This loaded Detroit Edison rotary dump coal hopper suffered some sort of problem before it was set out in aptly-named Hazard, Nebraska, on BNSF's Sand Hills Subdivision. It has buckled and sagged ... (more)
Before she was famous she was just another face in the crowd.
"Ready to Ship" An M3 pair (LI 9812 & LI 9863) and two Pullman Standard P72 Coaches (LI 2907 & LI 2933) sit loaded onto FICX Flatcars on the "River Track" at Wheelspur Facility waiting to ... (more)
A 'Millenium' caboose in bad shape. CN 79834 is seen stopped in Vankleek Hill on the obscure CN Vankleek Spur. This caboose was built by CN in their Pointe St-Charles shop in Montreal under... (more)
The crew of the Medusa Challenger checks clearances as they navigate the C&NW KK River bridge in Milwaukee, WI in December of 1994. The C&NW bridge was once double tracked and carried numerous pas... (more)
Canadian Pacific Royal Hudson (H1) #2839 sits outside of an amazing automobile museum (actually two of them, across the street from each other) in Sylmar, CA. While this is the Nethercutt Collecti... (more)
demonstration project. But it was not finished untill PC takeover so it never wore NH colors. PC operated the turbos for a short while untill Amtrak took over all Penn Central passenger operations... (more)
In the final hours of sunlight on June 19th, 2020, CSX train Q003 (South Kearny, NJ - Bedford Park, IL) crosses over High Falls in Rochester, NY as a rainbow forms in the waterfall's spray.
CN 6060 exhausts steam from her cylinder cocks as she runs light through the GT's yard in Portland, ME. She was preparing to handle the second day of a Montreal to Portland and return roundtrip. ... (more)
Classic Sunday afternoon action is underway at (Original) NS's Glenwood Yard in Raleigh, NC. Train No. 63 is doubling out for its' evening run to Charlotte, NC. This afternoon is a real treat wi... (more)
The Pocahontas A Roger Puta Photograph
Four Pepsi Cans in Jack London Square! 506 and a sister lead #11, the SB Coast Starlight, while 513 and 502 wait to take a Talgo set of cars south. The guy with the radio seemed to be an ... (more)
Another anonymous image from the collection of the Architect Armando Salas, typical photography of a railroad station in some neighborhood near of the Mexico city, in the middle 50's unknown site... (more)
The Santa Train of 2023 was led by two GEVOs after complications with the F40s. Nevertheless, the train brought its scheduled holiday to the numerous children along the old Clinchfield. Here, th... (more)
A pair of BNSF switchers roll past the laker Joseph L. Block unloading limestone at CN's Dock No. 6. The limestone will be loaded into ore cars for movement to the Minorca pellet plant near Virgin... (more)
Damage looks bad but shop forces were able to rebuilt unit for many more useful years.
Oops... A BNSF Big Stone Power empty coal train looks to have been sideswiped by some loaded grain cars from the Aberdeen Wheat Growers' Plant on the west end of town.
FIRE IN THE HOLE!!! Shot just before this is Here!
Amtrak California cab car. Nikon D70, 18-70mm. www.bayarearailroading.com
602 is heading back to Shaffer's Crossing Roundhouse. With a beautiful shot of the Hotel Roanoke in the background
Control stand of Monon BL2 #32
New Cab Cars on the Atlantic City Line with a VIP train heading to Atlantic City from North Jersey for the new train service on the route.
Small accident, when electric engine Škoda E499.2 (151 020-5) leave track. Now going on the fasttrains EC and IC again.
Lehigh Valley power gathered at Sayre, PA in May 1973. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund and cou... (more)
In one of the most unique scenes you could find in 1995 American railroading, custom electric wide-gauge ore transfer cars cruise through the Bethlehem Steel plant on the elevated line. Unfortunat... (more)
NS 8310 , one of the very few NS locomotives with black numberboards.
Saratoga based local SC4, lead by the ex LV 325, has just entered the Adirondack Park region of New York as it approaches the small yard at Corinth where the spur to the large International Paper ... (more)
Sailing high above the James River, a northbound Southern Railway piggyback train is stretched along the trestle over the James River in Lynchburg, Virginia. Southern’s GP50’s were the only on... (more)
Monon (CIL) freight train with three Alco C628's No.407,405 and 400 in Bedford, Indiana February 05, 1967. No photographer listed on slide.
