Lawn ornament
The N&W 2156 is well on her way west to St. Louis, seen here in Elliston, Va. It'll definitely be sad not seeing her at the Virginia Museum of Transportation anymore.
B&O power slumbers while across the river Western Maryland is still active counting down the days to an all Chesie System.
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)
Among the confines of Odus Pack Motors in North Little Rock, the fall sun fades away as a series of locomotives have reached their final resting place after decades of service. Included in this as... (more)
BNSF 6762 leads a long stack train around one half of the Trinidad Loop.
Excursion for European and Greek railfans. The last one working dmu unit all over the Europe in the abandoned meter gaugline of Thessaly.The grassy line is absolutely missing.
The daily Alliance, TX to Portland, OR Q-train makes its way down the northern slope of the Palmer Divide as it traverses the UP's section of track of Colorado's Joint Line at Spruce. Note the Boe... (more)
Spikes When a tie replacement is under way, one of the other fundamental things being replaced other than ties are spikes and lots of them as evident here. An original Atlantic Coast ... (more)
Recreated GN Passenger Train headed up by F9A 423 on a photo runby near Two Harbors, MN.
I don't know how to make a trainset like this.
Back when Cleburne was the place to be another local eases out of town with Fs in their next to last incarnation, at least of John Santa Fe.
Santa Fe E8M's were rebuilt from old E1A units in 1952-53. They were numbered #80-87. The #80 is on the West Texas Express in Amarillo, Texas April 17, 1965. No photographer listed on slide.
BN 4011 leads the westbound Gorge local on a bright June day. BN had only 2 C415's and by the amount of chatter between the engineer and conductor it appeared this crew and every other train crew ... (more)
UP 6259 eases a short eastbound manifest across the CN diamond in Memphis, TN. In the background UP 4894 holds waiting for clearance into Memphis.
NS's newest Progress Rail "CAT" engine, 4002, with a new design wide cab. Photo copyright Norfolk Southern Corporation.
"Kate Shelley Express" making excursion runs across the old Kate Shelley high bridge over the Des Moines River a few miles west of Boone, Iowa as part of the first annual Pufferbilly Days celebrat... (more)
When The Street Lights Come On, The Trains Come Out. CSXT 4428 (née-CR 3345, GP40-2) leads Conrail Shared Assets YPMOR-1 (YPMO-33 crew) long hood forward across South Delmorr Avenue on the... (more)
Its a quiet day at UP's Bill terminal as a whole slew of UP trains wait their crews. UP was slow this day in the PRB on account of a loaded OMAX train derailing 39 of its cars on UP's Overland Rou... (more)
ARR GP38-2 2005 switches the company warehouse in Anchorage Yard on a beautiful Saturday morning with the 4,396-foot Mt. Susitna rising in the background. These two tracks are used to load and unl... (more)
Monsoon season over the great Southwest is in full swing as the Black Mesa & Lake Powell brings another loaded coal train to the Navajo Generating Station at Page.
Fresh from completion at Juniata Shops in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Conrail SD80MACs 4104 and 4102 are put to the test with a nearly 20,000-ton coal train in snowy conditions. The pair stalled at Ga... (more)
EMDX SD90MAC-H #90 sits with an Oakway painted SD60 at the EMD LaGrange Plant in McCook, IL.
These pair of ICs were a familiar occurrence many moons ago, giving this photo a stuck-in-time look. Not only is the photo stuck in time, this car seems to be stuck in the field. When I went by an... (more)
Usually always coupled to an EMD diesel, SP's KM 9009 leads Train 663 west (south) about a mile from Junction City with a trainload of Oregon's most renewable resource, lumber. One of the few sun... (more)
The sun peaks out for a moment to shine on one of four SD60MAC's produced that were tested by the BN in the 90's. This one is now used for testing purposes at the EMD LaGrange plant.
The has-been Rock Island Bicentennial E-unit sits unused for the time being, alongside one of two remaining E6's in the country- Rock Island 630. Both engines have a unique backstory, one being t... (more)
Evening Glint in Run 8
"Rebuilds and Wrecks" NS 2527 sits outside Progress rail in the middle of its rebuild in to a SD70ACC. Along side of some CP SD90MAC rebuild behind 2527. The other side spots a wrecked Santa Fe un... (more)
Tehachapi Snow...What A Tease. The morning sun has crested the hills at Cameron and shines down toward Monolith as the BNSF 3753 leads its lengthy train from Stockton downgrade. While snow ... (more)
In memory of my father, Richard T. Steinbrenner, who passed on Friday, January 22nd, I am posting this picture. Many of you knew my father and many others are familiar with his books on Alcos and... (more)
The quite rural village of Shushan is awoken by the sounds of the Batten Kill local moving through town on an Autum day.
