A Brightline train to Orlando crosses the Hillsboro Canal in Deerfield Beach on a beautiful Florida winter morning.

A Brightline train to Orlando crosses the Hillsboro Canal in Deerfield Beach on a beautiful Florida winter morning. The train has just departed Miami for a long journey to Orlando.

A Miami bound Brightline train crosses the Hillsboro Canal in Deerfield Beach. The train has just about made its way home after a long journey from Orlando.

Passing rain showers have left patchy fog along the Coal River as the eastward-facing C&O cantilever signal at E.E. Big Coal Bypass protects the interlocking at the eastward-most signal on the Big... (more)

Unsown Earth | A colorful lashup of four GE engines leads a northbound train of empty coal hoppers past a fallowed crop field northwest of Asbury, MO on a bleak Saturday, January 27, 2024 a... (more)

Dismal Daybreak | Just past 8 in the morning on a gloomy Saturday, January 27, 2024, a southbound CPKC grain train cruises across a dirt road near Asbury, MO.

EMC SW1 SP 1000 is seen working at Oakland California in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Montana Rail Link's SDP40 290 with it Montana Centennial paint job. Leads a seven unit string of MRL blue's. (Tom Ellis photo)

Exiting out of the spiral tunnel CP 5802, 5828, 6647. At a time when the SD40-2's reign over the Canadian Pacific roster was coming to an end. (Tom Ellis photo)

A forty nine car southbound freight is seen at Fresno California in 1938. Otto's speed estimate was 8 MPH. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Gray Day Railroading | A northbound light power move runs through the light fog of a cool and wet Tuesday, January 23, 2024 morning north of Decatur, AR.

Caliginous Countryside | Passing a row of mailboxes south of Decatur, AR, a southbound CPKC manifest train cruises through the fog on the gloomy morning of Tuesday, January 23, 2024.

Decatur Dawn | A southbound manifest train on the CPKC Railroad heads through the town of Decatur, AR on the foggy morning of Tuesday, January 23, 2024.

An ETR-500 class "Frecciarossa" high-speed train coming from Milano crosses this plain on its way to Bologna Centrale.

With four B truck locomotives, two EMD, two GE. On the train they were bought for a high speed hot shot pig train. (Tom Ellis photo)