The detoured Coast Starlight has just passed through the Soledad Canyon road under crossing in the last rays of sun light

The Spencer local pushes thru a decent drift near MP 163, just west of Sexton. With the train traveling 10 mph the snow begins to pile up on the front of the locomotive. This train was loaded at H... (more)

A BNSF priority manifest works upgrade in a light snowfall, as a dwarf signal protects movement out of the siding at Tehachapi Summit.

What looks to be a deserted King Street Station at the height of the Friday evening commute is fitting for a week in which no less than 3,400 Seattle based WaMu employees learned they no longer ha... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr skims along the desert floor at the foot of Utah's Book Cliffs.

Snow, wind and cold. A westbound freight creeps out of the western portal of the Allegheny Tunnel, greeted by snow covered tracks. With the wind whipping, I was surprised I was able to keep the ... (more)

Alaska Railroads first passenger train of the morning is about to cross under the highway to Seward as the train itself makes its way to Seward. Interestingly the railroad is physically shorter th... (more)

Burr A wind chill of -30 made for a cold shoot, M337 is punching some small drifts.

CP Rails Holiday Train drifts past a crowd of admirers at picturesque Westport on the D&H. Falling snow completes this holiday scene shot at 20:15.

Series 500 "NOZOMI" running under very hard rain. It runs at about 160MPH so making a great splash.

Looking back to this day after Christmas, my notes show this as 1 of 2 trains photographed in 12 hours. Cold, wet, really hung-over and more than 3 hours away from a cushy leather couch, I rememb... (more)

Bearing the coal dust of a hard days work and strapped in, a worker cautiously releases the brake allowing a Top Gon to roll downhill under the coal loadout. In this modern day it's hard to believ... (more)

The morning sun sets the Kalamazoo River on fire as Amtrak's Pere Marquette heads to Chicago on a crisp fall morning.

The sunset is just about 30 minutes away as I make my way down Cold Spring Hill toward Marshfield Station after a long day on the mountain. The fading fall foliage is warmed by the golden light w... (more)

Morning mists off the Flathead River drift through the swaying grasses, impartial to the passing of Montana Rail Link's "Day Gas."