A meter gauge dmu unit approaching the abandoned station of Regaio.This line have been closed since 1988 and now it is working under the Greek railfans club.The dmu unit is a master piece, built i... (more)

Traffic is starting to get busy on a late spring afternoon at the top Palmer Lake on Colorado's Joint Line. On BNSF Main 1, a loaded coal train slowly grinds towards "The Sag"; the stop ... (more)

C&O Hudson #490 Occupying a prominent spot in the B&O Museum's car shop exhibit hall is this odd-looking steam locomotive from the post-World War II "streamliner era." You are lo... (more)

Rounding a twenty-degree curve on a 1.7% uphill grade, H802 with 2 AC's and 37 loads of coal are down to 3mph on wet rail.

The 20th Century Limited A Roger Puta Photograph

The former site of Bridge 21.3, which burned in September 2011 due to a lightning storm. All that remains is a solitary rail drooping across the canyon, as well as ashes, iron and tin in the valle... (more)

Locomotive 3642 just about to cross Menangle Bridge minutes before sunrise.

Monorail Purple seen on the express beam. Sadly this train was involved in fatal crash with Monorail Pink killing the Pilot. The remains of both trains were combined into Monorail Teal.

A "Baby Bullet" departing SJ on it's way to SF with my good engineer freind "Grandpa" at the controls

611 departs Williamson with Train No.15 The Cavalier

An eastbound BNSF freight fills Big 10 Curve between Eisele and Rocky, Colorado, on the warm afternoon of February 9, 2015. The 76-car train is made up of mostly tank cars—73 to be exact.

This new GATX ultra-low emissions MP14B switcher has arisen anew from the ruins of an ex-CN SW1200RS.

On a frigid January day, Strasburg's 4-8-0 #475 drifts through the snow-covered PA countryside. The ex-N&W steamer is making a special plow run to clear some large drifts off the line.

One of the two prototype 4-6-0s designed by G.J. Churchward for the Great Western Railway, No 98 is seen with a group of admirers when new in 1903, waiting to leave Paddington station with a train... (more)

experimental roadrailers ride on NS 251.

Returning from New Orleans, Southern Pacific Daylight 4-8-4 4449 skirts the California coast, her old stomping grounds, as she crosses Gaviota Trestle west of Santa Barbara on her way to Sa... (more)

On a day that most likely will be the last time we will see 6 Alcos lashed up together on the Apache Railway, under stormy skies they head north to pick up the remaining 50 blue coal hoppers of th... (more)

Southern Pacific 2-10-2 Class F-4 3680 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1922, and was one of 50 locomotives in this class that was delivered in a single train named "The Prosperity Spe... (more)

Hostler poses with his Crawford Notch snow fighters. He has just shut all the units down to check out the ground default relays. Soon all units will come to life and head south to Portland, ME

The locomotive number has been blurred out in order to protect the security of the train crew.

N10, led by the NW heritage unit, pulls into the yard at Shire Oaks with loads of coal, as 591 awaits to depart for the coal fields with the NYC and S&A heritage units. For more information, visit... (more)

A slightly different perspective at Maryland Metals and a pair of units this time (not long hood forward). This is probably some of the worst looking active track in the country.

Those accustomed to Rock Island in maroon or red were startled in 1975 when the road’s new president John Ingram started painting cars and locomotives in white and blue. But Ingram had come out ... (more)

NS 26C derailment in Collegedale, Tennessee.

NS 8115 & 8075 were pulling an empty hopper train of KGLX aluminum hoppers for synthetic gypsum from USG Washingtonville Plant. A 3 car derailment occurred seventeen cars from the rear end. The de... (more)

How many Vandy tenders working these days? And with a vestibule yet. Yes, NWP. I've heard the story of why but have forgotten. Help! And with apologies to Jimmy Buffet.....I now know, I now k... (more)

CP "Red Barn" 9000 is on display for the CP employees open house at the former SOO Shoreham Shops. CP 9000 is one of only two CP SD40-2Fs painted in the CP Rail System "Dual Flag" "A... (more)

This gal doesn't get out much, but if you can coax her out of the house, she'll definitely show you a good time! Spokane, Portland and Seattle #700, a massive E-1 Class, 4-8-4 Northern Loc... (more)

What's wrong with this picture? Well if you're a train buff, lots! The good news is that Temiskaming and Northern Ontario 503 is supposed to be moved to the west side of the old CPR Station (now r... (more)

A unique perspective of the once mighty Buffalo Central Terminal.

A Tree Grows in Mount Union

A tree makes its way to Heaven, piercing through the trucks and around the belly of a narrow gauge hopper car. The rusting car, one of over 200, has sat in Ea... (more)

On the backside of Shreveport yard lies this old and rusting MKT passenger car.

