BNSF's Portland-Pasco manifest crosses the Willamette River on a warm August night.

A short remnant of the meter-gauge Ferrocarril Transandino, which once ran over the Andes between Chile and Argentina, lives on under FEPASA. Although the steeper rack-and-pinion segments further ... (more)

I don't mind the sun sometimes, the images it shows.

It's a long way down.

Several of SQM's 85-year-old GE boxcabs are still in daily service hauling nitrates to the port town of Tocopilla. Here, 604 ("Viviana") and 607 ("Alejandra") quietly round a horseshoe curve with ... (more)

Under a full moon and a starry sky, a Ferronor train of loaded copper concentrate hoppers charges around the horseshoe east of Montandon. The train had stopped briefly at Montandon and is now maki... (more)

Pan Francisco.

One of BART's two Plymouth CR-8 centercab diesels rolls along East 8th Street in Oakland after picking up two empty flatcars near the Bay Fair station.

Like a G6.

A Richmond-bound BART train races along the base of the East Bay hills between the El Cerrito Plaza and El Cerrito del Norte stations.

A westbound freight train traverses Arnold Loop in eastern Nevada on its ascent of Silver Zone Pass. Fog from the valley below and the salt flats of Utah has covered the front of the locomotive in... (more)

The last southbound Cascade creeps across Portland's Steel Bridge on its way south to Eugene.

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Spent fuel and pulverized sand billow into the still air of the Sierra foothills on a warm January afternoon as an eastbound manifest struggles to put Roseville and the Valley out of its quaking r... (more)

The Nevada State Railroad Museum unveiled its restored McKeen Motor Car to the public on May, 9, 2010, 100 years to the day after the car's original arrival in Carson City. The car was delivered n... (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.