Valley Railroad #97 leads a North Pole Express out of the darkness north through Essex, CT. At the end of the season #97 will be taken out of service for her mandated FRA rebuild. Canon EOS 50D,... (more)
Winter’s blue hour Just after sunset, Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 heads east approaching Wallace, Kansas, on New Year’s Day 2007, during that magical time on a snowy wi... (more)
So long!
A new TGV for the line POS (Paris direction East towards Strasbourg) made a test run on the Gotthard line. The regular velocity here is 80 km/h, now the train is in service on the new line in Fran... (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)
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)
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)
Hot Garbage! This tiny little train is the hottest thing on the railroad this day. The coastal community of Whittier (60 miles south of Anchorage) had been cut off from the outside world ... (more)
S1a 0-8-0 232 is ready for work at Shaffers Crossing. This locomotive was only three years old at the time having been part of the final group built by Roanoke in 1953.
Early F units usually came in set of 4, i.e., ABBA. The CB&Q found that for most trains on its mostly flat railroad ABA sets were sufficient so the ABBAs were broken into ABs with another newer A ... (more)
Street running on the ex-B&O/former BR&P trackage. Check out the Victorian style house on the left, an the B&O concrete whistle post on the right...
Pace shot - rods down.
Slave master SD40-2, MILW 22, replete with icicle breakers leads scheduled freight 202 east along Hyak siding, just east of Snoqualmie Pass tunnel and summit. The train is en route from Tacoma, WA... (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)
All of the SC&MB locomotives are out for an early evening stroll down Walker Street in Watsonville with MH 89 in the lead and SC 1102 and SC 1101 following. They have just passed the old Southern ... (more)
Improvised helpers on the Hill... As a Southern Pacific eastbound was climbing the Tehachapis on January 20th, 1978, it stalled out at Bealville. So, a westbound descending the hill was s... (more)
A pair of F9's and F3's pull a reefer train over Sherman Hill. No Photographer name listed on slide.
Breakfast time, St. Johnsbury & Lamoille County's "Saint J" turn has eased out of the small yard and crossed the CP main, to begin the return trip to Morrisville, VT. August 1972 is the... (more)
A Roger Puta Photograph
This morning's only Summit train arrives at Railroad Dock to meet passengers from the Volendam. This train will gather a compliment of passengers from the Holland American ship, prior to pulling u... (more)
Freight cars begin to get offloaded from the barge and into Greenville Yard. There is a method to unloading; one string at a time, taking four cars off one of the side tracks first, before taking... (more)
A Stadler KISS EMU is crossing the Eglisau railway bridge just before sunset.
Lines of GMD GP9 and MLW RS-10 units are lined up at the Turcot engine terminal. Canadian National steam will soon be banned to lines further west .
Sporting newly-applied camoflauge, a very late NS 285 tries to sneak past me in New Baden early Friday morning...but I'm alert so nothing is getting by me this morning!!
The Norfolk Southern Juniata Locomotive Shops in downtown Altoona Pa
On October 12, Vermont Rail System's Green Mountain Railroad Cocktail Train is seen running from Chester to Rockingham, Vermont, on the final night of it's 2018 season. The east end of the consis... (more)
A former Santa Fe caboose, IHB 75 brings up the rear of an eastbound locomotive move consisting of more than 15 new Boston & Maine GP40-2s. Built nearby at EMD's LaGrange (Illinois) plant, the ne... (more)
Farnham-Megantic Snow Plow Extra, reflects in Lake Memphremagog as it rolls through town
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)
A unique small 3-axle industrial switcher is surrounded by larger locomotives at CN's Proctor locomotive facility. The switcher was en route to a grain elevator in Thunder Bay, Canada. FWDX 0002 i... (more)
The OTHER 3751.
