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Photo Album By: Jon Wright
 
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Photo ID: 616986

Floating in a cloud of steam, Hostler Earl Knoob preps the M Class air compressor evoking images of yesteryear on the Norfolk and Western.

Railroad: Strasburg Rail Road
Locomotive: 4-8-0
Location: Strasburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: SRC 475
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: May 17, 2017


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By: Mike Wilson

Added: May 17, 2017

Views: 1,814
Comments: 0

Favorited: 3
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Photo ID: 612318

Steam freight rides again on the Strasburg Rail Road! SRC #90 had the duties on a cool April 5th, Spring, morning. If you want to catch one of these freight trains pulled by a steam locomotive be ... (more)

Railroad: Strasburg Rail Road
Locomotive: 2-10-0
Location: Strasburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: SRC 90
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: April 05, 2017


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By: Mike Wilson

Added: Apr 05, 2017

Views: 2,601
Comments: 2

Favorited: 12
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Photo ID: 612019

The most prime example of being photo bombed. 16E heads east through the trench, also known as "The Yellow Brick Road", as evidenced in the making of this spectacle with the falling and... (more)

Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: GE C40-9W (Dash 9-40CW)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: NS 9262
Train ID: NS 16E
Photo Date: November 19, 2016


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By: Ben Sutton

Added: Apr 02, 2017

Photo of the Week
People's Choice 1

Views: 17,886
Comments: 10

Favorited: 123
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Photo ID: 604052

View inside the firebox of Santa Fe Northern 2926 show some of the work that is going into restoring the locomotive. The tender has already been restored and the society hopes to have the locomot... (more)

Railroad: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF)
Locomotive: Steam 4-8-4
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Locomotive #: ATSF 2926
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: January, 2017


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By: John Doughty

Added: Jan 23, 2017

Views: 5,062
Comments: 3

Favorited: 11
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Photo ID: 598604

Stopping at the Switch - Valley Railroad Mikado No. 3025 pauses in Deep River, Conn. at the switch preparing to run around its train. Once on the south end of the train, they will be hauling the ... (more)

Railroad: Valley Railroad
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-2
Location: Deep River, Connecticut, USA
Locomotive #: VALE 3025
Train ID: NPE-1
Photo Date: December 06, 2016


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By: Thomas J. Nanos - www.nanosphoto.com

Added: Dec 07, 2016

Views: 5,222
Comments: 1

Favorited: 19


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Photo ID: 590978

Living out its last days, the Solari Board at Philadelphia 30th Street Station updates, cycling through its letters and making the iconic "flapping" sound.

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: Siemens ACS-64
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: September 29, 2016


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By: Brandon Fiume

Added: Sep 29, 2016

Views: 2,736
Comments: 2

Favorited: 17
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Photo ID: 566717

While out for a snowy evening stroll, a local family comes across Reading & Northern #425 simmering at the Jim Thorpe station. The young boy is captivated by the immense size of the locomotive, as... (more)

Railroad: Reading & Northern
Locomotive: Steam 4-6-2
Location: Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: RBMN 425
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: February 15


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By: Pete Lerro - www.Lerroproductions.com

Added: Feb 21, 2016

Screener's Choice
People's Choice 1

Views: 20,093
Comments: 6

Favorited: 101
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Photo ID: 562060

Moments before the sun tucks itself behind the mountains for the night, rays of light shine down onto Canadian National northbound #571 as it climbs the grade through Cheakamus Canyon.

Railroad: Canadian National Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44AC
Location: Squamish , British Columbia, Canada
Locomotive #: CN 2965
Train ID: 571
Photo Date: January 09, 2016


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By: Matthew Robson (www.elevation-media.com)

Added: Jan 14, 2016

Photo of the Week
People's Choice 4

Views: 17,191
Comments: 6

Favorited: 92
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Photo ID: 560164

My view from the fireman’s seat on this blustery Maine evening, included this apparent Annulum Ignis, or, “ring of fire” lighting effect, caused by steam and smoke wafting across the beam o... (more)

Railroad: Wiscasset Waterville & Farmington
Locomotive: unknown
Location: Alna, Maine, USA
Locomotive #: 9
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: December 19, 2015


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By: Stephen Hussar

Added: Dec 29, 2015

People's Choice 1

Views: 15,222
Comments: 6

Favorited: 96
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Photo ID: 556921

Durbin & Greenbrier Valley 6512 has been painted back into its Baltimore & Ohio colors and works on the Shenandoah Valley Railroad in Virginia. The branchline the SVRR operates was built by the B&... (more)

Railroad: Durbin & Greenbrier Valley
Locomotive: EMD GP9
Location: Fort Defiance, Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: DGVR 6512
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: November 24, 2015


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By: Steve Barry / www.railroadphotographer.com

Added: Dec 03, 2015

Views: 3,286
Comments: 0

Favorited: 10


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Photo ID: 550812

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: Siemens ACS-64
Location: Perryville, Maryland, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 615
Train ID: AMTK 92
Photo Date: October 11, 2015


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By: George W. Hamlin

Added: Oct 19, 2015

Views: 2,091
Comments: 0

Favorited: 7
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Photo ID: 548827

On September 29th, a day before the last day on Clark's Gap, myself and several friends climbed the hill to witness the last loaded coal train climb the 2.2% grade at Garwood. The wait was longer ... (more)

Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: EMD SD60I
Location: Garwood, West Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: NS 6729
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: September 29, 2015


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By: Michael Biehn

Added: Oct 02, 2015

Photo of the Week
People's Choice 2

Views: 16,671
Comments: 8

Favorited: 114
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Photo ID: 546128

On the 10th of January 2012, a train dumps a load of molten slag at the Beitai Steel Works in NE China. The site was first visited by foreign steam photographers in 2002. Since that time the manag... (more)

Railroad: Beitai Steelworks
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-2
Location: Beitai, China
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: SY Class
Photo Date: January 10, 2012


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By: John Peters

Added: Sep 11, 2015

Editor's Choice Photo
Screener's Choice
Photo of the Week
People's Choice 1

Views: 38,046
Comments: 21

Favorited: 219
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Photo ID: 540935

Just after sunrise, westbound 39T crosses the Portageville Trestle over the Genesee River in Letchworth State Park. A rainbow is created by the spray from the waterfall beneath the bridge.

Railroad: Canadian Pacific Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44AC
Location: Portageville, New York, USA
Locomotive #: CP 8820
Train ID: NS 39T
Photo Date: May 23, 2015


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By: Jacob Kempf

Added: Aug 02, 2015

Screener's Choice

Views: 11,418
Comments: 2

Favorited: 49
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Photo ID: 511341

A toe-numbing morning along the Lurgan Branch in the early hours of the morning on December 21, 2014 started my chase of the NS 956 with the OCS returning from South Carolina. As the sun began to ... (more)

Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: EMD F9(A)
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: NS 4271
Train ID: NS 956
Photo Date: December 21, 2014


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By: Nick Rynes

Added: Dec 21, 2014

Photo of the Week

Views: 19,769
Comments: 8

Favorited: 98
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