With an impressive sparks rain an unidentified 2-8-2 JS steamlocomotive is tackling the grade out of the pit at Sandaoling with a load of coal.

After the morning shift chance, shortly before sunrise at about 9 AM, all 4 JS steamlocomotive of the Sandaoling coal mine railroad are gathered at Dongbolizhan station. This day JS # 6224, 8167, ... (more)

After sunset an unidentified JS class is storming up the grade from the pit with an impressive sparks rain.

In the morning between about 8 and 9 AM, there is shift change at Dongbolizhan. Up to 4 JS steamlocomotives can be seen shunting, taking water and coal, get lubrification by the new staff, before... (more)

After taking the first cut of loaded coal hoppers to a siding near Mount Hope, a pair of run-through CSX motors return light to Pax to pick up another loaded of coal on R.J. Corman's Loup Creek Br... (more)

The control point at Maben on Norfolk Southern's Princeton-Deepwater District displays stop signals for trains coming off of Watco's Kanawha River Railroad. Here, Watco trains have trackage rights... (more)

Cold and snowy night at Thomaston Station. The returning 5pm train slowly comes to a stop at the station platform as people for the 7pm train wait to board.

Montclair Sunrise: Arrow III #1323 brings up the rear of Montclair-Boonton Line Train 208 as it departs Watchung Avenue Station en route to Hoboken on Friday, December 15, 2017.

With another day almost done, and the snow starting to fall, westbound 406 approaches Hampton, New Brunswick.

-40°. That morning it was wildly cold outside. Record low frosts for central Russia. But we still decided to spend time hunting for the trains. On the photo you can see TEP70 die... (more)

Smokey diesel. (CNJ 113 0-6-0 is smoking it up)

The last day..... CNW 5028A leads what appears to be the Peninsula 400 out of CNW's Lakefront Depot on May 15th, 1966. CNW operations would move to the nearby Milwaukee Road depot the next day. It... (more)

A full moon rises over the Mojave desert at sunset while a Union Pacific mixed freight battles the grade coming out of Mojave.

I had just finished working on the set of the movie "Last Flag Flying" and was heading home. I went up to the head end to snap a photo of my train in the fog under this old train shed.