Three Wishes
I had three wishes and I got all three, Aspen Leaves in Fall splendor, Mountains in purple majesty, and that golden specular highlight high country Fall light. P... (more)

Rio Grande Alco PA-1 6013, here sunning itself at Denver Union Station on May 18, 1959. From my collection, Photo by Lou Schmitz.

Antonito Sunset. After completing a day-long round trip to Osier with fans and photographers on board, Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Co. #1 "Glenbrook" and her running mate, Eureka & Pali... (more)

The incredible depth of breathtaking Royal Gorge dwarfs a 16-car Royal Gorge Route Railroad passenger train as it negotiates tight, rocky confines along the Arkansas River near the old siding loca... (more)

CSX U722-10, running under trackage rights on NS’ Appalachia District as KL01, exits the West portal of Natural Tunnel with CSX 911, the Honoring First Responders unit, in the lead, with 110 emp... (more)

Bursol is a shallow salt lake. Its main feature is that the color of the water changes depending on the weather. Therefore, the lake is called Pink and even Crimson. In the middle of the lake ther... (more)

With a large lightning storm overhead, the Tuscola-based 200 job power sits quiet for the night.

Reflections of UP 4014 at Sharon Springs, Kansas. Photographers, admirers and kids of all ages showed up at Sharon Springs early in the morning to see the Big Boy locomotive and watch it leave fo... (more)

Rockwood!

Rounding Granite Point / Mini High Line / Elbert Creek, Denver and Rio Grande Western K-37 493 rounds the shelf track here above Shalona Lake. This charter train dep... (more)

At Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, on the final day of the "Victorian Iron Horse Round-up," D. & R.G. 168 arrived pre-dawn on the east end of the railway, having traveled overnight fro... (more)

A quartet of Monon F-units, leads a northbound freight through Borden, Indiana in August 1960. Photo from my slide collection, no photographer's name Listed.

Four minutes after midnight, CSX 1 leads the office car train past the Western Railway of Alabama coaling tower in Opelika, Alabama, bound for Mobile for post-Hurricane Ida use.

Fields of Gold on the High Plains Route
Rare pre-dawn thunderstorms march on a line south easterly near Roggen. Just past sunrise above the ridge of the passing thunderstorms... (more)

First Light at MP 503
Racing the rising sun. I stand in the dark watching the light creep up from my wet vantage point beneath the super elevated curve between MP 503 and 502... (more)