AVR SD60M 6002 slows as it approaches the NS Island Avenue Yard, rolling through "The Trench" in Pittsburgh, PA.

Late night fog starts to roll in over Tehachapi Pass as the headlights, and ETD, from a northbound BNSF train illuminate hillside of Marcel.

I happened to be in Moab, UT when a friend reminded me that the once a week UP potash local runs on a Friday, wait thats today! All my previous plans for the day were now pushed to the side as I h... (more)

Desert dawn on the D&RG. With a layer of mid-level clouds lighting up in spectacular fashion by the approaching sunrise, a Denver & Rio Grande passenger extra charges west over Ferguson's T... (more)

CPs OCS train heads west across the bridge approaching Otter Tail east.

With a large lightning storm overhead, the Tuscola-based 200 job power sits quiet for the night.

On its trip back west, the Big Boy 2021 Tour makes a stop in Kirkwood, Missouri in front of the iconic ex-Missouri Pacific passenger depot.

Along the Columbia River Gorge at sunrise on the Fallbridge Subdivision a loaded westbound Coal move rolls into Home Valley Wa.

Norfolk & Western's well known class "J" 4-8-4 No. 611 captured on the year of her retirement pulling a manifest freight westbound through Bristol, VA. Plans call for the locomotive to be moved u... (more)

A clerk for the N&W Railraod holds up trainorders for the fireman of No. 611 as the crew prepares for departure.

Roosters get a day off at Verdant View Farm as the "Queen of Steam" welcomes daybreak with an impressive plume and a hearty whistle!

Little Depot in the Sky

A top the highest active railroad in the United States is the Cumbres Depot, nee Section House, straddling the divide at Cumbres Pass, elevation 10,015 fe... (more)

CSX #3232 leads a westbound empty coal hopper train through Thurmond, WV on the spring morning of May 18, 2021. The town was founded by W.D. Thurmond in 1873 when the former Civil War Confederate ... (more)

Out of the Light and Into the Darkness. As the early morning sun breaks the night, NS 203 heads down the Southern Main through Beaumont and into Magnolia on its way south.

Mother Nature serves up another spectacular golden Colorado sunrise as the California Zephyr passes through the trees east of Keenesburg, Colorado.