A regional train La Spezia Centrale - Levanto just departed from Vernazza, one of the UNESCO World Heritage listed "Cinque Terre" villages. The station is located in a tunnel. The open... (more)

The Storms over Denver & Big Ten

Storms continue to leave heavy rain and hail over the suburbs of Denver and the High Plains. The evening sun brings out a rainbow and is ab... (more)

A pair of weather-beaten orange EMD SD70MACs power BNSF’s Cowley turn through Sheep Canyon past milepost 414 south of Spence, Wyoming, while returning to Greybull on the afternoon of June 22, 2... (more)

Sunset is just minutes away as a San Bernadino, California, bound BNSF intermodal reposition train crests the top of Burkes Hill and dips into the sag approaching Milepost 21 in Louisville, Colora... (more)

Union Pacific The Big Boy is just departing Denver for Cheyenne in the midst of a classic November, Colorado Wyoming blizzard. By the time the Big Boy reaches Wyoming nearly a foot of snow had com... (more)

Q317-23 pulls onto the approach to the Little Kanawha River bridge as the Belpre Industrial Parkersburg Railroad transfer job leaves the Low Yard to go back to the High Yard.

High above the Colorado Front Range, the sound of dynamic breaks can be heard as an empty BNSF sand train descends out of Tunnel 1 and through the horseshoe curve at Coal Creek Canyon, CO on June ... (more)

Winter storm Jonas has concluded and the sky has erupted in fire as Amtrak 2254 rounds the bend into Westport, Conn. One of my all time favorite captures.

Mixed freight from BNSF's Northtown Yard heads west over Lake Ashtabula on its way to Pasco, Washington. Completed in 1912 by the Great Northern Railway, the Karnak Crossing passes over the Sheyen... (more)

Union Pacific 1989 leads a Rock & Rail train out of the Royal Gorge. Shot on Mavic Zoom.

On a sunny afternoon, the Escalante Western arrives at the Western Fuels' Association Generating Station with 24 loads of coal. The second unit suffered a failure at the Peabody Mine and the crew ... (more)

A westbound Southern Pacific piggyback train passes Redwood Jct. Tower sometime in the 1950s. This image on SP's San Francisco Subdivision was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.

Union Pacific #8207 and Canadian National SD75I #5749 slow down on the approach to the E. siding switch at Bridgeport to check the position of the switch as they head Westbound towards Grand Jct. ... (more)