A loaded grain train from Gladstone (South Australia) is about halfway through it's trip to Port Adelaide. Power is CLP8 and CLF6. Both rebuilt in the 1990s from CL Class locomotives.

It is late in the day on the last day of January. Haze has been building throughout the unusually warm day, and the sun is starting to set near the state line between Virginia and North Carolina a... (more)

An eastbound IMRL bullet train is about 8 miles out of Mason City. Not much has run over night, so the line is blown in. Here the 8905 pokes her head out for a brief moment as it blast thru snow d... (more)

A southbound sits in the siding at Sheffield after bucking drifts out of Mason City. Sheffield is the 1st siding out of Mason City on the UP Spineline. This is the ex-Rock Island route from St. Pa... (more)

The skillful engineer of K627 has the train under control as it drops through the control point at Flanagan, KY on the hill between Winchester and the Kentucky River at Ford. The Richmond Hill pus... (more)

A lone MAC brings up the rear end of this loaded coal train. The train is seen here working the grades between Red Oak and Stanton in southwestern Iowa. The train is still around 46 miles from Cre... (more)

An eastbound loaded taconite train is on the wrong main as they work out of LaCrosse towards Prairie du Chien. Here the train passes thru Genoa, about 20 miles of LaCrosse. This section of thew Au... (more)

Once upon a time, trains on the Modoc Line added helpers at Ravendale. By 1988, the water tank standing along the tracks was the only remaining structure from those days.

Another cold day in the High Sierras draws to a close but the action is just beginning for the Union Pacific Railroad. Throughout the day, the Truckee-based Jordan Spreaders were working to clear ... (more)

Rolling along in the shadow of Mt. Shasta, an eastbound Siskiyou Line train crosses the Shasta Valley, heading for Medford.

Heavy snow continues to fall in Crozier Canyon on Christmas Eve 2016. Blast through the snow is the daily New York, NY to Los Angeles, CA intermodal train. With four snow-covered locomotives, they... (more)

A light snowfall greets the N&W 611 as it steams up Yadkin Hill on its final approach to the North Carolina Transportation Museum, where it will spend the next few months getting prepared for anot... (more)

T 930, Lok 20 and 58 311 head a special train from Münsingen to Kleinengstingen.

With the bank of LEDs leading the way, a rebuilt snow dozer out of Fargo sweeps through Larimore behind a pair of GEs. The roads were less than ideal so chasing these guys as they made track speed... (more)

Priceless moments on the railroad... My younger siblings came out and surprised me with a visit while at work. Photo by Sequoya Davis.