Six-axle power for the Black River! The BR&W's newest locomotive, their first six-axle unit, BDRV 9581 (ex-NS 58) sits in the Winchester & Western yard at Bridgeton awaiting its turn... (more)

MILW 261 and consist continue west towards Glencoe as the sun sets on the last runby of the day.

After learning that my morning class was cancelled I tried my luck at a new spot on the Coast Line. Within 20 minutes I got the train I was hoping for. I guess the train gods were in a good mood t... (more)

While I wasn't too pleased with my shot of the OCS over the river, I can cross the close-up shot of the lead F-unit and the Reading logo on the bridge off my list.

CSXT 5266 leads an EB autoracker into the rising sun at Kearneysville. To the left side you can see "new WV Highway 9 under construction.

A 'Sa' Dash-9 leads yet another intermodal train west over Curtis Hill at Belva.

Love at first sight? This is my first good (technically fifth overall) of the NS F-units as they back across a runoff stream of the Savannah River just north of Gwinnett Blvd. I have been hooked a... (more)

It's summer 1957 and a young farmer begins to make his way home after selling out his stand but not before getting caught by the daily mixed train heading south to downtown Flemington, Hogtown, an... (more)

Shortly after sunset, a fisherman goes about his business in the 'rapids' south of Rockville as the OCS heads back to Altoona.

What could be a better birthday present to me? How about driving up to PA the day after shooting a Shay on rails that hasn't seen steam in 30+ years to witness one of my favorite locomotives plyin... (more)

Western Maryland Shay 6 screams through the town of Junior in what is a very West Virginia-looking scene to me. What could be a better birthday present to me!

No photo lines, no actors, no planned runbys (Part II)...I had originally planned to shoot a silhouette from the crossing itself but the sun was a little too high and the train was a little... (more)

N&W 475 rolls into the enginehouse as the sun sets on another day at the Strasburg Railroad.

The plan was to get to Riverside and wind our way north to our hotel in Hazleton and hope to catch something. Our plans soon included chasing CP 413 northward after hearing a distant horn w... (more)

This is as close as you can get to shooting a Strasburg train and any body of water, a pond (apparently filled with fish) on one of the farms west of Esbenshade.