Straight Outta Blade Runner Hazawa Yokohama-Kokudai Station opened just 4 years ago in 2019 and it's easily the most modern-looking train station I've ever been to.

Four rugged EMD HT-C SD locomotive trucks are in the process of being rebuilt inside Union Pacific’s massive Downing B. Jenks locomotive shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 19, 2015.

A quiet night with the Northern Lights doing their thing in the sky and the signal at S. Fairlane doing its thing.

Szabadság híd (in English: Liberty Bridge or Freedom Bridge) in Budapest, Hungary, connects Buda and Pest across the River Danube. It is the third southernmost public road bridge in Budapest, lo... (more)

Looking like glitter sprinkled along the rails, is metal shavings. In the side track at Broughton, a curved portion of rail is littered with metal flakes from the wheel flanges rubbing against th... (more)

Respite at sunset: At sunset on May 4, 2011, East Hump at the sprawling Union Pacific Bailey Yard at North Platte, Nebraska, has a lull between trains. The double crossover and diamond between, ar... (more)

As freight cars roll over East Hump utilizing the north track, a track gang works on south track on May 3, 2011. Union Pacific’s massive North Platte Yard in Nebraska is always busy and has to k... (more)

A Union Pacific train gets sorted outside the windows of East Hump tower while East Hump Foreman R.C. McKain supervises the operation in the lower level of the tower at North Platte, Nebraska, on ... (more)

Jake Linderman, second trick operator on the second floor of East Hump tower, talks to a switch crew on the radio at Union Pacific’s big yard at North Platte, Nebraska, on May 3, 2011.

Railroad zip ties
Used to keep the air hoses together during transit, heavy-duty zip ties litter the tracks over the hump where cars are separated while being classified at East Hump, in... (more)

Pin puller
In the old days of hump yard operation, men manually pulled the pin and uncouple cars as they slowly topped the hump. It’s still done that way today, only the pin puller is... (more)

Being centrally located on the Union Pacific system, Bailey Yard at North Platte, Nebraska, is a busy place and processes trains day and night, all week—all year. On the eve of May 4, 2011, boxc... (more)

Pitch Fork. The New York Central searchlights on the pitchfork at CP 94 in Barrytown, New York lasted in to the modern era and were by this time unique on the Empire/Hudson Line, but have s... (more)

20th August is a public holiday in Hungary, when stores and universities are closed and there are multiple ceremonies and public speeches around the country, complete with magnificent fireworks af... (more)

Biltmore Better. After a closure for several years, on May 8, 2023, the MTA reopened the "Biltmore Room" in Grand Central Terminal. The main change to the physical structure was t... (more)