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)
Sitting by itself on August 1st, 2014, is Union Pacific 8875, constructed in June 2014. EMD calls this an SD70ACe, but UP calls it an SD70AH to indicate that it carries extra weight (the "H&... (more)
Carloads are the lifeblood of any freight railroad. The huge Westvaco paper mill at Luke, MD provided both WM and B&O with a sizable revenue stream from inbound raw materials and outbound paper. ... (more)
Vermont Rail System’s “Little WACR”, the Washington County Railroad affiliate Montpelier & Barre Subdivision (M&B Sub for short) re-launched granite-hauling service from the Rock of Ages Qua... (more)
Eastbound CN container train crossing the Nicola River at Spences Bridge.
A CSX empty hopper train rolls into Norfolk Southern's Natural Tunnel.
While bypassing a previous grain train derailment, a rail roll-over adds to the congestion.
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
On this day in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, the BEDT was off to a rough start, but nothing that a few oak blocks couldn't handle, although repairing the track structure may have taken a litt... (more)
A pair of commuter locomotives break up the sea of yellow at the impressive servicing facilities at Bailey Yard, North Platte, NE. The east bowl tracks are to the right, with the east hump visibl... (more)
Mobile was more generally B-B territory in GM&O and ICG days, but the C-Cs did make their way to the Gulf shores occasionally. On this nice January day 6044 - one of ten ex-CRI&P units acquired af... (more)
A toaster from another era waits for work with a boxcab.
The Borax brush sprayer is almost to the telephone pole on the Rock Island at Pleasant Hill, Mo. Aug. 28, 1965. Such work trains could disburse over 100,000 gallons of herbicides in a day. Then... (more)
A working roster shot of one of the new ES44C4s. the cylinders in the middle of the truck is what GE calls "Dynamic Weight Management." The center axle doesn't have a traction motor. These cylinde... (more)
There's time for a quick nap in between moves. The 1911 boxcab, a product of the Juniata shops, survives today at Strasburg stuffed and mounted. The GG1's on the left don't.
CNW's Milwaukee lakefront depot sits unused and ready to be torn down in this view from September of 1966. The destruction of this beautiful and historic building caused Milwaukee to rethink their... (more)
Intermodal train number 21V rounds Horseshoe Curve as part of its journey from Harrisburg, PA, to Chicago, IL. Leading the way is the Lackawanna heritage unit, SD70ACe number 1074. Photo by Case... (more)
Southern Pacific train No. 52, the southbound "San Joaquin Daylight," running south of Caliente in the Tehachapi Mountains of Southern California in January 1960. Photo by Southern Pacif... (more)
All three Music City Star trains are waiting to depart for their evening runs.
The UP 8444 puts on a show for a photo runby.
CP 6644 made a rare appearance to the American Southwest. This locomotive is painted in Royal Canadian Air Force "Spitfire" fighter planes paint scheme, which pays tribute to the Allied ... (more)
The KCS Veteran painted SD70ACe leads an empty oil train northbound on the Canadian Pacific between Montpelier and Buffalo, IA on the run to Winnipeg. The trailing CP engine would be added to the ... (more)
A lifeguard prepares to end her day while Amtrak's Surfliner 785 slips by Richard Nixon's old Western White House behind her.
The locomotive with cargo train on the stage Tikchonovo - Toyma in Tatarstan run up hill
Happy New Year and All the best! The quietness is momentarily broken as D&H#930 rolls south through a rock cut on the Canadian Subdivision with a pair of brand new locomotives on the first day ... (more)
Getting a spinAt the Union Pacific’s South Morrill Locomotive Facility in Nebraska on September 14, 2017, a General Electric 16-cylinder 7FDL16 from Union Pacific AC4400CW 6704 gets a... (more)
Vanishing Point - One of the Seven Sisters arcs off into the distance with the moon above as the sun begins to set over the Sonoran Desert. This railroad was embargoed in 2008 and there... (more)
Series 500 "NOZOMI" passing Odawara station.
EMU of Athenian tramway system
CN 7304 was rammed in by ONR 1517.
Sunrise as seen from the cab of 136.
Empty QNS and L ore train heading back to Labrador City to get related with iron ore
A pair of Boeing 737 fuselages take a ride west over Bozeman Pass.
