Piercing The Night | Twenty minutes past sunset on a very pleasant Saturday, June 1, 2024 evening, a BNSF baretable train charges through Pierce City, MO on its journey west from Memphis to... (more)
Double Stacks At Dusk | Three different generations of GE widecab locomotives pull an eastbound intermodal train through Pierce City, MO on the evening of Saturday, June 1, 2024.
CSXT GP38-2 #2625 is the 3rd locomotive to be painted back in its original colors on the nose of the locomotive by the unofficial "Cedartown Paint Shop." This time it's the L&N, and just... (more)
At 14,115 feet, Pikes Peak stands tall and snow covered as BNSF 8424 (SD70ACe) muscles a loaded coal train south on the Joint Line through Greenland, Colorado.
BNSF 6190 (ES44AC) races the developing thunderstorms as it passes by the signal at Spruce, Colorado on the southbound track of the Joint Line.
BNSF 6190 (ES44AC) runs through Larkspur, Colorado on the southbound track of the Joint Line.
BNSF 6190 (ES44AC) runs through a dirt county road in Greenland, Colorado on the Joint Line.
BNSF 3999 (ET44C4) runs through the S curve on the Joint Line at Palmer Lake, Colorado.
Sunday Morning GEs. On the morning of Sunday, June 2, 2024, CSX AC44CWs CSXT 471 and 465 (GE, 8/2000) are sitting near the former New York, New Haven & Hartford/New York, Westchester & Bost... (more)
A loaded rock train negotiates the hills of the Austin Western
ATW's local switches cars in Sanford while waiting for a window to cross the CSX main and work their way west.
Amtrak 92 passes through Sanford on their way up the S Line towards Raleigh.
NS and CSX engines at the New York Susquehanna & Western's Ridgefield Park engine facility.
CN 401 has a pair of SD70M-2s and an ET44AC for power as it approaches Turcot Ouest.
GECX 2029 is unfortunately trailing as CN 321 heads west with a long string of gons up front.
A pair of veteran standard cabs lead the local after working the Prairie State Energy Campus.
NYA engines bask in the afternoon sun in Fresh Pond Yard in Queens.
Providence and Worcester power 4052 , 4051, 4053 and 4050 sit tied down during National Train Day right outside New York & Atlantic Railway Yard in Queens.
UP 6926 leads a northbound MWCRVC between Silverwood and Hiland.
"Sunset Freight at the Paper City"
As the sun sets on April 25th, 2024, Berkshire & Eastern (B&E) "EDPL", with Eastern Alabama Railway (EARY) EMD GP40-2 Mother-Slu... (more)
"Eastern Alabama Visits Holyoke"
As the sun sets on April 25th, 2024, Berkshire & Eastern (B&E) "EDPL", with Eastern Alabama Railway (EARY) EMD GP40-2 Mother-Slug ... (more)
"B&E Freight Pulls onto the Main at Holyoke"
As the sun sets on April 25th, 2024, Berkshire & Eastern (B&E) "EDPL", with Eastern Alabama Railway (EARY) EMD GP40-2 ... (more)
A Los Angeles, CA to Logistics Park Chicago, IL intermodal train grinds up the 1.4% grade of Crozier Canyon on a warm summer afternoon with a C4 GEVO motor leading.
Baretable equipment from Memphis, TN heads for Hobart Yard in Los Angeles, CA as the empty train negotiates the tight curves of Crozier Canyon.
Four GE locomotives hustle the Z-WSPLAC8 between switches at Valentine as they race up to the track speed of 70 MPH.
Over 11,000 tons of New Mexico coal is being held back by four six-axle locomotives as descend down a 1% grade near Griffith, AZ. This 81 car coal train comes from the Carbon Coal Mine near Defian... (more)
Amtrak 636 leads train 99 through Shaw's Cove in New London.
CN 500 is leaving the Port of Montreal with hoppers and baretables.
Decatur Diesels | A northbound train of empty coal hoppers passes a decrepit F7 which is on permanent display in Decatur, AR on a mostly cloudy Saturday, June 1, 2024 morning.
Northbound CSX coal train has crossed into Indiana from Kentucky as it heads towards Evansville.
