A trio of BNSF GE locomotives lead an eastbound autorack train across the Transcon, crossing the steel arch bridge over Canyon Diablo in the Arizona desert.

The New Road and the Old. In the 1870's a trail through the British Columbia Wilderness was constructed to offer ranchers a way to move cattle from the interior near Lillooet and Pemberton... (more)

Shortly after her arrival into Strasburg, N&W 611 looks upon the coaches she'll be pulling in the coming months on a series of special excursions during the railroads Reunion of Steam events!

Beneath the spectacular mountains of Glacier National Park, an eastbound Burlington Northern grain train crosses Two Medicine Bridge at East Glacier, Montana, on March 3, 1988. A trio of EMD SD40-... (more)

Delta Fire Aftermath. On September 5th, 2018, the Delta Fire ignited along Interstate 5, approximately two miles north of Lakehead, California. The fire grew rapidly, closing Interstate 5 a... (more)

Clinging to the edge of the rocks in the impressive Pikeville cut, empty ethanol train K428 snakes its way up the the former C&O Big Sandy Subdivision in the first light of day. The BC Rail barn o... (more)

Approach, Clear, Galaxy.

Railfan and Railroad's 2020 Center Spread 3rd Place Winner

Ancient Semaphores guard the the galactic core of the Milky Way as i... (more)

Just before sunset, BNSF AC4400CW No. 5618 approaches Pueblo Junction with an empty coal train under a rainbow in Pueblo, Colorado, on July 27, 2019. The train is about to come off the Spanish Pea... (more)

The sun pokes through the thick Virginia fog as K446 crosses the Copper Creek Viaduct.

With a fresh crew and a good warrant, BNSF 6305 begins the long journey across Colorado as it hauls 12,634 feet of empty coal cars. BNSF has increased their numbers of double empty coal trains ove... (more)

Due to a derailment and severe flooding in Baltimore, some reroutes were in order, including this R138 which had gone east previously. R138 heads west being rerouted during sunrise through foggy ... (more)

Iowa Interstate’s Rock Island heritage unit passes the 1893-built Rock Island/ Minneapolis & St Louis Railroad's Union Depot in Grinnell, IA.

Rounding through the Horseshoe Curve at Glenshire, a Union Pacific unit train heads down the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains to Reno.

As a series of severe thunderstorms build over the Colorado Front Range, BNSF 8253 leads the Denver, CO to Lincoln, NE manifest east through the small town of Roggen, CO on June 17th, 2019.

The setting sun lights up a passing thunderstorm, as ambient light from a brilliant Wyoming sky illuminates an empty potash train powered by a trio of Union Pacific EMD SD40-2s climbing Peru Hill ... (more)