Perurail 751 has some loaded tank cars bound for Cuzco as it runs through the high desert in the last rays of the evening sun.

Westbound "California Zephyr" through the Woodside with the Book Cliffs.

Standing on a bridge in Winslow, Arizona as the intense southwestern sun rises, action is likewise intense along the Transcon this morning as a manifest gets out of town and baretables wait for a ... (more)

In a remote part of the New Mexico desert is a double track railroad that radiates in three directions to no-where. This railroad carries the dishes of the Very Large Array radio telescope network... (more)

#5 with a empty train between Barriles and Maria Elena yard.

#1413 comming from the cumbre pass to the port of Mejillones with an acid sulfuric tank train.

# 5 going to Maria Elena yard.

# 406 out of the first tunnel climbing to the Potrerillos mine with vehicles to acid sulfuric, below you see the car used in this trip.

Caboose on the rear of coal empties heading west on the former NP line across North Dakota through the badlands area around Sully Springs in the western part of the state.

Looking more like an alien planet than a lonely railroad branch, the lower end of Union Pacific’s Cane Creek Subdivision near Moab offers a spectacular combination of slickrock, steel rails and ... (more)

With their work completed at Potash, UT, the local is just entering the massive cut at mile 31 and about to head into Bootlegger Canyon.

The desolate silence is temporarily interupted by the whine of dynamic brakes, as three EMDs bring a cut of empty covered hoppers back from the Union Pacific interchange at Searles. The geologic ... (more)

Windmills dot the rolling brown hills of Altamont Pass, and six times a day a white, purple, and blue passenger train breaks up the Mars-like scene. ACE 08 runs away from the windmills, that provi... (more)

Trailing DPU brings up the rear of this 504 axle manifest, as it winds its way through the area south of Las Vegas known as Bard.