Devil's Gate High Bridge. The centerpiece of the Georgetown Loop Railroad is the reconstructed, 300 ft. long, Devil's Gate High Bridge, spanning Clear Creek and the station access road. T... (more)
01 1066,a three cylinder oilfired pacific express steam locomotive of the „Ulmer Eisenbahnfreunde (UEF)“, leads on the long journey München – Gotthard – Locarno a second tender with furth... (more)
This 750mm dmu goes slowly at the grade of Dikasteria area on the way to Diakofto.
Some things endure forever. Freedom will always be one of those things. The Alcos, however, are going straight to scrap. Pro-Republican management painted C420 976 to celebrate George Bush's an... (more)
Built in May 1953 as one of 23 F7s geared for a maximum speed of 80 mph it was used in both freight and passenger service until Amtrak. Photo taken from my slide collection, photographer unknown.
Southern Pacific’s westbound KCOAF (Kansas City to Oakland Forwarder) negotiates the canyon between Pando and Red Cliff, on August 2, 1996. Two GE AC4400CW locomotives from the Minturn helper po... (more)
A typical winter day in Montana: Big skies, frigidly cold, impressive mountains looming on the horizon, and a wind-scoured landscape with drifts of snow piled in the lee of every contour. Throug... (more)
An old man contemplates life, some ducks prepare for a swim, and an ALCO heads for Khulna loco shed for a rest. This loco is a 5 feet 6 inch gauge ALCO built at Schenectady in 1965.
Both of these locos were sitting at CEECO (Coast Engine and Equipment Company) for a few years. When CEECO ceased operations last summer they were brought to the Tacoma yard only about a mile away... (more)
AWVR 7375 gets ready to lead part of the Unstoppable train south for some stunt filming.
A late NS 219 takes a detour into the Mississippi forest on the NS AGS South.
Look at all bygones. Cars on open railcars. Electric freight on a major railroad. Railfans have been accused of living in the past. Maybe we just notice change more than others. I cherish thi... (more)
UP Gas Turbine A units wait for their new home at a privat owners property
With an air temp at -4F Erie Mining F9A 4211 leads DM&IR 193 and a train of empty BNSF steel hopper cars out of Rices Point. Who would have thought 4211 (or 193) would be powering an ore train, al... (more)
Hulcher railroad services assist Norfolk Southern with lifting equipment when NS 2698 blows a traction motor and needs replaced. The weather wasn't the best with rain and cloudy conditions but an ... (more)
Special train of the RhB for GdI (Society of Engineers of public transport) is crossing the spiral viaduct between Brusio and Campocologno. On the rear of the train a open top view car. The big da... (more)
Union Station location now the home of the Houston Astros, and Minute Maid baseball field, formerly Enron Stadium. Much history in this photo that is now gone by.
Previously uploaded images from this date in November 1981 have shown the front end of the 20 locomotive #790 eastbound coal train climbing Tennessee Pass at several locations. With seven GPs on t... (more)
Yard operations off the line for this meter gauge Alco.
Eastbound U883 passes what's left of a derailment that happen February 05, 2006. Cranemasters is cutting up the remaining cars for scrap metal. The rolls of wire that are behind the Conrail engine... (more)
Westbound on track 2, NS 9797 leads an intermodal past the Juniata River today. Canon 10D and 20mm lens, 1/350 second exposure, f9.5, IS0 200.
Sat 11/15/2003 16 cars off the tracks full of Honda Civics. Honda isn't going to be happy about this.
A boxcab P5a motor grinds west with what appears to be empty ore hoppers (probably coming from South Amboy and heading to PA coal fields). When first built in 1933, the P5a was to be an electric K... (more)
One of Frisco's two Bicentennial cabooses, #1776, brings up the rear of the display train with SCL U36B 1776 on the point.
A crumpled Penn Central boxcar is being transported without its trucks atop a flatcar, perhaps on its way to the Sam Rea Shops in Hollidaysburg. I think this might be a PC class X43F boxcar, rebu... (more)
At 12.45pm exactly, we began to load our First FMG train with our own ore from our Cloud Break mine.
BNSF 7548 thunders through Sandcut as building storms fill the sky at sunset.
