Under a backdrop of grain elevators, an eastbound freight led by Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 No. 137 slowly works its way through Muskego Yard in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on December 6, 1986. A little ... (more)

A westbound Santa Fe manifest rolls through Pinole, CA, with classic two-story houses on all sides. Exiting Franklin Canyon, the train will briefly skirt Suisun Bay and SP's Cal-P line before head... (more)

A westbound freight is making a lift from the small yard that is part of the west leg of the wye with the Valleyfield Sub. Coteau was and still is a busy junction on the CN Kingston Sub. where th... (more)

Working west on Boston & Maine rails with train POPY, a trio of Delaware & Hudson GP39-2s swing through North Leominster, MA, on a snowy winter morning. POPY was the Guilford organization's long d... (more)

Winter’s slime hides an early—but not the first—CSX paint scheme on CSXT 6589, as the former B&O 4014 leads a late Orange Blossom Special-South through the “Hanover Curve”, westbo... (more)

The fireman and headend brakeman are going into the station to confer with the agent-operator before making a lift from the yard. Coteau was and still is a busy junction on the CN Kingston Sub. w... (more)

MILW 183 shows of its fresh paint as it crosses the Menomonee River near Valley Park in Milwaukee, WI in February of 1984.

Early in the morning, with fog burning off as the sun climbs, EMD FP45 No. 98 leads a 971 train through the multiple reverse curves of Cable.

Santa Fe EMD GP20 No. 3040 leads a westbound Santa Fe freight through the curve at Ancona, Illinois, in March 1984.

A raw, late autumn-early winter day in Chicagoland gives way to a foggy and damp dusk on November 29, 1986, as a westbound Burlington Northern commuter train roars out of the gloom at Naperville, ... (more)

The Canadian rolls east at Ottertail, BC near Field on its approach to the climb over Kicking Horse Pass into Alberta. A splendid view this morning from the dome.

It's blue light hour at Boston Bar, BC and the Super Continental has arrived for its station stop and head end crew change. A CN caboose shows off its markers in the background and two other westb... (more)

An NWP Sprint Train is returning to Petaluma from Suisun. The train is taking the curve at Ignacio that connects the line from Schellville to the Northwestern Pacific main line. Note that the br... (more)

Although it looks the the SP, the UP takeover had already taken place, but in 2000 you could still catch scenes like this. Here SP 9821 leads the northbound ILCLT1-2 (roadrailer) down through Cali... (more)

One of my favorite "human element" captures on the Hudson local by the Iron Horse Bar on a cold March afternoon with a long string of empties to bring back down the hill from the mill.