The "Sunday Afternoon" passenger train is crossing the Menominee River southbound late in the afternoon.
Running down the middle of Interstate 10 on Metrolink's San Gabriel Sub, Santa Fe 4-8-4 steam locomotive #3751 powers a special east to San Bernardino to help celebrate railroad days which is bein... (more)
VIA 6537 encountered a freight head on at Ingersoll Ont,here by the grit blast,she remained there 2 years before everything good was taken off her.
CSX's trio of "Pride In Service" locomotives were gathered together for the first time at Rice Yard in Waycross, Georgia, seen here accompanied by vehicles from the Waycross Police, Ware... (more)
2016 was a good year for me on Donner. In fact, it had been the first time I was able to shoot Winter there since 2010. We had a lot of trains, a lot of snow and heck the rotary even came out for ... (more)
A Union Pacific undercutter works in a curve after the passage of a TRT (Track Replacement Train) east of Radium, Colorado on August 5, 2009. UP No. 902051 is a Plasser & Theurer RM80 undercutter ... (more)
In the mid 70's these engines started showing up around here.
Santa Fe FTA 180L leads a Clovis-bound freight west of Littlefield, Texas, on the First District of the Slaton Division. This is the "Texas main line," which connects Galveston, Houston, Brownwood... (more)
You bent what now??
With it's final trip over Cajon Pass almost complete, UP 4014 and it's pair of diesel helpers ease their 23-car passenger train downgrade into Devore as they head for the train's final destination... (more)
One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six! What seems to be a Monday thing, FEC 226 comes north with 6 motors, deadheading power from 202 and 222 that did not run the day before.
Calumet Yard, on Chicago's south side, was the home of the last roundhouse built in the United States, completed in 1952. By this late date, NKP 173 was used as protection power for the ALCO PAs o... (more)
RILX 4310 is seen here on the main at Sumner ready to depart for a days work after recently being painted back into the Rock Island blue and white scheme.
You see a locomotive, and I see a movie star. Runaway Train is one of my favorite movies, and not just because it starred four locomotives racing through the Alaska wilderness at high speed. Rid... (more)
It's business as usual at the steel mills of Burns Harbor as the 728 foot Joseph L. Block makes its arrival.
one of a kind specially painted for MAERSK shipping
East of Glenogle, the Trans Canada Highway cross over the Kicking Horse River and the track of the Canadian Pacific. Since August 2007 the TCH swings high about the canyon over the new 90 m high P... (more)
ACWR 6925 has been pulled from the moth balls and moved to the Candor shop in preparation for returning to service. See more of my work at www.vidivides.com or www.railpictures.net/adickson87 .
3890 adorned with several daring individuals (albeit fare-dodging ones) enters Qalyub with train 332, the 05:47 from Abu Kebir to Cairo Limun. Qalyub was to become the scene of one of the worst a... (more)
Brand new ES44DC is languishing at Delta Yard after bringing a train into the USA
CP 6704 switches one of the Detroit-Windsor railroad ferries in Windsor, ON in October of 1962. Little is left of railroads in this area today. John Ingles Kodachrome from my collection.
The return of Brian Mulroney? Last year in this exact spot Exporail had CN 6765 decorated for Halloween with a figure ... (more)
A westbound sits in front of the Golden station after hitting a slide in the Kicking Horse Canyon a couple of miles to the east.
A north bound coal train derailed last night around 5:15pm closing the B&P Mainline between New Castle and Butler Pa. Crews work hard this morning to open the mainline back up.
Less than two weeks before the coming of Amtrak would put it out of its misery, Penn Central train 427 rolls west through Wellesley, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. A single E8 and a snack bar ... (more)
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry., with two of the four F7A's own by the railroad.
While Amtrak No. 5, The California Zephyr, does its station stop, IDTX Siemens Charger SC-44 No. 4601 is one of two demo units seen parked on one of two of Amtrak's tracks at Union Station in Denv... (more)
BNSF 6209 heads a westbound coal train across Union Pacific's Joso bridge over the Snake River near Lyons Ferry, WA en route to a power plant on UP at Boardman, OR. This has been a regular movemen... (more)
An eastbound/southbound empty BNSF grain train approaches the "loop" on its winding way up the mountain.