Penn Central was a year old in June 1969 but this scene at Poughkeepsie carried on the New York Central heritage. E8s 4066-4093 have arrived from Croton-Harmon on a commuter train out of Grand Cen... (more)
Engineer Mel Baughman pauses outside the depot at Helper, Utah, with Rio Grande SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motors” sitting in the yard behind him on October 5, 2004. Mel was born in Rifle, Colorado, on N... (more)
Valentine’s Day 2009, Mother Nature brought some snowfall as did the Union Pacific. Donner has always been an obsession of mine since I was 18 when someone said " you don't want to go the... (more)
While railroad museums and tourist lines strive to faithfully recreate vintage scenes when operating photo charters, generally hotboxes are not part of that experience. This overheated journal on ... (more)
I was too young, and Rock Island was just out of reach, for me to have photographed the railroad in its last days. I sure wish I could have, but only saw bits and pieces of it as the years wore on... (more)
I never made it to Cheyenne WO to see the Big Boy in it's lair. But I think this is something like what I would have found after a new snow storm in January 1958.
Special Export move by Newtonville Road, with CN 6018 in the lead. With buffer / special coupler cars inbetween, 10 export class 66 locomotivs head most likely to Halifax for shipment by boat. I... (more)
Viewed from Loudoun Heights in WV, the Capitol Limited heads east across the Potomac River bridge at 11:13 today. Canon 20D and 70-200mm lens.
BN F45 no. 6620 leads two SD45s and a GP30 on an eastbound freight stopped at Skykomish, WA for the addition of helpers. Soon the train will climb through the Cascade Tunnel and head to Wenatchee,... (more)
From the recent heavy snowfall in the region of Athens
Inside one of CP's newest locomotives. Note the video camera mounted to the left of the engineer's window.
C&O "Allegheny" 1604 on display indoors at the B&O railroad museum. The engine, which spent many years outdoors, has not been repainted but has been rubbed down with a special oil-based substance... (more)
Looking like it's missing it's two front teeth, a westbound EL train was about to cross PC at Kenton with the nose door wide open giving the crew a little relief from the hot summer weather.
A Richard Beal photo: Looking west from US-131 (not the major highway it is now), a NYC passenger crosses 11th street. The farm is long gone and KL avenue in the background is now lined with st... (more)
GWR 3200 “Dukedog” Class 4-4-0 no. 9017 (visiting from the Bluebell Railway) passes Garthydwr on the 08.00 Llangollen to Carrog at the Llangollen Railway’s 6880 Bretton Grange Society's “S... (more)
Mop meets Rock. On July 3, 1965, two weeks after massive floods shut down almost all rail service into Denver the situation along Colorado’s Joint Line is still far from normal. Missouri Pacific... (more)
UFOs on the rail! Empty nuclear rod cars enter Enola yard off the Pittsburgh line
The westbound Super C blasts through Chillicothe with a warbonnet GE leading a F45 and SD45 at high speed on a relatively short train. Note the jointed rail and the dust trail being kicked up by 9... (more)
Former US Army Alco RS-1s that were shrouded for use on ARR passenger trains in the 1950s. Unit 1072 is shown with "B" unit 1053 at Fairbanks.
I really wish Alco had succeeded and these were everywhere. My favorite centercab of all time, with the right intermediate height cab and the right trucks. Unit is ex SP&S.
Among locomotives sold by RRPX to C&K Scrap Metal was Morristown & Erie C424 4231, a former Canadian Pacific locomotive. On April 3 it was being scrapped in Morristown. The rising smoke resulted ... (more)
Step 1 - Team Glischinski drives from Minnesota to North Dakota on Sunday for a rumored run of BN rotary snow plow. Step 2 - Arrive in North Dakota, find rumors are true - rotary is up and read... (more)
The "strong" old woman has carrying fire wood, and in the front of her is the "strong" locomotive, hauled two tank wagons to Rewulu Pertamina Oil Depot.
Good morning Capitola! The Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay Railway’s GP9 MH 89 pulls 4 tank cars over the historic Capitola Trestle on an inspection/test run from Watsonville, CA to Santa Cruz, CA. Th... (more)
See "Glamorous Embers" in the January 2006 issue of TRAINS for the story!
UP 4014 heads back west over the famous Kate Shelley High Bridge just west of Boone, Iowa.
What a great, interesting place Harpers Ferry is. Seems like no matter what you're intrested in, there is something for you in this extreme eastern corner of the WV.
Class U-4-b #6407 waits for a train to pull.
An aerial view of early morning at Copper Creek. CSX's running of The Santa Train will be extra special this year for the 75th Anniversary as Clinchfield Railroad 3632 (SD45) and 800 (F3) were res... (more)
It's not often you see Rock Island business cars, nonetheless painted in Blue and White! Original shot by Jim.
