High above DRGW's highline, DRGW 493 with a mixed freight heads south around the Horseshoe

Train On The Rocks. BNSF Railway 7289(ES44DC) was trailing on the lead of the second W-SBDSBD that arrived in San Clemente, California trains loaded with rip rock and ballast. Due to "earth... (more)

Three Wishes
I had three wishes and I got all three, Aspen Leaves in Fall splendor, Mountains in purple majesty, and that golden specular highlight high country Fall light. P... (more)

Steamscape: Victorian wood-burners in the Los Pinos Valley. A pair of narrow gauge, 1875 Baldwin wood-burners team up to pull a vintage freight past the Los Pinos Tank (MP 325.50), toward C... (more)

Our Beagle Minturn (yes, he is named after the town at the foot of Rio Grande’s steep crossing of Tennessee Pass) intently watches Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr rumbling through Little ... (more)

BNSF Z-STOCHC6 and UP MWCRV both approach Caliente from either side of the Horseshoe Curve.

BESW rolls down grade with loads of granite

Manitou & Pike Peak Railway’s new trainsets are now cogging their way to the 14,115-foot summit of Pikes Peak. Built by Stadler Rail of Switzerland, each trainset consists of a diesel-electric l... (more)

A photo-special with the last operable SAR Garratt-locomotive runs near Riverside.

The three high-speed trainsets holding world speed records are reunited for the 40th anniversary of the TGV

The 8am train from Antonito,CO nears its destination of Chama,NM behind K-36 #489 just after a brief snow/sleet storm

One of the neatest experiences of the Victorian Iron Horse Roundup was the chance to ride (and for some, sleep) in an authentic narrow gauge Pullman car. Denver & Rio Grande 470 was built by Pull... (more)

The Soviet Decapod L5141 is awaiting departure from the Kolomiya station.

Just three people are visible in this image (if you look close) on a Monday afternoon during the summer. Normally this scene would be flooded with people, but shows how the COVID-19 pandemic rock... (more)