For my first shot of 2018, and my 400th upload to RP, I decided to pan BCOL 4623, heading westbound through Rothesay, New Brunswick.

The World Famous Horseshoe Curve

Grain train 50T wraps around the valley on the Horseshoe Curve. Built by the Pennsylvania Railroad and opened to traffic in 1854, Horseshoe Curve fil... (more)

Regional train Palermo-Messina

A western diamondback rattlesnake has awakened from a nap while warming itself along a rail of the Copper Basin Railway main line near Tunnel 3 at Riverside, Arizona, on the afternoon of March 18,... (more)

"We Didn't Start the Fire" Big Al, one of NYAR's senior engineers poses by a switch being heated by the Track Department.

With a pair of Northern California cars and CDTX 2051 on the point, Amtrak 782 hustles into Emma Wood State Beach and under Pacific Coast Highway No. 1 as it skirts the Pacific Ocean this afternoo... (more)

Another photo of the structural collapse of the Tolten railway bridge, near Pitrufquen city, while it was being passed by a freight train from FEPASA railway, falling into the river several tank w... (more)

Weller-bound empty coal train NS 823 with a UP AC44CW leading a standard cab NS SD70 heads up the NS Buchanan Branch behind the iconic triple-story Walmart Supercenter in Grundy, VA. The store's u... (more)

Following a low-speed derailment that knocked a couple cars on the ground. The lead has taken the upright portion of the train to Union Station and now the ground crews go to work on the downed c... (more)

Busy times on the Overland main! As the sun sinks low in the western sky a trio of westbounds have gathered at the Green River depot awaiting the dispatchers discretion. Amid the parade on the mai... (more)

Favorite conditions for a winter night photo come together at Randolph as NECR 3478 and two sisters parade through the silent picturesque surroundings with 323s freight at 01:14.

A Arcelor Mittal SW1550 and GP15 pull a massive cut of steel coil cars from the Arcelor Mittal plant on a rainy day in East Chicago.

Locomotives:
MTSX 305 SW1500
MTSX 417 GP15-1

In a winter of Nor'easters, hopefully this is the last one. A rake of Bombardier-built R62A cars heads uptown from 125th St on the No 1 train. Instead of 100' underground, we are 100' in the air a... (more)

Nyght Thomson Junction n° 416 Garratt Class 15A + n°190 Zimbabwe

A Union Pacific Sales And Marketing Special crosses the Gaviota Trestle heading for a overnight stop in San Luis Obispo. The next day it goes north to San Jose and Oakland. Then up the Martinez su... (more)