As the morning sun peeks over the rim of Lombard Canyon, eastbound Montana Rail Link No. 4300 rolls a manifest along the Missouri River and the Lewis and Clark Trail.
You just never know what you will find on track, today was no exception while I was out for a track patrol this morning I noticed what looked like a rock placed on the rail as I traversed Northwar... (more)
BNSF 972, 968, 966, 963, 964, brand new GE C44-9W locomotives just yarded their ELBNA train and are heading to the diesel service tracks at Clyde Yard in Cicero Illinois. These are the first of th... (more)
The westbound City of LA is seen in Cajon Pass, just west of Summit
A nice collection of snowsplows and cabs sit along the old C&O in Quinnimont WVa.
Emerging from the morning fog like a mythical beast, the Agawa Canyon Tour Train soars above the Bellevue Valley on its journey into the wilderness of Northern Ontario.
Almost 35 years ago to the day, Santa Fe 3279 and Santa Fe 2959 are on their side. Heavy rains cause track damage in the area, requiring work crews to repair the track. As crews were working in th... (more)
Curving along the Bow River An eastbound Canadian Pacific intermodal train cants around famous Morant's Curve east of Lake Louise, Alberta, on June 27, 2006.
Now that's what you call a tight curve! A 510 Spadina streetcar is loading at the underground streetcar loop at Union Station, with the yellow line warning any passengers to stand well back becaus... (more)
The first new class 15E Co-Co electric, 15-001, being moved to the test bay for electrical testing. 32 of these 50kv AC single cab locomotives are being built for the 860km Sishen - Saldanha iron ... (more)
With one of coastal Newfoundland's countless fishing piers as a backdrop, Canadian National narrow gauge mixed train 231 coils around Conception Bay at Holyrood, NFD, on a fine summer day. A trio ... (more)
We're a Great Big Rollin' Railroad
CP Train 904 arrives at Wells River where CP track ends. It will continue on to White River Jct. on the B&M as Train 8904. B&M and CP had run through crew and power agreements stemming from the ... (more)
Switching the West end of the Deer Lodge Yard
Crossing the causeway on Loch Eil
Norfolk Southern Train B64 locomotive derailed and rolled on to the conductor’s side while they were heading back to Detroit. No injuries.
Frog Pond is almost, but not completely frozen over. A small creek coming down the mountainside has left an opening in the ice, providing a nice spot to see through the clear (but very cold) water... (more)
NS 8310 , one of the very few NS locomotives with black numberboards.
After having reached the end of its tenure on the NS since being rebuilt back in 2008 from an N&W SD40 at Juniata Shops in Pennsylvania, this unit has been dispatched to Loccomotive Specialist in ... (more)
No longer in passenger service now that Amtrak has taken over
Former Cartier Mining Alco C636 and Alco Demonstrator sits at the NYS&W facility in Utica, NY
#5010 is an ex D&H unit of the same #.
Passing the local at Hawley Spur. A Sumpter Valley local mixed with Heisler #3 on the point, holds the Hawley Spur west of McEwen for the passage of a hot-shot freight making the run out to... (more)
A moment of poor judgement in the yard at Montgomery means 713 is headed for some shop time.
The Strasburg shop crew must have been asked "how's it going?" one too many times, judging by the message written in chalk on the boiler. The 475 first ran on the Strasburg on November ... (more)
For details and more pictures of this CB&Q/CRI&P wreck see: http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/archivethumbs.aspx?id=23180
The setting sun breaks through the overcast layer, as this BNSF manifest works up the #1 track at Sandcut.
An arsonist is suspected of setting the timber-lined Douglas Tunnel ablaze in the early morning hours of Sunday April 27th. Douglas is on the busy former C&O (ex B&O) Sandy Valley & Elkhorn Subdi... (more)
Former Erie HH660 units at work in Weehawken. Notice the partial repaint- the heralds have been altered to Erie Lackawanna.