A crewman walks along side Southern Pacific 4449 during a night session put on by Steve Barry, The Mountain State Railroad and Logging Historical Association and Lerro Productions. Part of Train F... (more)
A monstrosity of a machine, a Fairmont Tamper Ballast Cleaner idles away in the small Morley yard. Not sure of the age but possibly a leftover from a CSX predecessor.
The End Of An Alco. Grafton & Upton S4 #212 meets her fate in the railroad's West Upton yard. With the other S4 and remaining GE 44-tonner already cut up, the scrapping of #212 wou... (more)
One of the last EMD GP50s owned by NS leads the K&A Local compass south (railroad west) out of Knoxville. The locomotive has since been sent to Altoona, PA for a rebuild.
A Rainbow of Schemes or Merger SchemesThe Portland & Western 663 power has a remarkably colorful consist with five paint schemes on six locomotives! Here the 663 power is... (more)
A shifter shoves PRR gon #317762 with a load of shop scrap off the turntable. PRR Class B8a.
In August 1958, three Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis EMD GP7s are in full throttle and on sand as they shove behind the caboose of a northbound through freight just above Tantallon, TN. This i... (more)
N&W SD45 1776 working the yard in Roanoke, VA. [4-75]
A Rohr RTL-I Turbo (as delivered and not rebuilt) rests at the Amtrak service facility in Rensselaer near the end of its active life. This Rohr turbo, is one of 7 five car sets originally acquired... (more)
Here's a frontal on Camelback #758, a product of Baldwin Locomotive c. 1910.
After being damaged during a derailment in Atlanta, GA, NS 6220 arrives in Altoona for repairs. The SD33ECO is a rebuilt EMD.
This sad cab from a 1947 built Alco FA-2 freight locomotive was originally the New York, New Haven & Hartford No. 0402. After years of hard service, in 1963, the railroad traded in 0402 to Alco to... (more)
Locomotive Ge 4/4 I # 602 "Bernina" of the Rhaetian Railway was withdrawn after 65 years in service in the year 2012, and exhibited in the Swiss Museum of Transport (VHS) in Lucerne since april 4t... (more)
freshly repainted NJT unit at its rededication.
Here you can see the famous Japanese Maple Tree, the only one in Wisconsin. The scientific mumbo jumbo. Acer palmatum, called Japanese Maple or Smooth Japanese Maple is a species of woody plant ... (more)
The PAN AM Railways new diesel paint scheme has 2 different styles for the right and left side. Here the left side has PAN AM in big letters while the right side has Pan Am Railways plus the logo... (more)
White Pass & Yukon Train 2, consisting of containers, piggyback private vehicles and no-two-alike passenger cars, leaves Whitehorse, Yukon en route Skagway, Alaska on Sept. 2, 1978. Up ahead ar... (more)
Getting a train on the Montreal River bridge at mile 92 on the former ACR can be a challenge. The road in from the Trans Canada was(and probably still is)owned by Great Lakes Hydro and is normally... (more)
Three Schemes Amtrak Coast Starlight #14 rumbles up the grade toward Cascade Summit under a light snow. A plentiful mask of snow coats the nose of AMTK 507 as it leads a trio of ... (more)
roster photo UP East LA facility
9998 and 9999 run around their train of office cars Indiana and Illinois. The F40's made their maiden run today from Huntington to St. Albans and return.
A couple of horribly wrecked BN units sit at the Auburn Roundhouse. There is a WP unit in the same shape nearby.
The California Zephyr rolls through the barren and stark, yet beautiful countryside of Utah.
Steam wrecker rainbow A rainbow forms in the dry desert air as a member of the wrecker crew blows down the boiler of Nevada Northern Wrecking Crane A at Lavon siding on the Adverse Bran... (more)
A battle-worn 4-12-2 is seen speeding eastbound between Fremont and Omaha with the 91 cars of extra 9506.
What was once one of the most powerful locomotive's used by CSX, The Spirit of Waycross is likely in low spirits as it rust's away in the storage track at Waycross yard.
A short train joins the UP mainline to head east to Omaha.
