Spring has come! Cherry trees are in full blossom along the Shiroishi river on this weekend. Class ED75 can be seen only on weekends in this area as all the regular trains have been replaced by EH... (more)

Good morning Pittsburgh. Ballast loads North across the OC Bridge

Salt Flat Sunrise- There is nothing like a sunrise in the desert, here a WB UP coal train on the former WP rolls across the Bonneville Salt Flats at dawn, breaking the funeral silence of the great... (more)

Mirrored in the still waters of the Stainforth & Keadby canal, 'Britannia' class Pacific No.70013 'Oliver Cromwell' drifts westbound into Crowle station in the warm glow of dawn. This was an excur... (more)

Union Pacific consolidation #618 crosses the Snake Creek Trestle during winter. This is the winning color photograph from Winterail 2009.

Following the ice storm that has crippled Southern Indiana and nearly the entire state of Kentucky, a CSX powered coal empty heads North along EVWR tracks towards Illinois through fog and the ice ... (more)

The detoured Coast Starlight has just passed through the Soledad Canyon road under crossing in the last rays of sun light

The Spencer local pushes thru a decent drift near MP 163, just west of Sexton. With the train traveling 10 mph the snow begins to pile up on the front of the locomotive. This train was loaded at H... (more)

PNWR 2316 "Albany" and PNWR 3051 provide the motive power for a late-running northbound Westsider as it crests Lewisburg Hill over a snow-covered landscape under a sunrise sky.

This wonderful, steam-wreathed apparition appeared just after sunrise as 'Duke of Gloucester' thundered eastbound away from Addingford cutting near Horbury Junction. About two miles behind the tra... (more)

Rolling across the Kamiaken Street grade crossing.

Sub-freezing conditions and some wild weather in the afternoon give away to blue skies and sun in the evening. The '04 has been drifting lately, if you couldn't already tell.

C71 backs through the yard at Keith, past the area where the city keeps their gravel trucks. The spur is rarely used, MOW equipment is usually kept on it.

Exhaust and mist intermingle as PM 1225 performs for the cameras during the Steam Loco Safari Tours charter.

It was foggy as I arrived in Leicester and I could only hope that getting 'up close' might be worthwhile. As the early sun filtered through the mist, 'Taw Valley' hurtled by heading for Rothley an... (more)