Half of all of the SW8s on the Rock Island roster are shown here being made ready to be sold.
It's alive! Not only does Balmer Yard have a deadline with SD9s, it has two that work the yard. These SD9-3s have been retrofitted with more standardized cabs and remote control equipment. I got t... (more)
The New England States Express keeps going after a Christmas blizzard has turned this part of New England white. The E 7s run better in ther winter anyway.
A shiny and clean UP 6936 sits outside the Proviso Diesel Shop. At times this locomotive drew an audience from employees at the shop who haven't seen a locomotive like this.
The results of a nasty wreck at Flagstaff, AZ on March 30, 1988.
The 100 years story of the railroad track from Brig to Gletsch in the Valais in Switzerland will be celebrated. That's the reason for this spectacular show with pyrotechnics. The photograph lasted... (more)
NP Obs 390. No round-end observation car looked better.
#18 takes a spin on John's first visit to EBT. For more color views of this trip, click here
ATSF U30CG leads a westbound freight at Williams Jct. Unfortunately, the engineer forgot to turn on the headlights after meeting an earlier eastbound.
Three of the Delaware & Hudson’s big six-axle U-boats (two U33C’s and one U30C) lead a northbound train through Treichlers, Pennsylvania.
End of the line for the vintage fleet of Hampton & Branchville GP9s from N&W and Chessie System. They're seen during the early hours of June 8, 2015 in Monroe, Georgia at Powerrail Locomotive Serv... (more)
Another archive photo about which little is known. Looks like a new loco in town?
On a sunny summer morning, Amtrak 573 heads north along the Pacific Ocean. Today, this train is running with a set of low level equipment, necesitated by longer trains during the Del Mar Horse Rac... (more)
How often can the crew hang out of the cab, and see their own rear end device. What I believe to be captive power to Colton yard. With SDP45's on the ends, and a SD9 and I believe an SD39, The odd... (more)
In a gathering for Trains Magazine’s 50th anniversary, three steam locomotives simmer at the former Frisco Chouteau Yard at St. Louis, Missouri, on June 13, 1990. This view highlights an unusual... (more)
2TE10U locomotive expects cars with salt on a deadlock way of Baskunchak station. Baskunchak lake is the biggest salt lake in Russia, located north of the Caspian Sea. The salinity of the lake is ... (more)
First test run of a new "HVZ-D" train (doubledeck push pull train for peak hours), formed with Re 420 202 (Re 4/4 II 11202) and Re 420 230 (Re 4/4 II 11230) not visible in the rear, and 6 used dou... (more)
Burlington Northern F9A 824 (ex-NP 7006A) leads two F9Bs and a GP35 past King Street Station in Seattle, Washington with a southbound freight on September 18, 1979
Preparing to back on to the Sunset Golden State. 6018 was the only E8 SP had. A Roger Puta Photograph
The Wrentham Local is heading back to Readville after a long day of switching. Night fall is upon us with just enough light to capture the mood.
A pair of brand new CSX GE ES44ACs (950 and 953) sporting the modified CSX 'boxcar' logo lead train Q696 southbound through the elevated curve at milepost 68 on the north end of the former Clinchf... (more)
Argentine Aerial | Led by a pair of GEs, an eastbound grain train is coming to a stop on the mainline next to BNSF's Argentine Yard in Kansas City, KS on a warm Sunday, May 7, 2023 morning.... (more)
Ontario Northland Railway's heritage SD40-2, #1730, makes its first northbound run north of Englehart, Ontario, on the last day of February, as it heads up a consist of all three of the schemes cu... (more)
8133 was wrecked @ Hiram Ga in Dec 2021 , bound for Altoona Pa
control stand of the wsor 10c.. This may be the last trip as the 10c as it will soon carry the number 101
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)
The cab of brand new 2262.
A hot eastbound piggy back train is seen charging through the cut at the west end of Cajon Summit. The 6900 was the class leader.
