Northbound Cedar River local works towards the next stop at St Ansgar as the sun peaks over the morning clouds. This job today has what getting to be an unusual consist for Iowa. IC 6201 has been... (more)

Frost covers most everything this morning as the 277 train bound for Huron, SD glides through the scenic Lake Benton area. The fog let just enough sun in to give the scene a pink tint.

Eureka on the High Bridge. A late August afternoon finds the 1875-vintage Eureka & Palisade Number 4 hauling a passenger extra across the famous High Bridge above the Animas River at Tacoma... (more)

Foss River Bridge; Amtrak number 8 lights up the snowy valley as it makes it way east up the 2.2% grade on Stevens Pass. Taken during the annual Tracks in the Snow Event with fellow RPix co... (more)

Another and last "moonscape" shot at Ludlow. My long day was closing. Note that this is the same train as #385339.

All was absolutely still and overnight mists still lingered. At 0700 the sun was yet to rise in Jingpeng valley. A rising crescendo of sound from an unseen source was building until - finally, th... (more)

East bound double stack receives the last ray of sunlight as it navigates the curves at Ludlow.

Nothing quite evoked the word 'atmosphere' as much as when the great wooden barn doors were opened for us at Huludao MPD to reveal this glorious sight. The soft sighing of locomotives in light ste... (more)

Pere Marquette #1225 leads a hot shot early morning westbound freight just before sunrise under a dramatic Michigan sky. Taken nearly four years back, this is one engine and a fine crew that I mi... (more)

Late fall along the Connecticut River Valley finds a normally lush, green landscape rather brown and barren. The leaves have largely departed from the trees and even though its not quite 3... (more)

In the days when I used fil. Cochrane heads up to Andrews House with last train of the day

The 491 heads west toward Glenwood, MN as the sky catches fire from a chilly, late fall sunrise.

Hogback- CP trains 801 and 280 meet at speed on a hogback east of Columbus Wisconsin, on the CP Watertown sub.. 801 is an empty train of BNBX coke hoppers, powered by a pair of INRD 90mac's, heade... (more)

Abandoned and forlorn along the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake, a former Salt Lake Garfield & Western interurban car rusts away along the briny waters of the lake, some 15 miles west of dow... (more)

The classical double departure of two steam trains from Alexisbad has been recreated during Bernd Seiler's tour to the Harz last winter. On the right, 99 5901 is storming up towards Harzgerode. On... (more)