These two GE's made it into service on the CNW from October 1978 until November 1981. The CNW had leased them to try out in a number of different applications and GE applied CNW paint before sendi... (more)
Recently rebuilt SP&S 700 rolls through Lyle on its first long-distance test run to Wishram. Those freight cars and leased EMD GP38 756 served the Goldendale Branch, abandoned shortly after this p... (more)
Once in a while, one of the big Alcos would get loose from the Midwest and grace us with its presence on the Selkirk to Boston runs. Penn Central 6330 was the flagship of the Century 636 fleet. T... (more)
On May 1st, 1971, Amtrak’s first westbound Empire Builder flies through Duplainville, Wisconsin with a quartet of BN F units. This is the same train featured in Pentrex’s Empire Builders to Mi... (more)
Rio Grande EMD GP60 Nos. 3155 and 3154 power a summer edition of the Rio Grande Ski Train downgrade out of Plainview, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 5, 2000. For a short while anyway, these ... (more)
As viewed from my cruise ship, an Alaska Railroad passenger train boards passengers to take them to Denali and points north.
Three SD70ACS export locomotives bound for Saudi Arabia make their way through central Ohio.
A yard worker pulls up in a Dodge Power Wagon to check out PRR GG-1 4877 before it heads out on its next trip. Thanks to Kevin Phalon and the URHS for arranging the night session at their yard in ... (more)
Halloween 2016. I was rail fanning with my friend Jack when we saw this west bound engine move come up the hill.
This picture is one of my father's earliest pictures in the Twin Cities. He is standing on the Kellogg Boulevard overpass looking North towards Westminster Junction (the Lafayette Road bridge can... (more)
Three Wisconsin & Calumet F7s sit at the Escanaba & Lake Superior’s roundhouse in Wells, Michigan. In the background are some other stored units, including a handful of Baldwins and SD9s.
MP&ES Open House/Santa Fe F-7 Unveiling! Today was the big day as a reserved group of no more than 200 people attended the first open house MP&ES has hosted. The main attraction was the unv... (more)
It’s almost 6 p.m. on a cool Montana winter eve at Trout Creek on February 5, 2023. A trackside fire helps warm us up a bit as the “blue hour” descends upon the Clark Fork River Valley. The ... (more)
New, about to be delivered by the CB&Q.
A nice E8. E7B, E7A set heads up the westbound GOLDEN STATE about to stop at Joliet. Someone was busy with the red paint in Chicago.
Ontario Northland Railway's heritage SD40-2, #1730, is seen at the service area at the company's Englehart, Ontario, yard with plenty of snow pack at -18 F for its nighttime portrait. Photo with ... (more)
Rock Island train from Peoria nears Chicago La Salle Street station.
Having finished most of its move across the Fairplex parking lot, Big Boy 4014 sits across from a piece of the panel track that was utilized to get it there.
Canadian Pacific and Canadian National share parallel tracks behind Quebec Station. The caboose is the older high cupola type.
Another export this one for South Africa Model: ES40ACi Horsepower: 4,200 Build Date: April 2015 Weight: 291,010 LB
New power for NS, at the time, brings a ridge train east on CSX rails with some looming clouds overhead
A Pickering Lumber locomotive switches a caboose at Standard. This image was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.
The joys of trying to properly expose Kodachrome on a slick, black profile such as CN 6218 waiting under US 1 at New London on the CV are realized. Remember, "make sure you open an extra half-sto... (more)
The beauty is coming back to run after her refreshment and modernization.In appearance of connection meter gauge line between the central workhouse and St. Anargeri station, Hellenic railways usin... (more)
This publicity photo of The 400 was taken for the C&NW Public Relations Dept. most likely around September 1939 when the streamlined train was first inaugurated. I was able to make a copy photo of... (more)
On their way from their birthplace to their new home on the Santa Fe, five brand new C30-7’s travel west out of Conrail’s Collinwood yard.
Winter snow in Indiana A Conrail steel coil train is eastbound at 3:54 on the afternoon of January 15, 1994, just east of Rolling Prairie, Indiana. Yes, it is cold, and it’s going to ... (more)
The Ugly Duckling seems to stick out of this crowd. The IC 2457 is among a crowd of locomotives stashed out the back door of Woodcrest. In the background is Markham A yard.
