Reading & Northern's southbound freight train NRFF rolls along Greenwood Lake near Hometown, PA with a pair of clean SD40-2s on a beautiful early fall day in October 2017.

With Oregon's Mount Hood dominating the background (over 45 miles to the west) a BNSF loaded grain train snakes its way though the Columbia River Gorge near Maryhill, Washington.

A UP stack train splits the searchlight signals near Ligurta, AZ on its eastbound trek along UP's Sunset Route. [January 2018]

A westbound BNSF loaded crude oil train passes through the numerous tunnels and along the Columbia River near Cook, WA.

Reading & Northern freight WHFF led by SD40-2 3050 rolling south through a wintry scene at McAdoo, PA.

A westbound NS empty coal train rolls through the small rural community of Otes, TN on a winter day in 2012.

Just after sunset, an eastbound UP intermodal train races across the southern Arizona desert as it splits the classic intermediate signals just west of Wellton.

An eastbound UP freight rolls under the classic signal bridge near Dome, AZ. These old signals that date back to the Southern Pacific days are nearing retirement as replacements are now in place n... (more)

VLIX F7 8016, decorated as Clinchfield #800, leads the 75th running of the Clinchfield/CSX Santa Train southbound passing the north end of the siding at Trammel, VA.

VLIX SD45 2024, decorated as "Clinchfield 3632" leads the northbound deadhead move of the 2017 CSX Santa Train by the south end of the siding at Miller Yard on its trek to Shelby, KY.

A pair of R&N SD50s bring train PNFF through downtown Jim Thorpe, PA [Oct. 2016]

A pair of R&N SD38s power a export coal train in the process of being loaded near Minersville, PA. [Oct. 2016]

Two BNSF GEs shove on the rear of a southbound freight train as it climbs Tehachapi Pass at Bealville, CA just after sunrise on a beautiful spring morning.

A peaceful spring afternoon in 2013 finds rear end pushers on an eastbound CSX loaded coal train drifting by Ben Arnold's trackside home near Gate City, VA. The trains by here are much more scarce... (more)

Sunset at Winslow, AZ finds a westbound BNSF intermodal train leaving town for its nocturnal run across the desert to Los Angeles as two eastbound trains approach Winslow for a crew change.