Last light and one more train for me coming around the curve and under the endangered SF cantilever signals.

As day turns to night, a late winter snow squall blankets the coal town of Keystone as eastbound coal loads charge over Elkhorn with a former Conrail C40-8W leading.

With the signals lit for a 20R that had just been in the block at the beginning of the exposure, another eastbound approaches the signals at Tipton, illuminating the late-night fog that had accumu... (more)

Exhaust mixes with fog coming off the snow, as pushers on the rear of a heavy coal drag near the top of Elkhorn Grade. The pushers have been on the rear since Farm in the long grueling climb to th... (more)

The sunsets over the Mississippi River as CP 474 pops into view, headed east on the River Sub.

On a beautiful Summer evening the fireworks show, from the DelGrosso's Amusement Park, celebrating the Nation's birthday and the park's 100th anniversary illuminate the former Pennsy signal bridge... (more)

Surrounded by a dense tunnel of trees, a southbound Tennessee Southern freight slowly approaches a pair of deer grazing and frolicking along the right-of-way north of St. Joseph, Tennessee, on May... (more)

The Logistic Park, IL, to Seattle, WA, stack train lights the track ahead of them as they are about pass thru the crossovers at Edelstein. This is the busy BNSF Transcon Mainline and ex-Santa Fe t... (more)

An early morning westbound rounds the curve at Ada on its way to Bluefield.

Isolated in the bottom of the New River Gorge just east of Gauley Bridge, westbound coal empties illuminate the C&O intermediate cantilever signal at Blue Hole in the final minutes of complete dar... (more)

A coal train breaks the pre dawn silence as it grinds up Logan Hill in the Powder River Basin near Bill, Wyoming.

The deafening silence of a West River snow shower is broken by the approach of CP's 571 crawling toward Rapid City at a whooping 10 MPH.

A CSX AC4400 leads a Phoenix bound manifest down the steep grade through Williams. In the distance, a pair of F40PHs (295 & 237) shuffle cars in preparation for their morning trip to the south rim... (more)

In heavy fog and cold temps a southbound BNSF coal load was about to crest the grade over the Palmer Divide on the BNSF Pikes Peak Sub at Palmer Lake.

BNSF 7064 has been cooling it's heels in Skykomish while a workcrew keeps the Cascade Tunnel in tip top shape. Now after a 4 hour work window has passed and a nearly hour long trip from Skykomish... (more)