Blue hour crossing of Logan Hill
At 9:37 p.m. on June 24, 2022, a southbound BNSF coal load lights up the four track main line that surmounts Logan Hill north of Bill in Wyoming’s Pow... (more)

Through Running. New York & Atlantic Railway SW1001 no. 101 is seen leading train RS-40 out from under the Maspeth Industrial Center as it works its way down the LIRR Bushwick Branch. Y... (more)

SAGINAW TX June 4 1978 — BN (CS) SD7 814 awaits a call to duty. EMD built the unit in February 1953. The SD7 is sub-lettered for Colorado and Southern. It was renumbered to 6074 before being ret... (more)

The early morning sun greets a Santa Fe helper set, lead by ATSF 5022, as they push hard on an eastbound manifest train as it works its way around the famous Tehachapi Loop.

WCRR 9124 leads the Santa's Express out of the West Chester station.

Rio Grande and Missouri Pacific locomotives rest beneath the large grain elevator at Kansas City Southern’s Knoche Yard in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 8, 1985. Rio Grande utilized the KCS... (more)

"Conveying Retirement"

As the sunlight fades away on February 3rd, 2024, Amtrak MP15DC 537 sits coupled to a cut of retired MFS-40 Conveyor Hopper cars at Cedar Hill Yard in... (more)

SD75M 8266, already lettered and numbered in anticipation of the merger with BN. leads SD45-2 5801 and an SD40-2 into the yard at Belen with an eastbound intermodal.

Amtrak P955 passes M433, which is being looked at by yard employees after finding out they had a car on the ground. You can slightly see the autorack infront of the high top gon shifted to the sid... (more)

NS 954 aka the BNSF OCS returns from the Masters at Augusta.

The hills are blooming from the rainfall of 2019, as the Gaud Local and it's string of Tanks pass the hillsides of Emma Wood State Park. It wasn't until the winter of 2022, 2023 that we had tha... (more)

Here is a good look at DODX 39497, the Department of Defense's nuke cask heavyweight flatcar designed to carry spent nuclear fuel rods. It stopped by the yard in Denver for a few days.

I was happy to find a GP38N I hadn't photographed yet. Union Pacific 693, originally Missouri Pacific 2193, is coupled to UP 633. A very good looking set of units together.

My brother Tom photographs a snowman that is seemingly waving to a westbound BNSF grain train grossing Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on a rainy January 26, 2020. On the cusp of snow was the w... (more)

A westbound intermodal train waits for permission to proceed.