Lifting the Snow
Running behind and making up lost time number 5 is blasting into Wiggins, CO moments after sunrise. Subzero temperatures allow the snow to rooster tail behind the gl... (more)

The last day of 2021 was a good one! The Phase I heritage unit came down on train #59 (City of New Orleans), and I just so happened to be going to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl. Here's a shot of... (more)

Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 steams past frozen wetlands and thistles with a short freight train at Charleston, Utah, on February 7, 2007. This train is being operated for photographers by Heber Va... (more)

Crossing the Old Santiam Highway grade crossing, Santa Maria Valley Railroad 205 leads an appropriately named Santiam Excursion Train south toward Sweet Home where it will run around its tr... (more)

Santa Maria Valley Railroad 205, a 1924-built product of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, gleams in the rare, winter sunlight near Liberty, Oregon as it hustles a four-car train south. Enjoying a new... (more)

Amtrak ACS-64 662 and 600 on a rainy day at Port Chester, New York. 662 is in the 50th Anniversary Phase III wrap advertising Dovetail Games Train Sim World 2.

The F125 Test Train shoves out of the Pasadena Sub and approaches CP-Claremont. They'll soon head west to Taylor via the foreground San Gabriel Sub.

A Bright Future Ahead: An Acela II set in testing runs through Metuchen near sunset on August 9, 2021.

Just before sunset, P32AC-DM 214, leads a Metro North train north to Poughkeepsie.

Under a high country cobalt blue sky, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Rotary OY and outfit train work upgrade out of Dalton, New Mexico, on February 29, 2020.

Amtrak ACS-64 662 wears the commemorative modified Phase III livery, applied in cooperation with Dovetail Games, to advertise that company's Train Sim 2 product. The motor is expected to sport thi... (more)

Brightliners. A Manhattan-bound Z train of R32 "Brightliners" approaches Marcy Ave. Upon hearing of the R32s reactivation in summer 2020, this was one of the places I definitely wanted ... (more)