42 miles northeast of Kingman, Ariz. on U.S. Route 66, the Truxton Flyover allows trains to change main tracks and take advantage of more favorable grades when coming from Needles, Calif., while r... (more)

You know when the skies are ready to open up. Luckily, the 15 job arrives before the storm and brings coil cars past US Steel's Edgar Thompson works. This interlocking is guarded by a signal bridg... (more)

I would say that the wildfire smoke was bad that season, but it was my first visit. For years I had wanted to photograph the MRL in "Big Sky Country" and now that I had finally made it h... (more)

Nearly a year later, 8133 waits bruised and battered in Altoona for attention. This loco was damaged at Hiram Ga after train 370 derailed in November of 2021.

A union railroad train crosses the Monongahela river with empty coke hoppers and coil cars in East Pittsburgh past a couple of critters hiding in the weeds. The green and yellow 45 ton in the back... (more)

The daily Allegheny Valley Railroad turn passes through East Schenley in spectacular fall color on its way back to Glenwood. This turn interchanges with Norfolk Southern at Island Ave yard.

Its a busy morning view on the backside of Von Storch shop as locomotives are attended to and the local passes through. They have picked up cars and are headed back towards Steamtown. How often ca... (more)

In March of 2019 I was part of a group of volunteers from the North Carolina Transportation Museum that went down to the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, GA to help prepare one of the last s... (more)

The Pocono turn is passing Bestway lumber in Cresco and leaning into the curve at the station. The crew is racing the sun and the clock after going all the way to Delaware Water Gap now headed wes... (more)

ATI 05 is returning to the Breckenridge plant with empty gons and a friendly crew. Allegheny Technologies, or ATI, has an operation that focuses on the production of stainless and specialty steels... (more)

ATI 02 is returning to the Breckenridge plant after shuffling cars at the nearby Natrona facility. Allegheny Technologies, or ATI, has an operation that focuses on the production of stainless and ... (more)

The Eastbound Empire Builder heads across Goat Lick Trestle towards Marias Pass. This area attracts big horn sheep and its easy to understand why they were featured as the logo for the Great North... (more)

Although it has been heavily photographed, the former ATSF F45 is still worth another look, especially after a summer afternoon rain shower.

The Turtle Creek Industrial Railroad (reporting mark TCKR) was a short line freight railroad that operated in western Pennsylvania between the boroughs of Export and Trafford, where it connected t... (more)

The Penn Central heritage unit slogs up the grade in DPU service as a loaded coal train descends Horseshoe curve outside Altoona, PA on a gorgeous fall morning.