Although steam is an every day occurrence, these two crew members still have to stop and stair in awe at such an awesome site. A Lerro Productions event at the Virginia Museum of Transportation.

Engineer Owen Hawkins Jr. - Man and Machine. A Lerro Productions event at the Virginia Museum of Transportation.

Engineer Owen Hawkins Jr. lights up a cigar while N&W 1218 simmers quietly, awaiting her next assignment. A Lerro Productions event at the Virginia Museum of Transportation.

Western Maryland Carl Franz photo Freight at it crosses over the Potomac River in some really serious pea soup thick fog. Photo taken from high atop Wills Mountain

A pair of SD70M-2s speed east at track speed, just east of Swan Landing with M304's train.

On the Hegang Coal Railway in northeastern China, an afternoon passenger train creates a traffic jam as it steams through a busy level crossing. The steam in the foreground is from a food vendor's... (more)

An SY crosses a bridge above a busy street and market as it arrives at Ganshui to collect a train of empties for Qingqihai on the Datong coal railway.

Amtrak's eastbound Cardinal, train no. 50, arrives for a flagstop at Thurmond, West Virginia, in the heart of the New River Gorge.

With the truss bridge over the Truckee River standing tall, UP 844 battles up the 1.6 percent grade through the Truckee River Canyon, at a location known as Iceland.

Mirrored in the still waters of the Stainforth & Keadby canal, 'Britannia' class Pacific No.70013 'Oliver Cromwell' drifts westbound into Crowle station in the warm glow of dawn. This was an excur... (more)

California Dreaming! A wonderful chase of the SP Santa Cruz local during the week of Winterail in 1997 turned up this trio of still SP lettered units, and many fine images. This one however just ... (more)

In the epitome of storm light, or lack thereof, an empty coal train races a powerful spring storm across the eastern Wyoming prairie on BNSF's Orin Subdivision. Within minutes of taking this phot... (more)

Acela #2007, arriving from Boston, captured in a glow of light during a frigid and brisk Winter snow storm.

Alaska Railroads first passenger train of the morning is about to cross under the highway to Seward as the train itself makes its way to Seward. Interestingly the railroad is physically shorter th... (more)

Rolling across the Kamiaken Street grade crossing.