An eastbound autorack passes the depot in Berea, Ohio, with CSX's Conrail heritage unit in tow. BE tower can be seen in the background.
One of the morning intermodals that traverse CSX' River Sub crosses the trestle over Popolopen Creek.
An eastbound intermodal led by three big GEs descends the east slope of the Allegheny mountains through Horeshoe curve.
VIA 72 makes a brief stop at Brantford VIA station as CN L580's power makes a move in the yard
As farmers burn debris from their flooded farmlands caused by the Ohio River CSX M647 heads south soon to cross into Kentucky.
CN's Chicago Intermodal, IL - Montreal Taschereau, PQ "vehicle" train passes through the town of Paris along the Nith River
An eastbound NS led by the 4702 heads towards Louisville as it passes the countryside near Crandall.
An early morning day has introduced a clear view at the Kallansillat railway bridge, where an empty timber train makes a spontaneous appearance, as the class Dv12 are hauling empty timber wagons t... (more)
"Banana" prepares to depart with San Joaquin Service train #703.
KCS AC4400CW 4614 shoves 9900' of 113's stacks thru Middleton along Lake Superior. Spring run off filled with silt from the Little Pic River empties into Lake Superior mixing with the clear water.
Osaka Municipal Subway operates a through service for the Sakaisuji Line with Hankyu Railway’s Kyoto Line and Senri Line. The 66 Series is one of the trains in use since 1990. The trains entered... (more)
Rails Through The Woods | A single Canadian Pacific engine leads a southbound train carrying freshly-forged ribbon rail south through Gravette, AR on a cloudy Saturday, June 1, 2024 morning... (more)
Looking east across the Hudson river is an MTA train on the Hudson River Line, with the rails of the CSX River Subdivision in the foreground.
DF4C with an old-fashioned local train at Gubeikou Great Wall, Jingtong Railway
KCS 5011 leads its train east along the banks of the Bow river in Calgary. This is the second time I have seen 2 KCS locomotives in the lead on a CPKC train.
Metra 104, the Chicago unit, pushes a inbound train into La Fox.
A very stinky Everett to Roosevelt garbage train rolls through Sunnyside Beach in Steilacoom on a warm Memorial Day afternoon. The train in the distance to the left is not part of this train but i... (more)
Railcar "Tw II" ABe 4/4 # 46 of the infrastructure department is crossing the Ova da Bernina bridge between Bernina Lagalb and Ospizio Bernina. In the meantime the railcar got a new pain... (more)
Heading south around the curve at Broughton, CSX heritage engine #1869 shows off its predecessor C&O scheme as it leads freight south.
A loaded rock train departs Summit Yard
"Allegra" ABe 8/12 # 3506 pulls the regional train 4637 from St.Moritz to Tirano over the Ova da Bernina bridge between Bernina Lagalb and Ospizio Bernina. In the rear of the train are t... (more)
Self propelled 0-6-0+0-6-0 steam rotary snow blower Xrot d # 9213 of the RhB, built in 1910 by SLM Winterthur for the then independent Bernina Railway, is on a staff training run on the Alp da buo... (more)
BNSF's Everett to Longview Jct manifest winds its way along the coast of Puget Sound as it crosses Bridge 14 and approaches Sunnyside Beach. Meanwhile, a couple takes a walk along the narrow beach... (more)
Reading 2102 storms out of Port Clinton as it heads south for Reading Outer Station.
Not the last one. On what was rumored to be the last day for Renaissance consists in the Ottawa-Quebec City corridor (they've kept running this week) VIA 37 is seen in Montreal West with wr... (more)
Self propelled 0-6-0+0-6-0 steam rotary snow blower Xrot d # 9213 of the RhB, built in 1910 by SLM Winterthur for the then independent Bernina Railway, is on a staff training run in the rocky cutt... (more)
A CSX intermodal cruising north on the CSX River Subdivision, past the cliffs of Highland Falls. This location is near West Point.
Elecrail's preserved Tait set pauses on platform 10 at Flinders Street Station.
“Hot Rail on 3”Approaching the platform at Perryville at 18:56, class unit AMTK 2000 leads Amtrak 2255 (BOS-WAS Acela Express), and is coming in hot, albeit now slowing for the upco... (more)
A CSX Auto train heads south on the CSX River Subdivision, skirting the Hudson River.
