Western Maryland #729 returns with a caboose in tow after a transfer run to the B&O yard in Cumberland.

This shot was ready to be added to my "If only there was a train" collection. Just before the colors faded, this empty grainer showed up, to add the final element to this awesome scene of a Lenti... (more)

A storm blowing through! A Western Maryland helper locomotive spews swirling, boiling vortex of smoke and steam as it storms through the little, private crossing on Helmstetter's Curve. An... (more)

Good morning Cumberland! A Western Maryland helper locomotive and crew enjoys the warm, sunrise light as they make their way along the C&O canal basin toward the depot in downtown Cumberlan... (more)

A westbound is stopped on main 1 awaiting the arrival of an eastbound that is lined through main 2 with a "Medium Clear" indication. A sunrise scene performed many times on the old Nickel Plate.

Prince George to Edmonton train M348 crosses the Prairie Creek trestle west of Hinton, a few hours after parts of the Yellowhead County received their first snowfall of the year.

Early morning train to Poznan.

At daybreak, a rock cut defines the edge of light and shadow as an auto-rack train approaches on it's south bound journey along the RIver Line.

Montana Rail Link’s gas local is westbound along a frozen Clark Fork approaching Thompson Falls, Montana, on a cold January 24, 2013. A rebuilt SD45 that MRL labels an SD45-2, No. 318 leads a ne... (more)

Amtrak's Pere Marquette greets a beautiful autumn sunrise as it rolls across the Kalamazoo River in New Richmond, MI.

A Chicago and North Western eastbound, with a UP SD60M on the point, thunders underneath the imposing coaling tower at De Kalb, Illinois, at sunset on September 17, 1994.

Just before sunup in frosty downtown Keystone, W.Va., NS's Interstate heritage unit shoves train No. 776 up Elkhorn Grade, with locomotives in notch-8, awakening the sleeping mining community on a... (more)

Forty years ago, in 1973, the last train rumbled across this line. Today, this is a place for the intrepid explorer to enjoy solitude while pondering the vestiges of a lost way of rural life. It... (more)

In the woods of upstate New York remain the last active rails of the long abandoned New York, Ontario and Western. Emerging from the fog is the CSX local out of Fulton with two cars to be spotted ... (more)

The quite rural village of Shushan is awoken by the sounds of the Batten Kill local moving through town on an Autum day.