After crossing Tehachapi Pass at sunset, a Barstow, Calif., bound stack train heads toward Monolith as it glides east across the outskirts of downtown Tehachapi.

A BNSF Railway intermodal train for Barstow, Calif., meets a Bakersfield, Calif., bound freight train at Tehachapi loops during an unusually green and mild spring season.

A Union Pacific freight train headed for Mojave, Calif., meets a Bakersfield-bound BNSF freight at the famed Tehachapi loops. Combined, there's more than two miles of various bulk commodities, con... (more)

A BNSF intermodal train barrels across the Mojave desert on BNSF's ex- Santa Fe transcon at Pisgah.

Yes, that's a Chessie System locomotive at a CSX repaint facility in the year 2017. C&O No. 8272, formerly known as CSX B30-7 No. 5554 sits at CSX's Huntington Locomotive Shops on Saturday, March ... (more)

On incredibly unusual summer-like day, Kanawha River Railroad No. 381 and two matching KNWA SD40-M2s lead a freight through the capital city of Charleston. The train is en route to Columbus, Ohio,... (more)

BNSF power leads a run-through grain train south on CN's Waukesha Subdivision near Theresa.

A Canadian National Tier-4 GE ET44AC leads a northbound freight train through the marshlands of Theresa.

A former Chicago & Northwestern GE C40-8 leads a CN freight train north on the approach to Byron Hill. The train is headed for Fond du Lac, Wis., from the Chicago area.

Canadian National EMD SD70M-2 No. 8901 leads a crude oil train toward Milwaukee on the railroad's Waukesha Subdivision in Richfield.

Coal may not be what it used to be and the trains may not roll through the community of Sproul as often as they used to, but the loyal Chesapeake & Ohio style cantilever signals still guide trains... (more)

Spanning the ex-Virignian Railway bridge at Slab Fork, NS' "Honoring First Responders" EMD SD60E No. 911 leads empties toward Alloy Yard from Mullens on Watco's Kanawha River Railroad.

Putnam County EMS, Nitro Police and Nitro Fire pose in front of NS' specially painted "Honoring First Responders" EMD SD60E No. 9-1-1 in Nitro, W.Va., on Watco's Kanawha River Railroad.

Norfolk Southern's specially painted "Honoring First Responders" No. 911 leads three other units on a northbound coal train through Nitro. The train is traveling on Watco's Kanawha River... (more)

A Canadian Pacific visitor makes a timely visit to the Tri-State region of West Virginia during some of the 2016-17 winter season's coldest weather to-date.