Claremont & Concord #18 eases a single box car down the steep grade into Coy Paper... a move that was the slightest bit extra challenging on this icy morning.

One of only two applications of friction bearings to flexicoil trucks that I know of. You have to be hard core backward to ask for that option. Upon reflection I think this may have been Granite... (more)

Trying to avoid the stinging wind and blowing snow, the conductor on L-593 opened the nose door on 4214 to protect a shove to the diesel house.

Waiting at a railway crossing at sunset, hoping to get that one shot in beautiful evening light. It was really a surprise that we were able to photograph two trains. One of them the California Zep... (more)

As the sun sets in the background, BNSF 5968 leads a Roberts Bank coal load through Bellingham, WA on September 11th, 2022.

Wabash shows up with a suburban train inbound at 21st St. on a September morning in '59.

A pair of Soo Line geeps (out of sight to the left) move a 750-ton reactor from the port of Duluth to interchange with BN at Rice's Point Yard. This train would depart for Canada two days later o... (more)

The Newport News section of the GEORGE WASHINGTON hustles through the Morrison section of Newport News near the final destination.

As the sun ducks behind the clouds, 212 scurries north past the old blue horse farm just south of Thomasville as the double tracking project continues.

It's a busy day at the beach as H-BARSDG3 pulls away from the Del Mar Bluffs as they approach Torrey Pines and the beginning of their ascent of Miramar Hill.

NS 362 backs into F5 track in the forward yard at Sheffield yard, 362 has new ET44AC's heading for Chattanooga, TN for set up and put into service, 362 power is NS #1152, 9051, 9723, 3609, 3607, 3... (more)

An Atlantic Ave. elevated train leaves the Nostrand Avenue stop. At the time of the photo, the Dodgers were a year removed from Brooklyn. For a different perspective of this location in 2006, ch... (more)

A pair of smokeless Alcos,A9108-A9104, on yard operations.Where is greenpiece ;

Mid-mornings, Burlington’s 23rd Street engine terminal in Denver gets busy. Freight power is in from the east and has to be fueled and serviced, and passenger power must be made ready for the va... (more)

1/3rd of Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad's locomotive roster - GP7 #205, CF7 #2486 and GP18 #300 - are seen working the unloading building for corn at the Tyton NC Biofuels ethanol biorefinery locate... (more)

SOU 1004 hidden in the woods at Wadley, GA during the Spring of 2002. The locomotive was sitting on a wye track surrounded by thick vegetation and appeared to be in rather foul shape.

Almost 4 months after the Metro North derailment at Spuyten Duyvil, the locomotive pushing the train that day, P32AC-DM #225 was finally released from investigation by the NTSB allowing Metro Nort... (more)

The cab of brand new CN 8873 on one of it's first trips to the west coast.

Keeping up with snow on the Sierra has been apart of railroading on the mountain since the rails of the Central Pacific arrived in the 1860s. Methods have come and gone, and those that have worked... (more)

One of the few (if not the only) remaining standard gauge, Baldwin-Westinghouse, 3 axle, electric locomotive, sits abandoned deep in the woods of the Anthracite Coal Region. Railroad: Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company
Locomotive: Baldwin-Westinghouse
Location: Locust Summit, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: January 03, 2009

Although the trees are still green into the first week of Fall, the rails shine red from the headlight of BRW 752.

6004 leads an eastbound coal empty.

Running with a clean stack, which is probably a disappointment to the Pentrex cameraman, Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 hustles the special to the Grand Canyon westbound through the Victorville Narrows in so... (more)

A local railfan couple take in the action of the newest steam railroad in America during the 1960s as Strasburg Rail Road #90 hustles west with its daily passenger train along the Road to Paradise... (more)

Work 5952 dumps ballast on the new track at Savona while Olympic GEVO 8866 skirts the shores of Kamloops Lake

#89 and 31 pose side-by-side in the East Strasburg yard in what could pass for a scene from rural Ontario in the late 1920s.

There’s a brief lull between passenger trains at Brockville, Ontario, so the dispatcher has let a Montreal-bound freight out of the Brockville yard. This is a heavily travelled passenger corrido... (more)

This photo, taken by the late Hank Stuart, Jr., was taken at Tacoma, VA, on the Interstate's main line from Norton to Miller Yard, VA. The two colorful RS-3s on this "Hill Crew" are handling a rou... (more)

A former Burlington Northern EMD SD60M still in Cascade green paint leads BNSF’s Cowley turn through rugged Sheep Canyon north of Greybull, Wyoming, on June 22, 2017. This arresting locale is al... (more)

With rotating cutting drums, the powerful snow blower X rot mt # 95404, pulled by the dualpower diesel/electric Gem 4/4 # 801, is ready in Alp Grüm on track 1 to drive back to Pontresina, after t... (more)

SNCF four-cylinder compound 4-8-2 No 241P34 departs from Belfort with the 15.40 Basle to Paris Est train. By the end of that year these magnificent engines had been replaced by diesels on this rou... (more)

A pair of relatively new SD70MACs lead a westbound freight through Newark, NY. Date is approximate.

