Just after sunrise, an SP eastbound negotiates the multiple reverse curves at Bealville's west end and heads into the Allard Horseshoe.

Leading a 100 car empty grain train for loading at Napoleon, ND, are a former Wisconsin Central SD45 and two ex-Canadian National SD50Fs.

Sometime it does all comes together steam, snow and sun a very rare combination in the UK even better when the steam is a Royal Scot and the line is the Settle and Carlisle.

Q112 swings through a curve along Brule Lake with the Miette and Brule ranges providing the back drop.

Export coal loads from the Usibelli coal mine south of Fairbanks roll across the glacier-fed waters of Upper Trail Lake at Moose Pass, Alaska on a beautiful late summer day.

Soaring nearly 200 feet above the Snake River, a Boardman coal load stretches across nearly the entire 3,920-foot length of UP's Joso Bridge, its tail end still strung out through CPE273 on the fa... (more)

Sitting, still in disrepair and waiting for duty, 6311 keeps guard outside the old elevators in Rosalia. The setting sun, light pollution from nearby Spokane, and a single mercury vapour light pro... (more)

Southbound from Silverton in the late afternoon. The combination of hazy sunshine and the reflection of light off the mineral stained rocks below the bridge produced an interesting lighting effec... (more)

A foggy lakefront morning at Three Valley. It is always worth bringing the camera, even on the way to a meeting.

Helper set eastbound on the slide

Four trains are visible in this aerial that has Caliente in the upper left and Bealville in the upper right. The first of three southbounds is climbing above tunnel five south of Bealville; a sec... (more)

A loaded CN coal train passes an empty CP grain train in the narrow confines of Black Canyon. At this location, the Thompson River twists through an oxbow so tight that the only routing option av... (more)

D&H 930 leans into a curve as it skirts the rugged shores of Lake Champlain on a hot morning

After a weekend of rain & clouds we are treated to a full week of beautiful weather and taking the main stage would have to be Mt. Rainier. Showing us while Trains are very big, some things are ju... (more)

Amtrak's northbound Pacific Surflinerer to San Luis Obispo crosses over the Gaviota Trestle on a beautiful summer evening.