The Deseret Power Railway's Pettibone crane drags freshly-painted DPR 4 into daylight for the first time. Unit 4 sports essentially the same paint scheme as Units 1 & 2, delivered new to the Dese... (more)
How about this view? A westbound grain train crawls down the hill at 15MPH, overlapping itself in the Lower Spiral Tunnel. The train is just about to emerge in a cloud of exhaust and brake shoe sm... (more)
BNSF SDP40 6327 SAVED!. BNSF Railway donated BNSF 6327 to the Minnesota Transportation Museum. The 6327 (nee-GN 325) is one of six former GN SDP40s 320-325 built in 1966. MTM took delivey ... (more)
In what would make an L&N fan cringe, in 1987 the NS used the 152 for a few excursions down south.In doing so they put the NS symbol over the L&N under the cab windows.Seen here she gallops sout... (more)
PC had only 6 of the RSD-5's and they could be found in heavy switching and transfer service in the Buffalo terminal area.
A 10 and a half hour late Amtrak 30, the Capital Limited, makes it's way east through the Schenley Tunnel in downtown Pittsburgh, right below Carnegie Mellon University. Delays were due to trackw... (more)
ATSF Super Chief
There is nothing else I've seen of Man's industrial might more impressive than a blast furnace being tapped. Here we see a line of bottle cars spotted under the cast house, with one being filled ... (more)
This was the substitute train for one of the Electroliners that day. The middle car was a diner, unpowered with no trolley pole. These cars were called Silverliners because of their paint scheme... (more)
Driver’s view.
Otto's speed estimate was 80 MPH for this 13 car train near Valparaiso Indiana, on the PRR Chicago-Fort Wayne Line, in 1946. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
Inside the cab of Wabah 1189 at the Monticello Railway Museum. It's fascinating to imagine the broad vistas along the Wabash and expanded post 1964 N&W system that could have been seen out these ... (more)
Hobo Fire Ring - Seats from one of the of the former Chicago Northwestern (CNW) commuter cars in the background on Dubbers Spur lie on the ground around a fire pit apparently used by some o... (more)
On the day of his final run with Amtrak, a waving hand is seen in the cab as George Landrock arrives at Portland's Union Station for the last time. The smoke rising from the rails is the result of... (more)
Having visited a car repair shop somewhere along the system recently, this aggregate hopper stands out from its neighbors with a fresh coat of paint. But what’s really surprising and noteworthy... (more)
The first unit of 5 specially decorated units for Roy Hill Australia undergoes validation testing with CP AC4400CWM 8139 on the GE test track at Justin, TX. These units are adorned in a special pi... (more)
Southern Tier Plow Extra The New York Susquehanna & Western, like most railroads throughout the Northeast was heavily affected by winter storm Stella. Two days after winter sto... (more)
Storage Blues Cumberland Yard features one of the largest storage dead lines on CSX. Among others, the cast of locomotives here includes SD40-2s, C40-8Ws, SD70MACs, C40-9Ws, SD50s, and 4-a... (more)
Passengers enjoy the scenic view of Lake Blackshear from the platform of the Georgia Railroad "Dearing", at the rear of the SAM Shortline's "Presidential Flyer" excursion train... (more)
This locomotive had just come from a lengthy overhaul, and was out for testing with a short train.
Marooned On the Waterfront in Eureka California - SP 2872 and four other former Southern Pacific GP-9's sit rotting away in the salt air of the North Coast burb of Eureka. Once known for l... (more)
And the April 2008 Darwin Award goes to...the guy in the black S10. For those wondering, the loco was moving, if only at roughly 10 MPH. The pickup, however, barely cleared since the driver had a... (more)
The westbound Lake Cities makes its station stop, gets serviced and recrewed.
