The calendar says spring, but the weather says winter at Crescent, Colorado, on April 23, 1999. Amtrak No. 5, the California Zephyr, climbs the Front Range of the Rockies through a snowy wonderlan... (more)

Once in a while I try a view or image that I think might be 'too different' for Railpictures.Net. Is this one of them? Let the screeners and the viewers decide! For my part, I think it's probably ... (more)

Season's Greetings! Marquette Rail's 2010 Santa Train gets a friendly wave from a snowman as it approaches the tiny village of Fountain in northwest Michigan. This train makes multip... (more)

UP Local To TXI Perlite Plant With A Trio Of DRGW's Reverses Up The Rocky Spur As Manafest With UP 5811 Heads West Toward Big 10 Curves.

A pair of Alcos ,A9406 and A9111, led on a dmu unit.This passenger train will do the next day the excurcion for European railfans ,from Athens to the south. After 2 years a passenger crossing this... (more)

This EBT 70,000 lb. capacity hopper is in a fight for it's life. First the protective paint came off, and the rusting began. Then a little sprig of a plant took root near the front journal. Larger... (more)

A Southern Pacific coal load climbs the steep Tennessee Pass Subdivision a mile or two below the summit on a sunny March 29, 1997 afternoon. The 100 car train had three AC4400CWs on the point, fou... (more)

4744 poses in front of the Lackawanna main at Meadows.

The Upton Ave. Bridge takes another hit.

BNSF Jordan spreader is clearing ditches on the eastern end of the Mitchell Sub. powered by a BNSF GP39M.

On the second but yet wet day of her voyage to the states, CEBX 800 with her 1.2 million lbs payload sit underneath the signal bridge at Paris Jct awaiting her night fall move to London. Photo tak... (more)

ISO 100, F/9, 7.5min exposure. Ambient light and light painting used to create effect.

Alone, unloved and unwanted. Gen. Douglas MacArthur once said that "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." That pretty well describes what's happening with this old gal. You are lo... (more)

ATSF’s Train No. 2, eastbound San Francisco Chief is nearing Dalies, N.M., and instead of turning north to Albuquerque and the Raton Pass line as most passenger trains traversed, it will continu... (more)