Life in Small Town America: While folks mill about on South Main Street, a Utah Railway coal load climbs it's way through the town of Helper, Utah. Back in 1996, Utah Railway gained trackage right... (more)
UP 5362 Crosssing the Green River on her way west.
Cascades 505 heads to Portland on the tail end of a snow storm that brought a fair amount of sea level snow to the Puget Sound. The storm also brought some wind, kicking up the waves along the so... (more)
During the time that MK was converting the MK5000C to MK50-3's. A few MPEX unit were loaned to the Utah Railway. This train has two of them MPEX 5000, and MPEX 5356. MPEX is a one of a kind. And o... (more)
Yard operations for 220 010 loco win front of St.Dionisios church.
Kodak Railway MP15AC number 10 sits in the depths of Kodak Park, awaiting its next assignment. This was shot during the Kodak event "Power to Move Us" where Kodak teamed up with the Roch... (more)
The prototype Swiss Re 4/4 III electric locomotive, Sud-Ost-Bahn No 41 brings the 16.09 Einsiedeln to Zurich Enge train past a meadow full of buttercups as it decends the very steep gradient from ... (more)
Where WSOR E's run today WICT F's ran in 1989 (and MILW cabs before that). A Wisconsin & Calumet excursion train runs between Walworth and Zenda with the late Glen Monhart's F7A leading the WB tra... (more)
Winston-Salem Southbound #711 resting at Winston-Salem, September 1956. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.
Train #1 hit a broken rail and "staked 'em up like cord wood' on August 23. That's the Evergeen State Fairgrounds and US 2 in the background.
Carrizo Gorge Railways 102 in the desert near Dos Cabezas
Virginian steam locomotives resting at Princeton, WV in this February 1957 view. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.
Construction of the second railroad bridge across Lake Pend Orielle is in full swing as this loaded grainer makes its way across the first bridge and on to the west coast.
Railroad: BNSF RailwayLocomotive: GE C44-9W (Dash 9-44CW)Location: Sandpoint, Idaho, USALocomotive #: BNSF 5469Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: October 07, 2021
The date says Conrail, but the scene is pure Reading. On the third weekend of Conrail’s existence, a lot of motive power has been shuffled, but the train patterns are still intact. Here a coal ... (more)
F7B disguised as a passenger car so the public would not notice it when it was used with the little 4-6-0 steam engine they had.
Union Pacific DD35A 75 speeds through downtown Pomona, CA, on Christmas Eve 1976.
Norfolk Southern's "GoRail" and "Veterans" units leads empty grain train 57Q through downtown Atlanta, headed towards Indiana for another load of corn. Photo by Casey Thomason... (more)
A pair of Rio Grande GP9s drag a heavy coal train across the Union Pacific Provo Subdivision at Lakota Crossing. In 1985, these diamonds were removed and switches added to connect UP trains onto t... (more)
Garratt # 12 of the Hwange Colliery (the former 15A 370 of National Railways of Zimbabwe) is leaving the coal mine with a heavy train to Thomson Junction shunting yard.
Winterstorm Dion has left the Feather River Canyon as a winter wonderland. On the evening of December 6th, 2013, snow began to fall in Northern California. By morning, there was a solid 6 inches t... (more)
The old and the new entrace of the Tauern-tunnel. The old "building" is a national monument, it was built in 1909. The new tunnel is 8370m long.
With the Lehigh Valley main overhead, the crew of this Susquehanna freight finishes up their switching before calling it a night. Thanks to the crew for posing and Pete Lerro for putting it all to... (more)
Temporary Platform Gondolas were recently converted from MOW gons by the Bear shops and deployed to support a track work project on the NEC. They allow high level boarding from the center track wh... (more)
A rather weary looking PRR E8A followed by an E7B descends the grade below the Gallitzin tunnels with a passenger consist. They will soon round the Horseshoe Curve on the way to Altoona, PA.
N&W Y6a 2167 is pushing an eastbound freight through Roanoke on a beautiful November morning with the railway's office buildings in the background.
PC 7049 awaits her turn at restoration at the Age of Steam Museum in Minerva, Ohio
Well that isn't going to work! A shifted load of lumber awaits some work in C&NW's Mitchell Yard in April of 1984.
