Trespassers swarm the track, causing the northbound Amtrak Surfliner to slow its approach tremendously. Amazingly, some stayed on the track until the train was a 100 yards away.

The Closest of Calls!: After building their train and pulling through the wye, the OCS train comes to a brief stop on a quiet portion of Sixth Street. As it sits in the street, a bold ... (more)

Don't try and beat a train! As the Finger Lakes Railway GS-2 approached Solvay, NY a motorist cut in front of the train at the grade crossing for a factory entrance. Luckily, the car escaped being... (more)

Man on SEPTA Train: What was he thinking? As SEPTA Trenton Line Train 707 was about to leave the station to turn after ending its run, a man started running after it and got the engineer ... (more)

“I’ve just got to get there.” That’s what a friend of mine says sarcastically whenever he encounters someone in a hurry for no apparent reason. This is a good example of it. The road to Ea... (more)

It's a gorgeous summer evening as a young woman makes a quick dash in front of the returning B765 local on Warren & 7th street after a single run up to the mill. The Sunday crew commonly makes ... (more)

A mad dash to beat the Wisconsin & Southern train at Janesville.

Trainsurfers in Russia. This fun is very common in the Moscow region and to a lesser extent in St. Petersburg. In other regions of our vast country trainsurfers practically does not occur. The... (more)

Wrong door exiting

Extremely unsafe practice of jumping into mainline avoiding the platform to get down from the train even though warned many times

I could have been much worse. On a rainy Thursday in Fort Collins, Colorado, the driver turned right as the train was approaching and missed the road, turning instead too soon and ending up on the... (more)

Ya Can't Fix Stupid! One of the hazards of street running is coming across people who aren't all that bright and can't seem to see there's a train within feet of their vehicles. Such was the case ... (more)

What a son tells his mother early on Sunday morning - "Mom, your car is stuck on the railroad track in downtown Duluth." Fortunately her insurance company paid the healthy fee to have it... (more)

A couple of local kids take a big risk by cutting across the tracks in front of CSX J767 at Decoursey Avenue in Latonia. I was waiting to photograph the train splitting the signals when these 2 hu... (more)

These things just seem to happen to me as I prepare for a shot. Apparently this gentleman feels safe enough to walk around the gate and ignore the approaching train. I'd hate to trip at this point... (more)

Look how close this was to a Darwin award nominee. The locomotive is already over the grade crossing.