I happened to be in Moab, UT when a friend reminded me that the once a week UP potash local runs on a Friday, wait thats today! All my previous plans for the day were now pushed to the side as I h... (more)

CPs OCS train heads west across the bridge approaching Otter Tail east.

The Sisters Defying Time: The Pan Am Railways OCS crosses the Androscoggin River from Lewiston into Auburn, Maine on its trek west to Rigby yard in Portland. A beautiful day coupled with an equall... (more)

The incredible depth of breathtaking Royal Gorge dwarfs a 16-car Royal Gorge Route Railroad passenger train as it negotiates tight, rocky confines along the Arkansas River near the old siding loca... (more)

CSX U722-10, running under trackage rights on NS’ Appalachia District as KL01, exits the West portal of Natural Tunnel with CSX 911, the Honoring First Responders unit, in the lead, with 110 emp... (more)

Rockwood!

Rounding Granite Point / Mini High Line / Elbert Creek, Denver and Rio Grande Western K-37 493 rounds the shelf track here above Shalona Lake. This charter train dep... (more)

First Light at MP 503
Racing the rising sun. I stand in the dark watching the light creep up from my wet vantage point beneath the super elevated curve between MP 503 and 502... (more)

Steamscape: Whitehead Gulch. One of the most challenging, yet spectacular photo locations on the old D&RGW Silverton Line is this little spot at MP 491.95, about 5 miles south of Silverton.... (more)

Monsoon season has been exciting so far this year in Northern Arizona. This past Tuesday, another monsoon storm rolled through Valentine. It produced thunderous skies for most of the evening. As t... (more)

Code Poles and Track Speed
Ed Dickens is on the fireman side for his watchful eye over the Overland Route right of way in western Nebraska. Running track speed near Ogallala, N... (more)

Below the imposing escarpment of Dodge’s Bluff, Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr traces the Colorado River in spectacular Ruby Canyon just east of Utaline, Colorado, on June 23, 2021.

Running on time and downhill into Minot, the Chicago-bound "Empire Builder" flies high over Gassman Coulee and against a picturesque July sunset.

Mount Hood looms over a westbound Coal train meeting an eastbound manifest at Wishram on a beautiful Columbia River morning. The Celilo Bridge, in the distance, crosses the Columbia from Wishram ... (more)

Along the Columbia River Gorge at sunrise on the Fallbridge Subdivision a loaded westbound Coal move rolls into Home Valley Wa.

An insane turn of events leads to this wonderful scene of CSXT 3194 leading Q020 through CP VO.