While making my way to the GorgeRail 2013 event I stopped to snap this eastbound rolling through an orchard west of the town of Hood River. Viewed from Ruthton Park overlook looking west.

A westbound BNSF coal train passes through Barr, Colorado, at dawn on December 2, 2010. As the DPUs pass by, thin clouds are turning pastel shades of yellow, orange and red by the rising winter su... (more)

The Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL "Z" train thunders through Sandcut in perhaps the final sunset shot I will capture with the aging cantilever signal as the centerpiece.

This remaining B&O tower at Leipsic gives us reminder of days passed. Guarding this diamond XN tower once protected the interlocking in conjunction with the Nickel Plate RR. Another days sun arise... (more)

With golden afternoon light basing the scene, No. 44W drops downgrade through Kumis, Va., along the rails of the former Virginian Railroad with a lengthy grain train in tow. Spring has officially ... (more)

UP 844 sits on display at CSRM on a warm summer night

91132 heads northbound towards York on the ECML at Heck Ings with 1N27 17:30 London Kings Cross - Newcastle.

Expecting a leased SD 90MAC leading, I get a surprise, VTR 308 wearing the VTR red & white scheme on the point of an ethanol train! From the land of various paint schemes, this is a favorite of mi... (more)

Nevada Northern 4-6-0 No. 40 hauls a short freight over Steptoe Creek fill near East Ely, Nevada, at sunrise on February 4, 2007.

K-36 #481 crosses the Animas River on The "High Bridge" South of Tacoma

As darkness descends and a front with heavy rain approaches, Norfolk Southern westbound manifest train No. 15T blasts into the community of Wytheville, Va., behind NS' Honoring Our Veterans locomo... (more)

A cold Ely sunset. With most of the sane photographers already headed back to their hotels for hot showers, I risk the loss of some critical anatomical hardware as I shoot Nevada Northern's... (more)

Appropriate, given the river this railroad closely parallels next to the Mexican border, Rio Grande tunnel motor 5372 leads the CXCIT stack train into the wilds of West Texas shortly after sunrise... (more)

Out of the most "uneventful" winter in the Puget Sound, comes a stunning sunset. Finally, passengers aboard the Cascades get to see something in the sky other than gray or black.

It's great when you arrive at a beautiful winter scene, get out of your car and randomly hear a train coming less than a mile away. What's not great is walking up to the edge of a river to get in... (more)