As fog burns off the tops of the mountains of Eastern Kentucky on an absolutely gorgeous fall morning, a loaded coal train makes its way across the Cumberland Valley Subdivision, passing the L&N ... (more)

With daybreak only minutes behind, a northbound grain train grinds its way up the Pokey as low clouds linger on the dark mountains of West Virginia.

With fog settled over the hills of southern Indiana, a clear signal beams through the mist in Brownstown. The Indiana Subdivision is a holdout from a long bygone era. Over one hundred miles of c... (more)

The first light of day breaks over the Blue Ridge Grade as a westbound intermodal takes a clear signal from the classic N&W intermediates that have watched this historic piece of railroad tucked ... (more)

Two eastbounds race out of downtown Indianapolis into the rising sun, barely catching the light in two separate sucker holes simultaneously as they pass by the classic NYC intermediate signal brid... (more)

Over one hundred cars of Kentucky black diamonds move at a mere crawl as the two GE's up front and pusher on the rear give it all they've got get their train over the misty mountain at Chaska, Ten... (more)

One of only a handful of the ex Southern highhood GP38-2's works the "tank farm" south of Greensboro on the old CF Branch line.

Real heritage from the great white north leads Hartwell Railroad's local from Toccoa past a small farm scene in Bowersville, Georgia.

The shortcut home...

A New Mexico Rail Runner races across the New Mexico landscape south of Santa Fe bound for Albuquerque while ominous dark clouds provide a backdrop on a gorgeous July afternoon.

The Virginia hills are coated in white during an early spring snowfall that brought up to 10 inches in the area surrounding Radford. An eastbound mixed freight glides downgrade along the former V... (more)

A lucky break in the clouds lets the sun briefly light up the scene as one of Franklin Minerals' very rare Ex Southern Railway B23-7's leads the tri-weekly train over one of the numerous wooden tr... (more)

Nearly half an hour elapses during this exposure as the landmark AT&SF searchlights at Edelstein beam through the receding fog and the stars and a crescent moon set in the sky behind the Illinois... (more)

Preparing to make its descent down the Clinchfield Loops, Q693 exits Vance Tunnel as the signal for SE Toe River stands guard all these years later from the days of CC&O steam tackling the Blue R... (more)

Amtrak number 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, climbes up Raton Pass on a beautiful summer morning, about to go through the tunnel at the Colorado/New Mexico state line. Seen here, it is positio... (more)