Dressed in warbonnet red, Burlington Northern Santa Fe GE C44-9W No. 747 thunders westward with a freight past the milepost 192 semaphores east of St. Regis, Montana, on June 30, 2000.

A matched set of SD40s start out of CSX New Castle Yard headed out onto the B&P.

Bessemer & Lake Erie 909 leads DM&IR 405 and B&LE 900 up Proctor Hill with empty blast furnace trim cars (crushed raw taconite rock). The bright cars can also double as ballast haulers.

A pair of CP GEs haul Canpotex potash loads across the Joso Bridge spanning the Snake River near Lyon's Ferry State Park, WA. The fresh paint on the two rebuilt AC4400CWMs contrast the dusty land... (more)

"This here is one of our finest," said the UP Manager. In a staged scene part of the annual night photography session at the Rail Giants Train Museum in Pomona, a Union Pacific executive p... (more)

Rain storms are slowly moving east at the end of a cloudy day in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. As the setting sun drops below the western horizon, a tiny slot of clearing sky silhouettes a north... (more)

A sure sign of Spring as CRC 5704 and the Cincinnati Dinner Train pass the International Friendship Park just east of downtown Cincinnati. 5704 was beautifully restored in 2018 to her as-delivered... (more)

The Union Pacific passenger car deadhead continues its northward journey from Iowa... okay, more like really west, and then a sharp turn north, toward Oakland. Perhaps the reason being that the hi... (more)

Entering Georgia. NS 270 leads the OCS off of the Sixth Street Bridge past the entrance to the Augusta Riverwalk as these beautiful units exit the bridge onto this unique setting and proc... (more)

Among the hoppers, gondolas, tanks cars and an autorack, here is a wide angle look of UP 9135, UP 9295, UP 9230, UP 9184 (C40-8's) and UPY 940 (ex-MP 3503) a S6-1B, at Progress Rail Services, on P... (more)

The train is underway at 25mph. The MERR was designed to be fully automatic with remote control capability. A Bruce Van Sant original Kodachrome slide from my collection.

Q317 pulls onto the approach for the bridge to the Little Kanawha River, about to depart Parkersburg Yard on the old B&O.

Conrail MI-21 works Gerresheimer on the extreme north end of Vineland Running Track. This is truly the end of the line, with the end of active track marked by a pair of ties covering the rails. ... (more)

The sound of the Tehachapi Creek echoing through the deep, shadowy gorge below Cliff, creates a similar feeling of when standing by the Merced River in Yosemite Natural Park, while a north bound B... (more)