A former Santa Fe Doodlebug rests in a small park in Belen. Built in 1932, this unit was used in commuter service between Albuquerque and Belen during the 30s and 40s and between Clovis and Carlsb... (more)
Just around the corner from where the Not-Quite-As-Mighty Willamette River joins the Mighty Columbia River in Portland OR, is the Columbia Grain Facility. In this scene the bulk ship Mamma Mia is... (more)
"NYAR 159, Rebuilt" New York & Atlantic Railway MP15AC 159 sits inside of Fresh Pond Shops awaiting electronics installation a couple days after returning from Altoona Works. 159... (more)
Bloody Nose and KodachromeA pair of EMD SW1500s trundle through Dolores Yard in Carson, California, on November 3, 1986. Besides the obvious difference in paint schemes (2575 is on... (more)
D&R 18 was delivered to East St Louis Junction Railroad in October 1948, but it isn't nearly as venerable as the old locomotive shed at North Dardanelle, which - I believe - was demolished in 2019... (more)
A dmu unit at Dikasteria area.
Pacing the SP heritage unit, UP 1996 on its first revenue run at Marysville.
Yard lead to the right; Chuck Richards to left
UP FEF-3 4-8-4 8444 (ex-844) races east out of Las Vegas at Dry Lake, NV on May 18, 1980.
A few of JS waiting for depart from Xibolizhan. Now some of them have been out of use, others working in Dongbolizhan and Nanzhan.
Citi Field, in its 2nd year as a replacement (upgrade, really) of Shea Stadium, and the New York Mets prepare to host the Chicago Cubs. The Mets will win this game 6-1. Meanwhile, on the platfor... (more)
Before UP gorged itself on SD40-2s, lash-ups like this DD35A, GP30B, GP30B, U50C combination were fairly common. UP 71 was scrapped in April, 1982. K64, Yashica TL Electro-X
Racing along the banks of the Bow River under a dramatic sky, westbound intermodal train no. 101 sweeps through the iconic, and world-renowned location known as Morant's Curve at mileage 113 of Ca... (more)
A leased Santa Fe 5000-series locomotive is readied for service at the PRR facility in Columbus. The oil tank cars on the right were brought in for fueling these oil-burners, PRR used coal exclus... (more)
Two NS C40-9Ws and an CSX AC4400CW lead BNSF's Laurel, MT to Denver, CO train down the middle of Mason Street in Fort Collins, CO.
Steam power still hauled commuter trains and one express to Ottawa in June 1959. H1c Royal Hudson 2822 departs for Ottawa on Sunday afternoon with the express.
Amtrak's newest locomotives, the ALC-42 (Amtrak Long-distance Charger, 4,200hp), #300 in Amtrak's Phase VI livery and #301 in its 50th Anniversary "Day 1" livery, pose together in Ivy City. These... (more)
BNSF's Office Car Special meets a coal train in Pueblo, with a rough passenger car on the FRA track in the background.
Grand Trunk Western Westbound freight 389 had a bit of an unexpected delay while attempting to enter the yard on the Port Huron Wye. Just a few cars past the switch, the old, jointed rail on the w... (more)
A five-unit consist of Alcos--FA2/RS3/FB2/RS3/FA2--coils through a reverse curve near Emerson, Georgia, on the Georgia-owned Western & Atlantic. This train is probably fast freight number 42, boun... (more)
That's one fine looking Challenger! UP 3977 in fresh Greyhound paint at Cody Park in August 2002.
Small roll car for half automatic greasing of the rack rail, which was later coupled with diesel locomotive HGm # 51 and pushed up the line towards Gletsch and the Furka tunnel.
Amtrak had 6 third rail dual mode FL9s assigned to Rensselaer to move conventional trains between Rensselaer and New York City (Empire Service Turbos were third rail equipped and held most assignm... (more)
BNSF's rotary works slowly thru the man made snow drift near MP 51 on the Zap Line. Crews worked most of the day digging out the 2 drifts along the tracks at MP 51 and piling the snow on the track... (more)
Many locos arresting this night.
