power for the westbound garbage train passes through the tunnel below the Lake Chamberlain rest stop as the rest of the train is strung out over the causeway all the way back to the town of Lyle.

One of many westbound grain trains heads down the Columbia River gorge toward Vancouver and Portland

One of a parade of coal trains heads toward Denver on the Moffitt, high above Eldorado Canyon State Park

Southbound (empty) Tropicana juice train climbs the grade (yes, a grade in Florida!) past Lochloosa siding south of the village of Island Grove.

NS manifest crosses the Tennessee River into Chattanooga's DeButts Yard as my family enjoys the cool and beautiful fall weather.

CSX coal train behind new BNSF power struggles out of the fog, past the old Whiteside Tunnel and up Raccoon Mountain on a cool fall morning.

After setting out, CN/GT train 292 departs Durand Yard as a beautiful midwest sunset heralds the last light of an otherwise cloudy, rainy day.

Outbound Empire Builder has just departed King Street minutes earlier and glides through downtown Seattle and BNSF Balmer Yard as the sun re-emerges from a brief downpour. Several geese at right ... (more)

Emerging into a "sucker hole" of sweet afternoon light, this westbound stack train halts at the old Skykomish depot to wait for a meet with an eastbound manifest.

One of CSX's newest SD70ACe units leads a string of auto racks across the NS at Crawford on a rare visit to Florida.

Q455 heads south past the Palatka ACL depot, a National Historic Landmark,after setting out at Pecan Yard on a bright, warm "winter" morning in Florida.

Fire train led by Ex-Navy 44-tonner 100 tends to dumped firebox ashes while shadowing Flagg Coal 0-4-0T No. 75 and her excursion train during the museum's Month of Steam. Fire train consist also ... (more)

Local 61G passes the decrepit Southern Rwy freight house at Cordele behind a matched pair of ex-CR SD50s.

AC4400CW 91 on the point of Lakeland, Florida bound coal train waiting on the siding for the northbound juice train.

Unique view of Florida Gulf Coast GP7 at speed on a weekend excursion.