4. My first days drive was planned to end at Sully Springs, ND. I wanted to catch some morning trains through the North Dakota Badlands which borders Theodore Roosevelt National Park. While here I... (more)

85. The slowly dimming light of the DPU can be seen dropping further down the bore of the Moffat Tunnel.

Clear as mud - one of a handful of surviving unpatched or unrepainted Southern Pacific locomotives rests next to a mud puddle in the Hoffman Avenue yard in St. Paul.

Running on the advertised out of Santa Barbara, southbound Amtrak train #11 sprints along the California Coast as it passes beach goers at Emma Wood State Beach near Ventura on the former Souther... (more)

Wisconsin & Southern's Janesville-to-Chicago freight meets the business train at Spring Grove, IL. Photo taken with permission.

With a mountain snowstorm brewing just over the next range in B.C., a westbound manifest travels over the fill at Muleshoe. Picture taken from the foreslopes of Mt. Cory, looking across the Bow va... (more)

Having just pulled to a stop with their unit train loaded with soda ash, five Trona Railway EMDs idle in the cool desert air, as the twilight sky signals the end to another day in the high desert ... (more)

As the sun sets over the Marin County hills across San Pablo Bay, a late California Zephyr begins its final sprint west to Emeryville behind UP power borrowed at Truckee.

With the low evening sun dropping into the San Joaquin Valley haze, the Rio Grande heritage SD70ACe rolls downhill through Cliff with a westbound manifest. Following this train over the pass on th... (more)

For the past 20 or 30 minutes, the exhaust fans have been howling and red/white checkered door has been closed. A strobe over the door starts flashing and it's show time. The door slowly opens a... (more)

Borrowed Light! A rare opportunity to light up the bridge at Sunset Falls presented it self during this years Tracks In The Snow event. Quite an adventure packing in and out 4 lights and batteri... (more)

Under a full moon, a southbound local bound for Delta Yard in Everett cruises along the shore of Samish Bay behind a quartet of Geeps which easily handle 33 cars from the industries along the Cher... (more)

A local with GP38-2 #5107 at the head rolls through the pouring rain towards Richfield

Bored of the standard shot? Me too!

The 6:15 p.m. outbound Northstar departure rockets across the Mississippi River bridge on a rainy January night.