This is a display of big power stationned at the railroad museum in Ogden.

tiefa(diaobingshan)Steamloco

Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad E9A type diesel locomotive #9913 on display in Miami, FL. Picture was taken while on a trip from Buffalo to Miami (on the 'Lakeshore Limited' & 'Silver Meteor'... (more)

Y6 2138 leads another downgrade at the Davis Rd. crossing in Bonsack with westbound empty hoppers.

A Union Pacific freight, led by a DD35A / GP30B / DD35 / GP30B lashup, passes the old UP passenger station in Riverside, CA, on New Year’s Eve 1978.

When the UP reactivated 2187 (SD60) you would have thought they might have given her a touch-up to cover that massive graffiti tag she received while being stored in the Dead Line at the Burnham Y... (more)

A true difference of decades - the trailing GE is nearly four decades younger than FL9 #486.

AC&Y FM #206 at the N&W shop complex in Roanoke, July 1969

I have heard stories from old heads about having trains stuck at the overhead west of Tara in past winters. I can see why, and to think this is just after 2 snow storms. Hate to see this drift aft... (more)

GWR 5029 'Nunney Castle' awaits the road with the 1535 Bridgnorth - Kidderminster as BR 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' arrives with the 1635 Kidderminster - Bridgnorth during the Severn Valley Railway's ... (more)

Northwestern RR and Northwest Airlines: CNW SD45 #964 leads an eastbound train through Bryn Mawr interlocking toward Proviso Yard, while a Northwest Airlines 747 freighter passes overhead on fina... (more)

The stark view of just another pusher set shoving tonnage up the mountain leaving town is in concert with the harsh July sunlight conditions this was taken in, some 60 years ago at the soon to-be-... (more)

Repair works for a lot of dmu units on the workhouse of Athens.

The end for these BN F7s - 676,644,602,684,626

the first EMD SD 40-2 ,in argentina ,a dream for local railfan s !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A new GEVO prime mover and it's alternator sit waiting to be installed in 501.

A burnt GE coming. While a crewmember at the left opens the gate for Canadian Allied Diesel, the other crewmember is riding CN 2684 (the DPU on CN 308 which derailed in Plaster Rock,... (more)

By this time the Engine house had been razed and the locomotives were serviced out doors in all kinds of weather. These units look betrayed but there is still life in them.

Gentilly Yard with MP15's 1144 1140 looking like pre-Katrina days. Bridge transfer train from UP's Avondale Yard enters yard to right.

fresh out of the paint shop.

Sitting at EMD's factory in La Grange, Illinois, is Southern Pacific GP9 5643. Southern Pacific assigned class DF-607 to this order of 104 diesels (SP 5643 was the eighteenth unit of the order). ... (more)

As locomotives approach the "Dodo" servicing tracks at the north end of Union Pacific's Dolores Yard in Carson, California, there is a sign posted reminding crews to pull forward as much possible ... (more)

Where the wounded locomotives go for care, we see one that’s in the process of being repaired back to service at Norfolk Southerns Juniata shop.

CN 595 around the curve approaching Utterson, southbound for Longford Mills.

This is not a photo from a tourist line or a railfan event. This is the Chestnut Ridge Railway track gang’s everyday motorcar. Mack Trucks, Inc., built this model AB railbus in 1922, and it was ... (more)

The westbound Denver & Rio Grande Western Zephyr is seen with a helper to assist in the climb of the eastern slope of the Wasatch mountains to Soldier Summit.

"When tank cars kiss, up next on Maury Povich" A crew member didn't shove the car on the right far enough back to allow clearance for the car on the left to pass. Night switching can wreak hav... (more)

Destination Canada? Hard to say. This is a unique former Canadian Pacific "horse car" once used by the RCMP to transport horses to their shows across Canada. It is one of three to the be... (more)

A pair of Birmingham Southern SW1001's switch out the Fairfield yard. The ruins of US Steels Ensley works sits in the background.

A graffiti tagger definitely had a lot of time on their hands to be able to paint this TTX boxcar. It is amazing to see what people can do with spray paint.