As the snow slowly starts melting and the fog rises up, the trains are still movin'! With the photographers luck of the sun coming out for a bit, I was able to shoot this westbound mixed freight a... (more)

A heavy wet snow has blanketed East River Mountain, leaving behind zero visibility, arctic cold temperatures, and quite a measurable snowfall for the late winter season. Over 14" of snow accumulat... (more)

The Southern Railway heritage locomotive makes its maiden run to Atlanta on hotshot intermodal 203, seen here ducking under the endangered Southern cantilever at Cornelia. Since the start of the h... (more)

Gliding along the New River at Meadow Creek, eastbound crude oil loads pass an assortment of crossovers once protected by C&O's MD cabin at the site of the former C&O/NF&G interchange.

UP 8494 charges uphill on the point of the KLTG2 under one of the remaining SP-style signal bridges that are still up on Donner Pass. Due to OSHA regulations and Positive Train Control being inst... (more)

The railroad at Nelson is pretty quiet on this cold night. Not much has moved the past few hours as the signals show all red thru the many control points thru this area. The classic coal tower sti... (more)

A spartan cab GE charges east with an intermodal train while the daily Q620 holds on the Amsterdam siding.

The silence of the unusually warm late winter night is broken as CSX L033 thunders through the south end of the siding at North Wade.

The former B&O CPLs guard the east end of Cumberland Yard as a power set of Canadian Pacific and CSX engines change tracks. The CPLs are slated for replacement in the near future.

The early morning tranquility in Niland is broken by an eastbound Quality manifest, which is seen seen passing under the SP signal bridge in downtown. The second unit is an ex-WC/WP GP40 owned by ... (more)

A westbound Q-CXOLAC1-12 is lined up at La Plata as the sun sets on the day. This control point in northern central Missouri is one of the few remaining signal bridges left along the Marceline Sub... (more)

In the quietest moments of a winter storm, fire and ice converge in the tangled trackwork at Metra's busiest interlocking in the Chicagoland area.

The NS 128 heads east into the Pomona Yard just after sunrise.

UP 5515 leads CSX K059 westbound off the Old Main Line and onto the Metropolitan Subdivision at Point of Rocks, Maryland.

Alongside the Greenbrier River in rural West Virginia, the eastbound absolute signal at Rockland projects its stop signal indications into the east portal of Rockland Tunnel along CSX's Alleghany ... (more)