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.
Flagg over Jericho. On Sunday June 10, 2012, the Railroad Museum of New England hosted visiting 0-4-0ST Flagg Coal 75 (née-Flagg Coal Company 2, Vulcan Iron Works, 1930). The train is cros... (more)
Northbound train G65 led by AC44i #758 departing Eng. Acrísio yard, crosses the viaduct between Mairink and Itu cities.
With the Arcade & Attica GE 65-Ton 112 on the point, the local crew works around Arcade, New York on a sunny July morning with three cars for Reisdorf Bros Inc. in North Java. As the train crosses... (more)
A rebuilt AC44C6M shows off it's shiny paint scheme at Hamilton.
A pair of EMD's sit at the south end of Garnet Yard awaiting the return back to Sarnia later tonight are greeted by the solar eclipse from above.
Ballast train W081 is on the move through Standing Rock with 66 car loads and a rebuilt locomotive up front.
With a pair of AC44C6M's on the point, Norfolk Southern loaded coal train 826 rounds the bend through the Brookneal control point in Brookneal, Virginia on the Alta Vista District. This train is b... (more)
From the Wayback Machine: A slightly different view at CP5.
Durango & Silverton 480 slowly rounds a curve through one of the rock cuts at Rockwood with its mixed train.
CPKC 201 Crosses Hunter Creek With CPKCs New Paint Scheme On Point.
Lewistown Locals: JVRR 2106, part of the North Shore Railroad, leads JVR 1 back into the yard in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, after having just completed their morning work at Standard Steel.
Mattawana Manifests: NS 5622, a EMD GP38-2, leads Pittsburgh Line local train NS C42 westbound through Mattawana Junction, Pennsylvania, along the Middle Division.
Trains delivered from 2022 for the 6-kilometer extension of line 11 of the Paris metro Chatelet - Mairie des Lilas to Rosny-sous-Bois on June 13, 2024
One of Metra’s SD70MACHs hauls an outbound towards the suburbs.
VIA 6414 and 6458 approach Jasper with a late running train #1. Seen cruising along the banks of the Athabasca river across a low dry looking Jasper Lake.
A special duo on M42210, featuring 911 and 1853. It is seen here passing over the Anacostia River on the Alexandria Extension, as it makes its way towards the Metropolitan Subdivision.
CP 8609 leads an empty coal train east through Fernie.
CP 8843 (which could really use a bath) leads a loaded coal train west near Fernie, BC.
CSX L645 at the Seaboard Air Line Station in Hamlet
CLF3-G514-BRM001 with an empty SSR grain train to northwestern Victoria at Laverton.
What a sight in 2024, a stunnint 4-pack of IC SD70s lead a northbound M335 freight past one of IC’s stations and towards Champaign yard for a crew change.
The Portsmouth Sub local returns south a Weldon behind a YN2 leader.
Last week of operation for the oldest RATP trains delivered between 1963 and 1974. Used on line 11, the outdoor extension towards Rosny-sous-Bois, on June 13, 2024, makes this type of train only i... (more)
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TULSA OK (April) 1985 — BN SD40-2 8128 lays over at the Cherokee Yard engine facility. This unit was delivered to BN in June 1980. At a later date it became FURX 8128 and was leased back to BNSF... (more)
Pune Lonavala EMU crusing through the Harris bridge between Khadki and Dapodi with a natural refection on river water forming a perfect symmetry.
An uncommon P42DC takes charge of this edition of the northbound Auto Train as they chase the nearby M300 on the adjacent track. With no time to waste, every bit of track speed was being utilized ... (more)
UTA Front Runner 6 comes barreling into North Yard.
The head end brakeman is unlocking the switch, while his westbound freight led by three E units waits on the main just east of the Broad Street interlocking tower, in 1975. The C&O is visible in t... (more)
I actually was trying to catch another train. When this track inspection train with EC-5 and 5407 came onto the scene. Front Runner number 6 also decided to get in on the picture. 6 is painted in ... (more)
"Sith Lord" After being unveiled in a special event on Saturday, NS 4822, the "Thanking our Railroaders" unit catches some late Sunday rays of sunlight.
