Ribs and rivets
Incredibly bright rays of a desert sunrise at Mounds, Utah, light up the aluminum sides of a coal train on October 6, 2009.

Rolling north through the Kentucky countryside, the Worthville turn heads for Cincinnati as it passes one of the many horse farms lined with white fences.

EMD styling combines wonderfully with classic warbonnet colors as seen on the nose of Santa Fe EMD F7A No. 347C in Old Sacramento at the California State Railroad Museum on March 11, 2001. AT&SF N... (more)

The silhouette of a US&S color light signal stands out against the reddish sky of an afternoon sunset at the south end of Standing Rock siding. This scene won't be around much longer though, as t... (more)

CN has been storing alot of their power due to the downturn in business and the deliveries of the new 3000's AC GEVO's. The CN SD60's has been one of the classes getting stored. Lots of these unit... (more)

BL2 close up

A eastbound manifest/stack train claws up Kicking Horse Pass. The train has just exited the Lower Spiral Tunnel. The extremely slow speed of the train allowed me to shoot a vertical and horizontal... (more)

WW&F's No. 9's steam dynamo in action.

Train 187 rumbles through Coosa Tunnel as fog from overnight rain lingers inside.

A very heavy Canadian Pacific manifest/stack train charges up the 2.2% Kicking Horse Pass. The train has just exited the Lower Spiral Tunnel. The CP mainline is passing thru YOHO National Park. I... (more)

This tie was last replaced in 1962. The date nail tells the story. This is one rugged hunk of wood, bearing 54 Minnesota winters.

The sun continues to dip lower in the western sky as a southbound empty sand train from Fort Collins, Colorado to Eola, Illinois dips through the "sag" just south of Berthoud, Colorado o... (more)

CN 2962 is dropping down off the highest point on the Canadian National Railway. The grade here is a steep 3%, it takes skill to bring a 50 car loaded coal train down a grade this steep. This is... (more)

HZRX 3134 charges northbound along Riverview Road near Peninsula, Ohio with a CVSR caboose charter bound for Rockside Road station. This locomotive is filling in for HZRX 8420 which was involved i... (more)