The serenity of a peaceful Midwestern scene is broken by a BNSF stack train as it rockets towards Argentine Yard, and points west on a humid late summer morning.

It's going to be a hot and humid August day and as the sun rises, it hits the cool valley air beneath Moodna Trestle and creates flash fog that lasts about 15 minutes. During this brief period, th... (more)

Extra Yadkin Valley Railroad power lays over at Donaha in the wee hours of the morning. Up front EX-SP SD40T-2 #6003 and far back EX-CN GP40-2LW #9554. The mixing of fog coming from the Yadkin Riv... (more)

The Buck Local slowly creeps up Atwood Street in Longmont, CO as snow continues to fall covering streets and neighborhoods in the area. After pulling passed the Short Transfer Switch, the Buck Loc... (more)

The number 7 subway escapes Manhattan with a load of commuters leaving the Empire State, the Chrysler and the Citibank buildings behind.

Santa Fe eastbound train 804 pauses for a crew change at Seligman, Arizona, on December 28, 1972, durning a brief snow squall. Locomotives on Extra 4551 East: 4551-4562-4530-9842 (SD24/SD24/SD24/R... (more)

One hundred and seventeen years ago 52322 emerged from the Horwich works of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. In this idyllic setting simmering in the late summer greenery of deepest Derbyshire,... (more)

Steam - and Christmas is four days off.

2TE116U locomotive with oil train appears out of the mist near Bezhetsk city at the backwoods of central Russia in Tver region. 2TE116 is a main line diesel locomotive for heavy freight trains. 2T... (more)

Alco RSD-15 and GP35 3339 are on an eastbound Speno rail grinder work train running against the current of traffic at Nelson, Arizona, March 22, 1973. This location is on the old Kingman District ... (more)

It's a starry night on the busy ex-N&W Pocahontas mainline as helpers sit patiently at Maybeury, W.Va., as a eastbound permeates the nighttime air while silhouetting the signals and foreground loc... (more)

A Christmas Eve snowfall brightens the scene and spirits while waiting for the train.

NS Illinois Terminal Heritage unit 1072 awaits its next stone train assignment at Dyers Quarry.

Another winter night is settling in over the Clark Fork Valley as a BNSF coal train heads west through Trout Creek, Montana. Headlights pierce a low, rolling fog that is beginning to form amid the... (more)

The Great Salt Lake... one of the most beautiful photo places I have visited in my life. At dusk, you can sometimes see two trains following one that's already on the dam. When I first saw the lig... (more)