Freshly painted Colorado Pacific-CXR 316 at Alamosa, CO. New owners for the former San Luis and Rio Grande RR. I will be back again, hope it all pans out for them.
To Wilmington, post haste! A Railroad: AmtrakLocomotive: ASEA AEM-7Location: Perryville, Maryland, USALocomotive #: AMTK 916Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: November 11, 2011
Royal Hudson 2860 glides west along a reflection pond at Moberly, BC as it returns its train west to North Vancouver after touring eastern Canada and part of the U.S. as the Captain Cook Excursion... (more)
The ICE train heads west on Conrail's Chicago Line.
BN 9503 is one of 4 AC drive demonstrator locomotives built in 1991-92 for Burlington Northern RR to test an AC drive system in heavy haul service. These 4 locomotives were the ancestors of the th... (more)
Two 150-ton overhead cranes work together at the former Rock Island shop to load a former Santa Fe GP7 wearing Rock Island paint onto a BNSF flatcar. The re-incarnated Rock Island 1275 is going to... (more)
Q025 heads south to Nashville crossing the massive 12,125-foot Ohio River Bridge at Rahm, IN on the CSX Henderson Subdivision. The entire 9007-foot train can be seen stretched out on the bridge b... (more)
VIA’s eastbound Train 2 crosses Canadian Pacific’s famous Stoney Creek arch bridge on its descent off Rogers Pass on Aug. 11, 1981. The steel bridge replaced a wooden trestle in 1893 and and ... (more)
After 3 days of snow the sun is here.Special weather for train spotting ! A454 led on a freight to Athens.
Rerouted 663 takes its train over Dick Road and the Massive Holcomb Creek Trestle.
Finally done for the night. Amtrak crews make the final preparations before taking the train to the yard where it will await its next assignments the next day.
Burlington Northern’s turn to Climax, Colorado, has returned to its base of Leadville, and the crew is putting the caboose over to the roundhouse before spotting the two cars over on the interch... (more)
George's beautifully repainted SD-9 seen at Albany working for the AERC Railroad
Vermont Rail System has actively been marketing new industrial sites along its affiliate railroads and on July 30, the newest industry to locate on the VRS is seen being serviced by the New York &... (more)
"Fred? Nobody by that name here!" This eastbound Rio Grande freight has an impressive six cabooses as it passes through Larkspur on the Joint Line.
It's been a while since the tender of a steam engine was lettered this way! And unfortunately, none of the New Haven Railroad's original steam engines survive today. But thanks to the Val... (more)
The "Chief" approaches the Mackinw City dock to be swirched by the D&M Railway.
NJT M&E Train # 877 is about to pass Millburn station bound for Hackettstown, with a GP40PH-2 pulling a solid set of four NJT Comet Vs. This train runs nonstop between NWK Broad and Summit.
By January of 1968, one of the last strongholds for SP's fleet of Baldwin roadswitchers was the Roseville yard and hump. Dound #5242 working the East end of the hump.
Two employees confer while working on GE C44-9W No. 9632 in Union Pacific’s North Platte Diesel Shop work on May 4, 2011. UP Dash 9 No. 9632 is former Southern Pacific No. 8168.
A derailment on the morning of Saturday, May 11, 2019 in Tifft Yard in Buffalo, New York lead to an extensive and rapid clean up. A cut of tank cars found their way off the rails at the interchang... (more)
Anyone want to take a stab at what train this might have been? Figure mid morning and westbound, pulling NH baggage/express and heavyweight PRR/Pullmans in the 1100-series, this pair of EMDs pau... (more)
Snow and ice packed in the frogs could have been the cause of these cars splitting the switch.
Coming down the hill, Z CHCSSE1 02A W Heading into Skykomish WA on a frosty morn.
A fast Hiawatha kicks up dust scooting between abandoned CNS&M abutments. The autos on the left clarify the age of this photo. At the time of photo Milwaukee trains were painted in UP colors.
Dick Davidson and wife wave to the 41th President George and wife Barbara Bush on the walkway of the newly christened UP 4141 during a private dedication ceremony on the campus of Texas A&M Univer... (more)
National Locomotive was a start up locomotive rebuilder on the propery of the Morristown & Erie Railroad in Morristown NJ. They had a bunch of retired Norfolk & Western RS36s and RS11s that they w... (more)
Former BN and SP Geeps sit abandoned at the Port of Tillamook Bay, not going anywhere anytime soon as the mainline was destroyed by storms a few years ago.
