In the "blue hour" electric railcar ABe 130 001 "Spatz" of the Zentralbahn is ready for departure to Meiringen as Regio service 7429.

A supercell thunderstorm rages on across the Texas night sky as the flashes of lightning silhouette tall cement grain silos as a BNSF container train flashes east through Umbarger at milepost 581.... (more)

A set of NJT Arrow IIIs lay over on the Runaround Track at Gladstone Station on a quiet, snowy Saturday evening.

The "blue hour" gives way as the sun eases above the tree line and clears the clouds over Lake Superior. A Proctor Roadswitch sets out a bad order mini-quad while the yard power works a cut of "bo... (more)

A view across the yard outside Barrow Hill Roundhouse during the www.wnxx.com night photoshoot. The locos in the photo are on the left 56006, 37503, 20107 & 37521 and on the right 89001, 82008, 07... (more)

A visual symphony of light in the pouring snow at Fort Spring Tunnel.

A Helper unit waiting its next run form Pittsburgh to Altoona.

With a freeze-damaged Alco S-4 out of service for the Claremont Concord Railroad's West Lebanon, New Hampshire operation, a deal to temporarily lease the Vermont Railway's GP38-3 206 was reached. ... (more)

With a freeze-damaged Alco S-4 out of service for the Claremont Concord Railroad's West Lebanon, New Hampshire operation, a deal to temporarily lease the Vermont Railway's GP38-3 206 was reached. ... (more)

Even Conrail "tri-light" signals are becoming a vanishing breed. This one dispatches a clear signal to 290 on the main at CP 62 on the Norfolk Southern Lurgan Branch on a very cold early February ... (more)

CSX train L017 pauses in West Springfield, MA while working the van site prior to continuing west.

Two sets of Union Pacific EMD SD40-2s rest on the night of January 19, 2013 at Green River, Wyoming. These older 3,000 h.p. locomotives are used for switching the yard here, while three bigger GE ... (more)

A pair of manned helpers assist a loaded coal train down "The Slide" at Gallitzin during a wintry dawn.

With a conductor waving from the steps of the caboose (actually, signaling the engineer), a westbound (southbound) Nevada Northern freight powered by two Alcos glints on Steptoe Creek fill near Ea... (more)

Dawn at the west siding switch Strong City where searchlights still guard the former Santa Fe mainline.