"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)
This is most of the resplendent roster of this now moribund railroad. Believe it or not inside they are in pretty good condition but the owner says they run just as well without paint. The railr... (more)
Engineer Ed Dickens is at the helm of UP #844 as the train departs the greater Denver area through the suburb of Commerce City with a lucky lady sitting behind Ed.
In Nov. 1967, Pullman-Standard built eleven 40 ft. High Cube Box Cars for the D&RGW for Whirlpool appliance service. D&RGW 67422 had Equipco load dividers and was assigned to load on the Erie Lack... (more)
While thunder storms brew over the San Francisco Peaks, a trio of warbonnet GP60M's lead a hot westbound pig train through ponderosa pine trees near Williams Junction, Arizona. What a treat it was... (more)
Union Pacific Alco RS27 (2400hp) numbered 675-678 originally built as ALCO demonstrators, purchased by UP in 9/61. Units 675-676 sold to Montreal Locomotive Works as MLW 675-676, 4/71. Resold t... (more)
Summer sport on the Hudson! The increasingly popular sport of stand up paddle boarding enters our view in front of Metro-North train 8839 on the afternoon of Sunday, August 4, 2019. While the pass... (more)
CSX does it accordian style! Derailment early in the morning happened right under the highway bridge. I counted 14 autoracks that left the tracks. Had to stick my lens through the chainlink fence ... (more)
DTFR 2003 sits outside the NRE shops. Waiting to be picked up by CSX for delivery to the Pueblo test tracks.
It's time to play Orin Sub Alphabet Soup! Seven trains are visible in this scene captured at Reno Junction on a beautiful summer morning marred by a cloud of dust drifting west from Black ... (more)
On the Keddie Wye and heading north on the 4th Subdivision WP F7(A) 921-A is in change of a six unit consist, going to interchange with the Great Northern at Bieber on October 10, 1970. Photo ... (more)
A "bitty" coal train to the coke works (probably HB8, "The Star") comes off the old Lehigh Valley Main (on the south bank of the Lehigh River) and enters the old Reading Bethlehem Branch, passing ... (more)
Freshly repainted into its classic Erie passenger colors, 833 rests outside of the Black River & Western shop in Ringoes. The familiar symbol of another fallen flag, a faded PRR keystone, can be ... (more)
B&LE 906 lost it's footing after seeting off a URR train at North Bessemer.
The North Shore Scenic's fall color train to Two Harbors departs Duluth on a beautiful morning.
One of 2 RS1325's built rests at the I&M Enginehouse. Taken With Permission
An eastbound coal train CNAMCEB048 is "Walking on Water" as they cross the Mississippi River at Burlington. The Mississippi River crested on June 2nd at 24.48 feet. The crest was the 3rd highest c... (more)
A southbound Wisconsin Central freight treads as lightly as it can through the front yards of homes lining Division Street in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on November 18, 1989. Two children head down the s... (more)
MILW 195 leads train 202 around the curve as it approaches the west end of the Columbia River bridge and Beverly, WA. The next crew change is Othello, is 38 miles further east. Othello was the wes... (more)
CP "Jubilee" #2929, a rare 4-4-4, (one of only two in existence), sits rusting away at Steamtown, having not made the list of engines to have it's asbestos removed along with new boiler sheet meta... (more)
How many covered hopper parts can you recognize? Several covered hoppers derailed on an interchange run to Walbridge more than a year ago and were finally cut up for scrap. Here, half a dozen go... (more)
Train 757 04h50 Rangiya to Rangapara Passenger is somewhat festooned with bicycles! Its normal to see the odd bike or two attached to the outside of a train, but not this many! See http://www.ra... (more)
After moving a cut of boxcars from Speed to Watson, IN; this SIND local became a work train, picking up some leftover bits from recent crossing repairs.
A unique load on the Elgin Joliet & Eastern Porter Line in 1977. The placard reads "Do Not Hump".
Reading Alco FA-1 units 302 and 304 sit at E. Penn Jct..
Conductor watches as his train leaves Burlington for Columbus Junction.
UP 9000 comes to life as part of Steve Crise's Night Photography Session at the Rail Giants Museum in Pomona, CA. Here's a shot of 9000 from the ground up.
Looking westward across Wapta Lake with the sunrise. Note the foreground is still in the shade. I attempted using a gradient ND filter on this one (on the camera).
