A Union Pacific coal train is eastbound in Little Gore Canyon east of Azure, Colorado, on June 6, 2013. The train is exiting 63-foot Tunnel 40, the shortest tunnel on UP’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivis... (more)

A new take on a familiar location. Wallingford, Connecticut’s most notable landmark is the Most Holy Trinity Church, which is celebrating its 150th Anniversary in September, 2019. Closer to the ... (more)

An evening departure of the Bridgeport & Port Jefferson ferry coincides with a passing MTA Metro-North Railroad train in Bridgeport, CT on a typically sweltering summer evening.

Returning from a weekend out of the city. Amtrak Train 165 passes through Cos Cob, CT over the Mianus River on the evening of Sunday, July 28, 2019. Siemens built ACS-64 654 leads a long train of ... (more)

New Haven Heritage. Former New Haven FL9 2011 prepares to lead the Mass Coastal Dinner Train back to Hyannis, MA as it takes the wye on the Cape Cod Canal Bridge on the evening of Saturday, July 2... (more)

Texas State Railroad 2-8-2 No. 30, dressed as former Tremont & Gulf Railway, brings a small freight train through Rusk, TX, past the depot. The original Texas State Railroad was started as a narr... (more)

Texas & Pacific No. 610

Texas & Pacific No. 610, a 2-10-4 built in Ohio by Lima Locomotive Works in 1927, was brought out of the the Texas State Railroad shops and fired up for patrons of... (more)

A westbound BNSF freight grinds upgrade through Skyline, Montana, while climbing Mullan Pass west of Helena on Montana Rail Link’s Third Subdivision on June 28, 2017.

A trio of Montana Rail Link SD40s (rebuilt and labeled SD40-2XR) power a westbound freight up Winston Hill east of Winston, Montana, on the morning of July 2, 2018.

Fire and Fury

Mount 1218 erupts all over the settlement of Rectortown, Virginia, as it works its way east toward Manassas and Alexandria. With a heavy train, a reverse curve, and a... (more)

Surrounded by a winter wonderland on the southern border of Glacier National Park, Amtrak’s eastbound Empire Builder has just summited Marias Pass and approaches Bison, Montana, on a snowy March... (more)

An engineman aboard Amtrak P42DC No. 193 leading Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr gives a hearty wave to the crew of Amtrak’s Winter Park Express (out of view on right) during a Colorado s... (more)

A Union Pacific passenger train has just crossed the Colorado River at Burns, Colorado, while traveling westbound over the Dotsero Cutoff on August 3, 2014. Powering the nine-car special is EMD S... (more)

It can’t decide it whether it’s winter or fall as snow mixes with bright yellow trees on Marias Pass as a westbound BNSF grain train approaches the east switch at Bison, Montana, on October 8,... (more)

A Metra commuter train has just departed Chicago Union Station and is passing Metra EMD SW1200 No. 3 moving two newly-acquired EMD F59PHI locomotives (METX Nos. 73 and 77) on the lead to the north... (more)