Lonavala Pune EMU between Vadgaon and Talegaon under beautiful morning light.
Canadian Pacific 2816 leading the Final Spike Steam Tour in Davenport, Iowa after the display event
Notheast Regional Train from Newport News, Va to Boston, Ma. arriving at the Ashland Amtrak Station. P42DC 150 and seven passenger cars including Cafe car 43367.
Elephant Style E60s. Deseret Power Railway E60C locomotives DPR-1, DPR-2, and DPR-3 lead the morning empty train across Blue Mountain Road as they return to the Deserado Mine loadout.
Bonanza Power Plant. Deseret Power Railway (DPR) E60C electric locomotives DPR-1, DPR-2, and DPR-3 are seen leading the morning empty train away from the Bonanza Power Plant, headed bac... (more)
Deserado Mine Loadout. Deseret Power Railway (DPR) E60C electric locomotives DPR-1, DPR-2, and DPR-3 are seen with their train at the Deserado Mine loadout, where approximately 45 hoppe... (more)
DALLAS TX May 27 1985 — Katy chop nose GP7 105 awaits work. EMD built the 105 (b/n 12063) as MKT 1515 in February 1951. After the Union Pacific merger the unit was never assigned a UP number and... (more)
train No. 6714 Surovatikha - Kustovaya
In May 2014, the North Carolina Transportation Museum hosted a Streamliners Festival where E units and F units (and streamliners from other builders) all congregated at the museum in Spencer. Here... (more)
Metra 97 leads the Pullman special South out of downtown Chicago. The train will be on display for Pullman Railroad Days over the weekend.
UP 1507 (GP40M-2) sits with other light power in the North Yard in Denver, Colorado.
BNSF 8424 (SD70ACe) splits the signals in Castle Rock, Colorado as it runs on the Joint Line.
BNSF ACe 8424 runs light with a mate as it heads north to pick up a coal train at Castle Rock, Colorado.
BNSF 5700 (ES44AC) has been busting snow drifts on the Moffat Tunnel Sub as it heads to Denver, Colorado.
The California Zephyr exits Tunnel #1 and heads to the Plainview Crossing as it journeys into the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
Constant Comment Train. Due to planned track work on the MTA Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line, Genesee & Wyoming's Providence and Worcester Railroad CHFP (Cedar Hill, CT-Fresh Pond, Quee... (more)
CSX 4562 "Un-Flared" MAC singly pulls the M267 empty-auto into Amsterdam over Quist Rd.
Sun set over the Mohawk river as I104 lead by CSX Operation Life Saver unit 4568 pulls with a DPU rising onto the Selkirk Branch.
A Conrail Browns Yard local to Lakewood is traversing the Southern Secondary through the Stavola Asphalt/Recycle Plant in Tinton Falls, NJ. In July 2022, the Chesapeake & Delaware LLC began opera... (more)
At the crest of the golden hour, two Canadian visitors; CN 2228 & 2542 pull the B781 loaded oil up off the Mohawk Sub and onto the Selkirk Branch over the Pattersonville trestle.
NS 1630 leads NS BD27 back from Zug Island off of the Boat Line in Detroit. Here they are crossing NS Bridge on the most eastern end of the Wabash line, heading back into NS Oakwood Yard. With onl... (more)
Empire Service train #252 exiting the Oscawana Tunnel with P32AC-DM 714 leading.
Stretched out across the Trent River CN 8905 covers the last few miles to Belleville where it will receive a new crew and continue east.
Working. The NC Transportation Museum put on a great night photo session as part of the commemoration of the roundhouse's centennial anniversary. Here, the volunteers work to turn the 542 ... (more)
A pair of P42DCs recently repainted into Amtrak's new Phase VII scheme power the westbound Borealis along the Mississippi River west of St. Croix. This service began on May 21st, and offers one tr... (more)
CN 3347 leads train 450 around the curve by the tiny community of Utterson ON:
Ten years to the day, three of the congregated streamliners at the event in Spencer, North Carolina in May 2014 including future Aberdeen, Carolina & Western 271 when she was still a Norfolk South... (more)
