With a rather "rare" pair of VRS red geeps at the head end, this year AAPRCO American Autumn Explorer slowly makes its way down the B&R subdivision.

The Second annual AAPRCO American Autumn Explorer has just departed Rutland, Vermont for their 3 day trip across the Vermont Rail System for a peep at this year's fall colors!

A Metrolink train heads east as they split I-10 with a BNSF AC4400 trailing.

SAM Shortline's "Presidential Flyer" excursion train crosses Lake Blackshear near Cordele, GA, led by a pair of Heart of Georgia GP38-2s.

Wearing a fresh coat of her recently reapplied factory Nickel Plate Road colors, CRC GP30 No. 902 leads a Nickel Plate Road Technical & Historical Society Convention passenger special on the LM&M ... (more)

Vermont Rail System is hosting two private rail car groups this fall, the first being a RailExeco Charter that is touring the Green Mountain Bellows Falls Subdivision, as well as the VTR Northern ... (more)

UP Special though Coal Creek
Classic Streamliner colors at Coal Creek.

Aspen Gold
Fall splendor at the Great Divide Union Pacific 4533 and friends make a brief stop at East Portal with the CEO of UPS for a quick tour of the main office on one of ... (more)

This Union Pacific officer special came into Salt Lake on the 19th, and is supposed to head out on the 21st. Word on the street is it's heading to Denver. I fired off a shot from one of the overpa... (more)

Three Wishes
I had three wishes and I got all three, Aspen Leaves in Fall splendor, Mountains in purple majesty, and that golden specular highlight high country Fall light. P... (more)

Former DM&E 1483 leads the morning tourist train over the Belfast & Moosehead Lake, Unity, Maine. The unit still wears its Otter Tail Valley paint scheme from its days in Minnesota.

Belfast & Moosehead Lake GE 70-tonner No. 50 (the first one on the B&ML) is being passed by the current motive power, former Otter Tail Valley (ex-DM&E, N&W, NKP) GP9 No. 1483.

Freshly painted ex-WFAX/B&O SD40 leads the second trip of the day....however, the famed shots at Parkdale will have to wait, evidently they have not been going past MP 167 for over a month. Hoping... (more)

Soldier Summit can be a brutal place. D&RGW 5503 provides a helping hand to Amtrak #6, on New Years eve 1987. (Tom Ellis photo)

A six car officer special, lead by two GE motors, races westwards near Williams as the fading sun dips below the horizon.