Lets See Your Best Real Train Pictures

I took this Illinois Terminal in Madison IL. This past November one of my favorites 

Here are a few that my father took around Roanoke, Va. back in August 1923.

Scott Smith

Caught some excursion trains while hiking in the White Mountains area of New Hampshire.

Compound Mallet pusher shoving hard on the BR&P, c.1930:

Dad took this pic and from his position he was standing in the vestibule of the last car on his work train. Note the Hack behind, which was made SOP on the BR&P after a Mallet squashed one of those old wood-framed Crummies.  

A nice photo of a perfect train:

Another favorite only for it's poignancy, the same spot on the EBT a year after the last train ran. 

These were last October at Strasburg, and it was dynamite. I shot a bunch of pictures, but I like these out of what I shot.

Back in the 1960's when the CB&Q would run excursions out of Chicago, I lived in Berwyn and would photograph both 4960, a 2-8-2, that is still in operation today at the Grand Canyon RR and also the famous 4-8-4 5632, went down to the scrappers torch in the 70's.

Here is one of my favorite shots at the Berwyn station, with 4960 making a pick up stop on the why west to Aurora.

RAY

Some nice shots here.  I’ve never really thought about which ones are my best train shots so I’ll just add a few that I like.  SMS Baldwin DS4-4-750 and Strasburg number 90.

Here are a few more images for you all. Hope you enjoy them... 

The BEAUTIFULLY restored FP45 at the Southern California Railway Museum (previously O.E.R.M.) basking in the late evening light... 

A foreign leader in San Timoteo Canyon as KCS 3936 heads west near El Casco with stacks in tow...

A relatively new UP #2583 slips past MOW equipment at El Casco in San Timoteo Canyon at daybreak... 

A Union Pacific Officer Special heads up Cajon between Verdemont and Devore with UP #1943 leading the way. The train is about to cross over the top of the 'Mother Road' Route 66...

UP #844 backs out of Yermo, CA and into a cloud of cylinder steam...

more Strasburg

One more from me. Don

These are two of my favorites. I took the first photo on a Carl Franz charter at the WMSR in the early 2000's. The second I took at the TVRM in October 2018.

Do compressed air locomotives count? Taken at Ft. Steele, BC. 

sidehack posted:

more Strasburg

The PRR Railroad Museum is certainly a gift. Close enough to enjoy every now and then.  And as many times as I have seen GG1s in action, statically and in photos, 4935 painted in it's original colors, save the authentic gold leaf, I still view them as a masterful work of art.  

Fuzz, anything that pulls a trains counts. Don

My wife and I pass by these on our way home from the Lancaster area. They sit on a siding on PA Rte 895 south of Lebanon. I can't remember the name of the town. I had a camera, so we stopped and I took a few pics.

Great stuff guys 

How do you follow Eric Lindgren.    But took these summer ‘18 by the Kincade Power plant.  This SD70MAC #9695, born in Nov 1995, served the power plant with coal.  It even still appears in google maps.

Thanks for posting Ted. It's been a long time since I've went by the power plant at Ellis station on the old C&IM.

Rusty

#614 at Somerset, Pa:

Dad took this pic of me studying a T1. It reminds me of a Norman Rockwell:

I took this pic at Virginia City, Montana:

Snapped this one while biking the Great Allegheny Passage up out of Cumberland:

Took this one at the Mouse:

Yup...It’s one of my favorites...🚂

One happy engineer. SP 2472

Don

I bet I'm happier!

A few of mine from over the years.  Most of these are likely reposts but it's been a while.  Wish I would eventually get around to scanning my 35mm and medium format chromes from my film days too. 

My first train photo at age 13 at Little Silver NJ during the summer of 1982 when NJT was running a Matawan to Long Branch shuttle that consisted of an E8 on each end of the train and three coaches in the middle.  This was done during the expansion of electrification to Matawan from South Amboy.  I have a few rolls of film sitting around from this summer that captured a lot of classic NJT operations that no longer exist.

Powder River Basin in the Summer of 2006.

Abandoned segment of track south of Ajo, AZ and on a military bombing range from 2005.

Former Reading MU car rusting on the Pacific Ocean in Fort Bragg, CA 2005

Inside of a former UP wooden caboose (CA-1 maybe) at a ghost town in Nevada, 2005.

A cloud day at the Grand Canyon Railway, 2007

TCA Desert Division trip to Globe in 2011 during a brief period when the Arizona Eastern was part of SLSG (?) prior to the Genessee and Wyoming takeover.  The train consisted of a former C&NW E9, former ATSF Great Dome, and a former IC observation lounge.

My favorite shot of UP 844 when it came to AZ in 2011.

Misc. Amtrak between 2014 and 2016 on the Keystone Corridor and NE Corridor.

BNSF in Flagstaff, 2017.

Black Mesa and Lake Powell E60C in Williams, AZ awaiting construction of the Arizona Railway Museum someday, 2017.

Grafton & Upton "Plow Extra" southbound trying to clear the line post-blizzard February 11th, 2013...

G&U northbound at same location (nicer weather!) on July 30th, 2013...

Additional shots below.

These are neither my best, nor worse - but they are mine. Hope you enjoy.

Paul

July in New Hampshire; last post was October in Paradise (PA)

Delmarva Central RR - October in Dover, De

Lew, this picture is priceless. Hope you have it hanging on a wall. Don

Times gone by!

I saw this in Suffern, NY earlier this month.

Long gone now.

Coaling tower on the old PRR Pittsburgh-Buffalo Mainline, just North of Redbank:

Obviously now a Railtrail. A bit further North is Brady's Bend tunnel:

This is Brady's Bend:

The railroad followed the river so a tunnel was driven under the narrow neck of land (constituting an ancient buried meander) thus shortening the route by several miles. Notice Phillipston (lower right quadrant on the map). This is the turntable at Phillipston yard:

My former CNJ GP40P photos when they were recently repainted into NJT and still had steam boilers.  The Pony Express sitting outside of Monmouth Park in 1982.  Not the best quality photos as the camera was an all plastic 35mm with a fixed plastic 50mm lens that was a gift from my grandparents.  Like its medium format cousin the Holga, it had light leaks.  I was 13 when I took these.

Santa Fe weed killer train. There was a string of tank cars behind. Took this sometime I think in the 1980's. Wonder where that old loco is now. Don

scale rail posted:

Santa Fe weed killer train. There was a string of tank cars behind. Took this sometime I think in the 1980's. Wonder where that old loco is now. Don

It's not a locomotive, it's a converted baggage car outfitted with spraying apparatus.  The weed sprayer train is pushed by regular diesels.

Rusty