Uploaded nearly a month after the fact, this is still the first snow shot of the year on Railpictures. The snow lasted but a few days, and made for some great shots in the meantime! Here we see a ... (more)

'He leadeth me beside the still waters' ... These words from the 23rd Psalm are what I think of when I see this view from the Mississippi Palisades at sunset. It was a beautiful, very quiet eveni... (more)

Having just brought this train to the west end of the yard, the conductor gets his things together, while waiting to be re-crewed, problem is, the train is completely surrounded, grain train to t... (more)

ATSF A-B-B-A F3 units are pulling the SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF away from Joliet.

Rock Island RS-3 486 departs Joliet with three cars for Chicago on a flawless, sunny June day.

On a wonderful fall morning the WMSR 734 makes a wonderful plume of smoke as it struts its stuff for the participants of a Carl Franz Photo Charter

An EMD E9 is stopped at Aurora with the westbound NP NORTH COAST LIMITED. This train always had the cleanest E units the few times that I saw it. This was my "Burlington day" during that week but ... (more)

A CB&Q E8 leads three other E units on a very long DENVER ZEPHYR inbound to Chicago.

Burlington's big O-5B 4-8-4 5632 is serviced at Galesburg enroute from Lincoln, NE to Chicago. I rode the NEBRASKA ZEPHYR from Chicago to intercept the excursion during daylight.

Elsdon Yard, on Chicago's southwest side, had a roundhouse and service facilities for Grand Trunk Western steam power until the end of the steam era. GTW 6320 is getting a drink at the water plug ... (more)

Their servicing complete, four of the Rio Grande's 2-8-2 K-36 locomotives await their next call to duty at the Durango roundhouse. These days, however, the majority of their duties involve hauling... (more)

Elsdon Yard, on Chicago's southwest side, had a roundhouse and service facilities for Grand Trunk Western steam power until the end of the steam era. GTW 6335 moves away from the coaling tower. No... (more)

An 0-8-0 built in 1929. It's ex-GTW 8375 bought for scrap but used for switching scrap to the furnaces.

Heading East through Exshaw, Canadian Pacific's F-Units return to Calgary from Banff on a beautiful fall day

UP 8491 was the locomotive 2nd to the lead on the southbound freight train that was involved in a head-on collision with Metrolink SCAX 855 on 09/12/08 in Chatsworth, CA.