The Southwest Chief races across the plains of Southern Colorado as the evening monsoons roar in the fading light of a summer's night and the last of the evening's sunset burns away to darkness.

In the light of blue hour on a gloomy spring evening, the Wabash heritage unit brings NS 123 over the Catawba River on the S-Line as it makes its way toward Linwood, NC.

The Virginian heritage unit sits for the weekend in the quiet town of Greenville, Tennessee on a late moonlit night in early Spring.

With sweet stormlight, number 12's whistle echoes through the hills of North Carolina at the Tweetsie Railroad park.

A dreary rain falls on Eastern Kentucky as northbound coal loads from the branch at Coal Run Junction, at the other end of the Big Sandy, split the modified C&O signals at Calgon

Heavy snow blows through the rock cut in Pikeville as a CSX SD70MAC brings an empty Herzog train down the Big Sandy. The purple flowers to the right show the conflicting weather conditions going o... (more)

Two light engines make their way down 11th street in Michigan City on the Southshore on a dreary morning in northern Indiana.

Empty coal hoppers scream through the hollers of Dickens County Virginia as CSX E760 makes its way up the former Clinchfield Railroad destined for the mines to the north to get more black rock fro... (more)

An empty Brice coal train climbs the Clinchfield loops south of Altapass in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina as it heads back to the mines of West Virginia to get more black rock. It is e... (more)

Thick fog and a heavy blanket of snow have covered the Virginia hills as the Whitethorne pushers wait amid the stillness to assist another coal train over the mountain on their journey to Roanoke ... (more)

Strange Clouds fill the sky over northern Indiana farm country shortly after sunrise while the Co-Alliance grain facility's ex AT&SF GP9 sits quietly waiting for it's next assignment.

A hotshot intermodal traverses the former AT&SF transcon on, rolling across the farmland of northern Illinois ducking through the trademark Santa Fe searchlights at Verona which have now been take... (more)

A dramatic sky unfolds at dusk on a frigid January morning as NS 15T ducks through the classic Norfolk & Western Railway cantilevers at Radford, Virginia. These signals have now been cut over afte... (more)

Darkness settles on the mountains of eastern Kentucky as a gloomy April afternoon winds down to an end and CSX W0086, an empty ballast train for Greenwood, SC, begins its trip down the famed route... (more)

A tiny puddle reflects the light of the classic Norfolk & Western CPL's at Gunton Park, Virginia on a quiet winter night during my first visit to this location. This is the most secluded, tranquil... (more)