Quiet morning at Ferrosur Puebla Yard, as the shift change occurs, Popocatepetl volcano wakes up with the now usual, daily volcanic ash fumarole.

Approaching Himes through the red rocks
BNSF’s Cowley turn out of Greybull, Wyoming, scrurries through some remarkable scenery between Spence and Himes on the morning of June 26, 2023... (more)

Westbound California Zephyr running through Byers Canyon is just spectacular. It seems very few trains run through there now. Still, a very scenic ride between Denver, Colorado and San Francisco, ... (more)

The Big Hill! The name originally given the "Big Hill" was the original 4.5% eastbound grade out of Field, BC, that directly assaulted the Continental Divide, while a better solu... (more)

Rock Sheds White Canyon, what might be the most treacherous section of railroad in North America. Rock Sheds protect the CN railroad from this crumbling mountain. All night long there is ... (more)

This region, which is located in the southwest of Iran, is known as Death Valley, which passes through the heart of the Zagros Mountains Mohammad Ismail Cesari (1986 March 15,Saturday); One of t... (more)

Transcon stacks snake along Lake Superior's north shore on an early winter morning, shot from an angle I was finally able to get after scouting for a long time. Just around the corner is the locat... (more)

An intermodal train crosses the stunning Canyon Diablo bridge heading west on the BNSF Segliman Subdivision.

K-37 class 493 walks the tightrope through the Animas River Canyon with train 464 back to Durango. K-37s were the largest of the narrow gauge 2-8-2s and pre-D&SNG were not allowed to operate on th... (more)

A BNSF grain train curves by the townsite of Lombard, Montana, while heading eastward on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision. The train is tracing the Missouri River, and is passing the Milwa... (more)

In the early 1960s, The Rio Grande hired Morrison-Knudsen to build a branchline from Brendel, Utah to a potash mine South of Moab. The 35.77-mile line was completed in 1963. The scenery on the lin... (more)

Cumberland Mountain, TN The four and half miles of 2.5% grade make this one of the toughest grades on any mainline in America. The west slope presents an almost equally tough 2.3% grade. C... (more)

From this vantage, Tunnel 14 appears almost to be a horseshoe curve as an eastbound stack train negotiates the serpentine canyon.

Every trip has a "must-have" shot. A scene that one looks at for a long time before they travel to a new location. Moab, Utah had been a place my wife and I have long wanted to visit wit... (more)

BNSF’s Cowley turn out of Greybull, Wyoming is running northbound through otherworldly landscape along the Bighorn River between Spence and Himes on the morning of June 24, 2019.