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Welcome to Railroad Picture Archives!

Front Page Pic We are back online! Thank you for your patience as we had to recover for a major hardware failure. Good news is that we are running on newer and better servers which should be faster and more reliable. The bad news is that due to the nature of the hardware failure (physical hard drive crashes), we did suffer some data loss. We needed to use a specialized company to help recover some of the data, but even then some of it was corrupt due to the hard drive crash. If you notice some data missing (albums, photos, etc), please email me and I'll see what I can do. Most of the photos that you had uploaded previously are still available; however the picture title, dates, etc may need to get re-input.

*Note: If you see your photo on the site without a thumbnail or image, this does not mean your photo is lost. I am running a large sync job between an old and new server to copy these images over. Each day more and more of the missing thumbnails will appear. I am prioritizing data that was more recently input.

*Update: 12/17/2024 SSL is now active on the site. I will be adding a redirect rule in the future, but for now you can manually change over to https

*Update: 12/19/2024 Thumbnail/Image copies are still ongoing. Rollingstock taggings are the biggest gap right now. I am working on a couple of options to help restore these. Expect to see some movement here in the next day or two. Reach out if you have questions about your account!

*Update: 12/23/2024 Received a new file from the data salvage company. Restored A great deal of the missing Rollingstock/Picture taggings. I am expecting an updated file from them sometime after Christmas. Hopefully that will help fill in some additional blanks

This site contains a large collection of railroad pictures.  You will find photographs of many different railroads!   Browse the collection by locomotives present in the photograph, by the location the photograph was taken, or by locomotive model.  Visit the contributor sites to see the collection of an individual contributor.

Check out our interactive U.S. railroad map!  Each location a photograph was taken will appear on the map as a red dot.  You can zoom in and out to see detailed track configurations all across the U.S.  Registered users will have access to our U.S. Traffic Density map. Quickly find the busiest lines near you!

Traffic Density Map 2014 data update!  

newNew Feature: Heritage Units!  The locomotive search tool has been enhanced to support searching for heritage locomotives.  Follow the link to the locomotive search, type in heritage in the tag field and search!  More locomotive tags will be added in the future.

Want to contribute?  It's free!  First register for a user account by clicking on the 'Register' link on the left.  Once you have registered simply log into the site and click the Contribute link and follow the simple instructions!

The editors of this site will be selecting the best and most interesting photos as they come onto the site.  Each photo that is selected as an editors pick will have a red award icon visible on the top of the picture view page.  You can see the most recent editors picks by selecting the Editors' Picks link from the menu on the left.

You can see the contributor's favorite photos by going to the Contributor Picks link on the left.  On the Contributor's individual site, their picks will be accessible through the My Picks Link.  Each photo that is selected as an contributor pick will have a green award icon visible on the top of the picture view page.

Want to see the most recent photos added to the site all in one screen?  Click the Newest Photos at the top left and see all photos added to the site within a specified number of days.  This is a great way to see all of the newest photos on one page!

 
Select one of the links from the menu on the left to begin browsing the collection.
 
