A San Luis & Rio Grande photo freight, powered by 2-6-0 No. 1744, aims at La Veta Pass east of after departing Alamosa, Colorado, at first light. This is a special photo freight operated by the ra... (more)

P97 crawls into town under dramatic skies with an ES40DC and one of the recently acquired ex EMDX ACes for power. Overhead, a large flock of seagulls (billions of birds one could say) are fleeing ... (more)

A short south bound Union Pacific manifest slithers it's way up through the curves at Allard in the late afternoon sun light as cloud shadows blanket the surrounding emerald hills. ... (more)

3 big GE's lead a stack train elephant style up and out of Crozier canyon during an overcast evening.

A brisk February dusk yields this Patchogue bound trainset making its way through the complicated turnouts near Jay Tower and Jamaica Station before it makes its way out to the far reaches of Long... (more)

A Loram Rail Grinder puts on a light (and noise) show for the residents of Tacoma and Ruston, at the site of the form Asarco Smelter. Tunnel #1, just under 400' long, is the lesser known tunnel i... (more)

ED-7 gets ready to swing a train over to the class yard to push over the hump.

On a chill December afternoon, while the sun starts to hide behind the mountains, a Ferromex train exits the siding racing the last rays of sun in the same direction.

'Steam in the rain...' On a cold and rainy Easter Saturday, driver Mark Ruddy guides Sandstone Estate's class NGG 16 - No.88 - and it's train towards Grootdraai, from Hoekfontein. Meanwhile a vi... (more)

South bound BNSF manifest climbs the Tehachapi Loop during a break in a storm.

Steamscape: Mt. Clay, Mt. Jefferson and the Great Gulf. The exhaust plume darkens as Fireman Mark "Cookie" Sodergren continues to shovel soft coal into the torch-like firebox of M... (more)

Western Maryland Scenic Railroad's 1309 is photographed inside of Brush Tunnel. 1309 is the second largest operating locomotive in the United States, and the largest in regular service. This 2-6... (more)

Two GATX-leased EMD GP38-2s chaperone 28 loads of Kanawha Eagle coal toward the CSX interchange at Chesapeake, W.Va., passing a coal truck headed for Winifrede in this fall peak view from late Oc... (more)

Steamscape: Cold Spring Hill. Amid a sea of fall colors, Mt. Washington Railway #2 claws its way up Cold Spring Hill with the noon-time steam trip, destined for the summit of the highest pe... (more)