CN's 1954 "Super Continental" came even closer to perfection with the addition of the ex-MILW domes. How nice to see a train where everything matches. Here the "Super" treads lightly through Sa... (more)
In the days before it became a conveyor belt for Powder River Basin coal, the Joint Line offered drama and variety. Here on April 9, 1966, Denver & Rio Grande Western 5313, one of ten SD9’s on t... (more)
The bags are packed and she is ready to go home. PRR K4 1361 is days away from finally leaving Steamtown after an extended stay. Here is to the hope that in Altoona she may breathe steam yet again... (more)
East Portal of Tunnel 7 - Carrizo Gorge - Tunnel 7 collapsed at some point after the Goat Canyon Trestle was built and and before 1949 (the dates on the track). Instead of clearing and r... (more)
SR 3804 leads a line of 10 GE CC's stored at Inman, some with capped stacks and chained doors. It isn't the end of the line, though, as they will return to service for a few more years.
To quote an engineer: "Ive heard of ripping a drawbar before, but never I have never heard of ripping the whole a*s off before!" 2703 was pulling up Stevens Pass when it started to surge then the... (more)
Morning run. An intermodal train slows for a crew change at Altoona in preparation for its climb up to Horseshoe curve. Deadlines always fascinate me for some reason, especially when they are fi... (more)
New England Southern SW1500 2555 leads two empty tank cars from 3M in Tilton back to the PAR interchange in Concord, NH. The 2555 is passing the former B&M Concord Tower as it prepares to drop the... (more)
The cab of one of CN's "new" C40-8s. Note that there is no DPU equipment anywhere to be seen.
RAJA DMU MADE BY IRICO
I believe the shops - except for part of the roundhouse - are gone.
A rare Bird UP U 50 # 43 Rests in CNWs Proviso Yard In early 1974. A number of these units were in the CNW at the time as they were considering buying them. But the CNW bought the N&W C628s inste... (more)
This ex-L&HR C-420 is on the ground due to a vandalized switch.
A rebuilt GP20 (originally GP9 #2399) leads an eastbound Hiawatha, IN to Louisville, KY trackage rights train down the former Monon (now L&N) street running in New Albany, IN. These rails, while s... (more)
While flying over Chicago's southwest side inbound to Chicago Midway Airport we are greeted with a great view of the BNSF Corwith Yard Locomotive shop.
It is safe to say there is no danger to anyone or thing here. The forlorn former DL&W MU trailer obviously has not gone anywhere for a long time. The Catskill Mt RR does have plans to move 2322 to... (more)
A Utah Transit Authority "FrontRunner" test train meets Union Pacific's MHKRO-16 at Grant Tower in Salt Lake City.
Before her hopeful temporary retirement in 2002, the SLSTA ran a many excursions out of St. Louis, this one to Hannibal, MO. Note the Gateway Arch in the background.
An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train loops over the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon between Plainview and Clay, Colorado, on the afternoon of July 5, 2003. Leading the train are two GE ... (more)
One of three. Found in the Santa Fe yard in San Bernardino, California, was an unusual visitor – Waycar 999639. In 1969, Santa Fe rebuilt just three cabooses (what the Santa Fe called W... (more)
BN's Northtown engine facility was always a fun place to visit (and still is). Lots to see in this shot during a key transition time between first and second generation diesels.
