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

With the sun still below the horizon, a southbound hotshot intermodal cuts its way through the thick fog draped over upstate South Carolina as it makes its way toward Atlanta, crossing over the S... (more)

Night is falling at 5.20 PM in the Albula valley, when "Allegra" railcar ABe 8/12 # 3502 is pulling the six panorama cars of the BERNINA EXPRESS (BEX 950) from Tirano to Chur over the 65 metre hig... (more)

BNSF 7418 leads the Q-RICALT at Sandcut, CA on Union Pacific's Mojave Sub.

Last Light at Miller's Wash

Sometimes you just have to put the camera down and take it all in - fortunately, I did not take that advice for this double-header runby of Grand Canyon's excu... (more)

The day is almost over as the Provo-Lincoln manifest races through the small town of Roggen, Colorado on March 30, 2018. This is the second of four eastbounds that the westbound coal load in the b... (more)

After taking the first cut of loaded coal hoppers to a siding near Mount Hope, a pair of run-through CSX motors return light to Pax to pick up another loaded of coal on R.J. Corman's Loup Creek Br... (more)

Hogwarts express: in reality railjet 758, bound for Vienna. Spoiler: it's ironic, that You can find platform 9-3/4 at Wien Hbf. Photo taken near Breitenstein, while crossing the shortest tunnel of... (more)

With very special thanks to David Blazejewski and Frank Keller - this has to be THE highlight photo of the trip and the one that was the goal. At 0116 hrs on March 14 - the early portion of our 4... (more)

Silhouette at Miller Wash

A silhouette, twice as nice, with both Grand Canyon 2-8-0 #29 and 2-8-2 #4960. Photo ops abound at Miller Wash in Coconino County, AZ, some 36 miles north of Wi... (more)

A spectacular sunset explodes in the western sky behind UP Train 2CNRFG 04 passing over Santa Fe Jct. on the KCT Kaw River Bridge High Line. This would have been fine without the train, but sure,... (more)

The last wave of snow falls over the college town of Flagstaff, Arizona as CSX to BNSF interchanged stack train rumbles up the grade to the 7,335 foot high summit of the Arizona Divide along the B... (more)

A northbound empty coal train is silhouetted by a stormy sunrise south of Bill, Wyoming, where coal and oil mix, and the antelope and jack rabbit population far exceeds humans. The SD70MAC is serv... (more)

The sun peeks out as a round of thunderstorms move northeast over the Denver Metro Area in the background while the RBBB Circus Train led by Union Pacific SD70M No. 5092 climbs the 2-percent grade... (more)