"AR SUMMIT"
Eastbound trains when seeing these signals know they have reached the summit of the Alleghenies on the former PRR mainline. From here it's all downhill heading ea... (more)

Sunset over the Hudson

While there are many great places to dine along the Hudson, one gem is Half-Moon located just south of Metro-North's Dobbs Ferry's station. With the venu... (more)

The Aspen Trees are at their full peak as an on time Amtrak No. 6 races down the 2-percent grade at Tolland, Colorado led by P42DC No. 39 on September 27, 2015. The third unit is a brand new Sieme... (more)

A more than impressive shelf cloud precludes normal switching activities as a severe thunderstorm rolls into Kansas City. There was at least a 60 MPH wind gust associated with this a few minutes ... (more)

Battle of Light. The signals at Noimi Jct. battle to protect the CN Minntac Sub from an oncoming train. The signals won and the train headed up the CN Missabe Sub.

As the sun sets deep down inside Natural Tunnel State Park, NS 2673 leads eastbound empty unit coal train 745 through the state park, bound for a meet with NS 386 at Jasper.

Canadian National train No. 310 departs Swan Landing, Alberta, along Brule Lake on the afternoon of July 7, 2014. CN EMD SD75I No. 5756 leads a pair of GE C44-9Ws (2577 and 2599) and EMD SD70M-2 N... (more)

After receiving a track authority between Deepwater and Maben along NS' former Virginian Princeton-Deepwater District, a loaded coal train with brand new unit hoppers in tow crosses the Kanawha Ri... (more)

An eastbound BNSF freight crosses Noxon Bridge west of Noxon, Montana, just after sunrise on October 2, 2014. Fog is quickly burning off over the Clark Fork this cool morning on Montana Rail Linkâ... (more)

The headlights of RBMN 2530 cut through the night while waiting at N. Reading for permission onto Norfolk Southern rails.

"Transitions:" As the night turns to day, MARC train P892 transitions from the Old Main Line to the Metropolitan Subdivision at Point of Rock, pushing morning commuters from Frederic... (more)

7825 east crosses the normally westbound Ciennega Creek Bridge over Davidson Canyon. If there are no west bounds around, the dispatcher will route a heavy eastbound over the westbound track.

"Breaking the Calm:" Empty CSX ethanol train K057 crosses the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia just a few minutes after sunrise on a gorgeous summer morning. These regul... (more)

VIA 6459 leads VIA No. 1, the Canadian, along Jasper Lake at Windy Point en route to Japser, AB.

CN 6011 leads train 513, the Hinton-Jasper local turn, out of Parkgate tunnel and along the shore of the Athabasca River in Jasper National Park.