What a Recession Looks Like

A visit to Southern Pacific's primary yard and shop complex in Los Angeles, Taylor Yard (located just north of downtown), during the 1973-1975 recession p... (more)

Salemi-Gibellina

Not your normal day in Willbridge Yard after a semi-truck managed to drive of the highway.

I have long thought about getting a good photo at this location. Over the years I have had more than a few chances and captured a few decent photos but I always felt there was a better shot. It is... (more)

Traffic control on the Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line.

A Port of Montreal crew with POM RP20BD #1004 and slug #2007, works a cut of intermodal cars on a temporary pad, as a new permanent unloading terminal in constructed behind the current loadout. T... (more)

On Sunday, August 21st of 2016 Canadian Pacific train 235 collided with 118 at the Howland crossover in midtown Toronto just after 5am. CP 118 (taken away at time of the picture) was crossing over... (more)

With colorful oak brush along the foothills of Loafer Mountain, SP's Roseville to Denver Forwarder charges east up Spanish Fork Canyon with 66 cars on Sept. 24, 1994.

Genesee & Wyoming has begun the assimilation process with the Providence & Worcester Railroad through the planned painting of at least a dozen locomotives. Interesting to note, GWRR has applied n... (more)

A Busy Afternoon at Hiland

There's a lot of activity at Hiland, the summit of the Southern Pacific's crossing of Cajon Pass, on July 2, 1978. A westbound sits in the siding as an ea... (more)

Where's the train? The tracks are still in but the C&O no longer serves the carferry in Milwaukee, WI. The lower level now hold autos, not freight cars. There were 3 car ferries that carried RR fr... (more)

A former CBQ GP30 rebuild switches the TEMCO silo with a SD60M. The bulk carrier Stella Ellena from Singapore loads in the background and is bound for Taiwan.

Less than a day after a rockslide wiped out a Canadian Pacific westbound and closed down the Yale Sub, Canadian National 2841 tiptoes gingerly over fresh track and spilled grain, while wreckage li... (more)

For my 4500th contribution on Railpictures I choose this "moonlight special" as a tribute to the Gotthard mountain line, with the famous loops around Wassen. In a double longtime exposur... (more)

CSX T06523 (Newell, PA - New Castle, PA) passes through the borough of Elizabeth Pennsylvania shortly after sunset northbound with 120 loads. The train loaded at Console Energy's Bailey-Enlow Fork... (more)