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Two 'L' trains pass at dusk over Wabash Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 2000, f/6.0, 195mm, 1/250s
LNER B12 8572 is pictured at Woodthorpe making an impressive departure with a passenger service to Leicester North
Nákladní vlak Nex 69106 v čele s lokomotivou 163.216 projíždí podél břehu Labe mezi Kojicemi a Týncem nad Labem.
Two 'L' trains make an evening pass on the elevated tracks over Wabash Avenue in the Jewelers Row District of Chicago, Illinois.
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 2000, f/5.6, 120mm, 1/125s
Steam loco 52 8079 was used for a two day photo special on both the Ostbahn as well as on the line between Eberswalde and Frankfurt (Oder). On the first day there still was some snow left, but on the second day it started raining and the snow melted rapidly.
In 2007 the old, double telegraph poles were still in use, as seen here near Alt Rosenthal.
Norfolk Southern intermodal trains pass in Whiting, Indiana.
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 200, f/8.0, 116mm, 1/640s
Deep in the Selkirk Mountains, heavy flock coats the trees as the darkness slowly lifts at Ross Peak finding CPKC train 105 drifting downgrade from Rogers Pass through the freshly falling snow.
The train has just exited the 9.1 mile Mount MacDonald Tunnel, built to ease westbound traffic through Rogers Pass, which significantly reduces the grade for them, while the Connaught Tunnel handles the eastbound traffic. The doubletrack segments on the west side of the pass are named after their respective tunnels, signal 900M here being the MacDonald track and 900C the Connaught track.
- MP 90 Mountain Subdivision.
A State Railway of Thailand Southern Line train approaches Thung Mamao Station in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, Thailand.
Nikon D7500, Nikkor 18-300, ISO 200, f/10.0, 28mm, 1/320s
A typical day of railfanning the C&NW... chase an eastbound in low winter light for 50 miles, get to the top of Arcadia Hill, shoot a couple of westbounds, find one you like, and chase him back to Mo Valley. Simpler times...
In the 1970's Union Pacific would add CCS leaders to C&NW trains at Fremont. The story I heard somewhere at work was shortly after the C&NW GP50's were delivered they were equipped with UP CCS components from retired/stored UP DD40's. So these GP50's were a common sight on Overland Route trains east of North Platte thru the early 1990's until being bumped by UP Dash 8's and SD60/60M deliveries that were dual equipped with CCS and ATC. I never got tired of shooting GP50's as the MoPac fleet was a daily sight when I was in Texarkana.
3-19-1988
UP 844 deadheads to Cheyenne with some freight in tow. My 1983 Z28 is in the frame, back when I could run up the embankment to GTS.
9-24-1989
C351 with loads from Emmett (Peach Creek, WV) to Calera, AL rolls through the south end of doubletrack at Madisonville.
As seen at Rainford Junction Station. The train in view has just left Kirkby and it's on its way to Wilton Power Station in Yorkshire with a full load of Merseyside's domestic waste for incineration. The waste fuels the power station. The loco is a Class 66 No. 66 079.
Western Boxes...
Modified Hall 4-6-0 No.6990 'Witherslack Hall' is seen pulling into Swithland Sidings with a box van freight from Loughborough on the Great Central Railway during Day 3 of their Winter Steam Gala.
Taken on the 30th Jan 2022.
UP 1988 and 6417 (ex-SP 371) lead a Stockton, California to Chicago intermodal train up Archer Hill as they make their way east.
ILTG2 30
Making for a lovely combination, LMS Crab 13065 and LNER B12 8572 are pictured at Woodthorpe with a passenger service to Leicester North
The conductor of Q327 gives the highball to Amtrak's eastbound Pere Marquette as the two trains meet in the doubletrack at Ivanrest in Grandville. In those days, you could almost set your watch by these 2 trains meeting in this spot, night after night.
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A monster Chicago to Portland hotshot with UP 8596, 9012, 7770, & 8133 on the point and 5565 & 6748 in the middle rolls off Archer Hill as it approaches Cheyenne.
ZG1BRB 16
British Railways Class 2MT 78018 passes Milepost 94 at Woodthrope near Loughborough on a 1335 Leicester North - Loughborough Service on 20/10/2019
A Denver to Kansas City track geometry rolls up the final stretch of double track as it enters Palmer Lake.
U-DENKCK5-17Z
Der Stahlpendel Gent Zeehaven - La Louvière fährt unregelmäßig an einigen Tagen in der Woche über die zweigleisige Dieselstrecke Gent - Zottegem - Geraardsbergen. So auch am Nachmittag des 23.04.2026 der von den Lineas HLD 7849 und 7715 gezogene Lastlauf 39741 nach La Louvière. Er konnte bei Gemeldorp, nördlich von Geraardsbergen, fotografiert werden.
The Gent Zeehaven–La Louvière steel shuttle runs irregularly on certain days of the week along the double-track diesel line between Gent, Zottegem, and Geraardsbergen. This was also the case on the afternoon of April 23, 2026, with freight train 39741 bound for La Louvière, hauled by Lineas HLD 7849 and 7715. It was photographed near Gemeldorp, north of Geraardsbergen.
