In the days before TGVs, the 07.45 Paris Lyon to Nice express enters Dijon station behind 2D2-9119. There were 35 of these locos built for the SNCF in 1950-51 for working on the 1,500v DC lines.
EL Alco Century 424 2403 and two others are at Port Jervis. These were the only new locomotives delivered to the merged railroad in black and yellow and were built in May 1963.
A chartered train for attendees of an event at Union Station rests at Hinsdale while the passengers board. The train ran west from Chicago, then changed ends at Hinsdale to head back east. This ke... (more)
The Proctor Road Switch crew shoves loads of taconite pellets out on the dock as a ship takes on the cargo. Across the bay, a BNSF coal train dumps their loads at the MERC facility. Business is ... (more)
Cascade 500 Derails Talgo power car on switch, leaving Tacoma. Present to be sure everything is going well, are reps from BNSF, Amtrak, Talgo, and I thing a UP dude (why aren't my trains moving).
Foaming at Hamilton: First Responders apply some foam to put out a fire on an Amtrak electrical traction vehicle at Hamilton. Meanwhile, an Amtrak crew waits for the chance to move the ou... (more)
Three of a kind - For a few years, there were three GG1's at the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum in Strasburg. On this day, PRR 4800, or "old rivets", the original GG1, and Conrail 4859 wer... (more)
It's almost dusk, and more snow is forecast for tonight as ICRR 4028 leads her train past the depot at Broadview. The eastbound passenger train, maybe the Hawkeye or the Land of Corn, will arrive ... (more)
Early morning sun, a tunnel and classic power with a frosty nose. Does it get any better? (Canon EOS20D, 16-35mm f/2.8L USM)
Santa Fe F7A-B-B-B-A 314 eastbound Super Chief/El Capitan at Barstow, California. No photographer listed on slide.
UP Big Boy 4012 sits on display at Steamtown as CN 3254 heads in after pulling the AARPCO special to the Delaware Water Gap
Man on SEPTA Train: What was he thinking? As SEPTA Trenton Line Train 707 was about to leave the station to turn after ending its run, a man started running after it and got the engineer ... (more)
Soft early morning light bathes South Amboy New Jersey in September 1983. GG-1 4884, after delivering it's train from New York and letting diesels take it on down the "North Jersey Coast Line," is... (more)
FA-1 set as delivered in red and black Rocket Freight (RF) scheme.
A pair of EMDX SD70ACe-T4s switch out Leesville yard in rural Louisiana.
"Thorough Locomotive Truck Wash" One of New York & Atlantic Railway's Senior MofE Mechanics, gets down and dirty to thoroughly clean the under body of GP38-2 271. NYAR's MofE crew takes loc... (more)
We can do it! A group of female railroad workers pose for a War Bond campaign photo at the end of their workday in a Norfolk & Western railyard. With serious looks and a little bit of grea... (more)
A steam locomotive returns to Santa Cruz for the first time in almost 60 years. The SCPC #2 used to operate at the Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company 90 years ago so this is a very special homecom... (more)
UP 5031 (8/71, 37284) was retired 27 Feb 1978, scrapped 6/78 at Turner, KS before her 7th birthday. UP GP9B 173B (3/54, 19249) was retired by UP 1/77, but rebuilt at Paducah to ICG GP10 8305.
Although this is listed as an EMD SW1, it's really an EMC SW1, from before EMC was purchased by GM. Beautifully restored by the folks at SCRM, SP 1006 has just shoved its train to the end of track... (more)
On April 30th, 2017 around 9:30 am, Canadian National Train A420 rear ended an Oil Train at Money, MS. CN SD60 #5465 was the lead Locomotive of A420, it still sits at Money, MS. Beside the main li... (more)
SW1 DS 50, pulls the Leviathan Southbound heading to Fishers down the famous street running in Noblesville.
Passengers on the "Notch Train" enjoy a spectacular view as they cross the Willey Brook Trestle near Crawford Notch. This location is a steep hike up from the highway, seen down in the valley floo... (more)
Battery powered 999 basks in some bright sun while working Altoona Pipe and Steel Co.
Class N7-E built in 1969 for the Erie Lackawanna Railroad as their C-369. During Conrail, the caboose was assigned number 21169. When acquired by the Providence and Worcester, renumbered as their ... (more)
More than one transition in this shot: GN orange & green to Big Sky blue; train is now operated by Amtrak, on MILW from the Twin Cities to Chicago
Left worker: Hey, man. I'm tired. This thing's heavy. Right worker: Shut up, just push it. It's we're paid for.
Union Pacific "Big Boy" No. 4014 and "Northern" No. 844 put on a fantastic show as they depart Rawlins, Wyoming, for Laramie, on May 17, 2019.
