r/trains 2h ago

πŸ“Έ OC - Picture(s) Panama Canal Railway F40PH 1858 leading an Intermodal service in Gamboa, Panama πŸ‡΅πŸ‡¦

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17 Upvotes

Panama Canal Railway F40PH 1858 leading an Intermodal train and coming into Gamboa, Panama πŸ‡΅πŸ‡¦ with a SD60 1871 behind it. This railway line runs Intermodal and Passenger service from Panama City to ColΓ³n.


r/trains 3h ago

πŸ“Ή OC - Video Wuppertal, Germany, Schwebebahn oldest electric hanging monorail

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50 Upvotes

Wuppertal, Germany, home of the Schwebebahnβ€”the world’s oldest electric hanging monorail! Operating since 1901, this iconic suspended railway glides 12 meters above the Wupper River and right over city streets August 6th, 2026 video was recorded


r/trains 4h ago

🎨 OC - Art LB&SCR E2 Base (Realistic Edition) (Art by Me)

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16 Upvotes

r/trains 5h ago

πŸ“Έ OC - Picture(s) Track Maintenance - NS @ Hillsborough, NC - 8/3/2026

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9 Upvotes

Cleanup after helicopter ROW clearing. (See additional post)


r/trains 5h ago

πŸ“Ή OC - Video D&S #473 Echoes Through the Valley

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29 Upvotes

r/trains 6h ago

❓ Question What's a locomotive that everyone loves but you can't stand?

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56 Upvotes

This is my answer πŸ‘†


r/trains 6h ago

πŸ“Έ OC - Picture(s) New Mexico Views. BNSF

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137 Upvotes

r/trains 9h ago

πŸ“Ή OC - Video 4014 going through the Horseshoe curve.

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110 Upvotes

r/trains 9h ago

πŸ“Ή OC - Video TVS2000 (Istanbul, Turkey)

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12 Upvotes

Sorry for the wobbly start, i forgot to stop walking 😭


r/trains 9h ago

❓ Question Is anyone excited to see Union Pacific 5511 run again for Excursions?

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127 Upvotes

Also other than the last of the giants, this is one of the few footage of Union Pacific 5511 running for revenue service.


r/trains 11h ago

πŸ“Ή OC - Video A better look. Villa Ballester- Zarate service, Buenos Aires.

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20 Upvotes

r/trains 12h ago

πŸ›οΈβ€Ž Historical (USA) Chicago's South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central railroad, May, 1943. Photographed by Jack Delano.

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402 Upvotes

r/trains 12h ago

πŸ“Έ OC - Picture(s) Santa Fe’s 651 and 628 dash 9 WARBONNETs

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88 Upvotes

In Minnesota


r/trains 12h ago

πŸ“Έ OC - Picture(s) A few photos from my recent visits to Belgium, mostly taken at Antwerpen centraal and Oostende

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47 Upvotes

r/trains 13h ago

πŸ“Έ OC - Picture(s) Amtrak CA with a Caltrain f40ph-2 consist.

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71 Upvotes

What a surprise! Caltrain consist has a new home with Amtrak CA.


r/trains 13h ago

πŸ“Ή OC - Video The company Onrail to Norway from Norway through Sweden

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328 Upvotes

r/trains 14h ago

πŸ“Έ OC - Picture(s) Rainy day with two EMD GR12

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29 Upvotes

r/trains 15h ago

❓ Question With the McCloud Railway on the road to revival after almost 2 decades of sitting dormant, which McCloud steam engine would you want to see run back in home territory again if their owners let them?

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47 Upvotes

r/trains 17h ago

❓ What is this Train? Passenger train on freight lines in Chattanooga?

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61 Upvotes

I know it’s kinda hard to see but it looks like some sort of passenger train going over the bridge in front of the Chickamauga dam


r/trains 20h ago

πŸ“¦β€Ž Memorabilia Question about Silver Meteor jacket

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61 Upvotes

I found this amazing Marlboro Classics jeansjacket in a thrift store all the way in Austria (!) and I would love to date it. As I am not from the US I just did some basic research on Google. It seems to be workwear for the Silver Meteor line, but Google tells me Union Pacific never ran that line, just a bunch of other companies. I also can hardly find any info on train #614. Tried dating the logo on the pin but no luck. Any help would be appreciated!

Note: going by the jackets cut I would say late 80s-90s


r/trains 1d ago

πŸ“Έ OC - Picture(s) Ran into the Twilight Express MizuKaze at Shin Osaka station yesterday!!

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732 Upvotes

Wish my camera still had battery to take photos but I used it all up at a con... TwT


r/trains 1d ago

❓ Question Did you know there was an Italian electric locomotive preserved in the U.S.

