Through the morning mist the sun begins to get the better of lingering morning clouds as Union Pacific's hotshot Brooklyn trailers snake up the western slope of the Tehachapi grade leaving Marcel.... (more)

Bridge Line Blues....While there paint might not be as snappy as CP's red or a Heritage Unit these two PanAm SD40's still nicely fill the void this day at East Worcester.

ALX 84132 Munich-Lindau runs through the Allgäu mountains

"By the light of the full moon" During the winter time, in the night of the full moon (and the nights before and after), the RhB (Rhaetian Railways) organize a special night-time trai... (more)

Moments just before sunset, BNSF ES44C4 No. 8254 leads the Tacoma, Washington to Omaha, Nebraska stack train as they depart the city of Boulder, Colorado on a cold March 24, 2016 evening.

The quiet calm of a Spring morning in the Tehachapi mountains is interrupted by a labored roar, synonymous with Tehachapi's Hills for the better part of 140 years, the unmistakable battle cry hera... (more)

One Norfolk Southerns bright heritage unit's, lead a loaded grain train to East Siding to stop so it can pick up some pushers off of T13, on a nice sunny, but, cold afternoon.

Talgo Murcia-Alicante-Valencia-Barcelona

The beautiful countryside of Oklahoma can be seen from this Drone shot of BNSF #7809 leading a east bound train down Curtis Hill

On top of the twisting curves needed to maintain a reasonable gradient leaving the floor of the Caliente Valley, Southern Pacific Civil Engineer William Hood's forces holed two tunnels through the... (more)

Eurocity 196 Munich-Zurich in the Allgäu mountains between Kempten and Lindau

In Search of Snow - Westbound at MP 292.5. MP 292.5 has become one of my favorite photo spots on the eastern side of the present-day Cumbres & Toltec line. It's a long, straight stretch o... (more)

"The Crossing"
Despite the warm glow of the afternoon sun, it's still quite cold as CSX 4405 (GP40-2) running as CSAO SA2 shoves across one of the few remaining manually operated swing... (more)

Various locomotives surround the diesel shops at the worlds largest railyard

Water at Lava. A D&RGW Flanger outfit rounds the Lava Loop and is about to pass the historic water tank as it heads west toward the high country.

The tank at Lava is no longer operationa... (more)