One of the busiest railroad locations in the United States is the Powder River Basin. There can be over one hundred trains a day hauling forty percent of the nations coal demands. These are the th... (more)

The first of three eastbound manifests that are tied down on Main 1 from Cheyenne to Borie, Wyoming can be seen patiently waiting for a new crew to take the train east to North Platte, Nebraska on... (more)

As the sun begins to set over the north western Arizona region, a high priority UPS train from Los Angeles, CA to Willow Springs, IL climbs the grade out Kingman as it heads towards the summit of ... (more)

Clouds obscure the setting sun as a southbound Georgia Power coal train bound for Plant Scherer in Juliette, GA races northeast along Nickajack Lake on the former L&N. Coal dust is flying and catc... (more)

Frosty ties, stainless steel, and F9s

The distant roar of a Westbound grain train clawing up the .65% grade out of the Souris River Valley fills the chilly Spring night sky; and the intermediate signal at MP 16.7 gives a proceed indic... (more)

Boy did I feel lucky walking back to the car after nabbing this coal empty near Cleveland, ND.

Came out from the fog... Backwoods of central Russia at the north of Tver region. Local time 5-00 AM. TEP70-0270 locomotive with passenger train "Ivanovo - St. Petersburg" appears... (more)

Climbing the grade out of Las Vegas, this westbound intermodal works hard to defeat gravity through the curves at Sloan NV. It will soon reach the the grade crest at Cima, CA, and be speeding tow... (more)

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, became a center of heavy industry during the industrial revolution and was home to the Bethlehem Steel Corporation (founded and based in Bethlehem), which was once the sec... (more)

Backwoods of central Russia at the north of wooded and swampy Tver region. Local time 4-28 AM. TEP70 locomotive with passenger train "Ivanovo - St. Petersburg" appears out of the fog breaking the ... (more)

Anticipation
Winter air is laden with moisture and a light fog swirls in the airy blue hour of dusk on January 25, 2013. Stillness of the moment is broken as a distant air horn blowing ... (more)

Alongside the Greenbrier River in rural West Virginia, the eastbound absolute signal at Rockland projects its stop signal indications into the east portal of Rockland Tunnel along CSX's Alleghany ... (more)

FEC 106, CITX 142, and FEC 414 lead the Florida East Coast Railway hot intermodal train 101 south across the Crane Creek Bridge in downtown Melbourne as the sun sets on another beautiful day in th... (more)