Tucked back in a mountain crevice deep in the Eastern Kentucky coalfields, a creech mine run loads coal at the infamous Creech loadout in Harlan county. The old Mary Helen Coal Corp company store ... (more)

Rio Grande Heritage

The lines of our heritage hang loosely connected to infinity; relics from the last century scattered and disconnected. The stories these code line poles cou... (more)

A long way from home. On a summer afternoon, Eureka & Palisade #4 "Eureka" charges across the 1887-vintage, wrought iron trestle at Tefft (MP 477.80), as she makes her way south t... (more)

BNSF 5930 (ES44AC) shoves an empty train to the east as a bright and colorful sunrise washes the farm fields with an orange glow.

A bitter cold winter day has caused a rail break on the Wisconsin Central main line entering Shops Yard near the Subway Road grade crossing at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on December 11, 1994. T... (more)

During the last seconds of sunlight, BNSF 7081 grinds up the grade through the tight curves at Daze on the BNSF Phoenix sub in Arizona.

Relief train 455 (running on sight before train 455) from Grindelwald Grund to Kleine Scheidegg below Salzegg, with the Schwarzhoren on the left and the Wetterhorn on the right. Cogwheel railcar B... (more)

Tunnel District A very heavy westbound manifest for Grand Junction, Colorado crawls thru the most challenging portion of the Moffat Road. There is no place else on the Moffat Road that ch... (more)

CSXT 3082 Leads Eastbound at 8:30pm with a beautiful crazy sky in the background and grain elevators in the scene

As a large thunderstorm rolls east along the plains of Colorado in the background, BNSF 3933 leads the Denver, CO to Provo, UT manifest up and around Big Ten Curve after overtaking a westbound UP ... (more)

The sun tries to break through on a snowy morning in the mountains of Colorado as Union Pacific’s Denver to Grand Junction freight, led by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 149, rumbles through C... (more)

The beauty of Monsoon season. An extremely slow day on the Lordsburg ended with a massive severe thunderstorm developing over the Benson area. This cell continued to grow and grow until it was ove... (more)

That's How I Got To Memphis. The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) was to some extent predetermined to see its own demise. The three Gomaco built Birney Streetcar replicas have been vers... (more)

Up and over. New York & Atlantic Railway matched Progress Rail PR20Bs 300 and 301 lead local job RS-20 down the Long Island Railroad Bushwick Branch on the morning of Sunday, December 31, 2017. At... (more)

The fields of gold sunflowers are glowing in the evening sun east of Roggen, CO on a hot late summer August evening. One of the many empty coal moves flies eastward for its return to the mines.