Following my two previous posts of suburban locos at Paris Nord we move on nearly ten years and see an almost brand new 2-8-2T waiting to leave the station with a push/pull train in 1935. These en... (more)
Less than an hour ago NS 61A derailed at Richwood,KY. In the distance, it appears there are around 20-30 cars piled up. This is a lone car that came off at Frogtown Road crossing.
Photographer- unknown- from my personal collection. Southern 1401, in all her Green & Gold glory awaits her second attempt to be moved into the Smithsonian. The first time the 1401 was lifted ... (more)
Southern California's Pacific Harbor Line rostered two SD40T-2 locomotives, and they are both in storage at their Pier A Yard in Wilmington, California. PHL 51 is the former Southern Pacific 8550... (more)
Shot shortly before Amtrak took over unit 24C looks like it has seen better days, and is in San Diegian service
Yes train is my love.
The famous "Milpitas Fs" along with a friend challenge Altamont again with their auto racks headed for the Ford plant.
The only active power on the Illinois Division after the Rock Island shutdown. The 940 is used for making up trains of sold cars and the geeps are used to deliver them.
Coal delivery to the Maryland campus.
Shoot with your tops down, running the streets, on the grid.
Both tracks were damaged so all train service to and from Bay Head was stopped.
UP 6936 & 6930 team up with a freight extra at the Illinois Railway Museum.
An eastbound stacktrain roars through the grade crossing on a hazy late afternoon day at Cowtown.
January, 21, 1963 I will remember forever. I was at home in Rye, New York and I read in the New York Times that it was the last day of operation of the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad.... (more)
Practically new Rock Island road power at the engine terminal at Silvis in March of 1980 - there are only a few more weeks of life left for the Rock.
The World Famous Horseshoe CurveGrain train 50T wraps around the valley on the Horseshoe Curve. Built by the Pennsylvania Railroad and opened to traffic in 1854, Horseshoe Curve fil... (more)
Amtrak’s eastbound train No. 6, the California Zephyr, passes the mid-train DPUs of an eastbound Union Pacific coal load in the siding at Rocky, Colorado, on the afternoon of June 16, 2013. The ... (more)
Former Pennsylvania GG1 4931 leads a southbound SCL Florida train just a few months after the PC merger. The substantial Nassau tower was built in 1944.
Damaged railcars when a Loram Railgrinder struck the rear of the NS214 last night. The 3 cars and containers wait an engine to bring them to Vardo yard in Hagerstown Maryland.
Preserved equipment at Exporail (Canadian Railway Museum) in St.Constant,Quebec.
Eastbound Amtrak No. 50, the Washington section of the "George Washington," is ready to leave Charlottesville, VA on Feb. 9, 1974 with Amtrak E8A No. 200 and B&O GP7 No. 5631. No. 98, the Newport... (more)
The near north side of Pittsburgh was liberally laced with streetcar lines. Here the 13, 14 and 15 came east on North Av to meet the 8, 21 and terminating routes 22 and 77/54 on Federal St. A bl... (more)
NKP 759 East passes eastbound near Hackettstown, NJ on the EL on a ferry run in the Summer of 1970. For more of John's classic shots from N.J. see the Sept. '06 Railfan & Railroad.
On most likely its maiden run, a freshly rebuilt and repainted SD60M, the former SOO 6060, rolls down the controlled siding towards the Saratoga Runner and Saratoga Yard to do some work prior to h... (more)
In the early hours of the morning on August 22, 2018, Hulcher and BNSF crews work hard to clean up a massive derailment at Devore, California. All 3 BNSF main tracks were damaged by this derailmen... (more)
On August 11th, 2015, Portland and Western's Westside district trestle in Sherwood caught fire and was lost. Three teenagers were caught, cited for trespassing, and charged with reckless burning, ... (more)
During a Chase Gunnoe photo charter in Durbin, Climax number 3 does rambles through the forest. The trees have already started to change, adding slight tinges of yellow to what would have been a ... (more)
Old SP caboose sitting "high and dry" in Cottage Grove.
