Leaning into a curve with a good roll on em' a Canadian National westbound freight glides over the snow covered Lower Fraser River Valley en-route to the Greater Vancouver Terminal.

With one of CSX's new "Boxcar Logo" GEVO's leading the way, a lengthy Q394 knocks down the signal at Longley as the train approaches a left hand turn onto the Willard Sub at F-Tower in Fostoria. J... (more)

On February 18, 1970, an eastbound Santa Fe freight struck the caboose of a Union Pacific local at a crossing in Fullerton, California. The UP conductor was fatally injured. The UP caboose was cut... (more)

A 5-pack of Montana Rail Link SD45s shake the ground as they push a BNSF coal train up Bozeman Pass west of Livingston, Montana, in July 2001.

With 9625 on the point, three PRR Alco FA-2 units drag a freight eastward along the Ohio River by the old commuter stop of Avalon, just on the west side of Pittsburgh, Pa. (Patrons would exit on... (more)

After barely making it to Slaton in time for a crew change, an eastbound intermodal is once again on the move across the flatland of western Texas.

Ballast was recently dumped on this stretch west of Hudsonville where we see Q326 eastbound. Codeline should be gone in a year as new signals are being installed.

Struggling up grade near Cotton Hill, export coal loads for Virginia make their eastward trek over the former Chesapeake & Ohio. Codeline is still in service here, a method of communication that i... (more)

Two Candy Apples handle the morning stacks.

A Northbound Union Pacific stack train rolls through Sandcut on an unusually cloudy May afternoon.

A view from an excursion train is captured by John's camera, somewhere out on the mainline south of Conway, PA.

High country blizzard
During a windy and frigid springtime snowstorm, a Rio Grande coal train approaches the Moffat Tunnel at East Portal, Colorado.

The crew of CSX Local H776 have finished their work at Vauces and are now working back west, caboose first, past the scene at the west end of the siding.

Ah, Nipton. This "town" in the middle of the fabled Los Angeles and Salt Lake boasts not only top-notch accommodations in the form of the Nipton Hotel, but a convenience store and a charming littl... (more)