Fog, trains, and early morning sunlight mingle at Murray West.

Fall in the Pocahontas coalfields! With colors the best they've been in years, a loaded eastbound coal drag negotiates the scenic Pokey district near Glen Alum.

Patience pays off here overlooking Main St. in West Brownsville as after watching a trio of NS coal trains go down the street past me, the desired CSX train appears at 03:35, completely dominating... (more)

DME train 487 waits in the hole at Cobden, MN, for opposition not yet out of Tracy while lighting and thunderstorms rage over southern Minnesota

Is it 2011 or 1985? Throttling up after emerging from the St. Albans Tunnel, a former C&O SD40-2 leads a train of empty coal hoppers up the Coal River branch line, splitting the mast signals at CP... (more)

An extra north has stopped at the south end of Elkhorn awaiting permission by a stop signal.

NS 16T crosses the New River with a colorful lashup as a beautiful Sunset looms over head.

The southbound Denali Star cruises through Fort Richardson on fast track and is just a few minutes from arrival at Alaska Railroad's historic downtown depot. In the background are the ever present... (more)

It's the first night of Train Festival 2011 in the Quad Cities as a pair of Amtrak heritage locomotives idle on a private varnish train from Chicago. Thunderstorms developed quickly this evening a... (more)

Union Pacific 4-12-2 9514, Class UP-5, was built by ALCO in 1930, one of eighty-eight locomotives. As built, she was numbered 9077, later re-numbered to 9514. These three-cylinder locomotives had... (more)

This was my first attempt of shooting a train exiting a tunnel at night, the idea worked and this image was part of the CRPA contest winner, it also ending up being one of my favorite images.

A BNSF helper makes it way back west for the next loaded coal train as the sun rises over Theodore Roosevelt National Park near Fryburg, North Dakota.

BNSF #9246 SD70ACE & #6388 ES44AC run along the east side of Lake Lavon on KCS's Dallas sub a couple of hours before sunset. Empty coal train out of Luminant's power plant in Monticello, TX. ... (more)

Bound for Brunswick, an eastbound loaded autorack train out of Cumberland passes under a vintage B&O CPL signal bridge at Grasshopper, west of Hancock. The B&O CPL's were recently removed on the M... (more)

On a fine autumn day in 1987, D&RGW train 665 crosses the Payson trestle with a trainload of Keigley dolomite for Geneva Steel of Utah. The wood pile bridge crosses both a local creek and Union Pa... (more)