NS-owned Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line SW1500 a long way from home switches industries along the Tennessee River near DeButts Yard in Chattanooga.

Southbound manifest passes through Hawthorne, once a busy rail junction, en route to Tampa.

A great afternoon for fishing and train watching below Chickamauga Dam on the Tennessee River.

Colorful all-SD40-2 manifest heads into the cut at Dallesport, with the Columbia River, the Gorge, the tiny Port of Klickitat and the high spur to the port's modest industrial park all visible in ... (more)

Empty garbage train blasts out of the tunnel far below the popular rest area on this sunny Laboar Day

Z-train skirts the Columbia eastbound as it passes beneath this incredibly windy vantage high above the Lewis and Clark Highway.

Another day's garbage train heading back empty through Dallesport and points west on the Columbia River.

A beautiful setting for a less-than-beautiful train. Eastbound garbage train crosses the high fill at Chamberlain Lake east of Lyle.

Portland-bound stack train glides through Mosier in the Columbia Gorge on a gorgeous September afternoon

Westbound grain train charges out of the Dallesport yard into a perfect afternoon sun, passing the slide fences in a rock cut

Another San Joaquin runs along the Carquinez Straits with the sugar mill and the massive Carquinez Bridge in the background

After slogging through sidewalks piled high with just-plowed snow, I was rewarded with the warm glow of late afternoon sun on the BNSF engine terminal on this cold, cold day in early January.

Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks MP15s slowly pull a CSX coal train through the unloading facility at McGuffey Island

Westbound manifest on the CSX Tallahassee Subdivision crosses the Suwannee River at Ellaville under a bright sky and high moon. Photo taken from a canoe while my seven-year old son held us steady... (more)

Conductor of westbound CSX manifest waits on the Gretna spring switch for an impending eastbound hotshot. Clean BNSF GEVO unit in the piney woods of north Florida!