Cowboys meet Grand Canyon steam, a great end to a long day. A Lerro Productions charter.

Westbound 135 tackles the final stretch of the climb to the continental divide at Ridgecrest on a bleak fall afternoon in western North Carolina.

CN A416 heads through some foggy swamps west of Jasper as the sunrise hits the mountain peaks.

As the sun rises over the Manzano Mountains, whose peaks are 3500 feet above the valley floor, a hot intermodel is nearing the crest of the long grade from Belen.

During a quiet moment on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, an inbound train on the L Taraval line climbs away from the Pacific Ocean as the sun dips toward the horizon. The classic hills of S... (more)

An hour and twenty minutes late is right on time for me. The Westbound Cardinal heads downgrade at Hilldale in the late evening.

Mornings in the Palouse are well-known for the interplay of light and shadow amongst the hills that so readily identify the region. Incomprehensibly vast acreages of cultivated fields supply the ... (more)

Sunrise at Meadow Creek. The first rays of the day reflect upon the river fog, cause by an unusually cold May morning

A stack train glints as it snakes east through the desert at Ludlow, CA on the BNSF Needles Sub as the sun sets on a very windy and dusty day in April 2009.

With the truss bridge over the Truckee River standing tall, UP 844 battles up the 1.6 percent grade through the Truckee River Canyon, at a location known as Iceland.

The only word I can find to describe this scene is "surreal." Indeed, a bright three-quarter moon lighting up the Cascade Range forest during a blizzard could only be something imagined in one's ... (more)

The Spencer local pushes thru a decent drift near MP 163, just west of Sexton. With the train traveling 10 mph the snow begins to pile up on the front of the locomotive. This train was loaded at H... (more)

Series 500 "NOZOMI" running under very hard rain. It runs at about 160MPH so making a great splash.

A railfan takes video of 11V with three EMD leaders as it heads west through the Cassandra Railroad Overlook as the sun burns off the morning fog.

'Night Moves'