Santa Comes Early. The MTA Metro-North Railroad Holiday Train made its final trip for the season on Tuesday, December 13, 2022. The train visits employees at their work locations at the lar... (more)

The howl of dynamic brakes echo through the crisp air as an oil train makes its way down grade into Horseshoe curve. The morning sun begins to ignite the fall colors and cook off the fog over the ... (more)

Mastodon. In 1958, the Norfolk & Western Railway donated 433 (4-8-0, Alco) to the Town of Abingdon, Virginia as a monument to the end of steam on the Abingdon or Virginia Creeper Branch. B... (more)

Sunrise Santa Train. Not long after sunrise on Saturday, December 10, 2022, the annual Tri-State Railway Historical Society "Santa Train" crossed the Passaic River into Newark, Ne... (more)

Early morning meet between a Southbound BNSF stack train and a Northbound UP manifest at Woodford.

The Newest Car. On Saturday, November 26, 2022, dusk was setting upon the 1881 former New York, New Haven, and Hartford station in Thomaston, allowing the seasonal lights to shine brightly ... (more)

The 2022 CP Holiday Train rides the shore of the Mississippi River during last light arriving into the Quad Cities.

Quint Powered. After a mechanical failure on Amtrak Train 48 (Lake Shore Limited) near Waterloo, Indiana on the night of Saturday, December 3, 2022, Norfolk Southern 7258 (SD70ACu) was adde... (more)

Pushing Out At Sunset. New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway train SU-99 so long that it was decided to add helper units to to push it up the mountain towards Sparta, New Jersey on the ... (more)

Low clouds at sunrise gives the California Zephyr a golden glow as it runs through Keenesburg, Colorado.

In two specific time windows it is possible to photograph the last train on the Brocken (highest mountain in the Harz) in the light of the low sun and you will be surprised again and again by impr... (more)

On its way South, the CP Holiday Trais sets out to leave the island of Montreal on CP's Adirondack Sub, crossing the St. Lawrence River just after sunset on a beautiful late-November evening.

Minorca mine loaded U793 rips through the s-curve leading into N. Biwabik but will soon slow and come to a stop for a crew change at Biwabik.

The setting sun glints off the side of NS 18K as the train pulls out of the Wabash River valley just east of Lafayette, IN.

CSX B835 at Sunset thru Lyons