Q174 had a run in with a 18-wheeler this morning in Westfield,MA. The driver just couldn't wait for the gates to raise up after a westbound had passed and he didn't see the eastbound Q174 approach... (more)

Autumn gold to winter white
Mother Nature can’t decide what season to be in as an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe grain train descends Mullan Pass and curves over Montana Rail ... (more)

Now we have new information about this crash, the steam locomotive with the number 3311 is an ex Florida East Coast 4-8-2 part of a group of FEC locomotives sold to the NdeM in 1946-1952 it is lis... (more)

North end of the Wind River Canyon, South of Thermopolis, Wyoming.

Two motorists patiently wait at the Blue Mountain Road crossing for a empty UP coal train that is climbing the grade in Coal Creek Canyon west of Denver.

14 locomotives at the locomotive shops with an ex-C&NW (far right) and SP (inside). See a picture from my second visit.

With Oregon's Mt. Hood looming proudly in the background, an empty BNSF oil train glides gracefully along the mighty Columbia River and heads east back to North Dakota and the Bakken Oil Fields fo... (more)

Late in the afternoon as the sun had draped across the right side of the locomotive NS Corp photographer Casey Thomason and I thought it would be an interesting photo to open up all of the body si... (more)

This BNSF switch job pulls toward Cicero yard, the time being it strikes the BRC's bridge and shreads open half a 5 pack.

Northbound Amtrak #14 - The Coast Starlight is running a couple of hours behind as it heads northbound along Klamath Lake on a clear morning in July. Only a couple of hours previous, passengers we... (more)

12mm shot of a fairly new NS SD70M-2. Thanks to the crew for the shot opportunity.

A view from the coal dock at East Altoona reveals active and stored steam. John had permission from a high-up in the PRR to roam East Altoona, not often accessable to railfans. This is one of 16... (more)

Running on the advertised out of Santa Barbara, southbound Amtrak train #11 sprints along the California Coast as it passes beach goers at Emma Wood State Beach near Ventura on the former Souther... (more)

On the evening of January 3rd 2018, a loaded Coal Train blasts out of the loading yard past 82 Station at the bottom of the grade out of Sandaoling Open Cut Coal Mine, Nth West China.

NR37's headlight cuts the gloom as it leads sister unit NR15 upgrade into the sleepy hamlet of Exeter, in the New South Wales southern highlands. The wooden-arm semaphores at this location were re... (more)