With the air so muggy you can see it and with the long ago razed Public Service Terminal Building in the background, a Conrail Raritan Valley Line train moves from the yard to Newark's Penn Statio... (more)

John requests this series of photos be uploaded as he seeks to thank the entire railpictures.net crew and audience worldwide for eclipsing the 5M page view count on his photos shared thus far. It'... (more)

Late at night was a good time to visit Colorado & Southern’s Rice yard in Denver the late 1950s. You could set up your tripod out of the way of working railroaders. There was usually one of the ... (more)

Baltimore & Ohio EMD F7, July 1963. This unit would soon be repainted in the "sunburst" mostly blue scheme.

Santa Fe’s articulated doodlebug M190 and one coach were running 75 mph when they zipped by the Chisum, N.M. station sign. Train 25 operated between Clovis and Carlsbad and informally was call... (more)

The Reading operated a large network of commuter trains in the Philadelphia area. The majority of the equipment was electrified MU cars, both of ancient (1931) and of Silverliner vintage. For line... (more)

The holiday rush has hit Raton Pass on December 18, 1964, as Santa Fe second 17, the Los Angeles-bound Super Chief, heads for a quick stop in Raton behind F7A 46C. Second 17 seems to consist mainl... (more)

Fairbanks-Morse 556, a 1956-built H12-44, sets out for an afternoon switching Santa Fe’s vast Argentine Yards in Kansas City, Kansas on April 26,1965. The ancient yard office in the background... (more)

This is one of the GE motors were ordered by Russia but not delivered. Three went to the South Shore and the remainder was divided between the Milwaukee Road and the Paulina Railroad in Brazil.

Colorado & Southern’s Globeville Branch snaked through Denver to serve the historic Globe Smelter and the city’s extensive stock yards, both of which in January, 1959, still provided enough tr... (more)

A southbound Chicago and North Western ore train approaches Goose Lake near Partridge, Michigan, during the last light of October 18, 1986. It was twilight in more ways than one on this trio of Al... (more)

I spent one day chasing the North Shore, riding from the Loop to Great Lakes and walking between the Great Lakes station and Pettibone yard. This is a Chicago bound train on the Skokie Valley lin... (more)

A Santa Fe F passenger unit reduced to freight service pauses with a northbound at Bellville, Texas to swap crews just after 2:00 a.m. on July 19, 1971.

Engine #5875 is wiped down, and the crew briefed before departure on this June '55 Philadelphia Chapter NRHS trip to Wilkes-Barre via the Schuylkill Branch and eventually (via LV's Hazelton Branch... (more)

The "Crescent" slows for its Manassas stop