Christmas Eve
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy caboose (waycar in CB&Q parlance) No. 14602 glows in the gathering twilight of Christmas Eve 2007. The Izaak Walton Inn at Essex, Montana, ha... (more)

Dropping down Donner Pass at the famed Yuba Gap, passengers aboard the Westbound California Zephyr must be enjoying the views of freshly fallen snow...

Christmas cheer lights up a dreary evening on Stevens Pass as a BNSF stack train rolls through Skykomish, WA toward Seattle. Inclement weather closed neighboring Snoqualmie Pass for part of the da... (more)

"Waterfall on the Beacon Line" Metro North's Beacon Line sits dormant and unused with one of a few Waterfalls along Fishkill Creek in the background. The Beacon Line hosted many C... (more)

An Eastbound BNSF train carrying airplane fuselages crosses over Nason Creek while descending Stevens Pass on a beautiful spring day.

A new Tier 4 GE leads a long BNSF manifest freight eastbound through Byers Canyon as the sun breaks out from behind the snow clouds that just finished dumping about 6-8" of the white stuff on... (more)

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)

I had grand plans this afternoon to catch the eastbound California Zephyr as it rounded the curve at Crescent amid snow-laden pines with a glorious sunset over the continental divide in the backgr... (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)

Smoke from Union Pacific 618 briefly blocks out a bright Utah sunrise, as the 2-8-0 leads a photo freight on the Heber Valley Railroad on February 8, 2006.

16N heads east on the Conemaugh Line through a very popular railfanning spot throughout the year but especially in the fall, West Park, or "The Trench". The late turning leaves of the Gi... (more)

TGM6A-2073 moves with oil train on "Moscow coke and gas plant"("MOSCOKS"). Part of "MOSCOKS" railway passes through the picturesque arboretum in southern Moscow.

The Bow Valley Parkway is deserted. No cars, no wildlife, just the crunch of old snow underneath the rental car's tires as I make my way south from Lake Louise toward Morant's Curve in the darknes... (more)

Denver's first measurable snowfall of the 2015-2016 winter arrived on November 5th, and the mountains to the west saw a few inches of accumulation by the time the clouds lifted. Here a westbound B... (more)