When I was ten, in the "Roanoke Times" newspaper, I saw a shot of N&W steamers lined up in rows with sparks of acetylene cutters coming up somewhere. Here, in a contaminated field by a ... (more)
After serving its purpose in Texas, UP 4141 leads the return train to Council Bluffs of 21 office cars across Lake Eufaula in Oklahoma during heavy rainfall. Six "Alien Bee" strobe ... (more)
About to take the downword slide into Winthrop after topping the hog back.
A dmu unit at the coast line of Chalkida bay. This day was the last one of work. The line closed for refresh and electrification.
On an mild early spring day with a good view to the alps and Lake of Zurich, Inter Regio 2356 from Lucerne to Zurich Airport is leaving Zurich main station over the curved bridge towards Oerlikon.... (more)
Hurricane Katrina assisted in washing out the tracks where the locomotives were stored during the storm. This switcher is leaning but keeping it's footing. There were others more off center but I... (more)
Families and friends of NJT employees walk around the shops at the MMC while freshly repainted "CNJ" GP40PH-2 4109 sits on display among other units that are in for repair.
CSX C842-22 derailed in the Lothair Section of Hazard after loading at the Bluegrass No. 4 mine. 6 of the train's cars derailed with at least 4 ending up on their side. No one was injured this b... (more)
On November 11th, 2019 (Remembrance Day in Canada), Canadian Pacific unveiled 5 brand new SD70ACUs at their Ogden Yard wearing various military schemes. In order from right to left, CP 7020 wears ... (more)
Vermont Rail System hosts Canadian Pacific foreign power every summer when ballast trains are loaded at Vermont Railway’s Burlington Yard. On June 28, CP multi-Mark SD40-2 6067 leads dual flag ... (more)
An empty BNSF ore train passes by the Great Lakes Trader, which sports a nice ice mustache after its trip across Lake Superior.
This classic locomotive is on display outside the headquarters of the Florida Department of Agriculture in Tallahassee. A plaque at the site reads: "LURAVILLE LOCOMOTIVE (circa 1850 - 1855) P... (more)
UP 9926 finds the morning light in the depths of the Feather River Canyon for the first time today as it leaves the Honeymoon Tunnels behind and passes the Rock Creek Dam - a popular focus point f... (more)
Huckleberry RR #152 is silhouetted by the rising sun as it drifts around the east loop on a lovely spring morning.
UP 8485 heads up this hot double stack headed west for the coast
Vermont Rail System's VTR GP38-2 201 and GMRC GP40 305 are working south from Newport to White River Junction, Vermont, crossing over the temporary "Bailey Bridge" that was constructed b... (more)
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Various locomotives await work at Union Pacific’s Omaha Shops in June 1981. UP No. 1221 is a recently rebuilt EMD SW9 that is now labeled an SW10 and was completed only days earlier on May 30, 1... (more)
The Westbound "Canadian" stopping at Dorval while enroute to the Pacific Coast. When I was ten I had a friend who had a whole basement full of Lionel Trains. That was where I saw the Canadian Paci... (more)
Westbound freight leaving Old Fort, NC in June 1983.
After assisting in their duties of loading military trucks onto rail flatcars, four Marines at Camp Lejeune, NC, take the opportunity to salute the flag on the NS 6920 and honor our Nation's Veter... (more)
The cab of Clinchfield No. 1, former Black Mountain, built in 1882. After being restored and used in excursion service in the 1970s, it was sent to the B&O Museum for exhibit in the 1980s.
D&SNG 473 Pulls the Presidential Special underneath the Spectacular (This time of the Year) Cataract Falls at MP 494.8, two miles south of Silverton. Most of the time, this falls is either slowed... (more)
IC 9613 leads a cut of cars to CN Harrison Yard after working the Valero lead and surrounding industries.
A broad side view of a GE U50C sitting at the loco facilities in North Platte. Photo taken by Joseph R. Quinn.
Desktop controls on an F9 ???
The westbound California Zephyr passes through a Winter Wonderland in the midst of the area known as the Tunnel District. This is on UP's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision, located about 26 miles west of ... (more)
On a stormy evening, a lengthy Union Pacific passenger special heads through Little Gore Canyon.
The last run of the San Francisco bound SP Train #75, "The Lark". "The Bird That Couldn't Fly" as the SP called it in their efforts to abandon the train. The loss of its RPO a year before sealed ... (more)
