The storm clouds have finally started to clear and the really late afternoon sun cast some warm golden light on the side of a eastbound manifest waiting at West Cheyenne to pull up to the station ... (more)
The first rays of sun reflect of the sides of a Q train at Truxton, AZ.
With a z-train hot on its heels (visible in the distance), a BNSF manifest begins its climb out of the San Joaquin Valley towards the summit at Tehachapi.
Just passing the hot box detector MP 138.4 at Ripley, a 30 MPH coal drag heads eastbound toward Avilla, Indiana as it catches the evening glint.
A Trona bound coal train rolls through Saltdale on Union Pacific's Lone Pine Branch shortly before beginning the climb for the last 20 miles to Searles, and the junction with the Trona Railway.
The Tay Bridge is the longest railway bridge in the UK at just over two miles. The structure seen here is the second attempt at bridging the estuary, the first famously collapsed during a violent ... (more)
Santa Fe 5436 leads a westbound on a hazy morning at Christie in Franklin Canyon. 5436 was one of four SD45s rebuilt by Santa Fe with a 3500 hp 16 cylinder 645 prime mover.
12 locomotives easily handle this stack train that has climbed over 6000' in elevation since it left Phoenix. This is mainline mountain action at its best.
4868 catches the last rays of the sun as it leads an eastbound auto rack train up the Cajon Pass
A stack train glints as it snakes east through the desert at Ludlow, CA on the BNSF Needles Sub as the sun sets on a very windy and dusty day in April 2009.
The rails glow with the last minutes of sunset as a short eastbound crosses into Ohio on the former Nickel Plate.
A railfan takes video of 11V with three EMD leaders as it heads west through the Cassandra Railroad Overlook as the sun burns off the morning fog.
Under a roiling monsoon sky, a manifest enters Tucson Yard from the east.
