What a better way to start the morning

A coal train crests the hill on Sherman Hill. A trio of GE's handles this train with ease.

Curving through a lunar-like landscape approaching Floy, Utah, on August 4, 1996, is Amtrak’s California Zephyr. On the point of No. 6 this day is General Electric P40DC No. 822, with an EMD F40... (more)

Follow us at Alaska Railfanning! The barges are in! Winter is a notoriously slow time for the Alask... (more)

It's great when you arrive at a beautiful winter scene, get out of your car and randomly hear a train coming less than a mile away. What's not great is walking up to the edge of a river to get in... (more)

The American Orient Express luxury cruise train heads westbound through the Flatirons, through Tunnel 3 and the and into Tunnel 4 on Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande route to the Moffat Tunnel.... (more)

An empty BNSF coal train slinks through the curves west of Eddy, Montana, on May 9, 2010. Stormy skies linger in the background at this scenic location along the Clark Fork on Montana Rail Link’... (more)

A pair of spotless EMD GP60s lead Southern Pacific's Midvale Tramp local down the Bingham Branch in West Jordan. The long cut of ballast cars will be interchange delivered to the Kennecott Copper ... (more)

Northbound Amtrak #1 pulls the Coast Starlight along the Gaviota coast on a winters day.

An eastbound BNSF coal empty approaches Trident, Montana, along the Missouri River on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision on September 26, 2007.

An eastbound Southern Pacific unit coal train of CTRN hoppers claws up Tennessee Pass in the canyon between Red Cliff and Pando, Colorado, on the afternoon of September 4, 1995. The SP GE AC4400CW... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local rumbles along the Clark Fork just west of Eddy (east of Thompson Falls), Montana, on January 24, 2013. A build-up of ice on the rocks on the edges of a cove al... (more)

A loaded coal train heads eastbound. I made an early morning departure from northeast Tennessee for the three hour drive to this location hoping to catch an eastbound here, this train showed up ab... (more)