This crusty old Motive Power F45 relic is used as an engine test bed at the company's Boise facility.
Still hangin’ on. The former Lehigh Valley Railroad roundhouse in Pittston, PA is today part of the Reading, Blue Mountain, and Northern Railroad’s Yard. While Pittston Yard itself is presentl... (more)
Proof the Rio Grande had class!
Steep grade 17% for this 750mm dmu of the rack railway Diakofto-Kalavryta.
Two high cab GP39-2s (792 & 799) built in 1978 for use in Kennecott's Bingham Canyon open pit mine still serve on the rails of their original owner. Now lettered for Tangent Rail Services which pr... (more)
Bridge between Momchilgrad and Podkova. Steam locomotive 01.23 is build 1935 SLM Winterthur.
BNSF Corwith Yard from the air.
A stunning sunset silhouettes (try saying that three times fast!) the Huntington Locomotive Shops on a beautiful December evening. In the Upper Yard, a long line of EMD motors including several S... (more)
Reflected in the window you can see the wonder in a boy's eyes, face up against the window as another train passes our train while we hold the main.
2010 and 2011 were disappointing winters for me in terms of my typical Donner trips. In 2012 I was stationed at Langley AFB and I was blessed with the birth of my two sons in that time. All of the... (more)
Just a few minutes before the taking of this photo, I was looking out upon the yards and beautiful mountains of Roanoke from a nice Vantage point for viewing both, and I couldn't help but notice t... (more)
PROGRESS: C&O #2789 Built by Alco in 1947 for the Chessapeake & Ohio, she's one of several Kanawha survivors. She was donated by the railroad in 1961 to the city of Peru, Indiana ... (more)
National Limited just before it lost the mail contract and started terminating at Parkersburg, WV.
'Mixto' heads through the street on Market Day.
BNSF's westbound Denver, Colorado to Provo, Utah manifest led by two GEVO's and a Canadian Pacific AC4400CW patiently wait at Tolland, Colorado for three trains to pass by before heading west on S... (more)
The cab unit of the Loram RG306 is upside down following last night's collision. Hulcher crews pushed it off the right of way for removal later today.
A CSX gevo sits in the westward siding as mother nature puts on one nice light show.
IRM's 1630 put on a nice show for the NRHS guest held that year in Chicago.
Camelback #754 is steamed up for the commuter shuffle, under the new Garden State Parkway, not too far from where Sonny met his fate at the tollbooth.
Diesels young and old were gathered at EMD for the 50th anniversary celebration of FT 103, including GP-60 demo #5.
Spring in the Carrizo Gorge - Looking into the gorge from near the tracks, two wrecked box cars cling to the steep canyon wall. The cars derailed in an accident in the 80’s where the... (more)
Birds Eye Or in this case a planes eye view of the massive Inman and Tilford Yard. NS's Inman Yard can be seen to the right, while part of CSX's Tilford Yard can be seen to the left. Downt... (more)
Wearing CP's new "Script" heritage scheme, CP SD70ACU 7010 leads Vancouver IMS-Toronto Yard train 100-23 past Mile 16 on the Thompson Sub knocking down the approach signal to Cherry Creek. Kamloop... (more)
BN 9900 was the only E unit owned by the SP&S and was numbered 750 with that railroad. It teams up with an FP7 to lead tr. 22, the Portland connection for the EMPIRE BUILDER. I rode the sleeping c... (more)
A sad sight, the remains of 456-4517-649. One of the last 1st generation Alcos on the ROCK, one of the first (recently) rebuilt Geeps, and an E8A. Deadlines after the shut-down grouped engine ty... (more)
Midcoast Rail Service RB-2 is seen crossing the 1916-built 995-foot Wiscasset Bridge spanning over the Sheepscot River. The train will continue over the long causeway and across another bridge bef... (more)
An original Lehigh Valley round house from the 19th century stood derelict in Auburn for decades, but just yesterday (3/12/16) it burned to the ground. The cause is under investigation but is sus... (more)
A clerk for the N&W Railraod holds up trainorders for the fireman of No. 611 as the crew prepares for departure.
special MAERSK painted for publicity purposes
Salemi-Gibellina
Alaska RR northbound empty coal train with freight on head end picked up both in Seward and Portage along the Turnagain Arm near Rainbow
Norfolk Southern 3462 waits patiently for a long CSX intermodal train with DPU 926 to clear the diamond so that it can continue to switch cars in the NS yard in Augusta, Georgia. Note: the photo w... (more)
As a result of the partial collapse of the Hoosac Tunnel, Pan Am manifest trains have been running a circuitous route from Hoosick Jct, NY to Bellows Falls over the Vermont Rail System. Here we se... (more)
ATSF 144 was a trailing unit on a stack train that ran away and rear ended a UP coal train on 12-14-94.