Santa Fe 2nd #17, the EL CAPITAN, accelerates out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, on August 27, 1968. FP45s 101-107 are powering the streamliner this day. The train is following 1st 17, the SUPER CHIE... (more)
Uncertain Future....The #3636 has been OOS since May of 2008 after a Turbocharger failure caused the prime mover to seize. Since October the #3636 has been stored in Utica and at one point the tra... (more)
Just after crossing over the SP, WP 914A is heading East on Altamont Pass with a manifest freight in February of 1970. About a half hour after this train, WP's California Zephyr would pass this sa... (more)
With NS President Wick Moorman at the controls, Norfolk & Western Class J 4-8-4 #611, is seen westbound across the Big Otter River Trestle on the NS Blue Ridge District. The train was clean burni... (more)
A short Western Maryland freight train heads up the grade toward Connellsville, PA.
While traveling on Route 66 the generator on my 52 Ford failed and we spent an unexpected day in Flagstaff getting it repaired. That provided time for a quick early morning visit to the SWLM log ... (more)
On a beautiful summer morning, the crew of the Hudson local flag Warren and 7th Streets during the busy rush hour as they ascend towards Greenport Center to the ADM Mill with 15 loads.
Penn Central crews exchange greetings on a hot July night. This scene is actually part of a night photo session at the Danbury Railway Museum.
This switcher has been refurbished.
Seven Cascade Green Burlington Northern EMDs lead a mixed freight down Bozeman Pass on May 25, 1986. By the following year, this former Northern Pacific route will be run by the Montana Rail Link.
A pair of Pennsylvania Railroad GG1s Nos 4862 and 4888 at an unknown location probably photographed in the 1950s by an unknown photographer.
British Columbia's "Royal Hudson" 2860 (ex-CP 2860) operated to Los Angeles in 1977 to promote tourism to the Canadian province. It is seen here southbound meeting an Amtrak "San Joaquin" in the ... (more)
A new (2013) Harsco spreader-ditcher is getting good use winging back heavy snow on Marias Pass. Tied down for the weekend, the plow and its work train power will be back at it on Monday.
A view at the Glocs Warks Spring Gala in 2009. GWR Number 3440 City of Truro was designed by G.J.Churchward and built in 1903. It is one of the contenders for the first steam locomotive to travel ... (more)
Hoar Frost With a puff of snow coming from every support as the tall containers pass under around 40MPH, a westbound intermodal is 7.9 miles out of the Calgary terminal headed for Vancouve... (more)
Early riser. Engineer Dan Markoff, clad in his signature black derby and leather vest, leans out the cab window of his beautiful "Eureka" as he takes a passenger extra west to Cascade just ... (more)
PRLX 2842 is seen here at the NS diesel shop in Irondale (Birmingham), Alabama, enroute to its new assignment at Oldcastle Materials in Texas. Listed on the blue card as an SD40T-2, 2842 most rece... (more)
One of the early UP challengers in service. No information on slide as to who took the photo.
One of the former brilliant Milwaukee Road curved trestles no longer carries the weight of Little Joes or SD40-2s, instead, the bridge and the former catenary poles serve as a reminder to the thou... (more)
Mfr. 1910.
It's a quiet Friday in San Diego as yard and road power lay over just south of downtown.
Cloudy and rainy weather is moving in, but not until some final sun lights up Arizona Eastern Railway’s Clifton turn departing Clifton, Arizona, on October 26, 2020. The train has tied up traffi... (more)
A westbound TOFC train with new warbonnet EMD units passes the standing freight with a GE B40-8W leading. The picture offers a good comparison of the new four axle units that re-introduced the col... (more)
Villalba
Northbound on Penn Division
GP30 2430 switches Smith Pipe & Steel (across 19th Ave from the Mobest Yard) on a quiet Sunday afternoon. My Peavine webpage: http://www.aeromoe.com/Peavine.html
Ravaged by arson and subsequent explosions in 2001, the Riverside Grain Products building in the background was demolished in 2005. The CP 9302, never living up to CPs expectations, was sold for s... (more)
The 140 A 259 is displayed on its side to evoke the acts of sabotage performed by railwaymen at the time of the Resistance during the World War II
"TRAIN!!!"..."OH MY GOSH, ORANGE IS MY FAVORITE COLOR!!"... A bunch of delighted children came streaming out of the D&H freight house in Cambridge,NY as soon as they heard #411... (more)
A Mainline Electric Multiple Unit train heads south. MEMUs are narrower than standard EMUs, which allows them to operate throughout the system. In the three hours I was at Vasai, however, this was... (more)
In the woods at work (on charter) between McCloud and Bartle, CA.
