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.
Rock Island Aerotrain 3 sits near the future new entrance to the Museum of Transportation.
Still fully functional an in use today is the EJ&E Kirk Yard Roundhouse. CN has implemented massive upgrades and modifications to the operation of Kirk over the past 10 years. The new Fuel Dock ... (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)
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)
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)
My 1st horsehead sighting.
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.
Derailment At CP East Allens This is Whats Left On Second engine On This Train Which Ran Into The Cabin car Of Stopped Train Ahead of it Lead Engine Was Totally Destroyed!!!
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)
Decauville dmu unit crossing a small valley before Mega Spileo station.
On Monday February 26, Pan Am Southern's East Deerfield Yard hosted an eclectic mix of motive power, including PAS train EDPL-26 with P&W GP38 2009, MEC GP40 350, MEC GP40 352 and MEC B40-8 5930; ... (more)
A wrecked Cartier AC4400CW is on CN train M399.
The water level is up to the bridge deck as CN 323 crosses the flood-swollen Richelieu River at the northend tip of Lake Champlain.
Freight Extra 315 North. Having just completed the 30 minute climb up the 2.5% grade from Hermosa, the crew of D&RGW 315 can relax just a bit as they tip-toe their short freight along the l... (more)
Mfr. 1942.
Evening departure at Chama. Denver & Rio Grande Western Consolidation #315 departs the Chama yard eastbound on the evening of Thursday, August 25th, to take a cut of cars to Cumbres Pass in... (more)
Big Boy 4015 rounds the curve at Harriman, on Sherman Hill.
Honeywell Pentax
In May 1993, KCS had taken over, but there were still lots of MidSouth units around, with solid sets still fairly common. It appeared that perhaps there was some effort - at least in the early day... (more)
The Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7, aka The Skookum, is gently being pushed up a ramp an on to a trailer for its road trip to The Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol California.
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Montana Limestone Company’s pair of EMD SD50Fs are equipped to operate remotely on its private railroad of two spurs and 18,000 feet of trackage along BNSF’s Casper Subdivision at Warren, Mont... (more)
The Alaska Railroad is served by two barges in Whittier, the CN Barge see photo #486721, and the ARMS Barge from Seattle. While the CN barge makes an appearance about every 10 days the ARMS Barge ... (more)
A clean PRR E7 sits next to the engine house in the late afternoon at S. Amboy. Notice the metal bands on the grille behind the cab door that carried part of the as-delivered five stripe color sch... (more)
On a beautiful fall morning, VIA Rail's westbound Canadian races along the calm Yellowhead Lake in Yellowhead, BC on October 1st, 2022.
After leading CP 252 into Saratoga Yard solo, CP military tribute 7023 takes a trip around the wye at the north end of the yard. The 7023 is being turned to lead the NB 253 to Montreal on the nigh... (more)
Southbound coal loads headed for the dock at Seward pass Gorilla Rock on a glorious end of winter day.
NS 8101, the Central of Georgia heritage unit, is seen here leading its first train towards the southwest Virginia coal fields. The old barn advertises "Rock City" atop Lookout Mountain in Chatta... (more)
The snow capped continental divide provides the backdrop as Amtrak #6 meets a westbound BNSF Trackage Rights Manifest at the East Portal.
Can't you just imagine a fish lurking in that clear water? A new BNSF ES44C4 leads a westbound grain train on a fill west of Noxon, Montana, on MRL's 4th Subdivision.
This old GN line to NP's Old Town Yard is long abandoned, but the rail is newer and heavier than some of the rails still in use in the old NP yard.
Trying to elevate my night photography game - here's a BNSF westbound manifest illuminating the snow-covered path ahead as it curves and crawls its way up the last few miles to the Moffat Tunnel.
Following Brown at Watsonville Southern Pacific’s Santa Cruz local crosses the Pajaro River and chases a UPS truck up Walker Street in Watsonville, California, on February 6, 1995.
ATSF 59L Facing restorations at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas. It sits quietly on a warm spring early evening.
Original slide from my collection showing J-class #611 - the best passenger steam locomotive ever built in history. The photo has been made in Norfolk VA.
Moncton Auxiliary crane.
Famous class A 1218 drifts westbound down the Blue Ridge grade with a merchandise train that will soon be in Roanoke.
I felt very lucky to get this nice cab shot of SP 3769 today. That single window does not give the engineer, that much field of vision. You can see why the current cabs of today are much bigger an... (more)
ARRs Bicentennial unit at the north side of the shops. The lettering has already had problems.
After the last trip to Mill 5 at Dayton, Simpson 1201 gets a "not quite" final spin on the turntable, courtesy of the hardworking crew. In the foreground, like a stake through the heart... (more)
With fresh snow flying around it, eastbound intermodal 112-02 flies toward Calgary at track speed on a spectacularly sunny Rocky Mountain day.
Saturday April 2, 1955, was an off-day for CNJ 1000, basking in the filtered sunlight of an early Spring day. Monday its back to work on the carfloat to the Bronx.
DL-109 #623 with passenger train #21 pauses at Joliet station to load passengers before continuing west. James Lennon photo. Barry Lennon collection.
CB&Q/CRI&P wreck. For details of this wreck see: http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/archiveThumbs.aspx?id=23180
Crossing the only one bridge at Xino Nero passage 2.300ft above the sea level.
