EMDs at night. After getting our shots of the Iowa Interstate QJs, we turned our attention to GP38-2 721 waiting for its next assignment. To see the engine in action the next morning in ver... (more)

Two former Union Pacific SD90s on lease to the Buffalo & Pittsburgh sit in front of the former Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburgh station in East Salamanca. Remnants of the massive yard that was here ... (more)

The loneliest stack train. As the tour buses crossed the flyover, the east run through tracks are packed with loaded coal trains...and one stack train. In the background, ES44AC 5269 and fo... (more)

Two years ago today... my brother and I visited the fields of eastern Pennsylvania to shoot a Norfolk & western mixed train passing some of the last fall color around as it approaches Groff... (more)

One year ago today... over 30 photographers gathered in the fields of eastern Pennsylvania to recreate classic Canadian National scenes from decades previous. As the unique cloudline heads ... (more)

Southern Pacific in North Platte. UP 1996, the Southern Pacific heritage unit, sits on display at the North Platte Diesel Facility in Bailey Yard during the town's annual Rail Fest weekend.... (more)

Extra 1225 West speeds across the Michigan countryside as the sun rises at the start of what would be a sunny, but cold, February day. This was the first runby of a long weekend on Historic Transp... (more)

UP 7236 leads a loaded coal train eastward through Bailey Yard, surrounded by standard cab EMDs, including snoot-nosed SD40-2R 3310, SD40-2R 3691, ex-CNW UPY SD38-2 808, CEFX SD40-2 2811, and UP S... (more)

One unit wonder. A former Conrail SD60I, now CSX 8749, is the sole motive power for today's eastbound Q300, seen here passing a colorful patch of fall foliage at the Prospect Avenue grade c... (more)

The signal is....sideways? CSXT 7495 and AC4400CW 436 lead an unknown manifest west through the new, not-yet-activated signals at the east end of the Raritan River Bridge. These signals, on... (more)

Happy Halloween. After performing a few runbys at the wye, Reading & Northern back the special excursion to Jim Thorpe, passing this pumpkin patch in Haucks. Note the low-hanging clouds obs... (more)

Happy Halloween. Before sunrise on a cool, fall day, CN 2-6-0 911 heads eastward past a pumpkin patch in the fields of eastern Ontario.

UP 1988, the Katy heritage unit, and UPY 2622, a Railpower PR20BD, await their next assignments after being on display in downtown for North Platte's annual Rail Fest.

Reading 903 accelerates around the Vera Cruz horseshoe as it passes this house located at the apex of the Vera Cruz horseshoe on the ex-Reading Perkiomen Branch. Unfortunately, the FP7s' only excu... (more)

With the barn right up against the highway and the train and Aughwick Creek bridge in the distance, it takes a creative angle to include the whole scene. Luckily, no one was parked in the lot in f... (more)