Working at Thunder Bay North.
As a pair of workers pulling a Sunday shift poke their heads out of the door to see what all the noise is about, Union Pacific's "J-Yard Switcher" shoves back on track 842 to pick up some cars at ... (more)
Grandsons.
Big derailment in Norris Yard.
East German diesel-hydraulic No V180 026 departs from Hof with the 07.14 Stuttgart to Dresden inter-zonal D-Zug. Note the rolling stock for this train appears to be all of pre-war construction.
Amid threatening skies, Pan Am Railways office car train made a trip from Mechanicville, NY to Waterville, Maine on October 14, with the white 'extra' flags flying on the lead Pan Am FP9 #PAR-1. ... (more)
An empty ballast train shoves west to clear the crossing before loading up.
K4s No. 1361 discharges passengers from a Hollidaysburg shuttle excursion at the old museum site. Today, this scene is dominated by a large pedestrian overpass connecting the Amtrak station on th... (more)
LMIX RG 301 basks over and tries to put out a grass fire started by the sparks. The fire kept burning after they moved on.
Carmageddon is upon us as Metrolink train 262 races up the Valley Sub as it heads for its next station stop at Vincent Grade/Acton. A full set of Metrolink's new guardian fleet cars make up train ... (more)
Artist Jennifer M. Wood, daughter of long time SBRHS member Jim Wood, is seen here working on a pen and ink drawing of AT&SF steam locomotive 3751 below a just very nice marker rendition of same e... (more)
"If you think you're gonna get an early quit, think again." The hog-lawed engineer discusses the fun to be had and money to be made on a dimensional load with multiple restrictions. Th... (more)
The tourist line between Tournon and Lamastre is reopened. On a part of the line, there is a rail-bike with a length of 12 km (7.2 mi).
Snow continues to obscure the valley below while D797 climbs the grade toward Blue Ridge Summit as they approach the Leathers Rd. crossing.
Fan trip 1991 NRHS convention
Southern Pacific Fairbanks-Morse H24-66 3031 makes a station stop with train #147 in Sunnyvale on February 3, 1975 before continuing its run to San Francisco. By this late date 3031 was the last o... (more)
WM Shay 6 sits at the shops after being used on the day's Whittaker excursions
American Orient Express - Spending The Day in SAV
Ruins. Another look inside the wreckage of the Boston & Maine's Billerica shop reveals the open hall of what was once the backshop. Hard to believe this was once a good-sized indus... (more)
Word had gotten around that the Reading was going to doublehead the previously advertised October 15th Ramble to West Milton, Pa. and the fans really turned out. The big 4-8-4s have the 22 car tra... (more)
Southern and now NS must have had some bad experiences at grade crossings, such as fatalities among their crews, to make them order control stands like this. You can't see much of anything runnin... (more)
CSX Q693 makes a southbound run in to Spartanburg Yard in Spartanburg, SC with the CSXT #3194 GE ES44AH ( Honoring Our Law Enforcement ) Unit leading ready to begin work.
it is late afternoon and the Pennsy's summer time NORTHERN ARROW with sections headed for Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago via Fort Wayne has backed out onto the railroad dock to pick up passenge... (more)
Feather River Canyon
One of Union Pacific Railroad's most popular Goodwill Ambassadors is a miniature train. Built in UP's Omaha locomotive and rail car repair shops in 1956, the mini-train is sometimes called the "Pr... (more)
I believe this is former CN 1166. Seen near Havana Central station in 2003. Are these locos still working there?
On May 23, 1997, at the east end of Alliance Yard, a coal load departs eastbound for the Sand Hills Subdivision while three others wait their turn. Coal trains in this era are the domain of EMD’... (more)
New York Central 4030 and 4082 leaving Union Station
Emerging from one of the many tunnels that defined the Pacific Extention, a Joe has tonnage moving west along US12 and the Clark Fork River nearing Alberton on this dreary September 1967 day.
