After being skunked by the BLE and actually NS CSX and GE all day the Bessemer finally runs south in the late afternoon with a 5 unit light power move. The last 2 engines are a pair of CSX wide bo... (more)

This must have been the perfect evening to bid farewell to the last train of this season's Scarborough Spa Expresses. 45305 heads eastward out of Leeds, catching the dying rays of the evening sun.... (more)

WACH01 returning from Nepera Chemical about to step out onto Moodna Viaduct

Generations of railroading pass in the night as a new CP GE leads an ethanol train east as a bad-ordered ex-Milwaukee unit sits on the ancient, wobbly, overgrown Stark Candy Spur.

In the last minutes of the day, a northbound CSX freight train chugs up the Hudson River. Light pollution from distant towns and New York City illuminates the sky to the south, as a full moon over... (more)

Northbound CSX manifest passes a set of B&O CPL's at KC Junction.

With a sunrise that should awaken some sleepy eyes on the early morning commute to Hoboken, train #46 crosses the valley as fog starts to form below.

Norfolk Southern train 64J - an empty trash train bound for Kearny, NJ - passes through Phillpisburg, NJ soon after sunset, with the Penn Central heritage unit on the point. Canon EOS 50D, Sigma ... (more)

Last Train Home. A late-night arrival from Boston's North Station pulls into Lowell as an outlawed edition of Pan Am's EDPO sits across from the tower, waiting for a fresh crew.

A westbound BNSF coal train speeds west into the sunset just west of Eldridge, North Dakota, on BNSF's Jamestown Subdivision.

NS 1073 Penn Central Heritage leads the NS 64j into CP Burn as it makes it's first run to eastern Pa during the night. Her first run over the lehigh line points her toward CP Burn, heading to NJ... (more)

There is little I can say about this image. It may look unreal but this vision is exactly as it appeared in my viewfinder. Ten seconds later the sun had gone. To say I returned home happy is somet... (more)

At 0400 on the dot, the dispatcher lines Q508 through the northwest connection in Deshler and all the way up to Perrysburg on the Toledo Subdivision.

The dawn isn't too far off as a westbound hotshot makes quick work of the small settlement called Ancona.

In February 1970, EMD built SW1500 number 1511 for the Illinois Terminal Railroad, painted green and yellow. Fast forward to year 2012: The 1511 still survives as NS's only active remaining loco... (more)