A birds eye view from Maryland Heights as an eastbound Capitol Limited eases past CSX MOW track equipment forces working on the Shenandoah Sub. The two subdivisions join inside the Harpers Ferry t... (more)

After approximately 6 hours of work MMA 8595 was put back on the iron

With restored WP 2001.

Right behind the caboose of a Milwaukee Road westbound arriving at Avery comes a railroad speeder. The railroad had speeders follow its freights as a way to put out fires started by sparks from th... (more)

Timing is everything. As a pair of GMTX SW1500's unload coal cars at the KCBX Terminal, the Alpena makes a timely appearance as she navigates her way through the Calumet River, bound for the LaFar... (more)

South Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) AEM-7 #2303 races North towards Trenton, NJ from Philadelphia in this commuter train pan shot. Perhaps my ... (more)

BNSF 9182 sits between EMD 90 and EMD 91 at La Grange.

Lot of engines taking a sun bath in Tepic, there are more of 50 FXE engines stored here, C30-7's, C30-Super 7's and SD40-2's.

Mon Fayette Expressway toll: $.50. Seeing the W&LE on this bridge: Priceless. Please click on "Mingo Creek Viaduct" to see other views of this impressive structure.

Brand new... Cab complete with a fridge, hot plate, and microwave. (photographed with permission and in PPE)

EMD E8 4029 heads A-A units on the inbound PANAMA LIMITED at 57th St.. This was one of only three all sleeping car trains in the country at the time, the other two being on the Pennsylvania.

The typical power for the Santa Fe Local that worked most days between Richmond and Christie, California was a pair of Santa Fe GPs. (the Local still runs today as the BNSF 011 Local). However, o... (more)

Train 14 had a consecutively numbered head-end on this trip north, the 192 and 191. Also, riding on the tail were three private cars: the Colorado Pine, Iowa Pacific Sky View obs and the Baton Rou... (more)

Before there were centerbeam bulkhead flat cars, lumber was nervously shipped aboard standard 40-ft. flat cars. The loads were always vulnerable to shifting and being set out and delayed to be co... (more)

Sitting beside the diesel shops in Burlington Northern’s Interbay Yard is BN E8A 9947. As should be evident from its silver and stainless steel appearance, this locomotive is a former Chicago B... (more)

The first push pull train I ever encountered swings the curve coming off the Maple Shade Branch. The other delight in this shot are the fallen flag freight cars.

UP Centennial 6900 inches through south Omaha on its way to its new home at Kenefick Park.

On the westbound leg of a Los Angeles to Chicago round trip on a Santa Fe Railway Employee Appreciation Special in 1992, restored Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 3751 flies over Canyon Diablo Bridge on Septemb... (more)

Deep in the trenches, the battle rages. On Day 2 of their 4-day mission to clear the line, the White Pass Snow Team attacks the worst of the snow pack, in a deep cut called Canadian Shed, a... (more)

Several of the new ore cars on a Two Harbors bound ore train from Minntac derailed as they rounded the corner from the Missabe Sub. to the Iron Range Sub. One of the power sets from the T-Bird tr... (more)

Stuck in between cabeese, this UP "silver bullet" rotary runs on a museum train to Portola. Nikon D70 24-120. www.bayarearailroading.com

It is a perfect, frosty and still, morning on the Severn Valley Railway in the English Midlands. Gordon has just crossed the River Severn (Victoria Bridge is visible to the left of the tree) with ... (more)

Norfolk Southern's one of a kind to date AC44C6CF rebuilt DC to AC locomotive sits outside the Juniata Shops in Altoona, Pennsylvania after being posed here for a company photo. Along with the 852... (more)

Two leased N&W ex-Wabash F7s headed the High Bridge Local north to interchange with NYS&W

Two years ago on June 12th, floods hit Iowa hard. Here, 10 days after the crest of the Mississippi, Burling... (more)

For a long time the Santa Fe war bonnet F unit was the standard Ikon of American Railroading. It was Lionel's big seller, it was on the cover of Athearn Kits and it was associated with Hollywood s... (more)

‘Tis the day after Christmas, 1965, as GTEL Big Bow 9 makes its noisy way past Tower A at Cheyenne’s west end with an extra for Laramie. The C&S overpass offes a fine view of the action, and, ... (more)

Two Ford Transit cargo vans converted to rail vehicles are waiting for the steam train to overtake near the Faina station. These "special" rail vehicles are a usual sight on the Vaser va... (more)

A CNR MLW RS18 and a CLC C Liner are headed into Hamilton, Ontario through Bayview Junction in the summer of 1966 probably on train 463 from Toronto to Fort Erie.