Little Joe E79 helps 3010 East out of Avery.
Union Pacific Centennial 6937 is the last in a long line of stored DD40X locomotives, followed by a long line of GP-30B units. The dry California desert air made for a good location to store many... (more)
Two ex-Conrail EMDs bracket a standard cab GE as they hustle Q410 North across the Doodletown Bight.
Repurposing a landmark. The former New York Central Railroad power plants in Glenwood near Yonkers, New York has sat dormant for decades. Built in 1907 as part of the electrification of the railro... (more)
As darkness descends and a front with heavy rain approaches, Norfolk Southern westbound manifest train No. 15T blasts into the community of Wytheville, Va., behind NS' Honoring Our Veterans locomo... (more)
An excursion from Camden to the PSRL shore lines makes a stop for a photo op. The sign on the car front reads Metropolitan Philadelphia Railway Association.
Where We Used To Roam. PRR 4859 led the first electric-powered passenger train into Harrisburg way back on January 15th, 1938. 72 years later, she survives as a display piece under... (more)
BN C424 4241 leads three SD45's on what I would guess is WP track in Northern California. No Information on slide as far as location or photographer. Slide has been in my collection for years.
Rather unusual to see a 630 with a 628 on the yard. The radiator grill on the 3128 looks to be unique to that unit.
Mail and express #473 was carded for 2:13pm at Crestline, carrying passengers only as far as Galion. Perhaps 472 is running behind today, as the eastbound counterpart, #473, was carded for 3:10pm... (more)
The last couple weeks has been very wet in the Midwest due to continuous wet weather. A loaded coal train passes one of many farm field ponds that are still in many fields. Here a coal train just ... (more)
IORY 4072 inches by a derailed autorack to get on the southside and pull the rack back up onto the rails as an Atlas HiRail truck backs down the siding to chain up to the rack. Derailment occured ... (more)
THE MAPLE LEAF, Train 20, has just arrived from Chicago. It is waiting in Durand while the last car is detached so that it can later be hooked to the rear of Detroit bound Train 56 which can be s... (more)
The eastbound Land O'Corn (No 14) pauses on the "hack" line at Dubuque to take on and drop off passengers. Building behind the engine is the IC Freight House, which was torn down in the 1990s to m... (more)
Gas turbine electric 61 pulls a freight consisting of boxcars. No photographer listed on slide.
It was still raining on July 29, 1981 as VIA Train 4 was on new ballast near Decoigne, Alberta and heading for Jasper with its 18 cars.
A long-distance train arrives from the west. #1405 was only a few months into its service life. Database correction (RR) forthcoming.
A brute from the Reading simmers in Atlantic City.
Special train from Hungary, pulled by a restored NOHAB-GM locomotive, and helped by a more powerful electric locomotive on the heavy grades of the line, is now descending towards Ghimes, where it'... (more)
The eastbound TOF led by two GP35s and two GP40s routed down the Main out of the WP Portola yard. Photo from my collection, the photographer was not specified.
A Northbound Ferromex train sports a variety of power en route to Torreon. To view this album, paste http://railbaron.rrpicturearchives.net/archivethumbs.aspx?id=31023 to your browser.
Southern Pacific S12 2150 is the former 1543, a 1953 Baldwin Locomotive Works product. It was found at Taylor Yard, near Los Angeles, on March 10, 1973. The large headlight / oscillating warning... (more)
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Diesels on "The Silverton": Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad locomotive #7, "Big Al", pulls recently-shopped passenger cars #331 "Trimble" and #336 "Roc... (more)
A&M ALCO's in 2022: After a derailment on the Fort Smith bridge in early May stranded 3 for A&M's SD70's, the ALCO C420's were pressed back into road service. Having finally outrun the stor... (more)
Photographer- Dave Augsburger- from the 35 mm original Kodachrome slide. A late Spring day finds the 'Mercedes of Steam'; N&W 'A' Class 1218 less than a month into her excursion career, shown here... (more)
Reunited – These two RS11’s began life as PRR 8652 and 8644, respectively. In 1964, The Pennsy leased the 8644 and seven other mates to the PRR-controlled Lehigh Valley. Two were returned, and... (more)
Nickel Plate 765 is fresh out of Ft. Wayne, IN kicking off the second excursion day. The locomotive put on quite a show through the town of Roanoke with a huge cloud of steam and smoke. This shot ... (more)