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)
The stored units and various types of freight cars in the yards at Roanoke provide leading lines into the Roanoke skyline, what little of one there is.
Electro-Motive: The Next Generation of Progress...
With NS police protecting either side of this magnificent structure, the NS OCS glides across Portageville Trestle as the rain begins to intensify. This was the first (and so far only) trip across... (more)
After a tour of duty with Amtrak ATSF 310C crossing the Rock Island at Joliet, IL with a north bound freight haul.
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.
UP 8007 leads coal empties into Iowa.
This is one of my father's earliest pictures in Denver. PA-1 6003 leads a PB-1 on a passenger train at Denver Union Station circa 1960. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo
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.
Sir Alan Pelger's Flying Scotsman is passed by S&A 750 while Sir Alan observes from the gravel. Despite the gray weather, he's having a fine time! Honeywell Pentax H1a; Kodachrome
The Mother Of All ACes. At sunset on January 28, 2021, EMDX 70 (SD70ACe), 9501 (SD60MAC), and 91 (SD90MAC-H) sit at the Progress Rail/EMD LaGrange facility in McCook, Illinois. When 70 was... (more)
TU7A narrow gauge diesel locomotive with passenger train crosses the bridge through the river "Cheptsa" in the vicinity of Kirovo-Chepetsk city. "Karinskaya railway" is a unique narrow gauge railw... (more)
On August 3, 2013, a rather rare event happened on BNSF's Front Range Subdivision. A fisherman with a lot of money chartered a three car private car special from Denver, CO to Montana. The fisherm... (more)
Mopac Eagle meets GM&O Limited at St. Louis Union Station; notes say it was 5:25 PM
The Port of Montreal Railroad's RP20BD #1004 and slug roll aa cut of double stack cars bound for Canadian National interchange past the then new terminal pad under construction in the Port of Mont... (more)
Norfolk and Western 2156 a Y6a begins its journey east toward Roanoke VA for a cosmetic restoration and five year display. the N&W 2156 was brought into Saint Louis from the Museum of Transportati... (more)
A short south bound Union Pacific manifest slithers it's way up through the curves at Allard in the late afternoon sun light as cloud shadows blanket the surrounding emerald hills. ... (more)
Heavy switcher #244 grabs some nice backlight on a hazy August day enroute to it's assignment amongst the blooming Virginia thistle.
A mine run bound for the Buffalo Subdivision at Man departs Peach Creek Yard, rolling through the railroad town of Logan, WV on the directional double-track section between FD Cabin and SW Cabin e... (more)
A Herzog Multi Purpose Machine (MPM) is about to head out onto the Chicago Mainline from Sumner Street yard. What is that thing? Try Railroad: Herzog Railway ServicesLocomotive: Herzog MPMLocation: Toledo, Ohio, USALocomotive #: HZGX 184Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: February 17, 2010
A brant new dmu unit on a local passenger train.
Built by EMD in March 1952 as USA #B-1809 for US Army. Model "MRS" means Military Road Switcher. Donated by the USAF to the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum in 1982 and painted as SD&A 1809. It i... (more)
Challenger 3991 pulls 13 passenger cars over Sherman Hill. No photographer name listed on slide.
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.
A pair of EMD SD70Ms pulls an eastbound Herzog ballast train east of Cedar Point, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s Limon Subdivision, also known as the “KP” for its Kansas Pacific heritage. The ... (more)
PRR GG-1 4934 is heading for New York City. This train caught me by surprise.
D763 makes its run from New Castle Yard to Willard Yard and is passing Larry's Truck and Electric. Larry's seemed to used to just throw an "LTEX" patch on engines or paint them all black then sen... (more)
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)
It's a jungle out there! Well, almost. The Burro Crane operator is opening up the ditch along the right-of-way of long deferred of maintenance. This was the PRR's route to the massive Berwick ACF ... (more)
