The last night shift crew arrives back into the yard after their twelve hour shift. The train won't sit long in the yard until the next crew heads down to the mine for coal. The locomotive on the ... (more)

Cold weather makes good steam as this JS Class locomotive demonstrates leaving the coal mine's "Blue Loader". The shift is almost over for this crew as they make one last trip to the washery after... (more)

Photographing these "Sparkly Trains" as they are often referred to can be a challenge. They are often photographed in the dark and spark output can vary greatly drastically changing the lighting c... (more)

The Union Pacific Railroad worked with the Altoona Police Department for their department photo. The Chief of Police is proud of the railroad heritage that the city has and the role that the railr... (more)

The snow line is visible just above this homestead east of Paradise, Montana. You can see how all the falling rocks and debris over the years probably has fell down in the crotch of this mountain ... (more)

The famous Montana Rail Link gas train now usually contains lumber cars ever since the Paradise local was abolished. The local out of Paradise use to handle these duties but a slow down in the lum... (more)

Frosted over coal hoppers sail through Perma, Montana. A spot designated by a handful of homes and a shack with a rock floor that sells fishing supplies and other odds and ends scattered around th... (more)

Grain hoppers roll back east following the warm glow of the headlamps lighting the path through the tunnels along the Middle Fork Flathead River. The sun will rise before they start the attack of ... (more)

With the coal market in decline, lines of hundreds of locomotives are forming in BNSF's Donkey Creek Yard located on the north end of the Powder River Basin in Rozet, Wyoming. Mainly stored are th... (more)

Western Wisconsin has been hit by spring thunderstorms the last few days. As the this storm rolls through, loads of silica sand from the Wisconsin Northern are taken over by Union Pacific at Chipp... (more)

The crew of this Union Pacific manifest knocks down the signal at Rodell on the Altoona Sub just a few miles east of Fall Creek, Wisconsin.

Thunderstorms roll across western Wisconsin as this Canadian National BNSF patch locomotive cuts across country towards Minneapolis with an empty rail train.

An inbound Metra train for LaSalle Street Station crosses the diamond protected by the 16th St. Tower outside downtown Chicago. The tower stands over the crossing of Metra's Rock Island District o... (more)

Imagine the number of people that have walked through this train station. Built in 1925, it is the third busies rail station in the United States. The station serves around 120,000 passengers ever... (more)

The yellow glow of the headlamps attempt to cut through the thick fog coating the Mississippi River valley. The steel rails guide the Canadian Pacific freight train towards Saint Paul along the ba... (more)