Devastating flooding in Montana almost took out this bridge in June 2022. Completed in 1909, Shields River Valley Railway built this 22-mile line north from a connection on the Northern Pacific at... (more)

Wheels waiting to roll
New wheels sit in the late afternoon sun, carefully stored for future intermodal car axle replacement inside Union Pacific’s Joliet Intermodal Terminal at Jolie... (more)

The Last (Last, Last) Full Moon on The Rise (?)

In what’s sounding like a broken record, the easternmost blade on NMRX’s Railroad greets the second full moon of 2023, the ‘... (more)

Drivers view on the Jungfrau Railway, entering the Eismeer crossing station on 3158 meter a.s.l., deep inside the Eiger mountain, when coming from the Jungfraujoch, top of Europe. The gauge is 1 m... (more)

Dawn breaks over South Deshler, and the classic Color Position Light guarding it.

The Amtrak Station in Rome, NY

APRES-SKI-BAR bar car Bp # 4027 of the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn in the rear of regional train R 831 of the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn from Disentis to Andermatt, near the Oberalppass. The car had be... (more)

Winter in Montana can be brutal, and during one of these bitter cold days, a Montana Rail Link section crew digs out a switch serving Thompson River Lumber before MRL’s Paradise local arrives to... (more)

The two new automatic gauge change facilities in Zweisimmen on tracks 6 and 7 in the home position (not active), in operation since the timetable change on December 11, 2022. In the background, th... (more)

During the reconstruction of the Domat/Ems station of the Rhaetian Railway, this very special track swivel was installed. From Chur to Domat/Ems, the left track of the double track is a triple tra... (more)

Moonrise along the Norfolk Southern Dayton District. The signal in the distance is 169.

Station of Fes in Morocco by night. Fes is the third largest town of Morocco.

Hall of the station of Fes in Morocco. Fes is the third largest town of Morocco.

Clearing the track from blown in sand in the curve after the crossing of the dried out Oued El Oglat creek some kilometers before Ain Beni Mathar in the east moroccan desert. So the ORIENTAL DESER... (more)

Hall of the Oujda train station in the east of Morocco in the morning at 6.42 AM. Only few passengers are present, all from Europe, to ride with the ORIENTAL DESERT EXPRESS due to leave after 7 AM... (more)