Northern Pacific Alcos 912 and 908 are at the shops in Pasco, WA in the summer of 1970. Note the differing style of numbers and a roof mounted bell on only one of the units.
The only caption that comes to mind is: "Truckin' westbound!"
Norfolk Southern RP-M4C #648 and GP33ECO #4717 are paired up as a mother/slug combo outside the Test Shed at Juniata Shop in Altoona, Pennsylvania, being prepared for service. The set will be ass... (more)
A pair of classic Rio Grande GP30s emerge from the shadowy Jordan Narrows into the bright morning sun at Mesa, Utah. The UT04L would make its first stop at Geneva Steel before turning at Provo Yar... (more)
Full throttle for this 60mm 2-6-0 steam loco.
Friday the 13th brought an interesting pair of eastern high-hoods to Albina Yard. Does anyone know the story on this?
This is the interior of L&N's Shop 17--the running repair facility built for diesels at its South Louisville Shops complex. Two F7As--824 and 811, coupled--are in for traction motor attention. In ... (more)
Passengers begin boarding the eastbound Texas Eagle, at Temple, TX. In the distance, a southbound hauling military vehicles waits on the mainline behind NS and UP power.
Restoration activity is buzzing around PRR 1361's boiler inside Conrail's Altoona Car Shops. Photo taken from overhead crane.
This Ex-Pennsy Unit has had a hard life the past few years sitting out in the elements in Jackson, but supposedly they have money to repaint it. I look forward to seeing it shiny again.
The first public outing of the 148, bringing in the seasons first harvest of sugarcane to their processing plant in Clewiston. A small gathering was held with US Sugar employees and the good folk... (more)
Streamliners at... Winslow??? Three cab units line up for a portrait during a railfan event on the Southern Railroad of New Jersey. In addition to SRNJ's own ex-Bessemer & Lake Erie F7 No. 727, th... (more)
The overhead slide detector fences are ever vigilant as eastbound Rio Grande Zephyr Train 18 negotiates one of the most rugged canyons in Colorado — awesome Gore Canyon. The canyon was named a... (more)
New units will soon be heading to GWI's Maryland Midland Railroad which consist of four SD40-2s or SD40-2Ms. The units are former CEFX/OFOX SD40-2 models which were built as SP SD45s, the units ... (more)
Gare Montparnasse viewed from the Montparnasse Tower. 9222 is visible in the loco holding sidings.
Pulling away from the Fremont Depot and ready to enter Niles Canyon on its way East.
Delivery Day. The MLW plant switcher has just dropped this brand new C630M on the CNR delivery track outside the plant. A CNR switcher will pick it up and deliver it to the CNR-CPR interchange t... (more)
Ely's Engine House Queen. Parked in the far back of the East Ely Engine House, sits the one piece of Nevada Northern's historic equipment that has not moved an inch since I started visiting... (more)
A nice set of 3 MLW FA units are on the head end of an eastbound freight on the high line in Toronto. This was a freight bypass line that went around Union Station.
A trio of Milwaukee Road GP40s leads train #213 past the west end of Muskego Yard.
This ic express has just arrived from Thesaloniki. After 2 hours the port station closed for ever ?
CN 7312 handles a cut of cars as the sun rises on the horizon on a chilly autumn morning.
The Train of Tomorrow! ALP-46 4623 trails a sleek eleven car train of multi-level coaches towards Trenton on the Northeast Corridor. ALP-46 4618 was on the other end of the tr... (more)
Steam in the Transylvanian countryside this autumn.
Beamish museum's annual 4 day steam festival took place this weekend and the main attraction was the activity on the narrow gauge line. 0-4-0 locomotives EDWARD SHOLTO and HUGH NAPIER are in the y... (more)
Built between 1926-1930, Alco's 4-12-2s had the longest rigid driver wheelbase of any steam locomotive (until Russia built a 4-14-4). Number 9083, designated a UP-5, is seen here along the Lincol... (more)
In a view from my campsite off the old Denver & Salt Lake Railway’s grueling, long abandoned route over lofty Rollins Pass is Union Pacific MGJNY exiting the 6.21-mile Moffat Tunnel. It’s 8:45... (more)
Transloading activities are underway on a four-car derailment that occurred on the east end of the bowl at IHB's Blue Island Yard. Tom Golden photo.
