Westbound B&O CHTT, the "Chicago Trailer Train," was rounding a curve east of Paw Paw, WV as the morning mist lifted in the Potomac River Valley on June 1, 1986.

A southbound Amtrak train pauses at the Poughkeepsie passenger station. (For a color version, click the flickr link on my profile page.)

Long after presents opened, food eaten, wine drank, and friends departed, a lonely train cuts the silence; rolling under the giant counterweight of the Salmon Bay Bridge

The EOT of a long manifest train passes under the signal bridge at Sideling Hill under a clear moonlit sky.

Empties for Russell have just left Hinton, following the banks of the New River west through the Sandstone Falls. Appropriately titled the "New River Subdivision", this empty coal drag will hug th... (more)

Nothing quite evoked the word 'atmosphere' as much as when the great wooden barn doors were opened for us at Huludao MPD to reveal this glorious sight. The soft sighing of locomotives in light ste... (more)

Dreaming - Looking like something straight out of R.E.M. The CN 2336's nuclear numberboards and headlights pierce extreme fog, in the thick of a humid spring night.

Waiting in the fog to let an InterCity pass by.

Saturation- A cold November rain falls on a 3rd shift that's just getting started. Night's like these is good to be the Engineer. By dawn, this crews Switchmen will be wet to the core.

In the days when I used fil. Cochrane heads up to Andrews House with last train of the day

An Invisible Inferno. The 4 red aspects interacting with a heavy fog creates a blazing silhouette of a C&O cantilever at Hilldale. an 826 second exposure @ f5.0, ISO 200.

Conductor Cook- Far away from punching tickets on Penn Central to Metro North commuter trains into Grand Central, Conductor Cook has been there and done that. 2 years before retirement, he braves ... (more)

A northbound BNSF manifest rolls through the eerie fog of a winter morning along the Puget Sound. Another of my favorites from a series of Black and White conversions.

Black Card Trickery. With advance warning that a short Q302 approached Hilldale, I devised a plan. A bit of exposure pre-train to silhouette the signal, a black card (ok, a piece of cardboard) i... (more)