On a frigid evening in January 1994, an eastbound Santa Fe stack train works upgrade into Abo Canyon and the sunset and across the first of seven bridges it will cross in the canyon. Ladrón Peak ... (more)
ROCK ISLAND Recollections. RI 4584 is less than two months old in this photo at HB&T's Milby St. diesel facility in Houston. RI's 18 U30Cs 4582-4599 were delivered October-December 1... (more)
Horizon un-level....oh wait it's just the truck The A end truck of this rail flatcar has run over a piece of wood cribbing used to separate the layers of rail that were once inside th... (more)
At 7:43 p.m. on April 15, 2013, dusk settles in on the fuel track at Union Pacific’s North Yard in Denver, Colorado. Snow is still coming down hard on this tax day blizzard, and the Denver area ... (more)
A BNSF westbound train led by Dash-9 No. 766 blasts out of Tunnel 9 at Walong, California, on March 28, 2001, as the train’s DPUs pass overhead. The action takes place on the famous Tehachapi Lo... (more)
Tuscan red NW SD40-2 6175 runs light with cab west of Williamson, WV along US 52
Three cars can be seen sliding down the hump into the CP Hump Yard on this view from the top of Daytons Bluff
Note Cab Signal Display Unit
A westbound Southern Pacific lumber drag crosses Salt Creek in the Cascade Range of Oregon. During winter, the trestle marks the spot on Oregon Highway 58 where motorists chain up for the crossing... (more)
GM’s Everywhere There are GM automobiles as far as the eye can see in the open racks of a train approaching Tunnelhill, Pennsylvania at Bennington Curve. On the next track, Santa... (more)
After switching scrap gons at Omni Source in Legion Street Yard, ETRY 214 crosses an original Clinchfield bridge in Johnson City, Tennessee on it's way to the CSX interchange. East Tennessee Rail... (more)
NJT 4500 has yet to touch American rails as it sits on a trailer in Port Newark. The 4500 is the second of NJT's new dual mode locomotive to be delivered. NJT 4501 is currently in Pueblo, CO under... (more)
D13 shoves into the Finch Paper Spur on the Glens Falls Subdivision over Shermantown Rd, the crew protecting the shove aboard one of Canadian Pacific's cabooses often used on the locals for purpos... (more)
National Railway Equipment in Silvis, IL completed the new Rock Island 1275 last week. Iowa Interstate's Rock Island heritage was at NRE for wheel work and the pair were put together for a few ph... (more)
The amazing maze leading to a multitrack terminal
A trio of brand new, SC-44 "Chargers," glisten on this rainy morning in downtown Los Angeles as they await their first chance to get out and stretch their legs.
Southbound intermodal train Q143 tops the Raccoon Mountain grade and will now coast down into Wauhatchie where it'll tie down on zero track.
Rail photographers, in action
The two IORE locomotives 109 "Abisko" and 113 "Bergfors" from Bombardier Kassel with a power of 5400 kW each are pulling an empty ore train with 68 cars and about 700 metre length along the Tornet... (more)
(Correction: Whitewood, Virginia) Extremely overcast and heavy snow conditions, are the perfect backdrop for a gloomy abandonment photo such as this. Looking southwest in the little community of W... (more)
For the 9th order of modern widecab GEs, the CP opted for the AAR control stand. Here's brand-new No. 8782 in Glenwood, MN, just three weeks out of the GE factory at Erie, PA. Note the teapot!
The EDDTC hauled coal from several mines to the port of Imbituba. This is a train of empties leaving Imbituba.
This 4-8-4 "Northern" steam locomotive was built in 1944 by Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. The locomotive is now on display outside the California ... (more)
Foss River Bridge; Amtrak number 8 lights up the snowy valley as it makes it way east up the 2.2% grade on Stevens Pass. Taken during the annual Tracks in the Snow Event with fellow RPix co... (more)
New York Cross Harbor Railroad S1 #25 street running on 2nd Avenue near Bush Terminal in Brooklyn New York on May 1, 1998, gets some protection from the city's finest as the crew tries to figure o... (more)
CP 9545 made a surprise appearance at Cisco, running westbound on CP while a westbound CN train crossed overhead. The CP train was deemed hot enough that CP ran it against the flow of normal joint... (more)
It is a rare site to see a steam locomotive in Staunton. In this case is former Canadian Pacific G5d tenders rest on a flat car, waiting to move out from Staunton. Ultimately, they will head to ... (more)
Grievous and sad accident that involved the passenger service Santiago - Chillan, which impact at high speed to a hopper truck that crossed a rail pass not enabled. The enormous magnitude of the i... (more)
A foggy cold day at the beach did not detract me from photographing New Haven Shoreline trains For more Trubo train shotsmore)
A locomotive as big as Texas. Squirreled away in a shed on the grounds of the Texas State Railroad, sits a locomotive worthy of the Whyte Classification "Texas." This monstrous 2... (more)
The "Sunday Afternoon" passenger train is crossing the Menominee River southbound late in the afternoon.
