A friend suggested this might be a good moment to share this photo of UP4141, painted in honor of George HW Bush, leading an eastbound manifest freight through Moapa, NV. This was the only time I ... (more)

Morning mists rise from Smith Lake as Polson #2 chuffs smartly across the fill with empty log cars in tow.

On a perfect fall afternoon, a westbound BNSF intermodal train can be seen zipping down the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge.

Pulling an empty log train, McCRR 25 leads four empty log cars across an ancient timber bridge. It's a typical gloomy morning in Oregon, a perfect day for steam. This was a photo runby performed f... (more)

Last fall I took a trip to the Northeast and made sure to leave some time in my schedule to visit the Northeast Corridor. Although Wilmington, DE doesn't feature high speed running, it's still a g... (more)

The longer the train, the more these curves get accentuated. This ISCLB was a good 10k+ feet, and with a good TOB ratio, is making a quicker descent of Cima Hill than your ordinary freight.

With a fresh crew on board and clear signals ahead, this domestic stack train will soon leave Las Vegas behind.

It's the hottest time of the year, so cool off with this chilly image of an Alaska Railroad lumber drag departing Seward on a late February morning. Recent snowstorms have dumped several feet of s... (more)

During a tour of the UTA Maintenance Facility, I spotted this Front Runner Locomotive resting on an inspection track.

What a photo angle this would have been for shooting the Milwaukee Road! A train would emerge from Tunnel 9, slalom through the remainder of 16-Mile canyon, cross 16-Mile Creek twice, then make a ... (more)

A UP manifest beats the sunrise through Reverse, but that's OK because it's westbound and wasn't going to be nose lit anyway! Out here on the Idaho prairies, the Nampa Sub still has that classic U... (more)

The former UP station of Bard is one of the closest decent photo locations to my residence in Las Vegas, yet that doesn't mean I shoot there as often as I should. I headed out there on a Saturday ... (more)

BNSF 6621 kicks up snow as it crosses the Pack River Fill along Lake Pend Oreille. Up front are empty Boeing loads returning to the midwest for new Boeing fuselages. An overnight snow storm has du... (more)

Have you ever woken up at 3 in the morning and been unable to get back to sleep? I have, and during the longer days of the year, I'll sometimes use that as an excuse to head down to Cima Hill to s... (more)

A UP manifest crosses the famous wye bridge at Keddie on a fine May afternoon.