D&RGW Freight. A shaft of localized sunlight illuminates Freight Extra 315 as she emerges from the shadows of the Animas Canyon and crosses the river for a final time before entering Silver... (more)
Partially stripped on a flat car! MEC GMD GP40-2LW #513 painted in Guilford livery, sits on a flat car (OTTX 93348) in the SL&A Richmond yard. MEC 513 is ex-CN 9653 and was acquired ... (more)
In a stunning view, the eastbound California Zephur is crossing Keddie Wye trestle in the Feather River Canyon on a brilliant August 18, 1967. Leading the CZ is FP-7 #805-D and two 'B' unit ma... (more)
Amtrak 80 and sister locomotive 187 hitch a ride on NS 314 as the damaged units head toward Norris and a possible journey to the Amtrak Locomotive shop in Chicago. These units were involved in a ... (more)
Stack train rearended a stopped empty grain train, the car they hit went up/over/through the top of the cab. Both crew members jumped before impact at aprx 15mph.
UP stored power consisting of mostly dash-9s and SD9043MACS. 9766 was formally CNW 8662 and was recently repainted.
Virginian #215 leading eastbound train #4 at Victoria, VA || Nov 1955. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.
Finally done this shot at sunset, I could capture the prototype Alstom AGV.001 (Automotrice Grande Vitesse) = High Speed EMU, also known as "Pegase" that a few months making a series of tests for ... (more)
The double track leaving Mechanicville was one of many great photo spots to catch the Adirondack heading north to Canada. The D&H rebuilt the PAs to power their passenger service into the 80s. Whe... (more)
A Richard Beal photo: A Consumers Power coal train picked the diamond at Pleasant Street leading to this mess, the diamond was then removed (as it wasn't used anymore anyways). Dig that jacket!
This water tank is rarely used anymore, but it remains for emergency use. The tank is an old boiler shell from the power house of the Cass Mill. Notice the brakemen on the caboose and flatcar. ... (more)
Quiet on this sunny Sunday, this ancient Alco still earns its keep shuffling freight cars at Eastern Shore Railroad's Cape Charles yard.
Y190 had to stop on it's journey back to Clark Yard because a trucker parked his rig a bit too close to the tracks. The conductor had to get out and go find the trucker to move the truck. Shown he... (more)
The early morning sun greets an empty CSX Brice coal train E321 starting into the cut beside the Levisa Fork in Pikeville,KY.
Climbing in reverse by the hard slope from Rio Blanco by switchback junction and detour to CODELCO Andina copper mine in Saladillo, in the Andes mountain. Rio Blanco is a little village and former... (more)
Action at Converse Junction As a Chicago and North Western coal train loads at Antelope Mine, two other coal trains cruise through Converse Junction, Wyoming, on May 12, 1995. A loaded ... (more)
Canadian National U-2-g 6218 sits at Drummondville having been cut off the passenger excursion from Montreal. This was the cleanest steam locomotive I've ever seen even having run over 60 miles wi... (more)
This is the first train in three years to come down this line. This transformer is for the Excel Energy Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant and is being pushed in for the last couple miles of the... (more)
CB&Q F3A 124-A, F3B, F7B & F7A to create a combine 6000hp consist eastbound at Neponset, Illinois in July 1963. In tow was train 88 bound for Cicero, Illinois. Photo from my collection, Photograph... (more)
The backbone of the Pennsy's fast freight fleet was the group of 301 M1-class 4-8-2's. Only one survived the scrapper's torch, seen here shortly after a cosmetic restoration at Strasburg.
Union Pacific Centennial within the Union Pacific Steam Shop at Cheyenne.
When Santa Fe's F passenger units began wearing out, new steam-boiler-equipped GE U28CG's began service on the trains to Texas. Two U28CG's bring northbound Train 16, "Texas Chief," into Purcell,... (more)
From the grounds in front of the old Ford Plant, we see a NYSW local working with two nicely painted RS1s. By 1980 the RS1s were pretty much relegated to the Edgewater Branch. Today, both the bra... (more)
Three Alco PA’s rush SP’s first section of Train 11, “Cascade,” past Canby where it met Extra 5349 in the siding, 25 miles out of Portland, Ore., on April 11, 1964. Tomorrow the train wil... (more)
While bypassing a previous grain train derailment, a rail roll-over adds to the congestion.
As an eastbound manifest arrives at Butte, boxcab No. E45 waits in silence to help it over Pipestone Pass.
Mini-train passing standard gauge equipment. The Toronto Railway Museum's mini-train passes some preserved equipment, including GP7 CN 4803. In the background at left is the base of the CN ... (more)
"Don't go to Pasco, dude. They're a bunch of nepotistic tire slashers who hate anyone from the Coast"...This was music to my ears as a 24-year-old new hire fresh out of the Corps (Marines, not Pea... (more)
098 stops at the signals at College waiting for congestion ahead in Williamson Yard to clear up. The single SD70M-2 has 13 covered units, EMDX 3018-3030 in tow, presumably for export.
Power changeout at Rahway
Iowa Interstate RR rolls Eastbound through Malcom Iowa at sunset. The crossing was currently closed off due to road construction of the crossing