Damaged FEC 433 and TTX double-stack well car sit in the spur track north of the Pineda siding derailment site as a Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center with 11 satellites on bo... (more)
What a slow day. Only 4 trains all afternoon and nothing between 2PM and 5 (which is sunset). So seeing this Long Beach to Clovis stack train climbs over the crest was like the light at the end of... (more)
Amtrak's Southwest Chief crosses the Ellison Creek Valley with the Veterans leading the Phase I specially painted P42's. BNSF is preparing to replace the Media Trestle this year.
How ya doin'? Fill it up diesel..." The engineer and car dealership employee shoot the breeze as the 44-tonner gets fed. The dealership which owns the Java Center depot supports and helps t... (more)
Evening light glow catches a 7B hauling a passenger train over the most photographed bridge in South Africa. For once the wind was right!
Union Pacific's eastbound MOARV (Oakland to Roseville Mixed Manifest) rolls out of Oakland yard, into desert yard, and onto RD2 as a big layer of Bay Area fog rolls in during sunset. A mile or two... (more)
TRANSCAER...TRANSportation Community Awareness and Emergency Response is a national outreach initiative designed to assist emergency responders in planning and preparing for Haz-Mat related incide... (more)
With five F7As and only one F7B, SP 6436 East enters the siding to meet a westbound as the brakeman from the westbound is prepared to give a rollby inspection. Holborn is 159 miles west of Ogden.
The second-last "Cities" streamliner prior to Amtrak begins its westward journey. Note lack of portholes on lead unit.
With the sun popping out briefly, UP 4115 leads and eastbound z train through Andover on UPs Roseville Sub over Donner Pass. The train had done a little of its own plowing over its trip.
At the end of a perfect day, a rainbow encircles a Montana Rail Link helper set trundling eastward at Austin, Montana, after helping a BNSF grain train over Mullan Pass on July 5, 2021.
The Piedmont - with its usual cut of pigs on the rear - makes its station stop at Lynchburg.
At 00:40 CSX train S185 is enroute back to Fairburn, Ga. from Hulsey Yard when the crew encounters a grade crossing collision with an uneducated motorist at Westbrook Pl. No injuries are reported ... (more)
To show switching crews as well as shippers and customers how damaging coupling impacts at higher speeds can be, Canadian National rebuilt a 40-ft. box car with plexiglass and equipped with a big ... (more)
Following a low-speed derailment that knocked a couple cars on the ground. The lead has taken the upright portion of the train to Union Station and now the ground crews go to work on the downed c... (more)
Freshly overalled and a shiny new paint job at Hill AFB. US Army 4672 awaits shipment to a new home.
Converted from a steam locomotive tender, steam generator car H-4 lays over in Seattle. Note the covers on the the rolling bearing trucks.
about 25 miles west of Houston
V&T Survivor: McKeen Motor Car #22. The Virginia & Truckee's McKeen Motor Car was capable of carrying 54 passengers as well as baggage express. The passengers were carried in two cabins, ... (more)
Train with a GT-22-1 4631 + BB-33 7650 + two G-22-U e and slug. This pictures showes a difference between a metric gauge locomotives and a BB-33, that is a C-30-7 of standart gauge.
The 473 switches an inbound train at the east end of the Durango yard. The boxcars were probably empties that would be spotted at the lumber mill for loading. Note the 473 is equipped with footb... (more)
Comet VI 7504 full of press, brass and cheese. ALP-46 4627 is ready to lead the first revenue set of Comet VI's to NYP. I later got on to ride the full trip in Cab Car 7002, 2nd window from the fr... (more)
Just another day at Fernandi... wait, no it's not! I din't expect to see much of trains today, not much being getting a few shots of the St. Mary's Railroad and maybe an Amtrak. Since there was no... (more)
The rebirth of A9101 is coming.
Northbound Auto-Train departs Sanford.
Back in March of 1979, a group of Provo area railfans found out that a UP officers special was headed east from Las Vegas, Nevada. In order to catch this special move in the daylight, a carload of... (more)
Two of the three completed RTL III Turboliners sit in the Albany-Rensselaer yard on a freezing cold winter night. Note the frozen rain drops and icicles hanging off of the nose shroud of the 2158.... (more)
