BNSF 274 leads a Seattle to Pasco manifest freight past Maryhill siding as Mt. Hood stands tall in the background.

United Way Loco 9159 leads train 263 over an eastbound CP Intermodal

A windmill standing out in the high plains of West Texas helps frame UP 844 as the sun is about to set behind the 4-8-4 on 11/2/11. The train was behind a westbound UP auto train, waiting for an e... (more)

CVR's interchange train to the BNSF waits just east of the interchange at Boise City,OK on 3/13/08. A rainbow has formed, as the sun has just cleared the clouds from a passing thunderstorm. It was... (more)

APA 81 and 5 other Alcos leads a manifest, along with an embedded cut of blue coal hoppers from the Blue Looper coal train, over the top of the hill at Milepost 30. From here it is downhill to Sno... (more)

A eastbound coal load is racing a gust front from a line of thunderstorms on a warm summer evening west of Hebron,ND 8/10/07. The field of sunflowers in the foreground are in full bloom, and are f... (more)

Coal train inbound to Ameren UE's Rush Island power plant wades through some flood waters of the Mississippi River on May 21, 2010. I am the supervisor of the unloading crew at this plant for Amer... (more)

CN Buisness Train passes the CN 303 at Boston Bar East, pulled back to reveal more of the surrounding mountains

On a day that most likely will be the last time we will see 6 Alcos lashed up together on the Apache Railway, under stormy skies they head north to pick up the remaining 50 blue coal hoppers of th... (more)

"Hey, it matches!" Amtrak 184 is solo leading Amtrak train #7, the Empire Builder, over Gaynor Trestle on a cloudy early summer morning just east of the Cascade Tunnel and Berne Siding.... (more)

As the sun is close to dropping below the steely winter cloud deck near sunset, a northbound CSX freight train passes over the Ohio River flood plain after crossing the Ohio River at Rahm,IN 1/5/1... (more)

"Tip to Tail" NS 8099 eases into the final curve before arriving Pasco, WA and a crew change on November 15, 2014.

CVR's interchange train to the BNSF waits just east of the interchange at Boise City,OK on 3/13/08. What was a full rainbow is now almost gone. This view is to show the edge of the thunderstorm an... (more)

A rear view of the recently repainted Doodlebug splitting the pair of semaphores in the static display at Belen, NM on 1/7/14.

On board Amtrak train #302, we are cruising along at 110mph+ as we pass a semi waiting at a crossing on the small section of high speed rail between Dwight and Pontiac, IL on 11/20/13. My GPS app ... (more)