Spring thunder storms rumble thru Central Iowa as L569 does it's local work at Tara. Heavy rain, nickel size hail and close lightning made for some fun times while pulling 53 cars out of Verasun f... (more)
A Durango & Silverton train with a K-36 pulling, rounds the curves along the cliffs edge, and above the Animas River near Rockwood, Colorado. Unfortunately, the Animas has an unsavory orange hue t... (more)
Whats at the End of a Rainbow????.... Evidently BNSF9275 in a driving rain storm descending Mullan Pass as the rear DPU of an empty coal train. Who would have thought... lol :-)
Engineer view after a meet. Conductor walking up to line the switch.
Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4017 displayed alongside at Pennsylvania GG1 at the National Railroad Musuem in Green Bay.
Taking The Long Way To Promontory. Well, the closest active rails can get to Promontory anymore: Ogden, Utah. UP 8850 leads a small, seven-car train through the iconic rocks of Chatsworth a... (more)
September 1970 saw Alcos working the slope in helper service, a C636 and C630 mate drift by. That same month also saw the debut of Monday Night Football, with Frank, Don, and Howard. The Centuri... (more)
Rock Island SD40s for sale. The Rock had 10 SD40s and here are 8 of them.
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing), Union Pacific Railroad sponsored the Shiloh Limited, transporting the reenactors cannon on the rear of the trai... (more)
A long train of high wide loads crosses the frozen Nemadji River as it heads south for the cities and points west.
New pair of EMD ACE's power a Big Brown loaded coal train getting ready to be tied down at Rhea siding.
Having passed through North America’s 4th longest tunnel (6.2 miles), apparently the brakeman was going back to check an engine problem. Inside Moffat Tunnel D&RGW 5515 East crested the highest... (more)
"Erie Lackawanna Finery" Erie Lackawanna SDP45 3652 (with a freshly repainted pilot) leads F7A 7114 on arriving train PO-74 at Croxton Yard in Secaucus, NJ. The y... (more)
The four SD-40-2s leading Milwaukee's eastbound freight come into view at the loop at Cedric, Montana as the caboose of the 120-some-odd car train sweeps by the camera in August 1973. Box cab el... (more)
I believe this was a New Jersey Transit train and the passenger car belonged to a railroad club.
The last active SD40-2 in SOO livery parked at the diesel shop in Alyth Yard.
Lately, traveling by steam engines are becoming more numerous in Bulgaria This is a special week steam trip for English railfans, around the country
L&N's company photographer posed three brand new SD35s on the escape track under the hump at DeCoursey one evening in 1965 for this scene. The shot was used on the cover of an issue of the L&N Mag... (more)
Kasgro Rail Corporation depressed center flat car KWUX 200, owned by Siemens Power Corporation, brings up the rear of westbound NS 37A as it passes under the Westinghouse Bridge in East Pittsburgh... (more)
Western Maryland 303 slowly rusts away as it sits at the Georges Creek Railroad facility in Barton, Maryland.
The first order of C40-8s came in the so-called 'Stealth' scheme, but this ragged ex-L&N U23B goes the new GEs one better, with pretty much nothing except the road number intruding on its weathere... (more)
A D&H relic telephone pole is about to topple as Jordan Spreader CP 402885 and GP20C-ECO CP 2266 work the main line at CPC 132 in Wadhams, NY.
ATSF F7A #37C leads a five-unit lashup into the steel plate truss bridge over Galisteo Creek and towards Lamy with the combined Super Chief/El Capitan in tow. US Highway 285, soon to be Interstate... (more)
As the sun rises over the Manzano Mountains, whose peaks are 3500 feet above the valley floor, a hot intermodel is nearing the crest of the long grade from Belen.
After a 28 mile descent from Soldier Summit, SP's Minntac to Geneva iron ore train throttles up for a short section of level track approaching the Thistle Tunnels on August 11, 1996.
Sandy's Aftermath: Raritan Central has the misfortune of being located adjacent to the Raritan River and Raritan Bay. The storm surge from Hurricane Sandy deposited a large amount of debri... (more)
In a scene repeated countless time in the 40's, UP 4012 simmers in the cool of a Spring evening awaiting some TLC from the hostler. This scene made possible thanks to the lighting of Lerro Product... (more)
Paying respect to my old friends from the Missabe. There are ten DMIR locomotives at the right side of this line. I confirmed 306,208,221,217,317. Also nine GP15s make up the left line.
A few hours behind schedule, the northbound Coast Starlight begins to stop at Eugene while several passengers look on.