After concert performances in Hermon, Brownville and Jackman the day before, the CPKC Holiday Train is leaving Maine. The train has just left Jackman and is crossing the Pat McKinney Bridge over t... (more)
CSX 4617 sits in primer at the Huntington Shops. ** TAKEN FROM A PUBLIC ROAD ON PUBLIC PROPERTY, NO TRESSPASSING WAS DONE TO OBTAIN THIS SHOT ****
The Grand Canyon in the siding at Glorietta. A Roger Puta photograph.
CNs latest Distributed Braking Container on the rear of Q 199. The container also doubles as a FRED, note the three light bars on the back of the container.
Kalte Rinne viaduct of the Semmering railway in Breitenstein, Lower Austria.
shoving back to the yard, very slowly!
The next mine run is about to begin as USG's rail crew heads light towards their train on a warm November afternoon.
various power at Reading's Rutherford engine facility
Results of the first evening of night shooting at Nevada Nevada Northern Wrecking Crane 'A' was brought in to rescue an ore car that derailed on Friday evening in the East Ely yards of the Nevada ... (more)
The Boston area Pan Am/CSX Local train BO-1 is seeing its final week of service on the Danvers Branch to its only customer, Rousselot. With Rousselot closing in the near future, the last expected ... (more)
GE is building the C38AChe units to operate on new line over the Himalayas in Tibet.
The anti fossil fuel crowd held a protest in Albany on Saturday May 14th. The railroad fenced off the yard and secured sensitive areas and under a heavy police presence, the protesters were allowe... (more)
Traffic at Essex On the day after Christmas 2007, a traffic jam is occurring at Essex, Montana, while more light snow continues to fall. Amtrak No. 8 is in town making its Essex station... (more)
Years in the making this engine finally lands in it's final position next to the Fife History Museum. It still has a fresh coat of paint thanks to the now defunct CEECO. It had been sitting in the... (more)
Photographer- Clark Frazier- from my personal collection. Early June 1959 finds Y6a 2158 awaiting her fate at the hands of the ivory hunters. Sister 2156, the sole remaining Y6a resides at the... (more)
Collision between a train and bus, as this causes the train derails and crashes into another train. Leaving 11 dead and 100 injured
Milwaukee Road 507, a caboose, and a wave from the engineer. Check out the hi-rail following behind.
The rails this local rides on are 102 years, and they definitely show their age. They almost look as though they should be abandoned, but once a week, the Fredericksburg area local runs in here, a... (more)
The Ditch Cleaner discards a trail of nasty wet ballast on the opposite side of the tracks as it heads west past Larry's Truck and Electric in McDonald, Ohio.
Rock Island Aerotrain 3 sits near the future new entrance to the Museum of Transportation.
It could have been taken in the 1950's or 60's, but its 2006 and PRR E8's are hanging around the Bay Head Yard once again! The SUV is the only indication of the true date.
Sitting on the whisker tracks around the turntable in Southern Pacific's Taylor Yard in Los Angeles, California, is SD45 7425, displaying the results of a recent altercation. This locomotive, bui... (more)
Crews work to clear a major derailment in Two Harbors yard a day after a loaded ore train ran away down the steep grade into the yard. Two crew members jumped and sustained injuries but are thankf... (more)
EJ salutes the flag before waving to the crew on westbound intermodal train 23M as it exits the tunnel at Gallitzen on Track 3. Photo by Casey Thomason. For more information, visit more)
Amtrak CEO Joseph Boardman, on the right, waves from the rear platform of business car 10001, "Beech Grove," as train 4, the eastbound Southwest Chief, departs Fullerton, California - the t... (more)
My 1st horsehead sighting.
