Shortly before sunrise the 489 and a work train make a photo runby at Lava. In the background the San Luis Valley is covered by fog with a few hill tops looking like islands. Our train was heade... (more)

The brand new One World Trade Center has taken it's place in the ever-changing New York City skyline. At 1,776' it has grabbed the title of tallest building in New York City from the 1,250' Empire... (more)

Freight trains from Germany to Italy usually take the route via Basel, but there are occasional trains via Schaffhausen. This DB Schenker intermodal freight train just crosses the central section ... (more)

M338 has an out time of 20:00 at Waterloo for the trip to Kirk Yard, IN. As the days get longer that departure time give some time for some sunset photos east of Waterloo. Today's M338 left at 19:... (more)

As the sun breaks over the top of the surrounding peaks in Cabazon, UP 8825 leads a 17 car long officer special west across the Yuma Subdivision on an early, March morning.

Timing can be everything. The last Surfliner of the day to stop at SNP rolls into town just as the brilliant setting sun showers the palm trees with amazing light before "sinking into the ocean."... (more)

Another load of Bakken crude bound for Philly drifts off into the impending evening leaving behind a nice sunset over the Village of Fonda.

First light over Scales. Morning cloud cover filters the mid-winter sunrise over Scales as the former McCloud River Railroad Mikado #18 hauls a cut of freight cars north toward Gold Hill an... (more)

UP 5551 leads the last of three UP trains in a row, through one of the numerous curves along the Puget Sound on BNSF's Seattle Sub. Bound for Seattle, this grainer will leave the BNSF Seattle sub... (more)

A westbound BNSF manifest crosses a causeway on Montana Rail Link along the Clark Fork on a crisp fall morning at sunrise near Trout Creek, Montana.

It's Christmas Eve and my last train before CP shuts down for the Christmas holiday was a beauty: an SD30C-ECO (CP 5019), a GP20C-ECO (CP 2203) and a GP38 (CP 3020) lead train 499 out of a nice su... (more)

The engineer, fireman and conductor job brief on a bitterly cold early January morning, transporting the photographer back in time as if he were alongside Plowden, Shaughnessy, and others recordin... (more)

A SY chugs past the setting sun after a hard days work hauling slag from the massive Baotou Steel Mill. The setting sun was a potent metaphor for the future of this locomotive and her sister SY 2-... (more)

Under an incredibly dramatic sunset, eastbound Q382 throttles up and enters the plant at West Deshler, where they'll cross over to main one to get around stopped traffic ahead. Just one of those "... (more)

Ex-SOO 6051 leads a lengthy CP 470 train over the hill east of Fairdale, Illinois in the last minutes of daylight.