BNSF 4029 encountered a locked axle on the Arkansas City Sub main, shortly after departing Arkansas City, KS. The TWD at Hackney, KS caught the offender. The lead motors were cut away, so RJ Corma... (more)
Doing it old school, the rear end brakeman on this Dothan-bound freight jogs to catch his train after throwing a switch. Moving mounts/dismounts, cabooses, most of the track shown in this photo - ... (more)
At sunrise, a Union Pacific coal empty charges east up the 2% grade at Gilluly, Utah. This train would load the following day on Union Pacific's North Fork Subdivision at the West Elk mine in sout... (more)
As a long time die hard WC fan, this brought tears to my eyes. Long live the Wisconsin Central!
A Southern manifest grinds it up the grade at Saluda, North Carolina with a trio of SD-35s.
An SP-patched GP60 sits in front of the Downing B. Jenks locomotive facility for perhaps the last time in this paint scheme.
Flowers begin to grow between slag ballast and rusty 136-pound rails laid by Rio Grande in 1970’s, as nature slowly reclaims what is hers on top of Colorado’s Tennessee Pass on August 12, 2015... (more)
Rio Grande coal train No. 735 rambles down the eastward main track near Sutro on Sept. 2, 1989. A dramatic brush fire, set accidentally by two young kids, leaves its mark on the flanks of 9088 ft.... (more)
ST43-303 with an early morning (5.40 am) international freight train from polish station Tarnow Filia to slovakian Haniska Pri Kosiciach approaches village Rzepedz among Oslawa river haze.
Stored BNSF units at their Northtown Yard.
Santa Fe F7(A) 24C leads an ABBBAABBA set of F7s on a passenger train in California. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo
"Rust Buckets".
Four first generation GM units lean into the curve on the B&O main at Meyersdale, PA. in September 1969.
WofA 213 - a runthrough in cooperation with L&N - rolls by behind three U23Bs. The GEs were common on this train, but to see it without at least one or two GP38s was not.
An early challenger.
WRRS style wig-wags were popular in the Midwest, and Wisconsin was no exception. These 2, plus one on the other side of the street, guarded a crossing in Plymouth. They were originally MILW/CNW bu... (more)
First East bound train after being shut down by drifts.
CN delivers new Roy Hill ES44ACis.....well, not quite. New CN ES44AC Tier 4 credit units 3815 and 3814 are the north facing units ahead of wrapped Roy Hill Australia ES44ACis 1022, 1023, 1024, 10... (more)
A Rc4 Swedish test unit has finished testing, and sits at Port Newark for return to Sweden. The unit was nick-named the "Swedish Meatball" and stuck even with the AEM-7's. (The Rc4 was t... (more)
Ex-ATSF F7A #308 leads a six-unit power lashup on the point of Amtrak's Super Chief chasing the setting sun through the ghost remains of Waldo. Amtrak is young, and it's early striping can be seen... (more)
NS 21Q wreaked havoc on Pittsburgh South Side when 7 intermodal well-car sets flew off the track. Many, landed just a few hundred feet from a crowded Transit station. NS is currently re-routing tr... (more)
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)
I had the opportunity to watch the unloading of coal from aluminum hopper cars on this rotary unloader. It was impressive to see the hydraulic clamps that hold the car to the rails while it is bei... (more)
Stored units
Roccapalumba
Fort Collins, Colorado presents a number of opportunities to document street running trains, be it along Mason Street downtown, or in the case here as BNSF 1993 (SD40-2) crosses over East Vine Dri... (more)
This I would say has got to be the oldest piece of equipment BNSF owned and used. An old ATSF ice hatch reefer built in 1923 which was last used as a buffer car on a welded rail train. All of the ... (more)
The "Broadway Limited" matches a dismal day in appearance, two days before Amtrak.
A NB SP manifest exits Tunnel 9 under Tehachapi Loop lead by two brand new, sequentially numbered, and spotless Southern Pacific SD70M’s . An old SD45 trails as the third unit. SP 9806 is the se... (more)
I don't know what this thing is or what it does, but I know I wouldn't want to be on either end of it when it's running!
