Two 0-4-2 locomotives from Barclay and from Fowler are performing the first runpast of the day. Unfortunately, very shortly after the sun raised, the clouds appeared and it started to rain. This w... (more)

Full Moon Baretables. As the full moon rises in the east a westbound baretable train races west on the Seligman Subdivision after the sun which has just set a few minutes earlier.

In the twilight of their long lives, four former Southern Pacific SD45's still have what it take to attack the mountain grades of the west, climbing the 2% eastbound grade of Soldier Summit with a... (more)

A ballast train has been tied down on the former Modoc mainline at Flanigan, as lingering debris clouds from the day's thunderstorms roll east toward the Smoke Creek desert.

An eastbound coal train lights up the East End of Coal River Siding as he makes his journey up the Coal River.

On a frigid evening in January 1994, an eastbound Santa Fe stack train works upgrade into Abo Canyon and the sunset and across the first of seven bridges it will cross in the canyon. Ladrón Peak "... (more)

CN 2548 and CN 5534 (too bad it wasn't leading instead!) lead C770's train east into some beautiful morning light. The train consists of a brand new NOKL coal set... and a few old CN cars.

Two Southern Pacific units pose next to each other at Brightside Yard, home of the Niles Canyon Railway and GGRM. This was a night shoot put on by Vic Neves, producer of the popular railroad phot... (more)

Only a mile or two from the end of a long journey from Grand Junction, CO, Union Pacific's 'Potash Turn' rolls slowly along the Colorado River just north of the loadout and small yard at Potash, U... (more)

A stack train glints as it snakes east through the desert at Ludlow, CA on the BNSF Needles Sub as the sun sets on a very windy and dusty day in April 2009.

BNSF 5913 East cast its reflection as an empty coal train winds its way along the Clark Fork River.

At the peak of a winter sunrise, a CSX 150-car empty hopper train heads west over the New River at Ansted, West Virginia, as seen from the overlook at Hawks Nest State Park.

A Portland, OR stack train races east as the sunset draws nears on the Boone Sub. The train is just topping the small grade east of Ralston as all 3 units run wide open as this train heads towards... (more)

A sense of scale! Nearly 46 miles distant from the Starlight's path, Mt. Rainier dominates the scene. The train is merely a Z scale model in comparison. Anderson Island provided this uncommon ... (more)