The 49er, UP train number 48, (8 cars 35 MPH) is seen near Echo Utah on October 23rd 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Crews used heavy equipment to lift the locomotives that were sent off the tracks after two freight trains collided near Miami International Airport on 9/24/2022

"Don't go to Pasco, dude. They're a bunch of nepotistic tire slashers who hate anyone from the Coast"...This was music to my ears as a 24-year-old new hire fresh out of the Corps (Marines, not Pea... (more)

A grain train rolls east down the BNSF Clovis Subdivision as a thunderstorm moves across the distant sky in Bodega, New Mexico.

Steam, smoke and snow in the forest of Buda hills. (1/6 pan shot.)

The Agawa Canyon tour train weaves its way through the fog in a typical fall morning scene along Island Lake. Its journey through the Algoma District to Canyon (MP 114) is just getting underway pa... (more)

Tram 2 in the center of Amsterdam

Shining in the afternoon sun
A Wisconsin Central trackmobile has tugged newly-painted boxcar No. 47675 out onto the transfer table between shop buildings at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin,... (more)

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)

Kalte Rinne viaduct of the Semmering railway in Breitenstein, Lower Austria.

Bad day at Broomfield, freight and passenger train collision in September 1958 involving CB&Q EMD E7 number 9936B and CB&Q EMD F3 number 700D. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

World record:longest passenger train in the world with 25 four-car Capricorn units like celebrating 175 years of Swiss railways. This is also longest narrow gauge personal train. Location for ph... (more)

Rio Grande EMD GP60 Nos. 3155 and 3154 power a summer edition of the Rio Grande Ski Train downgrade out of Plainview, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 5, 2000. For a short while anyway, these ... (more)

Norfolk Southern SD70ACe #1028 pulls high with a string of empty coke hoppers for loading at SunCoke

A MOW window West of Needles has caused quite a delay on the Transcon. Five trains are parked at Needles seen in this photo waiting to go West out of town. Three of the trains already have a crew ... (more)