On a beautiful Summer evening the fireworks show, from the DelGrosso's Amusement Park, celebrating the Nation's birthday and the park's 100th anniversary illuminate the former Pennsy signal bridge... (more)

Night working near the station Bassersdorf at 1.30am

Southbound FEC train 107 has just cleared the south end of the Palm Bay siding as a severe thunderstorm approaches. Five different lightning strikes from this very intense storm are shown in this ... (more)

Last night while out storm chasing I happened upon a coal train sitting in the Stowe yard overnight. NS1019 was in perfect line from the storms moving in from the west. After dozens of shots I was... (more)

The 100 years story of the railroad track from Brig to Gletsch in the Valais in Switzerland will be celebrated. That's the reason for this spectacular show with pyrotechnics. The photograph lasted... (more)

Stay bolts being cut inside the boiler of ARR 557. This is getting toward the rear on top of the firebox in a hard to reach area of the boiler. The staybolts are cut in the middle then are one at ... (more)

An approaching thunderstorm begins to flash lightning above the old Biltmore Station and NS main line in Asheville, NC. The station is now a restaurant.

Positioned in the center of the town's modern day commercial district, the 1906 built Chesapeake & Ohio St. Albans Depot watches over the double track mainline as it has over for a century. An ori... (more)

Thunderstorm rolled to the North while I was out shooting trains last night. Captured this shot of lightning from the Norfolk Southern Reading Yard last night. Photo by Shawn A Leightcap

On mothers day 2014 maintenance works to remove a former C&O signal. It took only an hour and a half, with two trains complicating things, to remove something that has stood 50+ years.

Amtrak FL9 No. 486 served as a parts source for Maine Eastern's FL9s and was finally cut up after languishing for a decade in New Jersey. The story can be found at http://blog.railroadphotographer... (more)

A welder repairs a damaged plow on EMD GP38-2 No. 641 at Union Pacific’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility at Kansas City, Missouri, on October 21, 2013.

A severe thunderstorm has moved off to the east, but the lightning continues to illuminate the sky over the Union Pacific Jenks shops and the impressive DD40X UP 6938 that is on display.

Lighting streaks over the top of DD40X UP 6938 as a severe thunderstorm clears North Little Rock and heads east. UP 6938 is on display in front of the Union Pacific Jenks Locomotive Shops.

Lighting flashes over Union Pacific 1725 and UP 1784 as a severe thunderstorm heads east.