The rising sun catches the tops of the plumes of steam billowing out of the trio of C40-8's leading 145 empties for Minntac on a -34F degree morning.

A large forest fire in Arizona has caused smoke to drift over the Colorado Front Range, providing a muted sunrise for the California Zephyr running through Keenesburg, Colorado.

On the afternoon of October 6, 2018, an eastbound BNSF manifest freight rolls across the long bridge linking Algoma with Sandpoint, Idaho, on the railroad’s Pend Oreille Subdivision.

Amtrak heritage #184 (P42DC) runs through Keenesburg, Colorado and times it well with the sunrise on the Brush Sub.

On a late afternoon in April, a phone call from good friend Kevin Butler alerted me to a southbound coming my way. I quickly made my way to Broad Street in downtown Cairo to catch the train in fa... (more)

Amtrak number 6 arriving 14 hours late into Salt Lake City 5:37 p.m. A freight out in Nevada had major issues and delayed both 6 and 5. Two private cars are on the rear. Patrick Henry Creative Pro... (more)

Sunrise on the Brush Sub greets the California Zephyr as it runs through Keenesburg, Colorado.

The 052 crew brings an Air Products heat exchanger over the Delaware River and into New Jersey. These moves ran every few months between Wilkes-Barre and Fairless for years, and involved a roundab... (more)

Four SW9’s lead Pittsburg & Shawmut’s Brookville Local past an old loader at McWilliams, Pennsylvania.

CSX 900 Leads a two unit mixed freight train South across the Tennessee River at Sunset in Decatur Alabama

Amtrak 'Bumblebee 203' carries the Operation Lifesaver 50th Anniversary markings and was spotted this week in Denver, Colorado attending a convention on railroad safety.

Showing some of its faded New Haven orange paint, Penn Central E40 4974 has been put out to pasture in the Harrisburg engine terminal. Sadly, none of these classic electrics eluded the scrapper.

Seaboard Coast Line C30-7 7053, constructed in March 1980, is the second C30-7 built for the railroad without a signal light between the numberboards. Instead, SCL 7052 through 7061, L&N 7062-706... (more)

NS 5644 Leads a two unit Auto Rack train South across the Tennessee River at Sunset in Decatur Alabama

As a result of the rain and storms on the day prior, Reading & Northern 425's reflection shines as the sun rises on our country's 245th birthday.