A San Bernardino, CA to Willow Springs, IL waste no time climbing the 1% grade of Goffs Hill as the sound of six GE motors roar pass the control point of Fenner.

Amtrak engine #19 (P42DC) leads the California Zephyr through Keenesburg, Colorado at sunrise on the Brush Sub.

The late afternoon sun makes a brief appearance on an otherwise rainy day at Helena, Montana, on October 8, 2005. Two Montana Rail Link machinists at the “roundhouse” talk briefly while mainta... (more)

On that cold winter afternoon of December 3rd, 2023, the 99 2322-8 steamed at full steam along the cliffs between the Baltic Sea resorts of Kühlungsborn and Heiligendamm, to Bad Doberan.

The California Zephyr runs through the signals at Keenesburg, Colorado as it heads to Denver under a golden sunrise.

The California Zephyr glints the gold sunrise as it runs through Keenesburg, Colorado on the Brush Sub.

With the last bit of light for the long Friday, CP 2249 pulls the 2023 CPKC Holiday Train rounding into the City of Cohoes on it's way north with next stop at Mechanicville.

BNSF's version of the "Salad Shooter" is the Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z-train. With containers filled with frozen goods, what makes this train stand out over the rest of interm... (more)

Two of three of the last operating examples of C30-7s left in the United States head up a loaded unit grain train bound for the CN interchange in Fulton, KY. The WTNN C30-7s have been an elusive t... (more)

BNSF 6582 rolls down Curtis Hill through Curve 41.

Two years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a Rio Grande tunnel motor leads a trainload of Oregon forest products on a southbound train. The next crew change will be at Klamath Falls,... (more)

CR 7869 & 8275 lead a welded rail train through the remnants of the Lehigh Valley Station in Easton, PA. Photography by Tim Howeter, from the collection of Colin Kund.

CR 4020 heads up the OCS consist as it travels westbound over the Delaware River. In the background is the former CNJ Phillipsburg Union Station, which has not seen a passenger train in quite some... (more)

An early NS #215 tackles the 1.28% grade climbing the west side of Braswell Mountain near the 104 milepost

Rockmart grain empties at Riverside