A Roger Puta Photograph
CSX stack train Q133 is about to enter the street running trackage through La Grange, Kentucky, on the afternoon of August 10, 2012. A man rides his bike precariously close on the clearance line, ... (more)
Central Maine & Quebec Job 2 is passing through Farnham Yard as it departing for Maine.
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.
Originally built by GE as standard-cab D9-40C number 8866, Norfolk Southern 4004 is the latest AC44C6M conversion locomotive to be rebuilt. The "horse mane" paint color variation denote... (more)
The Pocahontas A Roger Puta Photograph
UP 960 heads up a Directors' Special through Steilacoom along Puget Sound on a blustery spring day in 1979. The train is headed from Seattle to Portland and points east and is running on BN tracka... (more)
AMTK 593 is one of two newly delivered Genset units for Amtrak that just arrived at Chicago Union Station.
High water on the Iowa side of the Mississippi has this Milwaukee Road Savanna-KC train on the Illinois side of the river to the Quad Cities with bi-centennial #156 doing the honors. The Nitrin b... (more)
IC express crossing the Papadia bridge, the spring is here !
This guy just couldn't wait for one locomotive and twelve cars to clear. Looking at the condition of the roads he could have easily gotten hung up!
After over three years in mothballs, the majority of Union Pacific's Centennial fleet was reactivated in early 1984. For a little over a year they roamed the system until their final retirement. H... (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 topless lady. Soo 2500A had its radiator removed today for repairs prior to attending the Streamliners at Spencer event later this year.
Today, the newly painted and renovated Gotthard locomotive Ae 6/6 # 11411 "ZUG" was presented officially in Erstfeld. It was built in 1956 by SLM, MFO and BBC and was in use for the SBB until 2009... (more)
Santa Fe #93 slows for a station stop at the end of its run at Lubbock, Texas. Trains 93 and 94 ran between Lubbock and Amarillo, connecting at Amarillo with the SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF. E8Am 80L was ... (more)
Norfolk Southen 22K, is eastbound crossing over the Maumee River, in Toledo, Oh., at CP Maumee, with two primer units, NS 9869 & 75??.
Living history. During the dark years of World War II, America's industrial machine was perhaps its most critical weapon system, yet the workforce that made it run, which had historically b... (more)
In late day sunshine, an eastbound BNSF manifest freight snakes along the Missouri River in Lombard Canyon between Toston and Lombard, Montana, on May 15, 2013. The 60-car train is dwarfed by the ... (more)
ACR 159 rests in the dead line at Steelton after an encounter with a large truck in Sault Ste Marie almost 2 years earlier. The economic downturn of the early eighties was not kind to the ACR's tr... (more)
These units were fairly new when this photo was taken. This electric operation has come and gone.
A northbound freight, led by an elctric loco class Hellas sprinter, its ready to run to Skopija
Staging yard
A crowd of railfans gather at the edge of one of the swamps east of Columbus, Pennsylvania as a WNYP move of storage coal cars rolls by. A quartet of Alco's powered the move, including two ex-Cart... (more)
Clear Sky Above - On Saturday, February 19, 1983, celebrated Amtrak GG1 4935 made what was expected to be its last trip under Pennsy wires, when two Amtrak GP9 “pumpkins” pulled the big electr... (more)
During the early 1970s the CNW acquired a number of second hand F-Units of FEC and MKT origin, and two of those are leading this southbound train entering Yard Limits at New Prague on the ex-M&StL... (more)
Passenger extra Montréal-Garneau.
Wheeling & Lake Erie 612 soars over the former N&W trestle that crosses I-376 outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A matching trio of former FURX SD40-2's are in charge of the train to Clariton.
"Silver Horizon" on the rear of Amtrak's "Texas Chief" during its Joliet stop
ALCO Safari Day 2: Elusive Creatures Second stop on my ALCO Safari trip was the Mosaic potash terminal in Rosemount, they roster an ALCO S-2 and lease a rebuilt RS-3. On a whim I made a sto... (more)
A close-up photo of a cold weather rail joint pull apart or a break caused by a frost heave or some other cause. Found on what remains of the DM&IR Woodbridge branch line located NE of Buhl, MN. ... (more)
