Northbound Cascades at sunset on the Puget Sound. Once again, scenes like this are not long for this world, even now pretty rare, with the retirement of the Series 6 Talgo train sets.

A clerk for the N&W Railraod holds up trainorders for the fireman of No. 611 as the crew prepares for departure.

A pair of CEFX AC44s switch the LS&I dock in Marquette during some heavy fog. A rare “fog bow” just so happened to appear in the perfect spot!

Storm bearing down on Hosterman. Blackening the sky like an approaching tempest, Meadow River Heisler #6 storms down the old C&O Greenbrier main at Hosterman, WV (MP 88.2), past the lily pa... (more)

Silhouetted by the morning sun, Nevada Northern 2-8-0 No. 93 pulls a short freight over Steptoe Creek fill near East Ely, Nevada on a cold February 8, 2004. NNRy operates these special photo train... (more)

Roosters get a day off at Verdant View Farm as the "Queen of Steam" welcomes daybreak with an impressive plume and a hearty whistle!

SP 18 doubleheads with 493 on the first Silverton revenue trip in more than a year.

Exactly 150 years after the inauguration ceremony of the first cogwheel mountain railway in Europe, from Vitznau on the shore of the Vierwaldstättersee (Lake Lucerne) to the Rigi (exactly Rigi St... (more)

Flying just below the clouds
Powered by lone GE ES44C4 No. 8068, a westbound BNSF “Boeing Special” passes over the causeway west of Trout Creek, Montana, on October 13, 2017. These ... (more)

As the golden hour arrives in the James River valley, and the Blue Ridge mountains loom off in the back ground, 212 hustles north across the Southern built James River Trestle on their way north t... (more)

Out of the Light and Into the Darkness. As the early morning sun breaks the night, NS 203 heads down the Southern Main through Beaumont and into Magnolia on its way south.

Some twenty minutes north of Philadelphia, an Amtrak Regional rounds a tight bend into Bristol, catching the last light of a setting Sun while en route to Trenton, NJ and points east. In the backg... (more)

Mother Nature serves up another spectacular golden Colorado sunrise as the California Zephyr passes through the trees east of Keenesburg, Colorado.

I've had this photo in my head for a few years, but haven't made the time to head out to Moab very often. Since I first wondered if it was possible, I've seen the train framed through Corona Arch ... (more)