After Union Pacific began operation of the Moffat Tunnel line in the wake of the Southern Pacific merger, there was a brief era when UP assigned Rio Grande’s GP60s to the Ski Train. On the morning... (more)

In the last hour of daylight, BNSF's 25th Anniversary Unit #6075 leads a southbound Vancouver, BC to Portland, OR grain train past Clark's Point in Bellingham, WA on November 11th, 2020.

Eastbound CN container train crossing the Nicola River at Spences Bridge.

shortly before Wrapping up the evening at Strasburg Railroad, 90 puts on a dramatic show in her throwback paint scheme, as steam billows into the crisp night air. Lighting for the evening done by ... (more)

Strasburg Railroad 90 Performs a runby just before sunrise around 7:10 AM. The orange skies and thick plume of smoke make this a dramatic scene.

The Castleton: CSX intermodal train Q008-17 basks in the morning light as it crosses the renowned Castleton Bridge in Schodack Landing, NY on its trek east to the intermodal ramp in Worcester, MA.... (more)

CSXT CW44AC No. 493 exits the only tunnel on RJ Corman's Loup Creek Branch with a cut of loaded coal cars for the CSXT-Corman interchange at Thurmond. This area of the New River Gorge is notorious... (more)

With a smoky sunset aligned with Bridge 14, this UP Oil train tiptoes gingerly across the bridge, just in case.... The dispatcher just "talked by" the crew against a red signal, as the bridge is... (more)

Hot in Caliente. BNSF Railway 5634 (AC44CW) leads a manifest train through Caliente, California on the scorching morning of Thursday, July 23, 2020. After traveling through a series of loops and... (more)

The sun continues to dip down in the western sky above the Big Horn Mountains as an eastbound empty BNSF grain train from Kalama, Washington, scoots along State Highway 345 between Parkman and Ran... (more)

Cogwheel double railcars Bhe 4/8 # 3044 and # 3041 of the Gornergratbahn in multiple control are running up the mountain between Riffelalp and Riffelberg, with the mighty Matterhorn as background.... (more)

Fall color at Cement Wall. Deep in the Animas River Canyon, a Silverton Mixed Train behind D&RGW #473 charges north with some loads for the residents and businesses in Silverton, passing th... (more)

20 seconds into my time exposure and this happened. A single bolt of lightning from a severe thunderstorm moving out over the Atlantic, fanned out across the entire sky. Brand new crossing gates... (more)

An empty BNSF coal train crosses Union Pacific’s massive bridge at Joso, Washington, on September 21, 2015. These BNSF coal trains use UP’s Ayer Subdivision (the Washy) out of Spokane to the power... (more)

Controversy averted. The 4:30PM Reading and Northern Railroad/Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway train (“Gorge Express“) crosses the original Jersey Central Railroad bridge across the Lehigh river at Nes... (more)