Double Engine Ae 8/8 pulls a pretty long freight with new cars down the Kander Valley.

Looking more like a model, the weekly train of fuel oil tanks from Glasgow to Fort William passes the Northern shore of Loch Tulla, deep in the Scottish Highlands, on a glorious early summer after... (more)

Bear Mountain provides a spectacular view of the Hudson Valley, and this northbound manifest crossing Iona Island...

Late on a very hot summer afternoon, an eastbound loaded coal train is in the charge of a half-dozen big GEs working hard up the 1% grade out of Woodside. The massive Book Cliffs loom in the dist... (more)

With a mid-train helper cut in, a load of Colorado coal ascends the Price River Canyon grade just west of Kyune, Utah. This train originated along UP's North Fork Subdivision at Somerset and it's ... (more)

A bird's-eye view of BN's Alliance engine servicing facilty as seen from the steps of the Motive Power Supervisor's office. How I made my way to this elevated office located in the middle of this ... (more)

The long walk in from the A82 was rewarded when the sun chose just the right moment to pop out from the clouds as 37409 "Loch Awe" rounds the big horseshoe curve between Tyndrum and the Bridge of ... (more)

BNSF 5913 East cast its reflection as an empty coal train winds its way along the Clark Fork River.

Northbound train of ballast wagons bound for Millerhill Yard, Edinburgh (Scotland's capital city) crosses over the River Clyde.

Northbound empty Freightliner Heavy Haul coal train on the West Coast Mainline (WCML).

A verdant patch of cultivated crops conspicuously contrasts with the natural brown color of the the eastern Washington "desert." Lying between the irrigated Columbia Basin Project lands and the f... (more)

Via Rail's Lotto Quebec liveried 6414 brings up the markers on train 64 at Wesleyville, Ontario. Also referred to as "the Turd", 6414 is one of many Via Rail F40's to wear a special scheme. I was ... (more)

With the sun already low on the horizon, a quartet of red and silver Dash 8s bring a hot 991 train downgrade into Mojave.

One of the more interesting consists on the former Missabe in recent years (BLE 909, IC 6006, DMIR 308) roll a loaded ore train south for Proctor on a crisp -6F morning.

The IC&E Fall Colors Excursion Train heads south along the Mississippi River at Lansing. With the impending sale to the CP, will this be the last year for these excursions?