Sunset crossing. The setting sun begins setting fire to Norfolk & Western's big J-Class #611 as she takes her passenger train westbound, past a motorist waiting at the crossing at Verdant V... (more)

A beautiful late fall sunrise in Eastern Virginia in the 1950s with Norfolk & Western "Queen of Steam", J-Class steam locomotive #611. This scene has actually been captured during a ph... (more)

Glowing Start to November: The first sunset of November 2022 did not disappoint and created a festive reflection on the consist of Northeast Regional train no. 148 as it approached M... (more)

Meet me at the curve. Occasionally luck is on my side, although not often. However, looks like my early morning efforts were rewarded today as the head end of a mixed manifest slogs up the grade ... (more)

River Life. On October 21, 2021, WEBX FL9 2024 (ex-CTDX 2024, exx-MNCW 2024, exxx-MNCW 534, exxxx-MNCW 5058, exxxxx-CR 5058, exxxxxx-PC 5058, née-NH 2058, EMD, 11/1960) traveled down the C... (more)

The Arlberg Railway (German: Arlbergbahn), which connects the Austrian cities Innsbruck and Bludenz, is Austria's only east-west mountain railway. It is one of the highest standard gauge railways ... (more)

A large forest fire in Arizona has caused smoke to drift over the Colorado Front Range, providing a muted sunrise for the California Zephyr running through Keenesburg, Colorado.

The exhaust heat generated off the lead engine of the California Zephyr appears to be on fire as the train runs towards Roggen, Colorado in front of a fiery sun ball. The red sunrise is due a lar... (more)

AMTK 301 has the honors for the first time as it leads the trip to the west coast on a balmy March morning. The Empire Builder had to wait for CP to get a derailment in Wisconsin cleaned up ye... (more)

FIRE AND ICE. The California Zephyr makes track speed on the Brush Sub at dawn as it passes a frozen Barr Lake in Brighton, Colorado.

Amtrak 507 coasts along the Puget Sound on the evening of July 7th rounding Steilacoom Curve just after crossing the lift-bridge at milepost 14. Later in the year Amtrak would discontinue service ... (more)

Winter Sunset. It was a good combination of snow and late sun to go to the Mount Pleasant Station on the MTA Metro-North Railroad Harlem Line on March 9, 2018. Luck was on the photographer'... (more)

'Zephyr Fire and Ice' The temperatures are below freezing as the California Zephyr passes a frozen Barr Lake while a fiery sunrise develops over the horizon.

With only minutes of daylight left, BNSF's Custer, WA to Everett, WA manifest rolls past The Chrysalis Inn & Spa in Bellingham, WA on May 14th, 2021 with BNSF 181 in Santa Fe paint leading followe... (more)

Deep in the hills of Cabin Creek, a pair of mainline CSX motors runaround coal empties at Leewood Siding before spotting up underneath the Tom's Fork loadout. The CSX crew will work with the loado... (more)