Out of the most "uneventful" winter in the Puget Sound, comes a stunning sunset. Finally, passengers aboard the Cascades get to see something in the sky other than gray or black.

The former Northern Pacific depot in Ellensburg is currently being restored and rehabilitated as a BNSF manifest train rolls through town. More detail on the restoration can be found here: more)

What a better way to start the morning

The wayfreight has setout 14 corn loads for the ethanol facility and pulls a handful of mash and ethanol back towards the main. The Coal Creek Station, owned by Great River Energy, opened in 1981 ... (more)

Railroads are at work all day everyday 24/7/365 days a year. This shot shows a BNSF Train Heading North on the Highline. Its amazing how railroads can move trains so quickly and yet still have a s... (more)

On board to Thessaloniki

A train from Middlesbrough heads over the High Level bridge and into Newcastle Central station

The sun is rising on a cold winter morning, setting the eastern sky ablaze as a westbound for Winnipeg nears Glenwood.

Pushing hard on the rear of a westbound manifest, UP 7955 rolls past the unit grain train elevator at Ogallah, Kansas. The train is bound from Salina, Kansas to Denver, Colorado.

The first train of the day is rounding the 180 degree curve in Alp Grüm shortly after 7 AM. Temperature about minus 12 Celsius with a strong north wind. The lonely ABe 4/4 III railcar shoved a sp... (more)

Clear block into the blue
Passing one of Northern Pacific’s classic cantilevered searchlight signals at the east end of Laurel Yard on the evening of January 27, 2013, a departing BNS... (more)

Saved from the wrecking ball years ago, the Tacoma Union Station still stands watch over trains, trains that never will again stop at it's doors. It's function now, as seen by the reasonably well... (more)

Night moves
A westbound Santa Fe train led by Super Fleet GE B40-8W No. 524 pauses at the west service tracks at Belen, New Mexico, as dusk turns to night on May 22, 1991. Railroaders a... (more)

Sunrise at Morrisville.

Zipping through Secaucus en route to Washington, the Acela Express is eyed by the rising Freedom Tower.