Amtrak's Empire Service travels northbound along the Hudson River as sunset approaches on a very warm late summer evening. Greenport Conservation Area, Columbia County, NY

On the 10th of January 2012, a train dumps a load of molten slag at the Beitai Steel Works in NE China. The site was first visited by foreign steam photographers in 2002. Since that time the manag... (more)

Amtrak's Southwest Chief winds through the confines of Apache Canyon on its way to its next stop of Lamy, New Mexico.

A westbound Union Pacific coal train traces the Colorado River through Tunnel’s 39 and 40 in Little Gore Canyon west of Azure, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 21, 2014. Tunnel 40 in the foreg... (more)

Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr negotiates the confines of Ruby Canyon as it nears the Utah border on a captivating August afternoon in the breathtaking American west. When I walked up to the... (more)

A Durango & Silverton train with a K-36 pulling, rounds the curves along the cliffs edge, and above the Animas River near Rockwood, Colorado. Unfortunately, the Animas has an unsavory orange hue t... (more)

Twilight begins to set along the eastern slope of the Arizona Divide as the former Santa Fe 199, now BNSF's Z WSPNBY9, races up the grade with ease as the winter air temperatures drop to below fre... (more)

The tornado sirens are blaring as this tornado warned storm approaches. The endless lightning flashing constantly throughout the storm. A collection of locomotives wait for their assignment in the... (more)

Just after sunrise, westbound 39T crosses the Portageville Trestle over the Genesee River in Letchworth State Park. A rainbow is created by the spray from the waterfall beneath the bridge.

The Malad Local rambles along the old pond at Watery Lane in Brigham City on May 9, 1995.

A westbound BNSF coal train rolls along the Missouri River in Lombard Canyon, as the Northern Lights dance overhead. This is on Montana Rail Link's 2nd Subdivision between Toston and Lombard, Mont... (more)

Skirting a quick-moving morning rainstorm, an eastbound BNSF coal train passes through the late spring green-covered Badlands of North Dakota at Sully Springs on June 20, 2015.

Dust and exhaust from a loaded BNSF coal train mix with an already hazy atmosphere as the sun sets over western North Dakota.

Operating on the original Rio Grande mainline through a trackage rights agreement with Union Pacific, a pair of clean BNSF GE's bring up the rear of a Denver-bound manifest, as it descends Price R... (more)

The war is over and the troops are gradually coming home. Here a couple are re-united on platform 10 at London's smoky Liverpool Street station. Other soldiers wait, siting beside or on their kitb... (more)