Sun rays filter through the trees after a late afternoon rain shower. I pass by this crossing a hundred or more times a year, but this time was special and I just had to stop. After firing off a f... (more)

Sierra Railway #3 is just around the bend with headlight ablaze through a cloud of steam. This is approximately 150 yards east of the post office in Sonora.

Steel wheel on steel rail, close up at speed, hand held leaning out and hoping for the best.

Norfolk Southern's office car train flies through Narrows at an impressive 50 MPH while on its trek from Roanoke to Bluefield on a beautiful fall afternoon in the mountains of SWVA.

The sun has already set but the snow continues to fall as D797 crosses Highfield Rd. after working the MMID interchange.

There is little I can say about this image. It may look unreal but this vision is exactly as it appeared in my viewfinder. Ten seconds later the sun had gone. To say I returned home happy is somet... (more)

D&RGW's original search lights still protect UP's Craig Branch and our galaxy at 04:00h. I don't believe there was a single train on the entire 130+ miles of this coal branch line, the Milky Way a... (more)

Pulling for all their worth, three big six-axles lug a 157 car Q324 out of Defiance, passing Hires Cemetery just outside of town. Just a few moments later, the sun would dip below the horizon, end... (more)

Gladstone train #405 crosses over Interstate 287 with a small train of MU's on it's way west. Highway traffic zips by below into a starlit horizon.

Two friends are out walking their dog on a early Spring evening as NS 290, powered by Electro-Motive Division's newest SD70ACe demonstrator roars by the fully restored Montpelier Station heading N... (more)

The sun is starting to break through the fog bank as Amtrak #7 breaks out of the fog at Gold Bar, WA just after sunrise on 1/27/07.

BNSF 7699 has a clear signal to proceed east at West Daggett just after sunrise on 3/5/11.

Winchester and Western Local returns towards West Virginia after exchanging cars at Vardo Yard Hagerstown.

Point of Rocks, MD 3/9/2012 - Seen from high atop the nearby Catoctin ridgeline, CSX E-727 brings a string of 130 empty hoppers by the historic B&O depot at Point of Rocks. The train is on the Met... (more)