MOW stand back as the Thermit Weld fires up to make the weld at around 2,000 degrees.

MOW workers use plain old fashioned elbow grease and high tech sighting to align the diamonds.

Following the departure of the southbound Silver Star, the platform lights of the Cary Amtrak station illuminate the CSX rails which will now lie dormant until morning.

Ammonoosuc MWCR No.2 creates her share of what the hikers call "cog smog." The thing is, she has been doing so since, (I believe) the 1880's!

Waiting to be unloaded

Two lines of locomotives in the CSX yard at Cumberland. It was erie this Memorial Day at the shop and yard..no trains, and not one locomotive was idling, total quiet, the first time I've ever seen... (more)

At sunrise in Cleveland, Ohio, the first-trick bridge tender starts his shift on Norfolk Southern's former Nickel Plate Road drawbridge over the Cuyahoga River. In the next eight hours, this opera... (more)

Grain Train in the Sky! 70 former ATSF and BN hopper cars rest on stilts at the Muleshoe Pea and Bean Company along the BNSF Slaton Subdivision.

A westbound Green line train, in the middle of a nonstop run of over a mile between Clinton and Ashland stations, seems to be fleeing from the downtown buildings ablaze at sunset.

Sunsets are always special and so is this one as two Pink line trains meet at Ashland AV over Lake Street. A volcano eruption half way round the globe had heightened the colors in a shot only ava... (more)

Steel on Steel

After decades of faithful service beneath the coal hoppers which brought power to Duke University Medical Center, seen in the background, this switch stand lays on its side awaiting removal, and p... (more)

The ladies are lined up for a late afternoon shot...my goodness, it looks like 4418 "pooted"

Whittier Junction switch with green straight on Alaska Division to Seward and left to the port of Whittier. On the siding is a snow removal MOW train with ARR Jordan Spreader 7, GP38-2 2002, GP40... (more)

CHS2T-1038 with by brandname train of N53/54 "Grandee Express" Saint Petersburg - Moscow, station Khovrino, October railway, Moscow. More photos: http://train-photo.ru