Ever since taking a photo from this spot on a cloudy afternoon in December 2005, I'd wanted to come back and try it again on a sunny day. Nearly four years later, it all worked out, resulting in ... (more)
The 1st meter gauge ic express to Athens at the wonderfull area of Lampiri.
Old meets new at the Harrisburg Amtrak station. GG1 4859 and a PRR wood caboose stand idle while the last car of Amtrak's eastbound Pennsylvanian rolls under the concourse.
Somewhere in Wyoming west of Cheyenne the City Of SF/LA roars by. Speculation this could have been the coach section with the Pullman section following, clues being the single dome and predominate... (more)
Metrolink PrideOn June 10, 2017, California’s Metrolink conducted tests with their first operable F125. SCAX 905 was built by Electro-Motive in May 2016, and delivered to Metroli... (more)
D&RGW's original search lights still protect UP's Craig Branch and our galaxy at 04:00h. I don't believe there was a single train on the entire 130+ miles of this coal branch line, the Milky Way a... (more)
A pair of Peg RS-11s roll a transfer through West Duluth in February of 1983. In less than a month all five remaining Alcos on the DW&P would be shipped off to join their sisters on the CV, repla... (more)
Sitting among the detritus of Conrail's Elizabethport Shops area back in 1982 were these two E8s being used at parts sources. Penn Central E8(A) #4321 was delivered to the New York Central as thei... (more)
Will this happen in 2023 ? Have a great New Year.
Bridge to nowhere...This is all that's left of an industrial siding off the former Clinchfield RR just north of Marion NC. The siding served the American Thread Company, now known as Coats North A... (more)
Baltimore and Ohio GP7 No.3400 proudly shows off what is generally regarded as B&O's finest paint scheme, in October 1953 at Bayview Yard Baltimore, Maryland. Photo part of my slide collection, n... (more)
The conductor of the TPW local politely requests a couple of trespassers who were fishing on the former PRR bridge to leave the premises so the local can proceed southbound to work industries loca... (more)
Westbound Wayfreight from Edmonton to Whitecourt Alta crosses the Paddle River Trestle
New Chicago & North Western GE C44-9Ws are everywhere at Bill, Wyoming, in Powder River Basin on July 7, 1994. All five yard tracks each have one facing north, while two more go by with a loaded c... (more)
recently shopped and painted SD24 along with a slug mate hump power sitting at UP's East Los Angeles engine facility
Waiting to depart. Fresh made taconite pellets bound for Mexico steam away on a early cool, crisp morning at the United Taconite facility on Minnesota's Iron Range. The crew (and train) arrived i... (more)
An absolutely beautiful sunset has fell over the hills of southwestern Virginia as Norfolk Southern intermodal train 202 grinds up the grade. The exhaust has filled the valley as the three horses ... (more)
On the move to Frisco Texas.
A local NS switch job heads north along 6th St. towards the Savannah River bridge with a couple of special purpose flat cars.
A classic scene. Seaboard Air Line ABBA FT's and an extra F3A are heading out of the yard in Richmond, VA.
Special train from Washington transfers riders for a day on the Strasburg Railroad.
After arriving in Greeley, CO 2 hours late due to a train-truck encounter near Ault, CO, the UP 844 Cab Crew are seen enjoying themselves during a 30 minute service stop. The 150th Year UP Special... (more)
The scrapping of a classic. The scrappers successfully remove the first chunk of car body, but not without a fight. A few more cuts of the torch were necessary before she'd let go. This is the ... (more)
This shot, taken by my grandfather, Peter Beal while stationed at Camp Hale during World War Two looks down on Tenn. Pass Station, its wye, coal conveyors, and a freight in the siding at the tunne... (more)
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)
Late in the afternoon, Little Joe E70 holds the main with a dead freight, waiting for an eastbound symbol to emerge from St. Paul tunnel. Meanwhile, five Milwaukee Road MOW employees with a speede... (more)
Rock Island train to Chicago with two private cars stops at La Salle/Peru Station
NJ Transit's equipment fleet was decimated by Superstorm Sandy. The railroad kept equipment in low lying areas in Kearny and Hoboken, only to get damaged by the tidal surge. A total of 63 locomoti... (more)
Challenger action in the yard at Cheyenne
After being delayed by signal problems due to severe weather, commuters depart the train and head home.See more photos on my Flickr site: more)
Optical Illusion! Did a monster take a bite out of the end of the long hood, or is that a well-worn "PC" decal blending into the background?
