It's Getting Cold Up Here

The first thick blanket of snow has fallen on the Altoona area, and NS is as busy as ever with extra intermodal traffic ahead of the holidays. This place ne... (more)

As smoke from the raging Thomas Fire fills the sky, UP 9906 leads a rail train south out of Carpinteria for Seacliff where it will meet Amtrak 769 before continuing on to Oxnard. The sun, trying i... (more)

Three-to-four and this coming-off-the-Columbia-Sub stack and its hangin-ten-high crew wait for a favorable approach at Latah Junction as the clouds drift swift overhead on a quickening breeze and ... (more)

On Halloween morning, the air is crisp and cool along the Colorado Plateau in Northern Arizona as the sun begins to rises behind the thin layer of cloud cover. The sky changes from a flat grey to ... (more)

While I have taken more than a few shots from this location of passenger trains this is the first freight I have managed to catch crossing one of the most iconic bridges on the Alaska RR. And it a... (more)

The colors are wildly ablaze in the Last Frontier in the waning days of summer signaling the end of passenger season on the Alaska Railroad. This year I went back for another shot at the Turn on ... (more)

Empty grain rolls up the Hi-line just east of West Glacier, Montana, late in the day. The train is running on approaches, and will slide in the next siding. He will roll around two westbounds, and... (more)

CN C44-9WLs 2506 and 2512 depart Henry House with train M304 after meeting a pair of westbound trains. This is my 5000th photo on www.railpictures.net!

At the end of another gorgeous day in Lombard Canyon on July 2, 2017, a BNSF coal train enters the siding at Lombard on Montana Rail Link. The Missouri River is calm as the canyon settles in for a... (more)

Crossing Nason Creek, Five engines with No. 5792 leading lift a westbound BNSF Z up the eastside of the Cascade Mountains.

With the sun just minutes from falling behind the horizon, BNSF 6631 leads an eastbound stack train across the Arizona desert nearing its crew change point at Winslow.

Although the day is almost over, traffic is busy. A pair of SD40N's work YGR22R at the west end of the yard as an eastbound manifest comes in on Track 3 while three more trains wait to depart the ... (more)

In June 1996, UP ran an Officer's Special to inspect their purchase: The Southern Pacific Railroad. Here the train heads east near Shed 10 on Donner Pass with a spotless 90MAC and AC6000 for power... (more)

A Norfolk Southern merchandise freight train proceeds eastbound between Clymers and Burrows, IN on the former Wabash RR line during a beautiful evening.

Eastbound Mixed Manifest passes through the town of Wishram and the BNSF Yard. A mix of cars along with a Herzog train sit in the yard. Celilo Drawbridge crosses the Columbia River in the backgrou... (more)