The subway of Athens in front of the ancient market-agora-
Exx CN coach 5585, ex BCOL Club Car 1750 - Glenfraser is now VIA 1750 with a brand new paint scheme. This car was first destined to the Jasper - Prince Rupert "Skeena", but it now seems VIA Rail u... (more)
CN 5060 and another SD40 are enough power to handle a loaded sulfur train down the Fraser Canyon. The train is bypassing the Stoyoma Creek trestle on newly installed trackage that increased capaci... (more)
SP #4449 often coined "the Most Beautiful Engine in the World" seen here in a Railroad: Southern Pacific RailroadLocomotive: Steam 4-8-4Location: Bannister, Michigan, USALocomotive #: SP 4449Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: July 24, 2009
An Engineman surveys the situation during a station stop. According to the PRRTHS, the last Class E6s 4-4-2 #5218 was retired in November of '53. However, John D. saw É6s' running on the PRSL ... (more)
It runs again!! The Santa Fe 92 has returned to the Illinois Railway Museum after receiving major work at National Railway Equipment in Silvis, IL. The 92 is shown here while performing some tes... (more)
Train #513 making a station stop with the look of the ODOT's talgo cab car.
Built June 1947
The Massive UP Big Boy is the Centerpiece of the NTM collection
Work train with #114 rest at Skagway yard
Amtrak's Pere Marquette greets a beautiful autumn sunrise as it rolls across the Kalamazoo River in New Richmond, MI.
4211 and the other 6 remaining F-units wait at the interchange yard for shipment. The 4211 and 4222 will go to the LSRM in Duluth.
NOPB is transfering four SDL50 locomotives for Saudi Railways to the CN. These units were caught in the hurricane at the New Orleans port before export and are being sent back to VMV Paducah Kentu... (more)
Known around the world, and arguably the best street running operation in the country, Chicago South Shore & South Bends’ iconic 11th street passageway, shuts down Sunday Feb. 27th, 2022, as pla... (more)
With brush and weeds growing around it a Southern SW1 rusts to the rails in Wadley Ga.
An aging star, at one time the biggest, coming out of retirement attracts throngs of paparazzi! The hundreds of onlookers in attendance watch as Union Pacific 1996 begins to roll Big Boy 4... (more)
A.9104 takes fuel in front of the turntable.The sight from the water tower, gives you a good view of the port.
As the sun sets, darker clouds roll in from the west in front of a line of storms, as a fairly new ACe leads the top priority train, 212 north towards New Jersey, with loads of UPS on the front.
Jake's place. A pleasant morning in Germany's Harz mountains with a recreation of a dimunitive DR freight train. And my thanks to Jake Birkinshaw for leading us to this spot.
Crew cleaning up a wreck caused by vandals.
Southern Pacific RSD-12 and RS-32 engines switch the north end of the OUR&D Yard in Ogden on Sept. 25, 1976. A lot has changed at this location in the past 39 years.
S313 trails a Link Tours charter to Kyneton at Southern Cross Station.
The four unit hump engine is respotting a caboose as it shoves down the main hump. This is the most ALCO S 2s I haver seen mu'd.
Working an early shift can sometimes be beneficial. On my way to work I noticed the full moon looked like it might be setting right as the sun was rising. Fortunately I have a good view of this sc... (more)
Now a RJ Corman operation, times are changing for the TSE as one of their rare Baldwins sits forlorn in the weeds outside of their shop in the back of a Georgia Pacific papermill in remote Diboll,... (more)
Steam - and Christmas is four days off.
Wagons East!!! For years, I've joked with fellow coworker and RailPictures contribuitor Elijah Cross about getting a very long telephoto lens and shooting the intermediate pai... (more)
EPA Tier-2 emissions certified. This is the heart of the SD70M-2 Locomotive. The CN 8807 shows off it's 4,300 Horsepower EMD 16-710G3C-T2 engine at the Homewood shop as it waits for a new main gen... (more)
A Pooch leads what I guess is a hospital train through the big curve north of Hanahan on a - naturally - hazy, overcast early summer morning.
Eastbound along the Colorado River is a Union Pacific coal train negotiating Red Gorge west of Radium, Colorado, on November 1, 2012.
Brand new CN ET44AC 3033 leads train Q102 past the December 10th derailment of train G847 near Park Gate on the Edson Sub. The derailed cars lay in a precarious position making it hard to get the ... (more)
There are a few things in this world that I believe I could never get tired of. Watching an Alco RS-2 or RS-3 switch cars is one of them. It was in just such an environment that I acquired my in... (more)
Abandoned remnants of the Staten Island Railway's North Shore Branch. This line saw both freight and passanger service. The last passanger car to run this line was in 1953. Freight continued into ... (more)
During the day Maine Central power for the Mountain Division freight would layover at St Johnsbury, Vermont. I took this shot with my trusty fixed feature box camera, a Kodak Brownie Star Flash. ... (more)
Baltimore & Ohio E9A 1457 leads Amtrak #50, "The George Washington," as it stops for passengers at Charlottesville, VA in September 1972.
Loading the coal at Balkan, one car at a time.
Lawn ornament
Before the last hurrah of the Rio Grande tunnel motors on the dirt train out of helper. There was a period of time that a pure set of Rio Grande tunnel motors could be found on the Salt Lake to De... (more)
Mamiya 645 color negative
Looking South Into Mexico - The abandoned water tower at Dos Cabezas California (San Diego County) sits in the Sonoran Desert in Southern most part of Anza Borego State Park as monument o... (more)
GG1 4935 returned to Washington Terminal for possibly its last time ever. This beautifully restored historic locomotive made a remarkable journey from the Railroad Museum of PA to Washington DC t... (more)
