On a warm spring morning, the Landrum, SC train order semaphore's top color aspects are illuminated by the large fireball in the sky. Another day has dawned, but there still hasn't been another tr... (more)

With Orion and his belt standing guard in the dark sky, the impressive figure of Norfolk Southern's inactive signal at Melrose, the bottom of the Saluda Grade is also quite a presence.

A Green Light to Innovation: Just as progress nearly half a century ago altered signalling along the old Washington to Atlanta mainline, progress again strikes as PTC signal upgrades co... (more)

Lone White Pass & Yukon wood box car sits at the top of White Pass on the Canadian side of the US & Canada border. The old box car is used for shelter when the weather gets bad. The couplers and a... (more)

View to Brig station on a sunny winter day, with the roundhouse in the foreground, passenger cars yard and freight yard on the right and platforms in the background. You can see a Ee 922 switcher ... (more)

Frosty McEwen sunrise. The first rays of golden sun bathe the Powder River Valley, in Eastern Oregon, illuminating the altocumulus overhead and back-lighting the Sumpter Valley Railroad's l... (more)

Historic Union Station building of Denver from 1881 and 1914, together with the brand new canopy in the blue hour.

Far from home rails and testimonial of a long gone railroad, a memory to the Ferrocarril Nacionales de Mexico, near the famous Tehachapi Loop.

The parade of the BNSF doublestacks on the Transcon through Flagstaff is impressing and shaking, when standing on the platform.

Although the winters are long and often difficult from both a weather and a train perspective there are benefits. One such benefit is that you do not have to drag yourself out of bed at an early h... (more)

On december 30th it snowed more or less the whole day in large parts of Switzerland. An ICN tiliting train and the cab car Bt of an IC2000 in Winterthur.

Denver's Union Station in Christmas lighting including a large Xmas tree in front.

Deck the halls! The Essex Depot is all aglow with Christmas trimmings as the Valley Railroad operates its North Pole Express Trains for the 2015 Holiday Season. There are 4 such trains per... (more)

A view on the large BNSF freight yard from Barstow hill on a cold winter sunday morning. In the foreground the 48 classification tracks, behind the hump and the 10 recieving tracks. In the middle ... (more)

Now a scene that can never be re-created, the Southern Railway cantilever signal at Cornelia stands tall in its neutral position at 3:42am, as it did at 3:42 every single morning for the last 60-7... (more)