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Good Light, Good Scenery, and a Train
Landscape photography is difficult due to the challenge of combining good light and good scenery. Good railroad photography enters another level of complexity since it requires the first two while there is a train in view.
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Photo ID: 826640

ATSF 3751 is leading train number 6, north of Littleton Colorado, on January 15th 1939. Otto's 1935 Ford V8 sedan is partially visible at right. Rods down with 10 cars at 40 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry... (more)

Railroad: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF)
Locomotive: Steam 4-8-4
Location: Littleton, Colorado, USA
Locomotive #: ATSF 3751
Train ID: ATSF 6
Photo Date: January 15


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By: GEORGE M. STUPAR

Added: Mar 10, 2023

Views: 4,851
Comments: 1

Favorited: 32
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Photo ID: 826451

The Horseshoe Curve is a stunning sight to behold, especially during the sunset hours. In this photograph, a westbound intermodal train is seen making its way around the curve and up the Allegheny... (more)

Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: GE AC44C6M
Location: Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: NS 4328
Train ID: N/A
Photo Date: October 15, 2022


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By: Brandon Fiume

Added: Mar 07, 2023

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Views: 11,859
Comments: 2

Favorited: 47
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Photo ID: 825808

The summit of Cajon Pass, a spot the railroad inexplicably calls "Summit", sits 3,775-feet above sea level. The day after a massive snowstorm hit the area, dropping snow at elevations a... (more)

Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE ET44C4
Location: Cajon Pass, California, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 3818
Train ID: BNSF Q-LACFTM
Photo Date: February 26, 2023


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By: Craig Walker

Added: Feb 27, 2023

Views: 5,002
Comments: 1

Favorited: 21
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Photo ID: 825776

Empty coal train on the S-curve at Sully Springs on a lovely summer day a few years back. I wasn't sure he was going to get sun, but he did...barely.

Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: EMD SD70ACe
Location: Sully Springs, North Dakota, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 9004
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: July 03, 2017


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By: Ken Kuehne

Added: Feb 27, 2023

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Views: 10,278
Comments: 1

Favorited: 56
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Photo ID: 825722

Following three days of rain and snow, with snow falling at unusually low altitudes (about 1000-feet or so – it snowed in San Bernardino!) the previous day, BNSF railway train Q-LACLPC6-23L (Gua... (more)

Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44C4
Location: Cajon Pass, California, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 6973
Train ID: BNSF Q-LACLPC
Photo Date: February 26, 2023


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By: Craig Walker

Added: Feb 26, 2023

Views: 6,073
Comments: 1

Favorited: 33


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Photo ID: 825580

A Canadian Pacific export grain train for the West Coast has just crossed into British Colombia from Alberta during a slow up-hill climb near Stephens, B.C., in the late wildfire smoke-induced Can... (more)

Railroad: Canadian Pacific Railway
Locomotive: GE AC4400CWM
Location: Stephen, British Columbia, Canada
Locomotive #: CP 8176
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: September 07, 2022


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By: Chase Gunnoe

Added: Feb 24, 2023

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Views: 11,776
Comments: 6

Favorited: 78
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Photo ID: 825486

More than 170 years after construction began on this facility the original purpose of repairing and maintaining the railroad's massive fleet of locomotives continues. Strategically nestled at the ... (more)

Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: EMD SD40-2
Location: Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #:
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: October 27, 2022


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By: John Fry

Added: Feb 23, 2023

Views: 6,824
Comments: 4

Favorited: 46
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Photo ID: 825331

It's a warm night in Hamilton as the local night job from Aldershot sits on the connecting track while the crew is in for lunch, the last GO train of the night has arrived at West Harbour GO and w... (more)

Railroad: Canadian National Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44AC
Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Locomotive #: CN 3965
Train ID: CN L55531 03
Photo Date: November 04, 2022


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By: Michael Da Costa

Added: Feb 21, 2023

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Views: 11,040
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Favorited: 35
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Photo ID: 825103

Another wintery day in Montana is coming to a close as layers of fog roll through Montana’s Clark Fork River Valley. As the blue hour approaches, a BNSF grain train rumbles westbound out of Trou... (more)

Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE C44-9W (Dash 9-44CW)
Location: Trout Creek, Montana, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 5207
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: February 04, 2023


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By: Mike Danneman

Added: Feb 18, 2023

Views: 1,946
Comments: 1

Favorited: 19
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Photo ID: 824880

Rio Grande Southern 20 leads an extra mixed freight over Ferguson Trestle, named after the man that was hanged off of it, as the sun peaks over part of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the far di... (more)

Railroad: Rio Grande Southern
Locomotive: Steam 4-6-0
Location: Antonito, Colorado, USA
Locomotive #: RGS 20
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: September 05, 2021


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By: Joseph S. Randall

Added: Feb 15, 2023

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Views: 4,345
Comments: 2

Favorited: 25


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Photo ID: 824711

Train from Rakhiv to Kharkiv

Railroad: Ukrzaliznytsya (Ukrainian Railways)
Locomotive: 2TE10M
Location: Lazeshina, Ukraine
Locomotive #: 2421
Train ID: 16
Photo Date: November 21, 2020


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By: PrikarpatskiyPartizan

Added: Feb 13, 2023

Views: 2,103
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Favorited: 25
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Photo ID: 824534

Pikes Peak Subdivision Northbound headed through Greenland under the Palmer Divide with his majesty Pikes Peak in full snow and sun.

Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE AC44CM
Location: Greenland, Colorado, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 600
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: May 07, 2022


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By: Coloradorailphotographer

Added: Feb 10, 2023

Views: 3,743
Comments: 2

Favorited: 42
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Photo ID: 824476

Painted in EJ&E orange, CN ET44AC 3023 speeds east on the Edson Sub at Mile 220 as the sun rises over the Rocky Mountains.

Railroad: Canadian National Railway
Locomotive: GE ET44AC
Location: Snaring, Alberta, Canada
Locomotive #: CN 3023
Train ID: CN Q10251 14
Photo Date: July 16, 2022


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By: Tim Stevens

Added: Feb 10, 2023

Views: 3,088
Comments: 4

Favorited: 52
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Photo ID: 824354

Chesapeake & Ohio 1309 is an H-6 "Mallet" with a wheel configuration of 2-6-6-2. It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1949 to haul coal from the fields in West Virginia. It only served ... (more)

Railroad: Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O)
Locomotive: Steam 2-6-6-2
Location: Cumberland, Maryland, USA
Locomotive #: CO 1309
Train ID: Photo Charter
Photo Date: February 08, 2023


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By: Doug Boudrow

Added: Feb 08, 2023

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Views: 14,101
Comments: 5

Favorited: 71
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Photo ID: 824347

Classic Helmstetter's. In a scene that is a bit reminiscent of the classic Bill Price photos of the Western Maryland Railroad, a heavy, articulated freight locomotive makes its way around t... (more)

Railroad: Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O)
Locomotive: Steam 2-6-6-2
Location: LaVale, Maryland, USA
Locomotive #: CO 1309
Train ID: Photo Charter
Photo Date: February 03, 2023


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By: Kevin Madore

Added: Feb 08, 2023

Views: 5,053
Comments: 2

Favorited: 22
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