One of the Milwaukee's Baldwin Westinghouse EP3 Class motors leads the Columbian at Butte, MT. THe units were built in 1919 and were retired shortly after the Korean war.

Welcome to Omaha, Drone shot of UP #6900 & UP #4023 overlooking the Missouri River along Interstate I-80

A delight to the eyes emerges from the West Portal of State Line Tunnel at 02:03 in the form of CSXT 661 still wearing her as delivered paint scheme!

Locomotive Graveyard. This was a wild scene not many get to witness. It reminded me of the part in Lion King where Simba and Nala wander off to the elephant grave yard. Carcasses of locom... (more)

Classic Southern Pacific! SP F7A 6325 and F7B 8219 (both November 1950 graduates of the EMD La Grange, IL, factory) sit with a caboose at the station in Chatsworth, California, on the SP's Coast ... (more)

The NW 1218 sits in the yard at the Virginia Museum of Transportation. The locomotive had been moved out from under the shelter for a special event photo shoot for the weekend.

Three PRR Baldwin Sharks have come across the Monongahela River to pick up interchange from the P&LE and the Monongahela Ry. at BF Tower, Brownsville, Pa. April 14, 1961. Five yard tracks prec... (more)

CSX detour on CP Rails' D&H passes "the castle" at Lacolle at 23:18 on a wild winter night. Heavy snow pushed by high winds enhances the drama here.

Uploaded nearly a month after the fact, this is still the first snow shot of the year on Railpictures. The snow lasted but a few days, and made for some great shots in the meantime! Here we see a ... (more)

This is a result of an early morning derailment on CP's Thompson Sub. This derailment resulted in no trains running on CP's Thompson and CN's Ashcroft Sub.

The distant roar of a Westbound grain train clawing up the .65% grade out of the Souris River Valley fills the chilly Spring night sky; and the intermediate signal at MP 16.7 gives a proceed indic... (more)

A westbound train climbs Track 1, the original Donner crossing, toward the summit. Track 1 was later removed and is today a MOW road.

These 80,000 lbs 3 foot gauge coal hopper cars are seen near the location of the East Broad Top Railroad Coal Washing Plant in Mt. Union PA. These cars, along with a hundred or so brethren, have s... (more)

So far this summer the Anchorage area is off to a wet start with plenty of rain and more in the forecast. So, in searching the archives I found this shot of a southbound coal train at Bird Point o... (more)