BNSF 712 leads a 14,000 ton Kansas City, KS to Barstow, CA manifest train across the hogbacks of Hackberry. All 9,000 ft of train can be seen as the red and silver warbonnet painted Dash-9 notches... (more)
Four Norfolk Southern locomotives lead the San Bernardino, CA to Austell, GA (via NS interchange at Memphis, TN) Z-train as they charge out of Walapai and round the curve of Antares. Normally, the... (more)
Victory lap. For both the Empress and the photographer. In 2011, my last visit to see her in action was met with "diesel substitute" as she went down with repair. She was repaired, tes... (more)
This shot rather landed in my lap due to an errant merge onto the "A" route thru, as opposed to around, town. Thought I was done for, but the train maintained a delicate speed and I was... (more)
Photography From Pollepel. One of the more famous landmarks in the Hudson River is Bannerman Island Arsenal on Pollepel Island near Fishkill, New York. One of the lesser photographed views ... (more)
Inside the recently restored cab of Alco 5, the control stand shines in the afternoon sun showing the unique contrast of 1940's engineering to modern day.
The hot Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z1 waste no time climbing the 1.4% grade of Yampai Hill as the sound of three GE motors roar in notch 8.
Southern Pacific 9758 E/B Intermodal just east of Duran, NM on the Golden State Route on December 16, 1995 with SP 8037 and another SP B39-8E. Storm clouds on the horizon with more snow later in t... (more)
Up and out of town passing Point Park, X317 departs CSX’s Parkersburg Yard bound for Russell Kentucky and on to Cincinnati.
CP 9720 + UP 7982 and mid train dp KCS 4181 haul Edmonton, Alberta to Montreal, Quebec 118 over the west switch of Marathon.
Florida East Coast 148 rests in Palmdale as a 1929 Ford Model A truck poses next to the locomotive.
IC GP40R 3115 leads CN L512 East through East Chicago.
Golden hour sets over Mechanicville as the G40 crew onboard CP 2266 takes down CPF-468 bringing empty High n' Wide cars back out to GE in Schenectady, NY.
Heading to the plant from the mine crossing over Elbow Creek south of Iron Jct. MN.
Loaded ethanol train 6W4 nears their destination of Selma with one of the ex-BNSF/KCS Dash 9s trailing.
