An eastbound Southern Pacific manifest freight grinds uphill climbing Tennessee Pass and crosses the Eagle River approaching Pando, Colorado, on August 2, 1996. Not only does the train have to fig... (more)

CSX B727 heads from Middleboro to Taunton after a nor'easter dumping snow in New England.

Amtrak Regional 156 crosses the James River after leaving Lynchburg, VA on the morning of Sunday, November 24, 2019 with P42DC 130 (Phase II) in the lead. The side view shows the persepctive of t... (more)

The sun has just crested the top of the mountains in the Shenandoah Valley at Stuarts Draft as NS 15T makes every bit of track speed enroute for Roanoke on its way to Alabama.

"Steel Horizon": The jointed rails across "The Flats" of the Strasburg Rail Road beamed as Norfolk & Western #611 raced west on the morning of October 5, 2019. With every turn ... (more)

Shortly after sunrise the "HST 125" train of Scotrail with diesel power cars of class 43 # 158 in front and another in the rear, is crossing the 2523 meter long Forth Bridge between Quee... (more)

"May I Never Wake Up from The American Dream" The shot I never saw coming, has found its way to the top of my personal favorites. Wandering between photo scenes, I joined a small grou... (more)

On a cold November morning, Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr races out of the fog in Tonville, CO with the Phase IV and Phase III heritage units 184 and 822 leading the train on November 5th... (more)

Moments before sunset on October 10, 2019, an eastbound BNSF grain empty crosses the long bridge over Lake Pend Oreille at Sandpoint, Idaho.

MILW 164 leads a mix of SD40-2s and SD10s on a dead freight east as the train eases through downtown street running trackage through Renton, WA. The first leg of the trip east used Pacific Coast R... (more)

A westbound BNSF stack train crosses Goat Lick Trestle along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River just east of Essex amid the golden colors of autumn in Montana’s Glacier National Park country ... (more)

Patience is a Virtue

A short, unidentified intermodal train fills the center arc of the Horseshoe Curve above Altoona, PA. On the east leg, if you squint hard enough, you'll see the ... (more)

Few things can make a freight train look small. The 11,370ft John T. Collinson Bridge is one of those things. Here FURX 7156 leads a freight east across Escambia Bay on the bridge en-route to Tall... (more)