Amtrak train 710 makes a station stop in Merced, CA, under beautiful springtime skies. In the lead are two ex-SP FP7s, one already repainted into Amtrak livery. The train is on the station track, ... (more)
Tacoma Rail's Hill job (101) begins it's journey to Frederickson. After shoving in to the UP's Fife yard, the train takes the short northern section of the Mountain Division over the Puyallup Riv... (more)
D&H 1216 hides beside the ex-P&H crane facility in Escanaba. This unit ran only a few times for the E&LS before being parked, outside at first, but inside and out of sight since.
The Conductor (or the Assistant Conductor?) on Amtrak train 19, the southbound Crescent (running 1 hour 15 minutes behind schedule), has lined the hand-operated switch into the station and ... (more)
An aerial shot of Mojave, CA. The UP Mojave sub can be seen coming down from the mountains into its namesake town. Also visible on the right are several aircraft from the Mojave aircraft boneyard.... (more)
New EMD SD70ACe units at BHP Billiton IO (see more at www.railways.pilbara.net.au)
In the lead Frisco EMD FP7 5051,with F3(B) 5117, F7(B) 5123, Alco FB-1 5309 and FP7 5043. Photo from my collection, the photographer was not specified.
An eastbound coal train led by three Rio Grande Tunnel Motors curves through the stark, lunar-like landscape approaching Floy, Utah, on August 4, 1996. This is a view from a peak in the Bookcliffs... (more)
Former CN 4-8-2 6060 now owned by Alberta Heritage Railway Society hauls a special from Stettler to Coronation on Central Western's former CP Lacombe Sub..This was 1st run in 10 years for 6060
A herd of zebras was spotted out on the prairies of Manitoba in June 1986 as CN inadvertently lined up a nice sampling of GMD power at Symington Yard on Winnipeg's east side. The prize was F7A 916... (more)
Scrappers have torn into 4615. Doesn't take long to cut a locomotive down to fit into a scrap trailer.
a set of power is being switched at the shops in El Reno as the sun popped out of the clouds
Ex NdeM´s EA004 and EA023 will never see the rails again, they were bought by the BM&LP just for parts. Photographed stored in Page with the NGS in the background
Trona DT6-6-2000 51 and AS-616 52 idle outside the shops at Trona, California, November 7, 1970.
A mini "Hill Lines" streamliner rests on CN in Duluth after having spent the winter stored at Proctor. The cars and locomotive are being brought back to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum... (more)
Kicking up the heelsNow that winter’s icy grip has arrived, another scene from this past autumn feels a bit nicer and warmer. On October 2, 2013, at Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Mon... (more)
Dmu unit on a local passenger train from Athens to Nafplio crossing the historical passage of Dervenakia.
An empty coal train climbs through the Crater Loops on the former D&RGW Craig Branch.
R&N's engine facility takes on the appearance of a model railroad layout, with the variety of locomotives and paint schemes (and lack of space).
Deer! Its spring in the south as a pair of deer wander across the rickety tracks of the Mississippi Central. In the background MSCI 488 slowly approaches with a cut of cars from storage going sout... (more)
Remote-controlled AS616 #367 rumbles through Ensley, AL. I believe the guy with the Ghostbusters backpack is the operator. I also think this unit was re-engined with and EMD engine. I saw one r... (more)
This crew and Garfield the cat have one thing in common, they both hate Mondays.
Too much exhaust?
CPR MOW waiting in the yard for the next day's orders
Rock Island E8A 652 and E6A 630, now owned by the Manly Junction Railway Museum/Iowa Northern Railway, make their public debut at the Hub City Heritage Corp. Railway Museum's 2017 Railroad Days ev... (more)
It was a dull and gloomy day at Michel, BC where CPR H Liners 8727 and 8724 had a meet. Lots of crew interaction in this shot. This siding is still there today but everything else including the ... (more)
Arkansas and Missouri’s Fort Smith Turn departs Winslow, Arkansas, on October 20, 1995, powered by six Alco C420s. With the recent derailment and damage to A&M’s three EMD SD70ACes, it is like... (more)
Rock Island likes General Electric’s U25B. The road bought its first in spring, 1963 and by November 1964 has acquired 39 of the 2500-hp locomotives, including the 207, seen here eastbound with ... (more)
Rail grinder going south on the ICE
Here is another view of the head on wreck at Gilchrist - see photo 401114 for more details.
