on her way north from Tillamook to Garibaldi over the former SP line that is now known... (more)
You just never know what you will find on track, today was no exception while I was out for a track patrol this morning I noticed what looked like a rock placed on the rail as I traversed Northwar... (more)
A nice collection of snowsplows and cabs sit along the old C&O in Quinnimont WVa.
With one of coastal Newfoundland's countless fishing piers as a backdrop, Canadian National narrow gauge mixed train 231 coils around Conception Bay at Holyrood, NFD, on a fine summer day. A trio ... (more)
CP Train 904 arrives at Wells River where CP track ends. It will continue on to White River Jct. on the B&M as Train 8904. B&M and CP had run through crew and power agreements stemming from the ... (more)
