At 8:20 a.m. the morning of September 1, 2003, Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s V KCMPTL 29 blows by the mile 207.2 semaphores at Donlan, Montana. In the left seat of this former Santa Fe GP50 is... (more)

A former Conrail SD60I leads a crewless empty coal train that is tied down at CP Wing. Someone has drawn a happy face and sad face in place of the removed FRA marker lights on the nose of 6726.

The Canadian Rockies make as nice backdrop as two CN westbounds meet in Jasper yard.

Back in the day when the Santa Train was not so glamorous the consist threads it way southward through bare trees in murky weather. Only the train changes.

Returning from a railfan trip to Knoxville I discovered a rather spiffy looking Conrail alumnus.

Montana Rail Link EMD F45 No. 390 leads LM at Greycliff, Montana, on the afternoon of October 3, 2005, beneath stormy skies and a splash of sunlight. The train will be treading through snow by the... (more)

Friday afternoon and the work week is over while commuters detrain.

A lone GP40X sits in the yard at Willmar MN.

The 2nd story of Grasselli Tower is placed on the 1st story on a beautiful May morning in North Judson, IN on the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum property. More info about Grasselli Tower here: ht... (more)

Running West out of Battle Creek the CN 2423 and CN 5296 pass the Old Fire Station #4 on Kendall Street. Hard to find many striped CN Locomotives these days.

As a local Norfolk Southern train accesses the old Southern Railway R Line in Columbia, South Carolina, Union Pacific power waits to finish running around the wye downtown to turn their power so i... (more)

A pair of Indiana Railroad SD60s (ex-SOO) pull a loaded coal train across the former Milwaukee Road bridge spanning the Mississippi River.

Marshall Canyon is one of those "shared" territories where you see multiple roads using the same rails. Here, a Union Pacific "Spokane International" train from Canada is head... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific freight rumbles through Taggart, Utah, on February 8, 2007. The train is passing through 538-foot Tunnel 8 and crossing one of the truss bridges spanning the Weber River... (more)

Of the numerous times I shot the return leg from Cheyenne to Denver, this was one of the few there was no storm...and even fewer times there was no other rail traffic waiting at the signals eastbo... (more)