The second Mt Rainier Scenic Railroad's triple header excursion featuring the recently restored Willamette. In fact, she's not quite finished. That's not a stainless steel boiler jacket, it's ju... (more)

A Trona bound coal train rolls through Saltdale on Union Pacific's Lone Pine Branch shortly before beginning the climb for the last 20 miles to Searles, and the junction with the Trona Railway.

JR Hokkaido Niseko Liner departing Ginzan Station on the Hakodate Line on a spring evening in 2007. The six-car train of KiHa 201 DMUs is running from Sapporo to Kutchan, mainly with homebo... (more)

The Tay Bridge is the longest railway bridge in the UK at just over two miles. The structure seen here is the second attempt at bridging the estuary, the first famously collapsed during a violent ... (more)

Blizzard conditions & near zero visibility this morning as D&H 252 dashes through snow drifts near the Canada/U.S border. Thanks to my reliable "oil burner" Ford F350...

An early snow storm coats the fall foilage with a fresh blanket of snow as an eastbound loaded coal train eases into the 2.2% grade of The Slide.

One of the final runbys on the John Craft (Historic Preservation Charter) was taken at King Road. The weather early on that day was not looking promising but we all decided to stay around and ende... (more)

The Scranton dispatcher and a hanging fern enjoy the warmth of the tower while 467 shivers in the first snow of the year. See William's version here. [photoid=296633]

One of the undoubted highlights of my visit to Fuxin was the early morning 'paddy' train transporting miners to Minzhu mine on the eastern outskirts of Fuxin. On a perfect, crystal clear and still... (more)

Just after sun-down, with rain falling an UP mixed freight is working westbound deep in the Blues. The headlights of this GE C44ACTE are lighting up the forest. making for an unique low light i... (more)

The colour of the landscape resembled a painting. Passenger train (39515) departs Bakonyszentlászló. The M41 2156 locomotive push the train to Győr station in the late afternoon in Januar... (more)

A BNSF freight heads into Pasco, WA as morning mist rises off the Columbia River.

A museum piece. Red signals barely visible against the red Eastern Washington sky. For the engineer of BNSF 7531, reds, blues, and blacks are broken from the light of an oncoming manifest w... (more)

As the morning fog begins to lift, the westbound Z train climbs the grade out of Coldstream Canyon at Andover.

Gone but not forgotten, this long string of Conrail boxcars rots away on the abandoned tracks at Rose yard.