Canadian Pacific's Holiday Train waits at control point Wood for permission from the Canadian National dispatcher to continue north along the Mississippi River. The lights of Dubuque, Iowa, shine ... (more)

With Train Festival 2011 just ended, an Iowa Interstate Railroad steam volunteer takes a drink in front no. 7081 in between night hostling duties in Rock Island. In the background is the Centennia... (more)

Iowa Interstate Railroad steam locomotive no. 6988 waits in the Rock Island yard while sister engine no. 7081 clears the track ahead during Train Festival 2011.

Iowa Interstate Railroad's Chinese-built QJ steam locomotive no. 6988 moves through the yard prior to an excursion at Train Festival 2011.

Union Pacific northbound freight train about to enter the Ostrander Tunnel just north of Kelso, Washington, shrouded by bigleaf maple trees at peak fall color. The photo was made while heading hom... (more)

Now that’s a curve! CLD Pacific Grain’s trackmobile pulls four newly-unloaded covered hoppers around the loop track at CLD’s O-Dock on the Willamette River in downtown Portland. The ... (more)

Union Pacific steam locomotive no. 844 leading the eastbound Portland Rose passenger special through Nolin, Oregon, in the Umatilla River Valley between Hinkle and Pendleton. The train is a... (more)

Union Pacific steam locomotive no. 844 leading the westbound Portland Rose passenger special over the John Day River in Oregon's Columbia Gorge. The locomotive and train are en route from C... (more)

Union Pacific's Oregon City Switcher has just pulled one boxcar off the "short track" at the Blue Heron Paper Company's mill in downtown Oregon City. At right, vehicles on state highway 99E wait a... (more)

Union Pacific's freight train from Hinkle, Oregon, to Roseville, California, passing under the former Southern Pacific signal bridge at North Cruzatte on moonlit night in the Oregon Cascades. The ... (more)

Union Pacific's Southern Pacific heritage unit, SD70ACe no. 1996, leading a six-car business train north in Oregon's Willamette Valley. The train is passing the IOOF cemetery near Harrisburg, wher... (more)

JR Hokkaido Super Oozora limited express train no. 7 running along the Pacific coast near Ombetsu at twilight on February 2, 2007. The rugged Hidaka Mountains, the backbone of southern Hokk... (more)

JR Hokkaido Airport Rapid passing the fishing hamlet of Zenibako at twilight on August 31, 2006, along the northern coast of Japan's northern island. The train originated at the New Chitose... (more)

Union Pacific's Clifton Local wraps around the horseshoe curve at top of Drive Canyon near Clifton, Arizona. The local ran six days per week out of Lordsburg, New Mexico, to serve Phelps Dodge's M... (more)

Portland & Western's Albany Hauler rolling north along Holly St. in Junction City, Oregon. The view is from the diver's seat of the photographer's 1999 Corolla. Typically a night run, the train op... (more)