RTD commuter train #4128 (Hyundai Eagle P3) takes the elevated track over the California Zephyr, which is arriving at the Denver Yard prior to backing into Denver Union Station.
BNSF 5866 (ES44AC) runs through Tunnel #29 at Pinecliffe, Colorado as it heads towards Denver on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
BNSF 3014 (GP40-2) sits in the engine serving yard along with a GP39 and the red caboose and white cars of the BNSF fire train.
Main Line train #1706 leaving Ridgewood station with PL42AC 4015 pushing.
A train pulling in to Bradley Beach station. The current station depot was built in 1912 for the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and has been on the state and federal registers of historic places ... (more)
An old, weathered former Denver, Rio Grande & Western locomotive stands on the railway line adjacent to an industrial silo and a structured building on Georgia's Hartwell Railroad.
A former Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway EMD sits on the point of a Hartwell Railroad train in need of a crew to take it to the Norfolk Southern interchange in Toccoa.
On the way home after switching bentonite hoppers at the Minorca mine the crew now swaps out one gondola and picks up two others from a small siding at a metal scrap yard just outside downtown Hib... (more)
On the way home after switching bentonite hoppers at the Minorca mine and passing by what once was a small stretch of light industrial business along the line.
On the way up to the Minntac mine on a nice evening.
The engineer leans back in the seat as he creeps along while loading iron ore bearing rock at the United Taconite coarse crusher at the Thunderbird mine.
Creating a little shadow of their own as they go between the long shadows of a late evening.
Coming up from Two Harbors, CN 2039 runs through the Nugget control point on the CN Iron Range Sub as they travel to the Minntac mine to load iron ore pellets.
A pair of four motors position units stored at the East St. Louis Yard. KCS #1909 was originally built for the the Milwaukee Road.
NS 4822 " Thank you to our Railroaders "
Recently acquired NS 3983 ex CEFX 1016 sits waiting for service. It will eventually get rebuilt into an AC44C6M
CN 401 has three platforms up front and CN 2616, CN 8955 & CN 4724 for power as it passes a long string of grain cars parked on Track 29.
With a loaded train of freshly harvested sugar cane in tow, the South Central Florida Express's Cane 5 job heads towards the US Sugar mill as it crosses over an irrigation ditch in Clewiston, Flor... (more)
A new crew is getting onboard the CSX business train close to sunset.
Train passing towards Paranapiacaba yard
Heritages In Penn. On the night of April 30, 2024, Amtrak Train 239 was sitting on Track 5 with P32AC-DM AMTK 701 in its retro Phase III Empire Service paint scheme next to NJ TRANSIT Train... (more)
A bone dry golden hilled landscape, along with a saturated green creek bed, creates a perfect contrast and scene for a short BNSF intermodal to quickly twist its way up through one of the most sec... (more)
Night train to Skopje
After a brief break with all-SD40-2 consists, the GE's have (surprisingly) returned to the Unit Train. This actually means there are more EMD on the mainline again. Today, with a cut of Vulcan h... (more)
The hump job with ex-SP 7478 is pulling down a cut with two locals visible in the background. The job with the TRRA paint is heading up to US Steel. This is a vastly sprawling railroad network. ... (more)
The Empress is still some time away from gaining the fame & notoriety that comes with crossing the border into Mexico. First, crossing the border into the USA is in order, less than a mile from h... (more)
With a pair of GE P40's on the point, Amtrak's Auto Train heads north with a long train of Superliners and autoracks in tow. The train is crossing over the James River outside of Richmond, Virgini... (more)
SBB Class 460 passing Mols.
Denver & Rio Grande Western 491 and Rio Grande Southern 20 rest in the roundhouse after a long day of work.
With trackage rights between Seals, GA (north of Kingsland) and Fernandina, FL along the former Seaboard. First Coast Railroad Operates 32 miles of this track in Southeast, GA and Northeast, FL wi... (more)
NCRC 2222 is on the rear of the GILC.
