The Rio Grande Ski Train waits at the Fraser, Colorado, station platform at dusk on a snowy January 3, 2004. Soon, the train will depart for Winter Park to pick up a load of exhausted skiers ready... (more)

Waiting, wondering.........as the normal traffic passes Hunt Tower westbound.........will it happen? A bell sounds three times somewhere in town, and the magic begins! The car scanner picks up ano... (more)

All set up to shoot the DL Portland Turn here, as the leader came into the scene in the pitch dark I watched the ditch lights to position the locomotive, so I had no hint of the presence of an as-... (more)

Taken with special permission and under supervision of the George's Creek Railway. A Western Maryland Railway local has just pushed a loaded box car from a siding in Cumberland and pauses at the ... (more)

An eastbound BNSF stack train races the setting sun to its crew change at Winslow, seen here from the vantage point at West Winslow.

Approach Medium As the clouds race past at the bottom, an equally fast approaching Q619 lights up the XXB 123.3 as it is informed via the speed signal indication that they will be meeting ... (more)

Struggling up grade near Cotton Hill, export coal loads for Virginia make their eastward trek over the former Chesapeake & Ohio. Codeline is still in service here, a method of communication that i... (more)

BNSF 7237 leads a Southbound vehicle train through Sandcut, passing under the aging cantilever signal which dutifully stands guard over the crossovers.

D&RGW DVROM is ready to depart North yard for Roper shortly after sunset, in actuality WE 213 is built up and ready to depart Rook for Brewster with the WE's 2 ex-DRGW tunnel motors. The crew went... (more)

It's well after sunset and snow is beginning to fall on the evening of January 28, 2000. Amtrak No. 4, the Southwest Chief, leaves Wagon Mound, New Mexico in a dark cloud of snow. The mesa visible... (more)

These things started growing on me the minute I got into Deshler, the Toledo Sub is littered with them and hopefully they stay around much longer. So here is one protecting movements from the Will... (more)

On a hot afternoon in the southern San Joaquin Valley, SP 8327 East smokes it up as it attacks the Tehachapi grade. You can see the headlight of a Santa Fe eastbound following in the distance.

On a rainy, foggy night in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a Union Pacific coal train prepares to depart after changing crews. To the left of the train is the historic Cheyenne depot and shops in this April 19... (more)

An eastbound coal train’s caboose waits for departure on a rainy and foggy night in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in April 1984. To the right of the train is the Cheyenne Shops, still being used at this po... (more)