Triple FCAB traction, containers carrying ore concentrate to the border, bypassing the Ascotan Pass, the highest point on the route to Ollagüe (4000 m).

In the most arid and dry desert in the world, the Atacama Desert located in the north of Chile, moves the iron train, freight train of the railway company Ferronor, which transports the iron from ... (more)

"Old Rivets" in her Golden Years

PRR #4800 is located at the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum in Strasburg, PA. The engine itself was purchased from Conrail by the Lancaster Chapter of the N... (more)

NS 224 with the Southern Pacific heritage unit passes westbound through the sag at Convoy on the Louisville District.

Just minutes earlier, this back street had been a hive of activity with a wedding in full swing, carpenters using the tracks as their workshop, street hairdressers, shoe stalls, butchers and resid... (more)

Sun rays filter through the trees after a late afternoon rain shower. I pass by this crossing a hundred or more times a year, but this time was special and I just had to stop. After firing off a f... (more)

In late 1998 LTV Steel Mining Company began running longer 125-car ore trains and to handle such tonnage they assembled 6-unit locomotive sets (previously 4-5 units sets were the norm on 96-car tr... (more)

On December 2010 freezing rain fell on Moscow and vicinity. The glaze ice accumulation caused a number of accidents and power outages. Roads, trees, wires covered by a thick layer of ice.

On the anniversary of the tragic events of 9/11, a Metro North train leaves the city behind as the new Freedom Tower rises.

In the Autumn of 1977, Ross Rowland’s ex-Reading 2101 pounds east through Barboursville with the Chessie Steam Special. The big engine is bound for Charleston this morning, where she’ll pick ... (more)

Perfect Storm. This was shot in the middle of a thunder and lighning storm, the rain was absolutely torrential with no protection, this was literally lift camera shoot and hope, I am delighted wit... (more)

Here is another image in the Canadian Pacific Slocan barge series. In this view of the tug Iris G and barge you can see how they arrange the load. In the foreground is the remains of the passenge... (more)

Climbing one of the short, steep grades on the Montana Sub a couple miles north of Milk River

Energy
A coal train passes an oil well during a beautiful sunrise south of Bill, Wyoming, on May 30, 2009.

A northbound BNSF coal train heads across a fill just south of Bill, Wyoming. The Powder River Basin is a great place to catch beautiful sunsets (and lots of coal trains).