20th August is a public holiday in Hungary, when stores and universities are closed and there are multiple ceremonies and public speeches around the country, complete with magnificent fireworks af... (more)

The Big Hill! The name originally given the "Big Hill" was the original 4.5% eastbound grade out of Field, BC, that directly assaulted the Continental Divide, while a better solu... (more)

The setting Nebraska sun illuminates the side of a Antelope Mine, WY coal train that is bound for MidAmerican Energy (Lousia) Ottumwa, IA. With over 19,000 tons on the drawbar, six AC traction mo... (more)

After waiting for a few trains to pass, CP 7010 continues the trip east through Banff National Park near Castle Junction, AB on September 28th, 2022.

A grain train rolls east down the BNSF Clovis Subdivision as a thunderstorm moves across the distant sky in Bodega, New Mexico.

The eastbound Rocky Mountaineer catches the final day's sun on the outskirts of Banff National Park as it throttles into one of the few linear sections of Canadian Pacific main near Stephen... (more)

The trinity of the UP Steam Program for so long, UP 4014 (4-8-8-4), UP 844 (4-8-4) and UP 3985 (4-6-6-4) look out of the Steam Shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming. In November of 2022, UP 3985 was donated ... (more)

RegioExpress leaves Ardez station heading Chur in fresh snow.

A Canadian Pacific export grain train for the West Coast has just crossed into British Colombia from Alberta during a slow up-hill climb near Stephens, B.C., in the late wildfire smoke-induced Can... (more)

A taconite pellet train is being unloaded on the famous Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Railroad's Dock 6 in Duluth, MN. As the sun rises at 0700 hrs, the train catches enough light to provide this m... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio 1309 is an H-6 "Mallet" with a wheel configuration of 2-6-6-2. It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1949 to haul coal from the fields in West Virginia. It only served ... (more)

After two days with about one meter of fresh snow, a wonderful day breaks. Shortly after seven in the morning the first train from Poschiavo just has reached Alp Grüm on 2091 meter above sea leve... (more)

Kalte Rinne viaduct of the Semmering railway in Breitenstein, Lower Austria.

CPs annual holiday train sits on the main track at Choate BC as CP 302 passes on the siding. This section of the line is directional running so 01H running ACOT was a good treat especially meeting... (more)

Sunrise over Denver Provo bound from the sunrise of a new day over Denver.