Searchlights At Blue Hour. Making the final push toward the summit of Cuesta Pass, UP 4385 streaks past the still active, ex-Southern Pacific searchlights at the south end of the Santa Marg... (more)

Crossing over the Potomac River into Maryland from West Virginia at Shepherdstown is 16T with an EMD SD80MAC in the lead.

BNSF 1993 leads the Pikes Peak Local through the post-hoar frost wintry scene in Palmer Lake, CO. Learn more at Joint Range R... (more)

One of a seemingly endless supply of empty grain trains making it's way east on the BNSF Stampede sub. This train and I, left Auburn at the same time. Traffic was good for both of us and I arri... (more)

CBR 2448 leads its train bound for Eugene as it crosses North Tenmile Lake near Lakeside, Oregon on June 21, 2018. Photo by Dan. R. Scheidell.

The California Zephyr heads though some wild and desolate terrain without many signs of life. This scenic area is strikingly beautiful.

Heading west along the Missouri River, a BNSF coal train plays tag with the sun and cloud shadows as it trundles through Lombard Canyon passing the east switch of Lombard siding on a beautiful aft... (more)

The thin layer of fog has just begun to burn off in the early morning sunshine as a westbound Wheeling & Lake Erie train rumbles through Douglas, Ohio on its way toward Creston, where the crew wil... (more)

Drone Shot of NS #9752 leading NS Train 54G across High Bridge in the early morning fog.

In the late afternoon sunlight, Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr crawls through the horseshoe curve in Coal Creek Canyon, CO on the UP Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on July 14th, 2018. The train w... (more)

A westbound BNSF freight heads west through the scenic Columbia River Gorge exiting Tunnel 10 west of Lyle, Washington, on September 24, 2016. Motive power is BNSF GE C44-9W No. 4834, and two visi... (more)

A beautiful morning in Seligman Az. with fog to the west, after 11 days in a row of rain from monsoon storms.

As the sun sets in the west concluding another day, Amtrak Cascades NPCU #90230 leads train #518 out of the Bellingham, WA station and on towards Vancouver, BC on July 8th, 2018.

On a beautiful Summer evening, NS 12R with NS 2557 and 8 trailing units meets the NS 48D with NS 2740, BNSF 4661 and BNSF 7594 on the Rockville Bridge.

Summer nights in the New River Gorge... With the milky way overhead, eastbound export coal loads slice through the darkness at Claremont along CSX's New River mainline in southern West Virginia. T... (more)