Southern 630 steams through downtown Birmingham on its first run with an employee excursion. Photo by Casey Thomason. For more information, visit more)

UP's MoPac Heritage Unit is looking good leading an extra Atlanta-Jacksonville intermodal through downtown Atlanta. This is my first UP Heritage capture, Railroad: Union Pacific
Locomotive: EMD SD70ACe
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Locomotive #: UP 1982
Train ID: NS I09-31
Photo Date: July 30, 2012

Monongahela 8025 leads Triple Crown train #251 thru the Spring interlocking in downtown Atlanta, nearing the terminal at East Point. For more information, visit more)

As the reflection of dawn's pink light slowly takes shape in the Charlotte skyline, Norfolk Southern's early yard job shoves a cut of cars toward downtown while the conductor on the ground prepare... (more)

The Phase II heritage engine on the Hiawatha.

The Pennsy heritage unit and F's greeted inbound and outbound passenger trains all day Friday awaiting placement for Saturday's "National Train Day" celebration. Casey Thomason photo, copyright N... (more)

All I can say about this shot is the Railfan Gods must like me! I live in Alaska and only make it "home" to New England once a year. I had two nights and one full day to spend in Boston wi... (more)

A brilliant setting sun illuminates a westbound manifest crawling out of the Dallas skyline with a full moon lingering over, preparing to offer a brilliant illumination of its own.

Early Saturday morning in downtown Seattle finds a rare clear winter sky allowing the rising sun to be reflected, as well a lot of activity at King Street Station. Ready to depart for Eugene OR is... (more)

At sunset on the day after Thanksgiving, the apartment buildings on Manhattan's Upper East Side provide the backdrop for a Q local train bound for Ditmars Boulevard in Queens, as it climbs the gra... (more)

GO 917 departs for Aldershot with Toronto's downtown core as a backdrop.

Everything you see here is not "TOTALLY GONE" but most of it is! BN train # 137 rolls through the site of the former NP coach yard in Seattle with GP35/GP9/GP35/GP10/GP10/GP9 for power en-route t... (more)

You can't make this stuff up... I arrived in Montreal at my spot to find total muck and clouds this particular morning. I figured I wasted gas and a trip and simultaneously with that thought, a ha... (more)

With the city of Dallas, Texas, looming in the background, a pair of Union Pacific SD70Ms (3989 and 4481) are in charge of train IMQMX 16 (an intermodal train running from Mesquite TX to Mexico Ci... (more)

With smoke rolling in from a northern Minnesota fire, Chicago has been cast in an unusual haze. An outbound rolls past Western Ave yard having left Chicago just a couple of blocks from the iconic... (more)