High above the Shasta Valley, the northbound Coast Starlight crosses Dry Canyon in summer 1994. An Amtrak engineer once told me that if the signals were all green and the train was making track sp... (more)

In 1987-1988, Southern Pacific closed the Modoc Line to through traffic. If the Modoc had been open, this EURGM would have been closing in on Alturas. Instead, the train is crossing Dry Canyon Via... (more)

UP 8995 (SD70AH) muscles an oil can train past a BNSF freight train Tolland, Colorado.

A UP oil can train meets the BNSF Denver to Provo train led by BNSF 9295 (SD70ACe) which occupies the siding at Tolland, Colorado.

TCRX 800129 is one of three pullman cars made for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, which existed from 1900 to 1967. These specially designed cars which ran on the Silver Meteor trains from New York... (more)

Steel freight Desertu-Trasona at Subijana Pass.

A loaded export coal train passes by an old quarry in Ellett, VA along the Whitethorne district.

Mountain congestion: intermodal NS 273 heads west up Christiansburg grade with a single C6M for power. The manifest is stopped, and will be for a while longer. The signals ahead of the trains is c... (more)

There Goes The Last DJ...

The last hurrah for coal burning on the Durango and Silverton as K-36, #481 takes charge of the 2024 Winter Photographer's Train for what will be the ... (more)

One of the last patched SP AC4400's leads an eastbound ZLAMQ as it nears the top of the climb up Beaumont Hill.

Light snow is falling as the California Zephyr runs through Rainbow Cut at Plainview, Colorado.

A quartet of grimy Southern Pacific SDs roll through the Devil's Garden. This area is a lava flow created by eruptions of nearby Mount Shasta.

MEC 7655 leads EDRJ west through Pownal

Just after sunrise, the northbound Coast Starlight rolls through the Devil's Garden. This area is a lava flow created by eruptions of nearby Mount Shasta.

In the Qinling Mountains on a clear winter day, passenger trains pass through rime-covered mountains. Trains spiral up the mountains, where only more locomotives can pull the train over the Qinlin... (more)