After picking up their train, the crew of the GILC head west for the crossover at MP 147 to cross from 2 to 1. Once they are main 1 the train will back onto the north lead (closest track in the p... (more)
Narrow gauge railway of the Peshelan gypsum plant
UP 7037 & 7105 lead westbound stacks.
Three GE ES44ACs, UP 7891, 7430, & 7634, power a westbound unit grain train.
UP 8978 races west with a mixed freight as the engineers long blond hair blows in the wind.
Lilly Loads: NS 4528 leads doubled up coal train NS 596 eastbound through downtown Lilly, Pennsylvania, along the West Slope of the NS Pittsburgh Line.
Northbound UP 8188 is coming off the causeway over Lake Moredock on the UP Chester Sub. They have a high and wide load a few cars back and it's been slow going, stopping to let other trains pass.
The day Apex local heads along the former Durham & Southern spur on their way back into town.
L615 returns from Durham behind a pair of former CR and L&N GP38-2s.
The MP 14 is a rubber-tyred electric multiple unit for the Paris Métro. Manufactured by Alstom as part of the Alstom Metropolis family of units, it is the seventh generation of the rubber-tyred c... (more)
Waiting to start the workday.
Northbound approaching signal at MP41 on the River Sub.
Emerging out of the shadows lower Truxton Canyon, BNSF 7882 East leads a Los Angeles, CA to Logistic Park Chicago, IL Q-train as it battles the steep 1.4% grade towards Crozier Canyon and long cli... (more)
A Barstow, CA to Kansas City, KS manifest traverses up the 1.4% grade of Valentine, AZ as it approaches Crozier Canyon on BNSF's Seligman Subdivision.
The hot New York to LA UPS train races out of Valentine as it reaches to the track speed of 70 MPH.
Two of Metra’s SD70MACHs meet just outside of Union Station on a sunny afternoon.
A Twin Cities & Western freight arrives in downtown St. Paul, MN - today with a quartet of Geeps. The train is making its way eastward towards Union Depot, which it will pass to the south as it ma... (more)
Amtrak's Empire Builder rolls out of St. Paul, MN after completing its scheduled stop at St. Paul Union Depot downtown and is see here making its way down the Mississippi River as it begins the fi... (more)
BNSF 6688 (ES44C4) looks great in the early morning sunlight as it rolls out of St. Paul, MN with an eastbound intermodal for Chicago, seen here from the bluff at Indian Mounds Regional Park.
Norfolk & Western 611 storms westbound up the grade of the Norfolk Southern Christiansburg District with an excursion bound for Radford, VA. I was the very first person to arrive at this location.... (more)
NS Visits the Railroaders Museum This is the best lineup I've ever seen at the Railroaders Museum. After unveiling a new special unit, NS displayed two heritage units and the new special u... (more)
A pair of Alaska Railroad EMD SD70MAC's put their train away at Anchorage Yard after arriving in from Fairbanks.
CSX M583 in Marshville with the New York Central Heritage Engine and 911 (Honoring Our 1st Responders)
NS power leads a westbound QNYCLAC near Oro Grande.
At the very end of the Stillwater - Ngakawau line you will find the Solid Energy coal loading facility, located on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. Coal is mined at the Stockton mine ... (more)
K183-K190 leading a Steamrail Victoria heritage special from Shepparton approach Southern Cross Station.
Wasting no time, CSXT #813 brings one of many auotrack trains north over the Lineville Subdivision. This locomotive was built in 2008.
The Kissick is repositioning itself to couple to the carriages for a trip to Port Erin.
22497 Shri Ganganagar Tiruchchirappalli Humsafar Express at scenic godforsaken lands of Adarki.
Nucor Steel keeps their two diesels in immaculate condition! Nucor 05 was built in March 1955 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Northern Pacific SW1200 125. (Look closely at the side ... (more)
It's a big train day, as UP 633 and 665 back into the Chevron refinery.
