Got lucky Finding a prop, A train parked on a load out on the old MStL just off the Spineline. Shot at F 45 the sun was so bright you can see it in the lens bending around the aperture blades, Som... (more)

Norfolk Southern Railway Company 8114 leads its first revenue train towards Andover, seen here squeezing thru the small railroad bore within the naturally-made Natural Tunnel. The creek created m... (more)

Unconventional Pan: NS 2775, with NS 212 in tow, flies down Main 1 heading north on the NS Greenville District and under a single-lane road bridge. Pan at 1/20 and 17mm. Check out a differe... (more)

No, this is not Photoshop trickery. This is some creative light painting. With camera in Bulb I opened every car body door and painted the guts of the engine with a flash light. A technique I disc... (more)

Train watching on Utah's dead sea can be an ethereal experience. The western sky in the moments before sunset has turned the shade of orange sherbet, the salt mist in the air refracting the setti... (more)

The bartender reaches into the cooler for a cold one at the "400" Club in Altoona, Wisconsin which was named after the famous Chicago and Northwestern passenger train that used to pass right by th... (more)

It's not about the length of your pan but what you do with it.

The chase is on! While trying to get ahead of the train for another shot, I sneaked in a few frames, reflected through the side mirror.

Railfanning in style.. Chasing a westbound mixed freight in a BO-105 helicopter.

Clear as mud - one of a handful of surviving unpatched or unrepainted Southern Pacific locomotives rests next to a mud puddle in the Hoffman Avenue yard in St. Paul.

For the past 20 or 30 minutes, the exhaust fans have been howling and red/white checkered door has been closed. A strobe over the door starts flashing and it's show time. The door slowly opens a... (more)

Bored of the standard shot? Me too!

A school bus pulls up to the crossing just as NS local P07 activates the lights and bells.

This photo is dedicated to the memory of Roger Rassche, fellow railfan, photographer and modeler, who passed the next day after this image was taken. You're in a better place now Roger, but a l... (more)

The darkness temporarily succumbs to light, as a locomotive's headlight paints the right-of-way and adjacent hills, while the ETD brings up the rear with its signature flashing red light. The sce... (more)