With temperatures outside well below the freezing mark it has prompted me to keep warm inside and revisit some pictures from last summer. In this scene, it is a quiet late August evening in Chicag... (more)

SR 630 poses at a night photo session at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC

Coworkers. As the snow begins to fly, Valley Railroad Mikado No 40 pulls a trainload of families out of Essex Station with the second run of the North Pole Express. In the foreground is Valley V... (more)

For three Fridays before Christmas Beamish museum allows the public to visit at night time to experience a 1913 Christmas. last night was the first of these Fridays and a tram waits to take visito... (more)

On a damp and dreary December night in downtown Cumberland, Western Maryland Scenic, 2-8-0 No. 734 boards passengers for the nighttime Polar Express trip to Frostburg. Each year, the Western Maryl... (more)

Great Western #90 simmers under a crescent Moon at the Strasburg Rail Road yard prior to a 6 AM departure to Leaman Place Junction to pick up freight left by Norfolk Southern.

It's 6:39 AM and the crew of the Strasburg Rail Road heads out with a double header utilizing both N&W #475 and CN #89 to pick up a heavy 6 car load freight (8 with the caboose and coach of railf... (more)

The crew at the Strasburg Rail Road get an early morning start shuffling cars around in preparation for the last steam powered revenue freight of the year - and it's gonna be a big one - requiring... (more)

Santa Fe F7's 315 and 316 sit outside the gate at Motive Power & Equipment Solution's shop in Greenville, ready for pickup by NS for shipment to their new home at the Galveston Railroad Museum in ... (more)

My first shot on Railpictures was a night shot, my Railroad: East Broad Top
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-2
Location: Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: EBT 15
Train ID: Freight Train
Photo Date: October 17, 2010

Utah has for many years participated in Daylight Savings Time, where the clocks are advanced one hour in the spring leading to additional daylight in the evenings. Since the Rio Grande Zephyr arri... (more)

After spending Saturday pulling employee excursions, 630 simmers during the evening at the site of the old Terminal Station in downtown Birmingham. Photo by Casey Thomason. For more information,... (more)

The headlights of a westbound helper set heading up the East Slope towards Horseshoe Curve lights up the now closed Alto Tower and CP Altoona signal bridge.

In the wee hours of the morning NKP 765 rest inside Conway yard awaiting the up coming trips in the Pittsburgh area after dead heading from Columbus a few hours earlier. Photo taken with permissio... (more)