It's officially spring but there is still plenty of ice in the harbor as Minnesota experiences a colder than normal spring. The shipping season is well underway though as two ships and one train ... (more)

Los Angeles Railway Car #525 [OERM Collection] - Car 525 is the subject of our night photography seminar put on by Steve Crise at the Orange Empire Rail Museum. OERM is a wonderful plac... (more)

Through the mist... Backwoods of central Russia in Tver region. Local time 4-30 AM. The train appears out of the mist breaking the silence and tranquility. TEP70 locomotive with p... (more)

David and 525 - David, the volunteer motorman for our night photography seminar put on by Steve Crise at the Orange Empire Rail Museum pulls down the rope connected to the trolley pole ... (more)

Freeze Frame! Acela Express # 2013 is seen here captured during a series of high speed test runs at 12:27 AM, on a Thursday morning. This was the Holy Grail shot that I thought I'... (more)

Two heritage units for an oil train: Central of Georgia 8101, NS 1037, and Nickel Plate Road 8100 leads train 64R across Shermans Creek in Duncannon, with another train full of North Dakota Bakken... (more)

A couple of old DM&IR M.o.W. carts rest near the end of the track while a 120 car string of old DM&IR quad sets rest waiting for warmer weather and the return (hopefully) to BFT service.

East Siberia by Moonlight - A BNSF stack train rolls through the curve just East of WBCS East Siberia on the Needles Subdivision.

Breaking the still of the night, the New York Central heritage unit leads crude oil train 64W past the historic depot in Waterloo. The depot was built in 1883 by the Lake Shore & Michigan Souther... (more)

It's just after sunrise as a southbound Laurel, MT to Denver, CO Manifest led by two BN painted SD70MACs rolls on through Longmont as they are about to pass the old Colorado and Southern depot tha... (more)

DM&IR 403 has already gone by heading towards Two Harbors with steaming taconite pellets and the F.R.E.D. is following along in it's tracks.

A quiet night at the Georgetown VIA Station with only one late night train arriving tonight.

Shortly after sunset, BNSF 4889 pulls through Sandcut.

Crank up the heat. The Strasburg Railroad's night hostler "dials up the thermostat" with a shovelful of the coal to keep the engine house bearable on a chilly February evening. Although th... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal train departs Laurel, Montana, at 5:45 p.m. on the eve of January 27, 2013. Snow has been falling for a while, blanketing the scene with cast that can only happen during win... (more)