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)

Passing through the Sonoran Desert National Monument, this east bound inter-model is watched by the Saguaro cacti.

Flamingos and the Railroad: In the middle range of the Andes, 4000 meters above sea level, this train of the railway company FCAB through the huge and impressive "Salar de Ascotan" (Salt fl... (more)

Amtrak’s California Zephyr crosses McDonald Creek under the imposing cliff of Dodge’s Bluff just east of Utaline, Colorado, on June 13, 2009. This portion of this former Rio Grande route is al... (more)

A Durango and Silverton mixed freight photo extra crawls along the steep ledge of the High Line, high above the Animas River north (railroad west) of Rockwood, Colorado, on August 24, 2005. Poweri... (more)

Climbing out of Alamosa, Colorado, in the expansive San Luis Valley, a San Luis and Rio Grande eastbound pulled by 2-6-0 No. 1744, heads into a golden sunrise on September 20, 2007. The train will... (more)

Spectacular Bootlegger Canyon
Union Pacific’s Potash Turn heads north into Bootlegger Canyon on the afternoon of May 12, 2006. This train normally operates in the morning, so this lat... (more)

Apache Railway C424 #99 climbs the last grade before the Catalyst Paper Mill in Snowflake, AZ. This was the last month of operations for the Apache Railway as the line shut down in September 2012.... (more)

Southern Pacific 2-6-0 #1744 leads the Heber Creeper's afternoon train from Provo Canyon through Utah's picturesque Heber Valley at Charleston.

Dreaming of a White Christmas. Every year, on the Saturday before Christmas, the WW&F hosts its annual Victorian Christmas event. While everyone hopes for a snowy scene, the reality is tha... (more)

Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 hauls a freight train past Decker’s Bay siding on Utah’s Heber Valley Railroad on February 8, 2006. Built in 1906 by Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Oregon Shot Li... (more)

Winter’s blue hour
Just after sunset, Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 heads east approaching Wallace, Kansas, on New Year’s Day 2007, during that magical time on a snowy wi... (more)

150 years anniversary of VR Finnish Railways: Like in old days, when the passenger trains comes up from seaport Hanko. The passenger steam locomotive Hv1 is approaching, with historic wooden coach... (more)

The turn to Slatford Junction passes the former DL&W station at Mt Bethel. The station was originally built by the Banger & Portland RR in 1878 and is now a private residence with a view that many... (more)