Running over five hours late Amtraks eastbound Cardinal passes through historic Thurmond with the New York Centrals Portland on the back end.

The Aiken Railway's new caboose awaits a paint job in the GRLW yard in Belton, SC.

Cincinnati's famous Art Deco landmark, Cincinnati Union Terminal, shines in the sun on a beautiful summer day in August of 2012.

On an old weather worn woodchip hopper, a shippers tag shows that the contents came from the Royal Blue chipmill. The mill currently owned by International Paper was once the site of a huge coal o... (more)

Forty years ago, in 1973, the last train rumbled across this line. Today, this is a place for the intrepid explorer to enjoy solitude while pondering the vestiges of a lost way of rural life. It... (more)

BURNED AND SCORCHED, BUT STILL STANDING. If you've been a Railpictures viewer for a while, you may recall my shot of a couple of teenagers Railroad: Boston & Maine
Locomotive: None
Location: Franklin, New Hampshire, USA
Locomotive #: None
Train ID: None
Photo Date: October 20, 2013

Ghostly Remains, Part 1. With Halloween approaching, and with the warm tones of autumn quickly fading, a series of twilight photos of the abandoned train station at Gerrish Depot, New Hamp... (more)

OLDEST RAIL on Railpictures? Left to rust in the New Hampshire woods is what I believe to be the oldest stick of rail portrayed on this site. Perhaps it is the rarest, too. The St. Alban... (more)

The grand old Union Station in Louisville KY no longer has any tracks leading up to its head house. In fact, there's a bus maintenance lot behind her and she is the local city bus service's headqu... (more)

The abandoned Big Four Bridge over the Ohio River in Louisville has been re-purposed as a pedestrian bridge (I'm guessing one of the sturdiest ones out there).

Flying through the clouds—soon enough
A pair of Boeing 737 fuselages on a westbound BNSF manifest freight train passing by the reflective waters of Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Mont... (more)

Sunset on the MoPac, it has been 16+ years since a through train ventured through the small town of Leoti, KS. 16 years since the ABS signals have displayed a high green indication for a westbound... (more)

The clouds were set up just perfect in the eastern sky to produce a fiery sunrise along the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies. Orange and red reflect from the rails at the west switch of Leyden ... (more)

DuBois, PA 7/20/2012 - Rusting on the side of a long forgotten box car, the Chessie cat sleeps peacefully.

Lander, MD 2/25/2013 - It's 25 degrees under a full moon shortly before midnight, and the B&O CPLs at High Rock are not long for this world. With their replacements being assembled about a mile to... (more)