A westbound BNSF freight with SD40-2 pushers crosses Blue Mountain Drive at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon on October 23, 2001. Climbing toward Tunnel 1 in the background is the head end of the tr... (more)

Conrail GP40-2s bring a coal train eastbound through the lower end of Horseshoe Curve in Pennsylvania, amid the peak of autumn color.

Stopping for water at Waumbek. At 3800 ft. MSL, at the top of Cold Spring Hill, sits Waumbek Tank. One of the most remote water stops you'll ever find, this spring-fed tank has been a crit... (more)

Closing out a gorgeous spring evening, another CP train makes its way east toward the Twin Cities behind one of the railroad's newest locomotives.

A 7 engine lash-up with 4 SP and 3 D&RGW engines traverses the Royal Gorge route as they head Eastbound just West of Princeton siding with a heavy lumber drag.

A Union Pacific empty coal trains heads north at Bill, Wyoming at sunrise on May 30, 2009.

Amtrak No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr, climbs through a snowy Crescent, Colorado, on March 19, 1998.

Trendsetter As a full moon starts to rise in the east, alien bees illuminate the GRWR 3086. Clearly this GP40’s latest paint says the unit came from the Southern Pacific, but lying benea... (more)

A detoured #11 climbs Tehachapi Pass at Tunnel #2.

Westbound D&RGW manifest No. 143 drops downgrade at Mitchell, CO on June 14, 1989, led by SP B36-7 No. 7759 and a pure lashup of SP power.

A West Olive, MI, to North Antelope Mine, WY, rolls west thru southern Iowa. The train is approaching CP 2502, the new crossovers between Fairfield and Lockridge that was put in to help Amtrak mov... (more)

Mainline steam returns to Alabama! Southern 630 passes by the old Southern depot in Fort Payne on the way to Attalla.