Southern Railway 250-ton Industrial Brownhoist derricks/wreckers #903026 and 903016 work to place Conrail flat car #716074 and its load back on the rails. Wrecker train operated as Southern Railwa... (more)
Fresh out of the Strasburg Rail Road's shops, the classic GG-1 paint scheme as designer Raymond Loewy conceived it, with sans-serif Futura lettering. The 4859, built in December 1937 by Altoona/G... (more)
The Bangor & Aroostook colors took to home rails for its debut run with freight out of Millinocket, Maine on November 8. Central Maine & Quebec train #420-08 is seen crossing Twin Lakes south of M... (more)
Around Milwaukee and Chicagoland lately, we've been graced with the presence of CP SD40-2's on ballast trains. It's been at least eight years, however, since I've seen SD40-2's leading a high prio... (more)
We are doing 8 knots, as Thomas J. Brown & Sons tugboat John P. Brown tows the Cross Harbor rail barge on the hip through New York Harbor from the 65th Street Yard float bridge to the now-demolish... (more)
Sunday morning, July 4 1954, was alive with action at the CP terminal throat tracks including this outbound Budd RDC and 2471 crewman giving it a rollby, oilcan in hand. The man on the left is on... (more)
GECX 6002 is out on the GE Test track for tests with the first Hybrid unit, GECX 2010
Testing! A BLF test train crosses the Jupiter Bridge. Today the bridge is completely rebuilt and the service to Orlando now brings trains every 30 minutes or so through here.
The workers train has just departed west yard at Sandaoling on the 3rd of March 2014. Engine crews would change over at this location twice a day to work their 12 hour shift and service the engine... (more)
SP’s Train 2 “Sunset Limited” leaves Houston, Texas headed to Louisiana and final terminal New Orleans. FP7 6453 is assisted by a SDP45.
A couple of [Roundhouse Foreman] Mr. Cherry's steam engines get serviced at Camden Terminal Enginehouse. He was accommodating to the young men with cameras. PRR Class B6sb.
NP Obs 390. No round-end observation car looked better.
This is where you climb through the nose to get to the cab of a AC4400CW.
Ouachita Railroad GMD-1 #23 rests alongside Camden & Southern SW-9 #20 at the South Arkansas Intermodal Park in Camden, AR.
The SAR class 26 number 3450 is better known as "The Red Devil" because of its bright red paint job. This 4-8-4 showed that 1950's steam had by no mean reached the limits of performance. It was de... (more)
Tgv trainset 97, delivered in May 1986 is passing through Villeneuve, bound from Lille for Lyons. It carries nowadays the grey Tgv colour scheme, and is authorized for 300 km/h, formerly 270 km/h ... (more)
These units were recently brought in from the derailment site on the Front Range subdivision.
UP 725, a RC or, remote control engine, had a bad day in the Ogden yard a short while ago it would seem. I wonder if they wear seatbelts in there and what the other guy looked like. I will bet he... (more)
At twilight and after receiving a quick crew-change, No. 272 departs the yard at Bluefield, W.Va., behind a pair of brand new Canadian National ES44AC's leading the relatively light autorack train... (more)
CSXT 404 and its loaded coal train fill the street in this otherwordly scene from West Brownsville!
It is the afternoon of May 10th, 1969 as Ross Rowland's High Iron Company's Gold Spike Special departs Southbound out of Ogden, UT, on the return trip to Salt Lake City. The passengers had attende... (more)
Heading west at the end of the California Zephyr, business car "Denali" has just been remodeled by Colorado Railcar.
Empty fuel vagons led by A9104 on the way to north, this is the point 90,6km,Parthenio bridge.
A Japanese meter gauge loco pushing a crane in an open car.Destination: a derailed dmu unit
Remote controlled engine had a little mishap
Katy modified only six of its original fifteen RS-3's 142, 143,146 and 152, 153 and 154 with dependable 1500 HP sixteen cylinder 567C engines in 1960. The most noticeable change was the replace... (more)
As the sun is close to dropping below the steely winter cloud deck near sunset, a northbound CSX freight train passes over the Ohio River flood plain after crossing the Ohio River at Rahm,IN 1/5/1... (more)
One of Utah County's biggest employers, United States Steel's Geneva Works, appears to be working at capacity as Rio Grande's Provo Switcher departs the mill with 60 cars for Provo Yard. Include... (more)
CSX's newest, yet unofficial "heritage unit", is ChessSX GP40-2 6914, seen here resting on a humid Georgia summer night at the small Wyvern Yard near Cartersville, Georgia. Unknown tagge... (more)
10 locos heading for Brazil!
Brookville Equipment Company's new BL20GH looks better than I thought, almost like a U25B and an SD45 had a baby. These are in their first month of service, part of a split order for Metro-North a... (more)
