At sunrise on the 14th of January 2012, a loaded coal train drifts downhill from Beiquan underground mine at Sandaoling in the north west of China.

Friend of the Rails classic SAR branch line locomotive poses for photographers at the beginning of the FotR annual Steam Photography weekend.

A loaded coke train, bound for Kentucky, rumbles east on the Adams Sub during a sunset that is heavily influenced by recent Canadian wildfires.

A BNSF Railway V-AUBKCK train (Vehicles-Auburn, Washington-Kansas City, Kansas) waits on Montana Rail Link's 2nd Subdivision main during a gorgeous moonlit evening in Lombard Canyon. Lombard, Mont... (more)

New England Central train 324 must have been delayed due to the holiday weekend allowing for a early morning appearance on the Roxbury sub. The 3 EMD's now get a break after cresting the ruling gr... (more)

The westbound Wolverine rolls by the position lights at CP 506 on the approach for a quick stop at Hammond - Whiting.

New Years Day in the Harz Mountains: 99 7245 brings the last Brocken-train down to Nordhausen just after sundown

"Stormy Weather"
Norfolk Southern H02 with engine 3010 at the point (long hood forward) and a few freight cars behind heads Westbound through a very rainy, eerie and dark storm at... (more)

An X'trapolis set waits in platform 2 at Flinders Street station, preparing for another run out to Melbourne's eastern suburbs.

We are parked on the siding at Tenneco, just north of Denver. There’s no problem with one-year-old DD35 96B. The workman walking the length of the unit is one of two dozen workers and officials ou... (more)

Sandstone Estate's NG/G 13 (left) and NG 15 (right) lie in wait.

Shrouded in fog, Amtrak's Empire Builder leaps a mountain gorge on its run through Montana. A distant sunlit mountain peak hints that the train will break out of the fog upon reaching the summit o... (more)