Traversing under former C&O Signals along the Big Sandy Subdivision, freshly re-done after being vandalized in Canada CSXT 1869 which honors the C&O, and recently revealed CSXT 1875 which honors t... (more)
Morristown & Erie GP15-1 24 and 25, with visiting New Jersey Transit GP40PH-2 4109, in front of M&E's engine house in Morristown.
IAIS GP38-2 701 leads a passenger special East through Wyanet.
NCRC 2197 & 2222 prepare to enter UP's yard to make up their train. Parent company Rio Grand Pacific Corp has chosen this as the paint scheme for all four of their railroads.
From May 2-11, I had the immense privilege to witness CP 2816, the "Empress" 4-6-4 Hudson steam locomotive, make its trek south on the Final Spike Steam Tour celebrating the Canadian Pac... (more)
UP 1957 (SD40N) works the North Yard in Denver, Colorado.
Here is a good look at DODX 39497, the Department of Defense's nuke cask heavyweight flatcar designed to carry spent nuclear fuel rods. It stopped by the yard in Denver for a few days.
BNSF 7678 (ES44DC) runs through the Keenesburg Cut and heads downhill as it runs towards Hudson, Colorado on the Brush Sub.
BNSF 7678 (ES44DC) leads a mixed freight through Roggen, Colorado as it heads to Denver on the Brush Sub.
Bluebird Around the Bend. NJ Transit GP40PH-2 no. 4101 is seen leading Morristown Line train 807 around the curve at Orange, passing ALP-45A no. 4552 on the rear of Hoboken-bound deadhe... (more)
BNSF 6341 (ES44AC) waits out the storm on a siding at Roggen, Colorado.
Metro-North via Montclair. Metro-North Railroad GP40PH-2M no. 4906 is seen leading NJ Transit Montclair-Boonton Line train 1001 through the trench as it approaches Watsessing Avenue Sta... (more)
Beachball in Bloomfield. Metro-North Railroad GP40PH-2M no. 4906 is seen leading NJ Transit Montclair-Boonton Line train 1001 through the trench as it approaches Watsessing Avenue Stati... (more)
The Texas Eagle has departed St. Louis and crossed the Mississippi River into Illinois.
Grain train G455 is stopped at Kayne Ave tower to change crews.
Loads of grain headed for south Georgia, follow CSXT engine #5200 and CSXT #5327 (Western Maryland emblem uint) into the siding on the northend. A DPU (CSXT#984) is also assisting this grain cons... (more)
T356-T364 at Southern Cross Station following arrival from Shepparton on a weekend heritage tour.
In Marialva, EMD G22U No. 4422 is leading the W76, a Rumo Logística weed sprayer train. This train will continue its application until it reaches the Maringá yard.
On June 6, 2024, CSX Transportation's locomotive CSXT 3474, a GE ET44AH model, was spotted traveling northbound on the CSX Chattanooga Subdivision in Cowan, Tennessee. The locomotive passed by the... (more)
After working industries on the K Branch in Fort Pierce, Florida the Florida East Coast 932 local heads east past the Titan America spur with a train of Tropicana reefers and stone cars in tow. Th... (more)
NS AC44C6M 4822 dedicated to Railroaders
Freight train in the Hudson Valley on the CSX River Subdivision. Photo from Arden Point.
A fast manifest hustles east on the former Nickel Plate Road Chicago-Fort Wayne mainline, while the daily local freight waits in the yard alongside a Speno train, on a very hot, hazy, and humid Au... (more)
CN 327 has an SD70M-2 pair as it approaches Coteau, where it will leave the Kingston Sub for the Valleyfield Sub.
CN 120 unusually has four EMDs up front (as well as a test boxcar) as it approaches Turcot Ouest.
An extraboard freight trundles down the Charleston Subdivision, enroute to Charleston with cars for all three rail-served customers in town.
