Blowdown at Sunrise

CN's BC Rail heritage locomotive leads a stack train east on the Edson Sub approaching Solomon.

CSX Q606 has met sunset at Henderson Point, Mississippi, as the waves lap up onto the shore from the Gulf of Mexico. Fair weather and following seas dominated the day with the exception of this si... (more)

Heading back to their namesake yard, the Kelly Lake local knocks the snow off while rumbling across the large steel Missabe era trestle along the CN Keenan sub with 6 cars in tow after serving the... (more)

Amtrak no. 14, the northbound Coast Starlight to Seattle at Summerland Ca. The Starlight rolls around Ortega Hill on the hills steep face above the Pacific Ocean.

A Christmas Eve snowstorm produced some significant snowfall in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. My alarm went off at 0300 Saturday morning to drive down and see what kind of shots I could ge... (more)

"Evening red and morning gray, help the traveller on his way." - says the sailor, and indeed the following day was dark and gray with minor wind. But it was a mayor heatwave (15 degrees ... (more)

Still looking fresh in its Guilford "heritage" paint, MEC 507 is pulling BO-1 into Peabody Square. The Peabody Soldiers and Sailors Monument stands prominently in the square. The monument was dedi... (more)

Sunset on the Pere Marquette. Pere Marquette Locomotive #1225 leads a long, double-headed freight through Smith's Crossing on the Great Lakes Central Railroad, as the train barrels toward i... (more)

How to get to the valley floor where the marble deposits are? 4.5% grades and a switchback. GNRR GP10 #7562 backs down the switchback with three hoppers on a mine run to Imerys on this former Geor... (more)

CN C40-8 2036 leads train Q102 through a winter wonderland on the Edson Sub just east of Swan Landing.

After Union Pacific began operation of the Moffat Tunnel line in the wake of the Southern Pacific merger, there was a brief era when UP assigned Rio Grande’s GP60s to the Ski Train. On the morni... (more)

In the last hour of daylight, BNSF's 25th Anniversary Unit #6075 leads a southbound Vancouver, BC to Portland, OR grain train past Clark's Point in Bellingham, WA on November 11th, 2020.

Eastbound CN container train crossing the Nicola River at Spences Bridge.

shortly before Wrapping up the evening at Strasburg Railroad, 90 puts on a dramatic show in her throwback paint scheme, as steam billows into the crisp night air. Lighting for the evening done by ... (more)