Western grain train drops down the Elkhorn grade through the dense fog on a fall morning in late October.

A lone rafter floats down the Colorado River as a westbound BNSF manifest freight rumbles through Tunnel’s 39 and 40 in Little Gore Canyon west of Azure, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 4, 20... (more)

Steam rises into cold air as fog has just about burned off on the morning of October 2, 2014. Silence is broken on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision when eastbound BNSF MSPOLAU (Spokane to La... (more)

Mower Lumber Co. Shay No. 4 leads a work train through the s-curve below Whittaker as part of the Cass Scenic Railroad's annual Fall Photography Workshop.

A eastbound train of Bakken crude oil rounds one of the curves and disappears in the fog.

A clash of seasons
An early autumn snowfall in the higher elevations of Mullan Pass surrounds Skyline Trestle (a.k.a. Austin Creek Trestle) at Skyline, Montana, on October 11, 1997. Low... (more)

An eastbound BNSF freight crosses Noxon Bridge west of Noxon, Montana, just after sunrise on October 2, 2014. Fog is quickly burning off over the Clark Fork this cool morning on Montana Rail Link’... (more)

It is an unusually warm and sultry autumn morning. Three GP40's, basking in the hazy brilliance of the rising sun, have just brought in the northbound road freight.

With peak foliage bursting in the sunlight, I took to the overnight on Friday to capture the St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railway's eastbound train 394 rolling through the very picturesque northern Ver... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Illinois Terminal Heritage unit leads NS I1E, Detour of NS 21E North up the Buffalo Line to interchange with the CP in Sunbury. The train is detouring due to the recent derailm... (more)

Southbound 123 train crosses the North Fork New River in downtown Ft. Lauderdale.

Southern 2-8-0 #630 and 2-8-2 #4501 simmers side by side in the sunset at Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's Soule Shops in Chattanooga, TN, the evening prior to TVRM's "Railfest". Pho... (more)

With late season thunderstorms rumbling over the Bookcliffs in the background, Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dirt train” local approaches Mounds, Utah, late on the afternoon of November 21, 2003. Rio Gra... (more)

An eastbound manifest notches up out of the sag of Darling with the sun setting behind the San Fransisco Peaks.

The red bud is blooming in this portrait of a northbound NRHS special crossing the former Clinchfield Railroad Copper Creek Viaduct. The propulsion chores are handled today by the "Final Four... (more)