For three Fridays before Christmas Beamish museum allows the public to visit at night time to experience a 1913 Christmas. last night was the first of these Fridays and a tram waits to take visito... (more)

Great Western #90 simmers under a crescent Moon at the Strasburg Rail Road yard prior to a 6 AM departure to Leaman Place Junction to pick up freight left by Norfolk Southern.

It's 6:39 AM and the crew of the Strasburg Rail Road heads out with a double header utilizing both N&W #475 and CN #89 to pick up a heavy 6 car load freight (8 with the caboose and coach of railf... (more)

The crew at the Strasburg Rail Road get an early morning start shuffling cars around in preparation for the last steam powered revenue freight of the year - and it's gonna be a big one - requiring... (more)

Santa Fe F7's 315 and 316 sit outside the gate at Motive Power & Equipment Solution's shop in Greenville, ready for pickup by NS for shipment to their new home at the Galveston Railroad Museum in ... (more)

My first shot on Railpictures was a night shot, my Railroad: East Broad Top
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-2
Location: Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: EBT 15
Train ID: Freight Train
Photo Date: October 17, 2010

Utah has for many years participated in Daylight Savings Time, where the clocks are advanced one hour in the spring leading to additional daylight in the evenings. Since the Rio Grande Zephyr arri... (more)

After spending Saturday pulling employee excursions, 630 simmers during the evening at the site of the old Terminal Station in downtown Birmingham. Photo by Casey Thomason. For more information,... (more)

The headlights of a westbound helper set heading up the East Slope towards Horseshoe Curve lights up the now closed Alto Tower and CP Altoona signal bridge.

In the wee hours of the morning NKP 765 rest inside Conway yard awaiting the up coming trips in the Pittsburgh area after dead heading from Columbus a few hours earlier. Photo taken with permissio... (more)

Shay 6 simmers on the top of Bald Knob during the first Lunar Express ride to Bald Knob.

Starry starry night! An eastbound BNSF freight lights up this night scene on it's approach in to Sandpoint and over the bridge at Pend Oreille Lake.

CSXT 404 and its loaded coal train fill the street in this otherwordly scene from West Brownsville!

Lehigh Valley 8104, Norfolk Southern's eighth heritage locomotive, rests outside the Juniata Paint Shop, sporting a new "nose job". For more information, visit ... (more)