After spending most of the day climbing the Rocky Mountains, Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr begins the descent down to Denver after emerging from the east portal of the 6.2 mile long Moffat ... (more)

TGor eases the 710 out of the Missionary Ridge Tunnel on cool summer day. June 2020

Out of the Maw

Winter Dreamscape - Part 2

The prior Saturday I got this amazing image at State Line Tunnel: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/680266/

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January in Colorado is one of the sunniest months. On February 2 some of that sun has carried over a couple days as a eastbound grain empty exits Tunnel 1 on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. This da... (more)

BNSF train C-SXMRBG3-53 emerges from the Fallbridge Subdivision’s Tunnel 11. The volcanic rock through which this tunnel was bored is so stable that the typical portals and lining were not need... (more)

GSMR 711 heads west to milepost 47 to receive the railroad's newest aquisition- an Amtrak diner coach. Here the locomotive runs light through a tunnel of trees just past the Dillsboro yard.

Canadian National GE C44-9WL No. 2505 pops out of the 591-foot tunnel at mile 33.4 just west (south) of Robb, Alberta, on August 8, 2016.

Capitol Limited - 29 Approaches Harpers ferry for it's scheduled stop.

Both sides of the tunnel.... Wish I could have caught the Big Boy and company here. Pretty good eats across the Interstate at Taggart's Grill.

The silence and solitude of night in rural Appalachia is briefly disrupted as 79K exits the west portal of Natural Tunnel near Duffield, VA on May 22nd, 2019. Minutes later, the sounds of a mounta... (more)

Moffat and Rollins- With eastbound coal snaking out of the 6.2 mile long Moffat Tunnel, one can't help but marvel at the sheer size of the mountains here. With the former grade of the lin... (more)

NS 799 exits Natural Tunnel with a pair of matching BNSF GE's leading an empty hopper train bound for Andover.

On June 16, 2001, a summertime run of Ansco’s Rio Grande Ski Train passes through 75-foot Tunnel 29 westbound just east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s scenic former Rio Grande Mof... (more)

The month of March is going out like a lion in northeast Ohio as three to five inches of snow has fallen overnight covering the area. Pottersburg, OH to North Bergen, NJ rack train Q262 pops out o... (more)

The DPU on CSX Q542 shoves the train through the mountain at Sinks, Kentucky in beautiful Rockcastle County on the former L&N Atlanta to Cincinnati mainline. That paint scheme is certainly an unu... (more)