Through the smoke and flames. Tip-toeing toward the MP 387.9 grade crossing, with an XH to have its train's conductor come out and flag due to power outages, Amtrak 761 crawls through Fair... (more)

A great backdrop to a beer garden in Kiev. This steam loco is preserved at the passenger loco shops near Kiev station.

Fire, Water and the Pacific Surfliner. Hurrying past the ever growing the Thomas Fire, Amtrak 769 passes through Seacliff as it heads north for its next station stop of Carpinteria. Later ... (more)

This critter sat at the Deer Lodge engine facility. Looks like a Joe is getting ready over at the next stall, just another day for the laborer.

A western diamondback rattlesnake has awakened from a nap while warming itself along a rail of the Copper Basin Railway main line near Tunnel 3 at Riverside, Arizona, on the afternoon of March 18,... (more)

Oops! The Rose Yard job split some switches while doing their work this morning.

The anatomy of a photo charter - by Lerro Productions.

For the view from the photoline, ... (more)

Track inspection, Myanmar style !

In the morning of January 18th, 1993, a head-on collision between an eastbound and westbound South Shore commuter train occurred on the west side of Gary resulting in 7 fatalities and over 40 inju... (more)

Thanksgiving dinner is about to be served as the non-stop parade of BNSF trains roll pass our Crozier Canyon homestead. Here, a westbound double stack train for the ports of Los Angeles meets an e... (more)

Here is the sight of the NS Exeter derailment 38 of 54 cars derailed on the 3.5% grade. Hwy 68 was just reopened today with the derailment occurring at 8:40pm on Saturday Nov 18, 2017 just minutes... (more)

Anatomy of a night photo session: Control the train, control the crowd, control the lighting, control the scene...but ya can't control the weather! Clear plastic bags had to be used to protect the... (more)

Shelley after a long day working on Strasburg's Rail Road "Decapod" #90 ex-Great Western Railroad.

Traffic in Georgetown encounters an unexpected delay as the "Edwin Brazelton Snead" heavyweight passenger car is moved at walking speed for roughly three miles. This car was formerly the Missouri-... (more)

The LRBE #66 is seen here hidden in the back of the Bago shed. These locally built engines are based a truck engine and transmission. They are driven by the rear tyres of the truck driving directl... (more)