Site Stats
Photos: 5,093,338
Locomotives:  194,230
Rolling Stock:  1,345,555
Locations:  41,353
What's New?
New Photo Albums
Deleted
   -Added 1/8/2025 12:00:29 PM
ATSF Rare Mallets & Articulate Steam Locos
   -Added 1/8/2025 10:31:19 AM
Denmark 2024
   -Added 1/8/2025 10:30:32 AM
Spain: Barcelona trains
   -Added 1/8/2025 9:06:57 AM
ATSF 2-8-2 3193
   -Added 1/8/2025 6:52:27 AM
AM Alco C420 #46
   -Added 1/8/2025 6:29:11 AM
MILW 2-8-2 Mikados #425-449
   -Added 1/8/2025 5:18:04 AM
ICG
   -Added 1/7/2025 4:33:41 PM
Rock Island - Misc
   -Added 1/7/2025 2:46:02 PM
2024
   -Added 1/7/2025 1:37:39 PM
Housatonic Railroad, Canaan, CT October 2024
   -Added 1/7/2025 1:25:04 PM
Rochelle, IL
   -Added 1/7/2025 12:27:57 PM
2025 Railfanning
   -Added 1/7/2025 12:16:23 PM
Conrail GE U23 & U28 Locos
   -Added 1/7/2025 11:23:52 AM
National Rail Museum Portugal - restored photos and text
   -Added 1/7/2025 9:06:08 AM
Sunday afternoon at Dalton
   -Added 1/7/2025 6:59:14 AM
Conrail Alco Century Series - 1970's
   -Added 1/7/2025 6:09:31 AM
DL & NS Interchange, Portland, PA and surrounding area, Winter 2018
   -Added 1/6/2025 11:06:36 PM
Sept. 2024 in the Upper Midwest
   -Added 1/6/2025 9:53:12 PM
CSX Heritage units
   -Added 1/6/2025 8:14:09 PM
D&H - Misc
   -Added 1/6/2025 6:02:27 PM
SCL GP40 - C
   -Added 1/6/2025 2:58:05 PM
Portuguese Railways - restored photos
   -Added 1/6/2025 11:28:20 AM
Conrail B23-7's
   -Added 1/6/2025 10:53:55 AM
Conrail Tower - Porter, IN
   -Added 1/6/2025 8:05:32 AM
Southern Pacific In Oregon
   -Added 1/6/2025 6:44:11 AM
Conrail Tower, Wanatah, IN - 1977
   -Added 1/6/2025 6:18:39 AM
Holiday Themed Train Activities 2024 in NYC
   -Added 1/5/2025 9:32:54 PM
2025 Trains
   -Added 1/5/2025 9:24:04 PM
Last Train of 2024 NS 152
   -Added 1/5/2025 8:52:57 PM
Bad Weather Railfanning 12/29/24
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IARX
   -Added 1/5/2025 7:13:29 PM
CSX In Connellsville Area 2025 Set
   -Added 1/5/2025 6:38:36 PM
SYRX
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JOBX
   -Added 1/5/2025 5:49:51 PM
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Updated Photo Albums
Winter 2021 - 2022 locomotives
   -Updated 1/8/2025 12:36:14 PM
DL & NS Interchange, Portland, PA and surrounding area, Summer 2016
   -Updated 1/8/2025 12:33:33 PM
Freight Cars
   -Updated 1/8/2025 12:30:18 PM
December 2021 rolling stoc
   -Updated 1/8/2025 12:23:02 PM
Steve's Locomotive slides
   -Updated 1/8/2025 12:04:49 PM
BN/BNSF
   -Updated 1/8/2025 11:40:41 AM
Other
   -Updated 1/8/2025 11:26:02 AM
2024
   -Updated 1/8/2025 11:22:32 AM
ICG
   -Updated 1/8/2025 11:10:44 AM
Freight Cars
   -Updated 1/8/2025 10:52:36 AM
Chicago Commuter
   -Updated 1/8/2025 10:46:20 AM
DL & NS Interchange, Portland, PA and surrounding area, Winter 2018
   -Updated 1/8/2025 9:34:32 AM
Central Illinois Trip
   -Updated 1/8/2025 9:22:41 AM
Mid Missouri One Day...
   -Updated 1/8/2025 9:11:20 AM
March 2015
   -Updated 1/8/2025 8:44:44 AM
Southern Pacific In Oregon
   -Updated 1/8/2025 8:33:54 AM
Steve's Locomotives 2003 and newer
   -Updated 1/8/2025 8:16:44 AM
PRR: Pennsy Pix via French Mountain Traders (R)
   -Updated 1/8/2025 7:53:41 AM
Passenger Cars
   -Updated 1/8/2025 7:20:37 AM
Sunday afternoon at Dalton
   -Updated 1/8/2025 7:16:27 AM
PRR: Myers ~> "Electrified Operations"
   -Updated 1/8/2025 6:51:24 AM
Scanned Prints - NP
   -Updated 1/8/2025 4:50:09 AM
Scanned Prints - CB&Q
   -Updated 1/8/2025 4:50:00 AM
Scanned Prints - NYC
   -Updated 1/8/2025 4:49:52 AM
Blackhawk Films Set #947
   -Updated 1/8/2025 4:49:30 AM
Paul Frantz Collection - Union Pacific
   -Updated 1/8/2025 4:49:20 AM
Purchased Photos
   -Updated 1/8/2025 4:48:25 AM
Dick Kuelbs
   -Updated 1/8/2025 4:48:11 AM
Pullman Heavyweights
   -Updated 1/8/2025 4:47:59 AM
Paul Frantz Collection - Passenger Cars & Miscellaneous
   -Updated 1/8/2025 4:44:56 AM
Randy Curlin Collection 16
   -Updated 1/8/2025 1:17:54 AM
Norfolk Southern The Thoroughbred of Transportation
   -Updated 1/8/2025 12:29:52 AM
KCSM 4548 Northbound on CSX River Line
   -Updated 1/8/2025 12:01:32 AM
NJT Erie Heritage
   -Updated 1/7/2025 11:53:55 PM
PRR: Byerly ~> "Electric Railroading" (R)
   -Updated 1/7/2025 11:35:03 PM
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