A westbound Union Pacific coal empty climbs out of the great plains working upgrade leaving Leyden, Colorado, as the sun rises on January 23, 2005. This location is at mile 14.5 miles west of Denv... (more)

Departing Alloy yard limits and crossing the Kanawha River at Deepwater, NS-rebuilt GE AC44C6M No. 4181 leads over 12,000 tons of West Virginia coal into the Virginian's Deepwater Tunnel. It's an ... (more)

Illinois tree tunnel
A Burlington Northern local approaches a “tree tunnel” as it slowly makes its way eastbound east of Shaws, Illinois, on June 10, 1984. BN operated this former Ch... (more)

A Union Pacific freight is about ready to enter into the east portal of the iconic Hermosa Tunnels.

Out of the Maw

Winter Dreamscape - Part 2

The prior Saturday I got this amazing image at State Line Tunnel: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/680266/

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Standing On a Bridge in Winslow, Arizona...

Such a fine sight indeed here at one of the most iconic locations in all of western railroading.

Looking west off of ... (more)

The snow is blowing over the rails and creating quite a scene on this cold, blustery day in central Illinois. A northbound empty wheat train enters the siding at Tuscola behind a UP AC4400CW-CTE. ... (more)

With both the D91 and 181 holding at Tolono for a northbound CN train, they are now finally on the move and are seen just west of Tolono racing each other. The 181 quickly pulled away from the D91... (more)

It's a Cold February night and passengers has already de-trained from the last schedule Valentines Dinner train for the evening. The foggy background starts to light up while the northbound NS 28... (more)

Westbound approaches Thurmond..... Coal empties for southern West Virginia ease into Thurmond, silhouetting the Chesapeake & Ohio depot and a bad order hopper car. Soon to be greeted by a c... (more)

Almost lost in the falling snow is an approaching westbound BNSF coal train crossing the long bridge over Lake Pend Oreille at Sandpoint, Idaho, on January 28, 2020. BNSF is busy working on the ap... (more)

The “blue hour” is turning to night at a frozen Frog Pond just west of Trout Creek, Montana, on January 25, 2020. As a light rain falls on the moisture-laden snow, fog forms off the open water... (more)

As amazing as this morning's sunrise was, it would be surpassed by today's sunset. The sky turned amazing shades of blues and reds which lasted for nearly 20 minutes. Luckily a coal train went th... (more)

Built between 1851 and 1877, the nearly five-mile-long Hoosac tunnel earned the nickname "The Bloody Pit" as it claimed the lives of over two hundred workers during its construction. One of the ... (more)

Lurking in the Distance: Coca-Cola ad-wrapped ACS-64 #606 leads Train #91, the Silver Star, past Elizabeth Station during a rain storm as the headlight from the ACS-64 leading No... (more)