7 SY class 2-8-2s are visible at Qingqihai in 2002. This is the centre of operations for the Datong Coal Railway.

Chelatchie Prairie Dawn. Up and in the saddle at 0-dark-thirty, the crew of Crossett Western #10 takes a local freight north at sunrise, on a former Northern Pacific branch line that is no... (more)

2012-2013 Jitong Railway Steam Locomotive Festival, train number 57001 leaded by QJ 7119

The SP 4449 shoves back as it rolls toward the front of its train in Downtown Portland. The famed Lima-built GS-4 would then take its excursion down the Oregon Trunk on an excursion to Bend, Orego... (more)

IAIS 6988 & 7081 backup under 24th street, along the Moline Great River Trail. After double heading a 6000 ton freight to Rock Island, the pair were split up for excursions to Silvis, IL and Walco... (more)

Santa Fe 3751 heads home from Railfair '99 in Sacramento as it makes a run towards Tehachapi Loop just before sunset. Unfortunately for the hundreds of people gathered at the Loop, the locomotive ... (more)

A normal train running up the 4% grade out of Chama is 7 cars. There are 4 coaches, a rider gondola, and 2 parlor cars. Occasionally, ticket sales increase to the point where some extra cars need ... (more)

Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 no. 608 surrounded by freight cars in the yard behind Denver Union Station in 1958. Photograph by 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)

Famed Daylight 4-8-4 No. 4449 spends the night with power from Tacoma Rail as it awaits its next assignment for the 2011 National Railway Historical Society convention.

Work preparing the former Rio Grande Mikados for another busy season has already begun at the Durango and Silverton’s roundhouse at Durango, Colorado, on October 15, 2014. On the right is “Spo... (more)

The last operational locomotive (Baldwin 70497) from more than five hundred USATC S160 Class locos (2-8-0), which were bought by MÁV after the World War II. (In the background 109,109 and 424,247... (more)

The Big Steamer passes the village where Joseph Nicéphore Niépce invented photography in 1822 (it was called heliography at the time).

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Stearns, KY was roughly mid-way between Cincinnati and Chattanooga on Southern Railway's Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific subsidiary. A northbound local behind heavy USRA Mike 6319 (Souther... (more)