Power strapped Milwaukee Road leased a number of B&O GP's and 3 of them found their way onto the Nahant to Savanna way-freight which ran over the Rock Island to East Moline and then north on the A... (more)

Half an hour out of Silvis yard, FP7A 406 heads through the riverbottom swamps east of Colona, Illinois, on its way to Chicago. The unit, along with nine sisters, is four feet longer than a standa... (more)

Those accustomed to Rock Island in maroon or red were startled in 1975 when the road’s new president John Ingram started painting cars and locomotives in white and blue. But Ingram had come out ... (more)

Just three weeks out of the Capital Rebuild Program at Silvis shops, new image GP7 4517 ambles through the old riverfront town of Peru, Illinois, in the historic heart of the Rock Island. Rails we... (more)

NECR 608 heads south along the Thames River with some cars for Montville and New London. The Providence and Worcester operates on the other side of the river and part of the Mohegan Sun Casino is... (more)

NECR 608 has pulled everything off the runaround and will soon spot loaded hoppers in Franklin.

NS Empty Coal Train 533-23 just crested Belden Hill and exited Belden Tunnel as they get on the dynamics for the steep decent into Binghamton Terminal with 4 units and 88 empty hoppers from Bow, N... (more)

Norfolk Southern 19G comes through Emmaus, PA, several hours behind schedule with a spartan cab EMD on the point.

C112 was caught resting in the EL yard in Dayton. It is a Dunmore caboose [ a riveted one] and rode on express car style trucks. C112 is supposed to be the last caboose on the West End of the EL ... (more)

Anybody like SD45's? Westbound Susquehanna Sea-Land stack train NTV-9 has four of them on this crisp May day. Here they are seen crossing the Hackensack River in Hackensack, New Jersey.

Celebrating passing the 5M page-view mark here at railpictures.net with these uploades, John is pleased his photos are appreciated by those born in the new millennia, and feels very connected by w... (more)

UP AC4400 #6617 leads an empty coal train north on the Marion Sub towards Mount Vernon.

It is only a few months since Conrail came into being, and EL 3645 sits on former EL rails at East Voris Street.

The Pennsylvania heritage rolls EB on the old D&H as it leads an EB NS intermodal train from Chicago to Mechanicville, NY. This train runs under symbols NS 206 and CP 938. It used to run autos and... (more)

Four former Burlington Northern SD45s lead a Sea-Land stack train east into NYS&Ws Little Ferry Terminal where the train will be unloaded. As of this date, the SD45s still carry their BN road num... (more)