The "Rhaetian Crocodile" stretches its brown nose out of the 450 metre long Wiesen I tunnel. The bridge over the Brückentobel stream is only 10 metres long and leads directly into the 96... (more)

A brief dust storm moves through as a northbound loaded UP coal train from Energy Mine departs Platteville, Colorado, after meeting the ZLADV and ZSCDVX, on October 3, 2018.

The ski train is about to depart with the two cleanest locos that North Yard could find, soon after its departure the westbound California Zephyr will arrive and one of the F 40's will be attached... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Laurel to Missoula manifest freight passes by the abandoned right-of-way and bridge over the Missouri River of Milwaukee Road’s Pacific Extension main line at the townsite of L... (more)

No trains have passed this way recently!
In early March 2014, a 30-foot boulder came crashing down the mountainside above Minturn, Colorado, just west of milepost 301 on this famous Rio... (more)

Nyght Thomson Junction n° 416 Garratt Class 15A + n°190 Zimbabwe

L&T Construction Inc, based in Hernando, MS and specializing in grading and drainage, seems to have recently expanded there business into railroad maintenance also. So far, they seem to have sever... (more)

Train W62 eases through the mess left behind after 22Q had a derailment on 7-5-18.

2016 was a good year for me on Donner. In fact, it had been the first time I was able to shoot Winter there since 2010. We had a lot of trains, a lot of snow and heck the rotary even came out for ... (more)

The east switch of Salida siding is no longer visible through the brush as trees and bushes encroach on the Tennessee Pass main line in Colorado that Union Pacific has rail banked for over twenty ... (more)

No, this was not shot from a drone. A recent check on the progress of the Hudson Yards construction shows how much of the formerly open rails of the west side of Manhattan are being covered with b... (more)

A Tree Grows in Mount Union

A tree makes its way to Heaven, piercing through the trucks and around the belly of a narrow gauge hopper car. The rusting car, one of over 200, has sat in Ea... (more)

A BNSF coal train arrives at the large Midwest Energy Resources Corporation dock in Superior as the laker Great Republic loads petroleum coke for Alpena. Across the bay the ore boat Michipicoten a... (more)

UP 574 and 589 provide the power for today's spreader operations. After plowing west to Shed 10, the spreader is now working east pushing snow off of the ROW over the Lower Cascade Bridge at Troy,... (more)

I'm standing on top of a box car at Columbus,WI.while both eastbound and westbound Empire Builders meet. Our power is some covered wagons with an ex-passenger unit in the lead.