Welcome Home In early June 2024, the Danbury Railway Museum received ex-Amtrak AEM-7 #917.
New Yorker in New Haven Territory MNCW 211, the New York Central heritage unit is seen at the Danbury Layover Yard.
KCS SD70MACs seem to be the flavor of the month on the ballast trains lately. These two have made several trips to and from the pit. Today's train basks in the warm evening sun as they head north... (more)
Stone Wall In New Roc. Deadheading from Boston, Massachusetts to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as Amtrak Train 843, Alstom Acela 2 Train Set 8 (AMTK 2118/2146) passes through the New Rochelle ... (more)
Southbound I74 with AC44i #603 in the special DNA scheme.
One of the few remaining GP38-2s on the railroad in the even rarer "Going Places in Florida" paint scheme pulls a short cut of intermodal across the Stuart Drawbridge on its way to Fort ... (more)
BNSF 9264 (SD70ACe) shoves a loaded coal train towards storm clouds as the train runs west on the Brush Sub through Keenesburg, Colorado.
With a small freight train in tow the classic low-drivered Consoiidation passes the depot area.
Storm clouds to the east of Keenesburg, Colorado provide a dramatic background as BNSF 7678 (ES44AC) runs west on the Brush Sub.
BNSF 7678 (ES44AC) runs into sunlight as storm clouds develop east of Keenesburg, Colorado.
BNSF 1925 (SD40-2) leads a short train with a crane car as they try to outrun severe weather on the Brush Sub.
Celebrating its return to service after many years and posing for a portrait during a gala weekend of excursions this locomotive looks spiffy with the green boiler jacket. The anachronistic singl... (more)
BNSF 6341 (ES44AC) sits in Roggen, Colorado, waiting for the expiration of a severe storm warning that has spawned hail, a tornado warning and a hold on all rail traffic.
Long Island Railroad's West Side Yard, in New York City, filled with equipment waiting for the evening commute to begin.
A dual mode locomotive leads a train onto the Manasquan River Drawbridge past a commercial fishing vessel.
A former CN unit is one of two units switching a transload on a short portion of the long abandoned MKT Panhandle Line. That really was the railroad to nowhere.
CN 322 has just left Taschereau Yard after setting off cars there.
An EMD E9(A) is sandwiched by an E8(A) and F7(A) at the Streamliners in Spencer event in 2014. The NS 4271 is back in North Carolina full-time now as Aberdeen, Carolina & Western 271.
One of the evening parade of "Dinkys" on the BNSF Racetrack.
NS power leads westbound train ZAILA at El Casco.
UP 9571 leads a westbound train of auto racks between El Casco and Ordway.
CP 8912 leads its train east along Michel Creek near Sparwood, BC.
The 808 is one of the latest motors to be painted in the Grupo Mexico Transportes livery seen on 202. The Sunday edition of 202 usually features extra motors being ferried to Jax.
An ex-Southern Railway SD45 is sandwiched by a pair of Southern Pacific SD40T-2s on a Shasta Route lumber drag in summer 1988.
MARC In The Dark. Maryland Area Rail Commuter (MARC) GP39PH-3C (née-MILW 2050, GP40, 1/1968) had recently returned from Progress Rail when it was sitting at the MARC Riverside facility i... (more)
An empty vehicle train for Richmond, CA is led by three GE locomotives as they gain speed down the grade into Walapai.
BNSF 6139 leads a San Bernardino bound Z-train through Kingman as it approaches Kingman's Amtrak station.
CSX military train S455 enters NS trackage at 'Circle' while NS 18E waits for a signal at 'Spring'.
CSX coal train C740 rolls south on the K&A behind a freshly rebuilt SD70MAC and two AC4400CW's.
A UP West Elk coal train works through the curves following the Price River at Kyune
Union Pacific SD70AH #8768 brings an empty oil train west through Thompson
Amtrak #5 tears past the west end of 'Utahline' crossing into Utah from Colorado at the mouth of Ruby Canyon.
