Amid the hustle and bustle of life in New York City, day transitions to dark on this June evening as a Queens bound 7-local train arrives at 40th Street station in Queens. The city's Empire State ... (more)

Looking North over Amtrak Facility from 21st Bridge.

On a freezing afternoon another load of spoil heads for the dumping area on the Jixi Coal Mine Bureau in the north eastern part of China. This once extensive steam operation now replaced by diesel... (more)

SRC #90 rolls into bed after a long hot day on the Road to Paradise.

Blue Hour
S3 to Tharand passing the Felsenkeller brewery at the "Plauenscher Grund"

On a warm evening along the Central Coast, a Union Pacific passenger train descends the horseshoe curve just above San Luis Obispo, California. In the distance, you can see the quiet town of San L... (more)

The evening sun sets behind the San Francisco Peaks along the eastern slope of the Arizona Divide as a Tennessee-bound stack, led by a BNSF ES44C4 locomotive, races out of the sag at Darling. This... (more)

On June 30, the Helena Local got a real late start, not arriving at Townsend until sunset. My friend Dave Gayer and I were returning from Lombard thinking we might get lucky and see the train our ... (more)

Montana Rail Link's Helena Local reaches the top of Winston Hill under threatening skies just after sunset. It will roll past a waiting eastbound empty coke train then continue on to Helena to end... (more)

Montana is big sky country, but not always big sky blue. Thunder clouds and the Montana landscape show the insignificance of the Helena Local in the scheme of things as it climbs Winston Hill with... (more)

Sunset on Metra Milwaukee Service junction of North and West service at Western Avenue Station.

A pair of BNSF locomotives lead a Military move running as W865, eastbound at Clinton, Ohio in beautiful evening light. Trains like this generally run to a military base at Ravenna, Ohio.

While Georgia Railroad crews were hard at work building an outbound train to be taken to Agusta, a quite serious hotbox was spotted on an old Southern Railway gondola which they are seen handling ... (more)