ICG 9611 and three more GP38s roll an empty "Meat Train" westbound on the Portage - East Cabin (East Dubuque) double track in 1979.
Amtraks Carolina Piedmont train passes the restored passenger station in Salisbury, North Carolina on July 4, 2012. There are several railfans at street level who have done what my son and I did and left the NS Heritage event at the North Carolina Transportation Museum for a lunch and Amtrak break. The train is lead by RNCX 1810, an EMD F59PH.
(NS) 205 crosses the Cuyahoga River in downtown Cleveland, OH. with (NS) Heritage engine Monongahela leading the way.
The distributed power units on the rear of eastbound loaded coal train 74W leans into the super elevated curve on Main 1 east of Princeton, Indiana, as westbound vehicle train 239 arrives on Main 2.
In the southern portion of the Houston Terminal lies Double Track Jct, a busy little interlocking that sits between Old South Yard and New South Yard. BNSF owns both yards now, though Old South Yard was previously an HBT facility neighboring the Santa Fe's New South Yard. Double Track Jct is also where the East Belt and West Belt split for their routes around the Terminal.
Here, a trio of elephant-style CN GE's rolls southward on the West Belt at the junction. The three found themselves in service on the UP for a couple months paying back horsepower hours, here heading for far south Texas at Olmito, near Brownsville.
MEWOL 02 (Manifest- Englewood Yard [Houston] to Olmito, TX)
IC EF-644h #2715
CN EF-644j #2237
CN EF-644f #2693
Houston, TX
January 2nd, 2026
Ex Great Western Hall class No. 6990 Witherslack Hall departs Loughborough and heads underneath Beaches road bridge. The Hall was working the 09:00 Loughborough-Rothley service.
CN 8016 leads another of it's SD70M-2 kin down the 1.9% grade of Steelton Hill, between Nopeming Junction, and Steelton, MN, on CN's Superior Subdivision. This line was part of a large doubletrack and line revision project in 2015.
A recent work trip to the mid western United States gave me an opportunity to visit an area that I had never been, but have been keeping an eye on from afar for several years.
The Iron Range of Minnesota is home to some fascinating rail and shipping operations, featuring a the rail to ship 'conveyor belt' of taconite iron pellets being transported from the mines in the region to several ports on the north shore of Lake Superior, for forwarding to steel mills further east. Ever since CN purchased Great Lakes Transportation in 2004, including its rail properties, the Bessemer & Lake Erie, and Duluth Missabe & Iron Range, the area has become a haven for older second, and now third generation locomotives, toiling away likely the last years of their careers on a class 1 railway.
Due to work timing constraints, I only ended up with only a few scant hours in the region over two days, but I was determined to make the most of the that time shooting (hopefully) the 'older' power that I fondly remember plying the mainlines of North America in my youth.
The potential bonus of the timing of the trip was the potential for catching fall colours on the trees in the area. When researching the lines it became apparent right away that most of the photographic angles would have a very similar theme between them. Lineside shots, with the trains hemmed in by the deciduous forest, or shots from the numerous road overpasses. While the focus of my efforts would be documenting the last days of the locomotives, it would be a big bonus to have some colour on the trees to add interest to the potentially monotonous angles.
Unfortunately, unseasonably high temperatures delayed most of the trees from beginning the change in their leaves colours. Despite my best hopes, the timing of my trip was about a week or two too soon. In a weeks time, the trees would put on their show in proper, but that would be well after I had returned to the rainy northwest.
One of the best natural amphitheaters for railfanning I have ever encountered is Arizona's Crozier Canyon. Early on a July 1995 morning, a westbound Santa Fe intermodal train passes through, powered by a GP50 and a pair of GP60s.
UP's Tacoma to Chicago intermodal train ITAG3 28 is led by a nice SD70M as it struggles upgrade through Hermosa at sunset.
Union Pacific train ZLCG2 passes a stopped WB train in Omaha. The UP6706 is the last patched operating C&NW unit on UP's roster. The 30 year old units original paint is faded and the patch to cover the number on the right side of the carbody is worn off so the original C&NW 8804 number is now visible again on this AC44CW. An interesting comparison to the freshly outshopped GE rebuild on the left, which happens to be originally C&NW 8718, a C44-9W now rebuilt as an AC4400CWM.
At just 3 months old, UP 8957 is looking pretty sharp on the point of this frac sand train headed through southwest Houston. The train will be taking the Sunset Route to San Antonio to help feed the Eagle Ford shale region's big appetite for sand during the fracking boom of the early 2010's.
Also of note, a reactivated 90MAC was trailing 4th-out in this consist.
RCSCUS 19 (Rock- Norma, WI to Dabney, TX, Sand)
UP SD70AH #8957
UP C45ACCTE #7892
UP C45ACCTE #7881
UP SD90/43MAC #3633
(DPU) UP C44AC #7180
Stafford, TX
March 24th, 2015