The sun sets on the BMLP... in more ways than one. With the end of operations near, the isolated electrified coal railroad runs around the clock taking the last loads of coal from the Peabody Kay... (more)

A loaded BMLP coal train races across the Navajo Nation Reservation toward the power plant in Page in sweet late afternoon light.

Empties race eastward across the Navajo reservation toward the Peabody Kayenta Mine.

The Southwest Cheif races across the great nothingness...

A monster 2.5 mile long empty coal train stakes it's way around the massive horseshoe curves on Trinchera Pass on the rails of the old Colorado & Southern on a late summer morning.

Sunset fades away over desolate northern Kansas as a Kyle westbound wanders across the prarie with a long train for Limon, Colorado in tow. The classic Southern Pacific tunnel motors are reflecte... (more)

With an unbelievable lashup of three Southern Pacific tunnel motors, a Kyle Railroad westbound rounds the curve at Almena, KS as storm clouds loom over the prarie behind the train.

The massive walking dragline at the Bear Run coal mine in Dugger Indiana towers over an Indiana Southern train that is slowly making it's way around the balloon track, getting loaded up with Indi... (more)

A threatening sky looms behind the Bear Run Coal Mine near Dugger, Indiana as an Indiana Southern train catches the sunset's warm glow as it slow loads with black gold.

With the sun beginning to set, Q693 ducks beneath the classic C&O cantilever at EM Cabin on the Big Sandy Subdivision.

Hartwell Railroad's out of place EJ&E SD38 navigates a former Southern Railway branchline in North Georgia on a dreary winter afternoon.

The Belton Job winds it's way around a tight S Curve outside of Anderson as it crawls back toward Belton on a dreary winter day. The paint adds a nice splash of color to the dark scene.

Pickens U18B No. 9503 bellows smoke after being fired up at the beginning of a wet, dreary day of work for the Belton Job.

Leaving the Norfolk Southern interchange in Anderson, the Pickens Belton Job ducks under a bridge wedged between old buildings in downtown beginning its trip back to Belton where the job's day be... (more)