Shot of the QGRY Henri-IV Yard.

Kansas City Union Station anchors the south end of downtown Kansas City.

View into the control room of the Centro d'Esercizio Pollegio (CEP) (operation center Pollegio) of the SBB. From here, the Gotthard line from the borders to Italy, via the mountain and Base Tunnel... (more)

Four years ago yesterday, the Oregon Rail Heritage Center opened up in Portland, Oregon, officially giving the public an legal interactive setup to view the city's three steam engines in one locat... (more)

For my 4500th contribution on Railpictures I choose this "moonlight special" as a tribute to the Gotthard mountain line, with the famous loops around Wassen. In a double longtime exposur... (more)

The open-air Train Hall sits adjacent to the historic headhouse of Denver Union Station. The neon lights still invoke the message "Travel By Train."

A trio of semaphores stand under the desert sky protecting the west end of Levy siding on the Raton Pass line.

Beginning in 1902, the Great Northern began navigating its trains between Jennings and Columbia Falls, Montana on a new right of way partially following the Kootenai River. This route bypassed a l... (more)

Under the stars, a Union Pacific freight passes the old water tank in Lusk, Wyo.

The sun rises next to the former Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley (later Chicago & North Western) water tank at Lusk, Wyo. The tank was built in 1886 and is on the National Register of Historic ... (more)

This tiny 0-4-0 cogwheel steamlocomotive "Caspar Honegger" was built in 1877 by Maschinenfabrik Aarau for the factory of Honegger in Rüti, which had a rack connecting track to the stati... (more)

The upper Reuss valley in the blue hour at 10.18 PM, in a multiple long time exposure. In the foreground the village of Wassen, junction to the Susten pass, in the background the lights of Gösche... (more)

A mining locomotive rests deep under the ground of McDade Park in Scranton as part of the Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour.

One of the most luxurious trains in the world, the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, is crossing the 120 meter long Secken viaduct on the Gotthard north ramp on the way from Calais via Paris-Basel-Ch... (more)

On 1st june 2016, the world's longest railway tunnel was officialy inaugurated, the 57 kilometer long Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) through the Alps from near Erstfeld in Uri to south of Bodio in Tic... (more)