The westbound California Zephyr passes through a Winter Wonderland in the midst of the area known as the Tunnel District. This is on UP's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision, located about 26 miles west of ... (more)

Budapest Déli station (Hungarian: Budapest-Déli pályaudvar, lit.?'Budapest southern station'), known to locals and foreigners alike simply as the Déli is one of the three main railway stations... (more)

As Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4014 slowly makes its way toward the Metrolink mainline at the northern end of the Fairplex (location of the Los Angeles County Fair), a process that will take... (more)

Traffic is starting to get busy on a late spring afternoon at the top Palmer Lake on Colorado's Joint Line. On BNSF Main 1, a loaded coal train slowly grinds towards "The Sag"; the stop ... (more)

Norfolk & Western 475 leads its passenger train up the grade at Esbenshade at sunset.

It’s almost 6 p.m. on a cool Montana winter eve at Trout Creek on February 5, 2023. A trackside fire helps warm us up a bit as the “blue hour” descends upon the Clark Fork River Valley. The ... (more)

Midcoast Rail Service RB-2 is seen crossing the 1916-built 995-foot Wiscasset Bridge spanning over the Sheepscot River. The train will continue over the long causeway and across another bridge bef... (more)

The conductor of the TPW local politely requests a couple of trespassers who were fishing on the former PRR bridge to leave the premises so the local can proceed southbound to work industries loca... (more)

Freshly painted Colorado Pacific-CXR 316 at Alamosa, CO. New owners for the former San Luis and Rio Grande RR. I will be back again, hope it all pans out for them.

The Boston area Pan Am/CSX Local train BO-1 is seeing its final week of service on the Danvers Branch to its only customer, Rousselot. With Rousselot closing in the near future, the last expected ... (more)

After concert performances in Hermon, Brownville and Jackman the day before, the CPKC Holiday Train is leaving Maine. The train has just left Jackman and is crossing the Pat McKinney Bridge over t... (more)

On a beautiful fall morning, VIA Rail's westbound Canadian races along the calm Yellowhead Lake in Yellowhead, BC on October 1st, 2022.

In a view from my campsite off the old Denver & Salt Lake Railway’s grueling, long abandoned route over lofty Rollins Pass is Union Pacific MGJNY exiting the 6.21-mile Moffat Tunnel. It’s 8:45... (more)

When I was ten, in the "Roanoke Times" newspaper, I saw a shot of N&W steamers lined up in rows with sparks of acetylene cutters coming up somewhere. Here, in a contaminated field by a ... (more)

Crescent, Colorado, received 42 inches of snow in a major Front Range storm on March 13-14, 2024. On the morning after the blizzard, BNSF’s Provo to Denver priority freight rolls eastbound on Un... (more)