Winter Sunrise on Denver
Westbound just after first light Amtrak 1105 the WPE is leaning into it at Leyden just after 0730.

The South Draw Sand Train Pull No other place on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision combines grades, curves and tunnels like South Draw. This is the section of railroad the Rio Grande purchase... (more)

While following the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon, an eastbound BNSF grain train passes Toston Dam east of Toston, Montana, running on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision on the morni... (more)

A short south bound Union Pacific manifest slithers it's way up through the curves at Allard in the late afternoon sun light as cloud shadows blanket the surrounding emerald hills. ... (more)

UP 8314 powers the once-a-week empty OGLPS train up the PSAP outside of Elma. The log loader and hail provide for a interesting mood.

Two GATX-leased EMD GP38-2s chaperone 28 loads of Kanawha Eagle coal toward the CSX interchange at Chesapeake, W.Va., passing a coal truck headed for Winifrede in this fall peak view from late Oc... (more)

Painted in its 1970s paint scheme, Black River & Western 60 crosses the Copper Hill Trestle as the sun sets on a fantastic day of steam railroading.

"Macombs Dam Bridge Opening on the Link"

The Macombs Dam Bridge sits in the opened position while the tail end of CSX Q701(21) snakes along the shores of the Harlem River on the Oak ... (more)

308 is absolutely flying over the Frederick House River through the small town of Connaught with its work now done at Kidd. It’s creating a mobile whiteout in its wake reminiscent of the weather... (more)

Coal empties throttle up and leave the double-track of Vesuvius, splitting the classic N&W signals that still guard this line for now...with the clock ticking.

A trio of SD70ACe units lead a mixed freight train eastbound through Pinecliffe, CO on a cool and foggy March 5, 2022.

Known around the world, and arguably the best street running operation in the country, Chicago South Shore & South Bends’ iconic 11th street passageway, shuts down Sunday Feb. 27th, 2022, as pla... (more)

BNSF Z-AUGSBD passing by a parked SD70MAC at Turners.

An 86 car empty gravel train, lead by 5 MACs, crosses the iconic Hurricane Gulch Bridge on the Alaska Railroad. About MP 284 on the railroad and climbing the hill towards the Summit of Broad Pass ... (more)

A brief snow storm is breaking just after sunset at the continental divide. A UP coal train has exited the Moffat Tunnel (the signals and portal are visible in the far distant center) and now snak... (more)