A full moon softly illuminates the crossing point at the Williams Loop. A train, as yet unseen, approaches out of the Feather River Canyon to the west, turning the signal red.

A pair of high hood SD40-2s lead eastbound NS train 386 along the edge of Stock Creek at Glenita.

Passing by the window of a long-abandoned homestead along the Flathead River, Montana Rail Link’s Day Gas Local heads back to Missoula on September 20, 2012.

A westbound Union Pacific autorack train hauls new automobiles and trucks to their future owners at Hermosa, Wyoming, including these new Hummers on TTGX car No. 159107, silhouetted by the setting... (more)

Traveling Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision, an eastbound BNSF train approaches Trout Creek, Montana, on the evening of September 20, 2012. As the train streaks through the darkness and cas... (more)

A BNSF coal train with two SD70MACs, and a Union Pacific AC44CW, lead a coal train bound for Portland General Electric along the crystal clear Clark Fork River.

Railjet connecting Vienna to Graz in the Pettenbach tunnel, along the famous Semmering railway from Gloggnitz to Mürzzuchlag. The whole line (41km long) is on the list of UNESCO World Heritage. E... (more)

On the anniversary of the tragic events of 9/11, a Metro North train leaves the city behind as the new Freedom Tower rises.

With two loads for North Java, the train slowely makes its way pass newly planted fields full of dandelions

CSX 324 heads up grade from the New River Gorge on their way to the loadout in Pax, West Virginia.

U.S. 30 is quiet, but not the UP: Beyond the gas pumps in front of a long-abandoned gas station along the old Lincoln Highway (later, U.S. Highway 30) at James Town, west of Green River, Wyoming, ... (more)

BNSF 9843 leads a coal train out of St. Paul, Minnesota down a very cold and ice covered Mississippi River past Lock and Dam #2 near Hastings. Lock and Dam #2 was built original built in 1907. Fol... (more)

Wisconsin & Southern GP-38 3801 blurs past the wig wag signal in Baraboo, Wisconsin.

A distributed power unit pushes hard up grade while the snow continues to fly over the Powder River Basin before sunrise on this early morning.

Heisler No. 6 blows off some steam on a late night, in-between a two day excursion event on Labor Day weekend. Heisler 6 is not usual power for CSRR trains, and since getting a new coal bunker dur... (more)