A Rock train rolls past a steel gang laying new rail through Glenwood.

On September 15, 2013, as an empty BNSF coal train passes through East Alliance, three coal loads wait their turn to head east. The middle coal load gets a flashing yellow and slowly proceeds east... (more)

A westbound BNSF grain train crosses Fish Creek Trestle at Rivulet, Montana, on May 15, 2013. This 576-foot trestle is officially known as MRL Bridge 165, and was used in a few key scenes in the S... (more)

A Union Pacific Special rolls through the Santa Barbara Subdivision.

Three CN MR-14c’s have completed their work to the west and are returning at Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, seemingly running on sod on July 20, 1984 before the line was abandoned.

Photographed from the Roosevelt Avenue bridge, New York Central train #28 the NEW ENGLAND STATES at LaSalle Street Station in Chicago . An A-B-A set provide the power with E8A #4089 in the l... (more)

A CSX AC4400 leads a Phoenix bound manifest down the steep grade through Williams. In the distance, a pair of F40PHs (295 & 237) shuffle cars in preparation for their morning trip to the south rim... (more)

Switching A Yard in San Bernardino is Santa Fe 1962, one of the railroad's many Consolidations. Photographed by an unknown photographer in what appears to be the 1940s, 2-8-0 1962 was built by Ba... (more)

The California Zephyr eases to a stop on 3rd Street, ending its 2,525 mile journey as families await the arrival of loved ones, excited children and other bystanders watch the event, most of them ... (more)

A quartet of EMD E units lead UP's Old Timer's Special west through the Tooele Valley on March 19, 1978. The lead engine, No. 928 was the last active E8 on the Union Pacific roster. The train and ... (more)

Santa Fe F7 38C leads the eastbound San Francisco Chief past the siding at Christie, California, on April 24, 1971. The train only has a week of operation left before the start of Amtrak. Fujichr... (more)

Close call at Toltec Siding. RP viewers who have met me know how much I dislike derailment photos. While I actually have a few of them, I typically don't post them, because they show the u... (more)

Rock Island's bicentennial E8 652 debutes on the 20th Century Railroad Club's Railfair '76 special from Chicago to Bureau, shown here departing Chicago.

Santa Fe's westbound SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF negotiates a "shoo-fly" around a freight train derailment at Dunmoor, New Mexico, on November 28, 1969. A SD24 and three GP35s were involved in the mishap,... (more)

"Yellowbonnet" F9As 284C and 287C are on the Clovis-Slaton Local switching cars at Texico on the New Mexico-Texas state line. These two units are two of the seven 281 Class F9 cab units to receive... (more)