A BNSF manifest freight rolls east on the Montana Rail Link near Trout Creek, Montana. Even though the fish were biting, I will always have time to photograph a train.

The ill-fated Aerotrain crosses the Rockville bridge in what is believed to be early 1956, enroute to Pittsburgh, PA.

The ill-fated Aerotrain leaves the station enroute to Pittsburgh, The train began running on the PRR in February, 1956 and continued for nine months.

Thunder over Palmer Lake
A Santa Fe GP20 on a weedsprayer train waits out a storm over Palmer Lake, Colorado. I don’t remember the exact exposure of this photo, but I set the lens to f2... (more)

Milwaukee Road "Little Joe" electric motor no. E70 leads a brace of diesels on a westbound freight train past the depot at East Portal, Montana, on July 12, 1973. The train is about to enter St. P... (more)

Curving through the Badlands
BN SD60M No. 9259 leads an eastbound coal train at Sully Springs, North Dakota.

Despite lack of wires or full Amtrak/Government support, Boston had fast 100 MPH plus train service to New York in the seventies. Number 51 is crossing the curved high bridge just north of the Ci... (more)

Norfolk Southern Railway Company 8114, Norfolk Southern's ninth heritage locomotive, rests under a colorful sunrise outside the paint shop at DeButts Yard in Chattanooga. Casey Thomason photo, ... (more)

The Interstate heritage unit eases out of the smaller tunnel within Natural Tunnel. The creek that created Natural Tunnel passes thru a smaller naturally-made tunnel in the lower right of the ima... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal train rolls through Lombard, Montana. A bit of smoke from forest fires to the west contributes to a colorful sunset.

Amtrak No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr, climbs through a snowy Crescent, Colorado, on March 19, 1998.

C&O 614 with her fairly new coat of Hunter Green. They re-painted over the lime green highlights, thankfully.

EMDX SD70ACe 2012 Tier-3 Demonstrator is seen at Gallitzin,Pa. on a beautiful Easter Sunday 2012.

An extra West Colton, CA to Roseville, CA manifest waits in the hole at Ansel. A southbound manifest is approaching the siding with the sun already behind the mountains leaving an impressive impri... (more)

Welcome Home! - The Alaska Railroad's last active steam locomotive, #557, has returned after a 46 1/2 year hiatus in the lower 48. #557 is a Baldwin Locomotive Works class S-160 2-8-0 Cons... (more)