A spectacular sunset provides the backdrop for an Amtrak long distance train, bound for New York and points north, captured here in Bensalem Township, just north of Philadelphia.

Nature's "Big... (more)

An Amtrak Acela Express rounds the bend, ducking the PRR era signal bridge, making a sunset approach into Eddystone, PA.

An Amtrak Acela Express, led by AMTK No. 2031, races west through Bensalem, Pennsylvania backlit against the glow of a rising Winter Sun. The train is en route to Philadelphia and is just shy of ... (more)

Polson Logging Company No. 2 casts its own reflection at sunset in the still water below while crossing the wood trestle over Stasek Slough in Idanville, OR. This former Southern Pacific branch l... (more)

Polson Logging Company 2-8-2 No. 2 captured in a Railroad: Polson Logging Co.
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-2
Location: Idaville, Oregon, USA
Locomotive #: 2
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: October 17, 2018

Last Light at Miller's Wash

Sometimes you just have to put the camera down and take it all in - fortunately, I did not take that advice for this double-header runby of Grand Canyon's excu... (more)

Southern Railway locomotives #4501 & 630 simmer in East Chattanooga, TN late at night, each awaiting their next assignment.

An Amtrak Acela Express descends a roller-coaster-like profile of the NEC through West Windsor, NJ just shy of Princeton Junction. The effect of the undulating ROW, captured at last light on a wa... (more)

Everett Railroad's 2-6-0 "Mogul" No. 11 travels southbound over the Halter Creek trestle in East Freedom, PA toward the company yard at Claysburg where the locomotive is stored. While this portio... (more)

A set of six SEPTA Silverliner IV's make their way over the Delaware River crossing the former Reading's West Trenton Railroad Bridge while en route to West Trenton, NJ. The masonry piers alongsi... (more)

Silhouette at Miller Wash

A silhouette, twice as nice, with both Grand Canyon 2-8-0 #29 and 2-8-2 #4960. Photo ops abound at Miller Wash in Coconino County, AZ, some 36 miles north of Wi... (more)

NKP #765 rumbles across the Lehigh River in Weissport, PA late in the evening on a return trip from Pittston, PA to Allentown via Jim Thorpe. Sponsored by Norfolk Southern.

The early morning commute begins in earnest as one of Amtrak's newest Cities Sprinters takes it's train across the Delaware River, into Pennsylvania, bound for Washington D.C.

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy's Nebraska Zephyr, having just departed Galesburg, IL, heads towards a late evening arrival in Aurora followed by a trek on the Racetrack before arriving back at Uni... (more)

Both engineer and fireman take a moment at a station stop while passengers board a late night train bound for Norfolk, Virginia.