Passengers get a brief glimpse of the mountains as a late "Canadian" VIA #1 approaches Swan Landing, AB in the very last light of the day.

In the wilds of Rannoch Moor between Rannoch and Corrour, 'Black Five' 44871 peforms in perfect light, doing an almost perfect recreation of a Glasgow Queen St to Fort William train in the early 1... (more)

A UP stack train snakes its way up the Columbia River Gorge, thru vineyard and orchard, village and hamlet.

Look again its Cumberland,Md .... not China... as Fog, haze & and an unususal early departure time of this WMSR train creates this "Mountain Maryland" image shortly after the sun rises ov... (more)

Helper set eastbound on the slide

It is a perfect, frosty and still, morning on the Severn Valley Railway in the English Midlands. Gordon has just crossed the River Severn (Victoria Bridge is visible to the left of the tree) with ... (more)

This magnificent machine is maintained in running order by Reefsteamers and is seen storming past a maize field that was indeed a polo crosse field during the 1980s. The tempreature had only just... (more)

During a quiet moment on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, an inbound train on the L Taraval line climbs away from the Pacific Ocean as the sun dips toward the horizon. The classic hills of S... (more)

Smoke (and dust) gets in your eyes! The photographer took advantage of some airborne dust via newly applied ballast to capture this shadowy evening view of a BNSF manifest entering the Red Narrows... (more)

Oregon Sunset
A Union Pacific manifest freight from Roseville to Portland Terminal heads north through Oregon's Willamette Valley under golden cloudy skies.

The intent on that... (more)

Eastbound mixed freight leaving Afton Canyon. 2007 Center for Railroad Photography and Art Gold winner

A West bound coal drag breaks the silence as it heads over the Mountain sub on a frosty October morning 2009 Center for Railroad Photography and Art Gold winner

Welcome to the Northwest. On the very day I arrived in Washington after leaving Indiana, I was greeted with murky skies and hours upon hours of driving in the rain. Taking a break from st... (more)

The Tay Bridge is the longest railway bridge in the UK at just over two miles. The structure seen here is the second attempt at bridging the estuary, the first famously collapsed during a violent ... (more)

The Scranton dispatcher and a hanging fern enjoy the warmth of the tower while 467 shivers in the first snow of the year. See William's version here. [photoid=296633]