Just north of Duluth at Munger is where CN's former DW&P (Rainy Sub) crosses over their ex-DM&IR track (Missabe Sub). For years I have tried to capture an engine-over-engine shot here but given th... (more)
A rare EMD Model 40 on it's way to it's new home a the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. The roof was cut off for clearance issues being truck to Duluth from the Mohall Sun Prairie Grain Elevator in ... (more)
Normaly this is always a night southbound freight.
CN 8915 leads a westbound CN freight, as they smash through a snow pile after a storm the day before dumped 15-20 cm of fresh goodness. Due to the time of day this train runs, shots like this are ... (more)
Tonnage rolls near the Duquense Incline at the confluence of the three rivers. The bridge in the background is the West End Bridge over the Ohio. PRR Class EF45.
Hostler George Clark is backing the NP 2626 onto the turntable at the Seattle Roundhouse in this rare color photo taken on a rainy February day in 1956.
Peoria Rocket with elderly EMD E6 at the Blue Island Staion. This city is famous for having many railroad bridges.
Note: Train was stopped, tied down and protected against movement, and I had full permission to be where I was. Don't try this yourself!
Danger Close! On the second day of the 2011 White Pass Rotary run, I stand with half a dozen other photographers atop a rocky bluff, overlooking a deep cut called Canadian Shed. Once the ... (more)
The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.
NS 11J under the command of the 8102 PRR, PRR on Home Rails, Under PRR signals. What more can one say!
A beautiful summer morning in Minnesota finds UP 4014 southbound on BNSF's Hinckley Subdivision.
One of a seemingly endless supply of empty grain trains making it's way east on the BNSF Stampede sub. This train and I, left Auburn at the same time. Traffic was good for both of us and I arri... (more)
One of four SD60MACs built by EMD.
Throngs of curious people swarm the spartan cab of a BNSF switcher at 125th Anniversary of Conquering Cajon Pass celebration. Engineer/host was very patient and informative.
Operating through Provo Canyon, HVRR's UP-618 looks as she did in regular service along with the freight consist ... " What a backdrop! "
On Standby
N&W class Y6a #2156 sits by N&W class A #1218 awaiting a call to service. No. 2156 is a 2-8-8-2 and the sole survivor of the railroad's Y5, Y6, Y6a, and Y6b classes. This loc... (more)
A former Pennsylvania Railroad E8 has been transformed and repainted in Southern colors, and will soon play host to Trios BBQ, located at Grants Mill Station shopping center in Irondale, Alabama.
Clean and well kept best describe the engines of the P&N
CP Ramp Flat 411000 hauls a spreader west
Here is my favorite miniature railway and my favorite locomotive from that railway. The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch was built in the 1920's and it runs 13 1/2 miles of 15 1/8 gauge track along the s... (more)
On its last-ever run this far north, the Alaska Railroad Palmer Turn runs light up the 10 mph Palmer Branch enroute to JD Steel, which was located at the end of the in-service track at more)
The North Bay deadline with several classic tucked away. RS18's, RS3'3, GM aA and B units and two QNS&L GP9's.
Yes, it's really that steep. The Madison Incline is the steepest 'mainline' grade in the US, at just under 6%, it's steeper than Saluda and Raton pass. The grade wasn't on a true mainline, that is... (more)
Nevada Northern #93 operating on Heber Valley Railroad line for the Salt Lake Winter Olympics.
The objective was to see my first BL-2 and the Bangor and Aroostook did not disappoint. There were three at Northern Maine Junction, including 53 which appears to have just come out of the paint ... (more)
Good morning Cumberland! A Western Maryland helper locomotive and crew enjoys the warm, sunrise light as they make their way along the C&O canal basin toward the depot in downtown Cumberlan... (more)
A pair of SD40E helpers assist a heavy eastbound down the hill around Horseshoe Curve in some foggy and wintery conditions
CN 2665 leads an X474 eastbound, as they cross the 3,920 foot Salmon River Trestle in New Denmark, New Brunswick on a cool Fall afternoon.
The sign may say Goshen but the museum grounds are actually in Elkhart. 4085 had the honor of leading the last 20th Century Limited long before making this "station stop" their resting place.
Train 350 passes the derailed Lake shore limited on the busy Chicago main line near Whiting, IN.
A former ATSF B-boat leads a stack train threading it's way through coal train territory.
