Running over five hours late Amtraks eastbound Cardinal passes through historic Thurmond with the New York Centrals Portland on the back end.

An old Alco S2 or S4 converted to a remote slug works Red Ash Coals load out at Litwar W.Va.

Forty years ago, in 1973, the last train rumbled across this line. Today, this is a place for the intrepid explorer to enjoy solitude while pondering the vestiges of a lost way of rural life. It... (more)

BURNED AND SCORCHED, BUT STILL STANDING. If you've been a Railpictures viewer for a while, you may recall my shot of a couple of teenagers Railroad: Boston & Maine
Locomotive: None
Location: Franklin, New Hampshire, USA
Locomotive #: None
Train ID: None
Photo Date: October 20, 2013

Ghostly Remains, Part 1. With Halloween approaching, and with the warm tones of autumn quickly fading, a series of twilight photos of the abandoned train station at Gerrish Depot, New Hamp... (more)

OLDEST RAIL on Railpictures? Left to rust in the New Hampshire woods is what I believe to be the oldest stick of rail portrayed on this site. Perhaps it is the rarest, too. The St. Alban... (more)

The clouds were set up just perfect in the eastern sky to produce a fiery sunrise along the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies. Orange and red reflect from the rails at the west switch of Leyden ... (more)

Colorado's recent flood waters from the Big Thompson River washed out the roadbed around this trestle just west of Milliken, Colorado, on the Great Western Railway. Contractors are busy rebuilding... (more)

Colorado's recent flood waters washed out a siding on the Great Western Railway at Milliken, Colorado, causing the derailment of about 16 standing cars, six of which turned over on their sides. Th... (more)

This unusual crossing signal still works correctly at an apparently unused private crossing. The lights did go out when a westbound freight approached.

This type is not legal to operate on the road so if you have an old jeep laying around you might want to try this. It worked pretty well.

Test run of the Rotrac E4 road/rail shunter for the planned RailCare container train from Oensingen to Elgg. This remote controlled powerful electric vehicle for shunting of up to 500 tons is driv... (more)

An eastward signal near Klondike, CA stands guard as the moon rises on a cloudy night in the Mojave Desert.

This small 4-wheel Plymouth gas-mechanical was used by the City of Detroit to switch coal cars at the Misterky Power Plant. Today the locomotive switches cars in Greenfield Village. It has a Cl... (more)