Two loaded BNSF coal trains meet south of Donkey Creek Jct. as a MOW worker inspects the switch heaters along the line.

I took a trip to explore the Bakken Oil Fields in western North Dakota.... (more)

I took a trip to explore the Bakken Oil Fields in western North Dakota. Trains were not the main subject of this trip but they are a big part of the oil industry out there and made there way into ... (more)

With Fall quickly approaching, this again will be a very common scene here in Wisconsin during the Whitetail Deer gun hunting season.

Illinois Central 101 pulls a passenger special for Ashley Furniture's 40th anniversary through Dodge, Wisconsin as a TERRIFIED horse flees the scene.

Coal for the Columbia Power Station travels south of Winona, MN along the banks of the Mississippi River on a cold and frosty day.

Inside the art deco inspired Prince, West Virginia Amtrak station. Here you can see the tile Chessie system logo that is part of the floor.

In the early morning hours a CSX coal train creeps along the New River as the sun's rising light just starts to fall into this West Virginia hollar.

A broken rail on the BNSF's Orin Sub gets repaired on this cold January morning.

Heavy falling snow covers Altoona, Wisconsin as a deer skull looks at me through the snow.

A Union Pacific logo adorns the stack of a piece of MOW equipment that planes the top of a railroad tie for the tie plate to sit. Photo taken in Altoona, WI.

BNSF MOW workers take care of a switch a few miles north of Reno Junction on the Orin Sub.

A Union Pacific MOW work hammers in an alignment pin to align the rail joint for the new bolt in Altoona, Wisconsin.

The first snow of the year paints the night white as Wisconsin Northern employees move the Union Pacific power around for the first Cameron, Wisconsin frac sand train. UP 6177 will be the only uni... (more)

The first Cameron frac sand train lumbers down the tracks across the Wisconsin countryside just south of Bloomer.