BNSF 7592 climbs Stevens Pass entering what appears to be a tunnel of trees at MP 1722 just west of Scenic, WA and the Cascade Tunnel. This train is an empty oil train with 2 units of the point an... (more)

"Reminders of the Past"

After 146 years of serving the United States as "The Greatest Show on Earth", the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus has clo... (more)

Hauling a cut of hoppers, Montana Limestone Company’s EMD SD50F Nos. 5438 and 5404 are framed by MLC’s limestone loader at Warren, Montana, on June 24, 2016.

The Pickens Belton job returns from the Greenville & Western interchange to deliver three boxcars to Packaging Corporation of America in Honea Path.

A long exposure from a VIA Rail dome car shortly after stopping at McBride. I was one of six people on this 2 car service to Prince George that day, a great passenger experience.

In 1936–1939 Baldwin Locomotive Works built nine 0-10-2 steam locomotives for the Union Railroad. Since these were the only locomotives ever built in the United States to this wheel arrangement ... (more)

A FrontRunner train passes on the high fill over Bridge Junction as a UP stack train waits to depart Ogden.

A peaceful Sunday morning finds a few lingering rain showers dampening the silent wooded areas near Lake Lanier, but the silence is soon interrupted with the appearance of hotshot intermodal 203, ... (more)

A northbound Poughkeepsie bound train traverses around the waterfront in Scarborough on a warm spring evening.

A photo that, for me, epitomizes the Florida East Coast Railroad.

Winters Last Gasp

Near the very end of March Southcentral Alaska got hit with its last good snow dump of the winter season. Nearly a foot fell in some places and the fresh afternoon... (more)

Nightfall arrives, but the brown line continues its consistent running in and out of the loop

The doorstep of The Inn at Spences Bridge is almost on the Canadian Pacific main line (and literally is on Nicola Highway 8—watch your step…) at this crossroads in the Thompson River Canyon in... (more)

A JS locomotive illuminates an otherwise pitch black scene as it departs the open pit at Sandaoling with another load of coal destined for the washery. Xinjiang Province, China.

After crossing Tehachapi Pass at sunset, a Barstow, Calif., bound stack train heads toward Monolith as it glides east across the outskirts of downtown Tehachapi.