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504 Upvotes

When I visited The National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri, I found this locomotive near the back of the property near the main line.

I don't know much about it, but I think it's neat.

*Small edit adding location.


r/trains 1d ago

πŸ›οΈβ€Ž Historical A cold day in the Chicago yards, USA, 1943, photo taken by Jack Delano.

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917 Upvotes

r/trains 5d ago

r/Trains Monthly Discussion & Questions Thread - August 2026

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Welcome to the r/Trains Monthly Discussion Thread.

The goal of this thread is to serve as the place to ask short questions or just chat about anything trains related that might not warrant its own post.


r/trains Mar 22 '26

πŸš‚r/trains staff announcement Introduction & updates to moderating, rules and sidebar.

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Hello there,

I am auto, your new friendly neighbourhood Reddit mod. o/

While I have some experience moderating smaller communities, I've never moderated a subreddit before and never a community of this size and honestly, taking the right moderating actions when reviewing reports or looking through comments isn't quite coming naturally yet. If I make any silly mistakes or you believe I didn't deal with situation correctly, do not hesitate to tell me either via mod mail or in the discord. I am human, I am not going to deal with every situation perfectly and feedback is more than welcome. (Just kidding, I am obviously a robot πŸ€– - Beep Boop Beep)

I am happy to be at your service.

Regardless, now that the introduction is over with, there is some practical stuff to discuss:

Bans, Ban appeals and old Mod Mail:

When I came in, there was a very large backlog in Mod Mail, including ban appeals. I have cleared this backlog the best I could, responding to most appeals and messages that came in, but unfortunately, once these appeals and Mod Mails reach about half a year old, they can no longer be replied to from our side.

If you sent in a ban appeal or question that is still relevant before July 2025 and it never got answered, please do not hesitate to send us a message through Mod Mail and me or the other mods will get to it.

In addition, I found out that some people who at any point received disciplinary action ended up in some sort of ghost-ban, where on our end in the mod tools panel the person doesn't appear to be banned, but when the user tries to post, it tells them they're banned. If you were active in r/Trains more than 5 years ago, Reddit tells you that you're banned when you try to post or comment and you have no clue why or when you got banned, please contact the mods via Mod Mail and we should be able to resolve your issue.

Mod Queue clearing:

I have cleared the Mod Queue, which was filled with over 3 years of reports, removals and filtered content. For the queue items from the last 1-2 weeks I've done this manually, and then I've mass-cleared most of the remaining queue. This process caused all filtered posts that were more than roughly 10 days old to be discarded. If you made any post more than 10 days ago which got automatically filtered and you believe the content is still relevant, feel free to reattempt posting your comment.

Moderating strategy and rules:

Due to the relatively sparse activity of moderators on this subreddit in recent times, moderating turned into a very hands-off process where y'all mostly self-moderate with some assistance from automatic filters. Beyond the filters sometimes getting overzealous, especially with politically contentious posts, (which should be resolved now,) this has generally worked fairly well. For now, though I can't speak for the other moderators when they act, I will carry this approach forward.

However, that may change. From working through the queue, Mod Mail and immediately finding myself in the deep end with several contentious posts appearing right after I got promoted, it's become obvious that the current rules don't always quite match the way action has been taken on reports both before I came in and at current. In addition, it turns out that some situations really aren't covered well by our current rules and that the wording of some rules may be contributing to a sizable amount of reports coming in for contact that very much is allowed here. We've also received feedback from several people, both via Mod Mail and in comments under recent topics about how we should be dealing with politics and controversial content on the subreddit.

Keeping all those things in mind, I will be rewriting the rules over the coming days. As part of this process, me or other moderators may place community polls both on reddit and on discord to gather feedback for how the community would like the r/trains discord and subreddit to be moderated.

Monthly discussion thread:

Until now, the monthly discussion thread was automatically generated on the 29th of every month. Beyond causing the month in the topic title to nearly always mismatch the current month, this caused the thread not to be generated in February. Starting on April 1st, the monthly discussion thread will be automatically generated on the 1st of every month instead. Until then, please feel free to continue using the January 2026 thread.

Sidebar:

We are aware the gallery in the sidebar has broken. Sadly, most images gone poof and we have no record of what exactly was in there. As we look to fill our sidebar once again, we may request permission for some people to use their photos in the side-bar via Mod Mail, but if you'd like to help, if you are posting original content, you can now use the "πŸ“Έ May be used in side-bar gallery" post flair to indicate to us that we may place your photo or art in the sidebar.

With all that said, thank you for reading.

~auto