Under a Union Pacific colored Sunset,the eastbound Gaudalupe Local with Union Pacific SD70M No. 4334, leads a short consist of mixed manifest by Faria Beach. Also two of the San Luis Obispo Helpe... (more)
VLI export units crossing the Potomac river
Class A 1217 pulls upgrade with an eastbound merchandise train, probably no. 84, near the small overpass at Blue Ridge.
So long!
A transfer engine at the MN&S shop. Taken with Kodachrome II film and a Miranda G camera.
Santa Fe F7s 246L-226B-246B-269B-260L pull down the main line beside the El Paso freight house to pick up some cars before heading north to Belen, New Mexico, with train #52.
A dmu unit at the rugged point of Kakia-Skala passage.
An eastbound Santa Fe freight meets a westbound, led by a Santa Fe GE U36C, at Summit, the top of Cajon Pass, California, on a snowy December 30th, 1974. A pair of Santa Fe's distinctive F45s are... (more)
C&O H-6 #1308 looks as good as she did when new in 1949, although she hasn't moved an inch since being placed on display nearly 42 years ago. The museum at 14th St. West is owned and operated by t... (more)
Iowa Interstate's newest GEVO 513 adorned in her new Rock Island heritage paint schemes is pulling up the west leg of the wye at Yocum Connection on her maiden revenue run.
End of Dubbers Spur - Like the end of the wye at Ferum California, the end of Dubbers Spur makes use to the natural topography of the land forms to provide the spur with a bump stop to keep... (more)
Amtrak No. 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, passes through West Rocky, Colorado, on the afternoon of March 25, 2014. Carrying the markers is private car Sierra Hotel, a former Budd-built Dormit... (more)
Note that pile of new ties. They just didn't repair that section of track before the rail gave way.
A Great Northern F7 wears the Big Sky Blue color scheme while its mate is in the simplified orange and olive. I was on a USAF trip escorting the Thunderbirds with our C-130E from Langley AFB, Virg... (more)
By the mid-1990's, catching a Kennecott Copper ore train along the west benches of the Salt Lake Valley was a challenge. By this point in time, Kennecott ran only one single turn per day between C... (more)
Storm clouds brew to the northwest as an eastbound Cimarron Valley freight train begins its day at Satanta, KS on Sept. 15, 2014. Power is sister railroad, Southwestern B39-8 No. 8501 and two Cim... (more)
Creeping along at 12 mph, Union Pacific's prized DDA40X #6936 crosses bridge 45.04, between Cache Junction and Wheelon, Utah.
Well it only looks like this couple is making a life or death decision since southbound 19K is stopped right in the middle of the street running trackage in Warsaw, IN after going into emergency. ... (more)
The awful cab of UP 2459.
Canadian Pacific Railway's Montreal to Saratoga Springs, NY, train 228-19, is high above Lake Champlain at Willsboro, NY, with the one-of-a-kind Every Child Matters ES44AC 8757 leading SD70ACU 702... (more)
After making a set-out at Goldthwaite, Texas, Santa Fe Extra 283C throttles up to resume its westward trip to Brownwood and further to the panhandle on June 19, 1971. Goldthwaite agency was close... (more)
Wrecked Engine! CSXT 4759 Sits In Selkirk Yard Along With The Other Wrecked Engine's That Were Involved In A Major Derailment In Fonda, NY...4759 Took A Nose Dive Straight In The Mud And Was The L... (more)
Four SD40-2 units bought by MATERFER waiting transport to Córdoba, headquarters of the company. The purpose are to modify the locomotives to Argentina railroad standars, such as lowering weight. ... (more)
After 65 years in service, locomotive Ge 4/4 I 602 "BERNINA" of the RhB goes in retirement, for the next few years in the Swiss Museum of Transport (Verkehrshaus der Schweiz) in Lucerne. The 47-to... (more)
Another view of the 6768 with its huge tender pulling at Altoona. Click on "PRR 6768" above for associated views of this engine from John's camera that day. PRR Class M1a.
The B&O coal dock stands silent over Lake Erie. In the left center are two of the "barneys" that pushed loaded cars up the slope to the loader, where the contents into the car would be unloaded a... (more)
A view not often seen, from the ground or the air. The turntable and roundhouse at BNSF's Balmer Yard in Seattle, WA. Featuring an SW1000, placed like it was just waiting to have it's photo ta... (more)
A famous shot indeed, the California Zephyr in 2008 at the famous Pulga trestle... Amtrak #5 has gone off the advertised and is detouring due to Donner Pass trackwork via the Feather River Canyon.
