Waxing moon over the Muchetta mountain, stars and the evening train to the Engadine, crossing the Landwasser viaduct towards Filisur, while the lights from the connecting train from Davos shimmers... (more)

Night is falling at 5.20 PM in the Albula valley, when "Allegra" railcar ABe 8/12 # 3502 is pulling the six panorama cars of the BERNINA EXPRESS (BEX 950) from Tirano to Chur over the 65 metre hig... (more)

Semaphore sentinels stand guard for yet another night, awaiting judgement day.

After waiting for a few hours, UP 7969 leads a short manifest train through Cienega Creek as a huge thunderstorm builds over the Rincon Mountains. The crew will take this manifest on a long journe... (more)

Here is a wider angle of that UP grain train sitting at the Arizona Grain facility in Maricopa amongst first light. With a break in the clouds at the horizon, the sun made for an incredible lookin... (more)

Every year late winter/early spring parts of the west coast are transformed into a colourful paradise of wild flowers depending on the rain during the winter. Here an empty ore train passes such a... (more)

Santa Fe’s station in Raton, New Mexico sits quietly, awaiting the next arrival of the Southwest Chief. The barrage carts have disappeared sometime in the past thirty years, but the scene... (more)

I've always said that rail fanning is 20 percent skill, 30 percent knowledge, and 50 percent luck. Well, today was nearly all luck. After having dinner in Peach Springs, my folks and I walked out ... (more)

Pennsylvania Railroad Suburban Station

The last rays of light reflect from the surrounding glass covered skyscrapers across North 16th Street illuminating the facade of Philadelphia's Sub... (more)

Here we have a personal favorite of mine, of which features a lit semaphore signal. Having stood the test of time, it stands tall as the full moon rises above a distant mesa on the evening of a &q... (more)

While waiting in the siding of Valentine, an eastbound Barstow, CA - Teague, TX manifest over takes a Barstow, CA - Belen, NM manifest on a clear night in the northern Arizona region.

The Super Moon Eclipse begins to rise over the Colorado Plateau as a heavy Los Angeles Harbor bound stack train slowly climbs the 1.5% grade at Angell.

You riding in the cupola of caboose 999272 on the rear of train #52, a mainline local, as it nears Engle, New Mexico, on October 20, 1968. The train originated in El Paso, Texas, and is en route t... (more)

A late monsoon season thunderstorm provides the backdrop for this westbound BNSF manifest as it passes Bluewater,NM 9/12/12.

The moon is coming up in the east, while another train works its way up toward the highest point on the Overland Route.