Season's Greetings! Marquette Rail's 2010 Santa Train gets a friendly wave from a snowman as it approaches the tiny village of Fountain in northwest Michigan. This train makes multip... (more)

The Monday Wednesday Friday operations on the Everett Railroad Co. finds freight runs on the ex PRR's Morrison's Cove Secondary which then became the Allegheny Southern Railway from Sept. 1982 to ... (more)

Brakeshoes smoking, limestone loads descend the 4% grade on the lower loop crossing of US 50 near Maysville.

Two new SD70M-2s from the first order lead a loaded sulfur train along Jasper Lake.

Black Canyon Part II: If Black Canyon is merely amazing in daylight, then it's downright dramatic under a ful... (more)

An ultra wide perspective of Horseshoe Curve shows westbound empties rounding the bend under the power of a trio of SD60I's.

Their servicing complete, four of the Rio Grande's 2-8-2 K-36 locomotives await their next call to duty at the Durango roundhouse. These days, however, the majority of their duties involve hauling... (more)

Just after sunrise, an SP eastbound negotiates the multiple reverse curves at Bealville's west end and heads into the Allard Horseshoe.

Leading a 100 car empty grain train for loading at Napoleon, ND, are a former Wisconsin Central SD45 and two ex-Canadian National SD50Fs.

Sometime it does all comes together steam, snow and sun a very rare combination in the UK even better when the steam is a Royal Scot and the line is the Settle and Carlisle.

Q112 swings through a curve along Brule Lake with the Miette and Brule ranges providing the back drop.

Export coal loads from the Usibelli coal mine south of Fairbanks roll across the glacier-fed waters of Upper Trail Lake at Moose Pass, Alaska on a beautiful late summer day.

Soaring nearly 200 feet above the Snake River, a Boardman coal load stretches across nearly the entire 3,920-foot length of UP's Joso Bridge, its tail end still strung out through CPE273 on the fa... (more)

Sitting, still in disrepair and waiting for duty, 6311 keeps guard outside the old elevators in Rosalia. The setting sun, light pollution from nearby Spokane, and a single mercury vapour light pro... (more)

Southbound from Silverton in the late afternoon. The combination of hazy sunshine and the reflection of light off the mineral stained rocks below the bridge produced an interesting lighting effec... (more)