H75 heads through some of the rural scenery between Bath and Bethlehem.
CSXT's "Honoring Our Law Enforcement" unit leads Q693-25 across the trestle over Lake James (Catawba River) near Marion, NC.
The Wind Splitter She's beautifully restored. For Photo Album see: http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/archiveThumbs.aspx?id=73546
UPY 1064 starts the second row of stored locomotives in Nampa.
Suburban railway and an ...iron bird on the bridge.
GMD FP9 6508 and F9B 6608 are departing Montreal with train 5, LA SALLE, for Toronto and Chicago. The units were delivered in 1955 but still look new. The weather was beautiful on this Monday morn... (more)
Evening yard job sets up for the morning run. Thanks to John Rice for great directions and suggestions.
9123 eastbound on Stoney Creek bridge
The ArcelorMittal Quebec Cartier Mining Corp. runs a weekly passenger train from Port Cartier to Mount Wright, Quebec, servicing all of the online camps and the Fire Lake raw ore mine as well as t... (more)
On a very rainy April day, an eastbound Conrail freight waits for a westbound D&H train to pass. The D&H train is lead by three GP39-2's, while the CR train is powered by a typical "dog's breakfas... (more)
EMD's reign as top diesel builder is already in jeopardy as a B23-7 and two U36Bs lead a road freight past a pair of Uceta Shop rebuilds.
Looking out over the nose of L&N E7 760, this is the view from the fireman’s seat as train 6, the New Orleans-Cincinnati “Humming Bird” approaches its final stop at CUT in the Queen City. Th... (more)
C&O 614 with her fairly new coat of Hunter Green. They re-painted over the lime green highlights, thankfully.
MMA 23 Plow Extra going over the Fish River Trestle
Yellowjackets Swarm the Delware In a rather unusual turn of events the New York Susquehanna & Western operated a daylight SU-100 on Sunday October 30th. The move was made due t... (more)
After spending a few days in Green Bay, my friends and I planned to move north to Escanaba to catch Chicago & North Western’s ex-N&W C628’s in ore service. While we were still in Green Bay, on... (more)
West Portal Cascade Tunnel; What sometimes looks like a worm hole straight out of Star Trek or a time travel portal is the powerful headlights of a westbound locomotive highlighting the con... (more)
One of seven built exclusively for the Great Northern, #181 survives as a display in Whitefish, Montana. Here, dressed up for the Holidays. Sister unit #179 is rumored to be operational, right h... (more)
One of the 51 'Mountains' built for the AT&SF by Baldwin in 1918-24, No 3739 waits at San Diego station with an unidentified train c1948.
New crew gets settled on 44-loaded auto rack train from Barnes Yard, Portland, Oregon on snowy Sunday afternoon. Train was headed for West Chicago, IL (WG). Above train in distance was GE high wid... (more)
Rio Grande Zephyr
Brand new South Florida Regional Trannsportation Authority BL36PH sits outside the Brookville Equipment Corp shops. Locomotive is part of a 10 unit order for the commuter rail service.
Four trains meet at the Saratoga Springs station on a Sunday evening at 6:57pm. From left to right, the SNC train set that will cover the Monday afternoon schedule is parked on the House Track stu... (more)
"STEPHENSON" Returning from Clear Brook, VA to pick up a few flat cars, The Sandman approaches Winchester on the former CVRR/PRR/PC/CONRAIL line. For this and other photos p... (more)
