ARR 4002, The Spirit of Seward, is on gravel train duty, seen here on the Elmendorf Siding on the tail end of one of the two daily gravel trains that run during the summer.

Loaded oil tankers glint in the last few minutes of a great Spring day. Passing through the Columbia River Gorge, these oil cans will travel through Vancouver, WA, then north on BNSF's Seattle Sub... (more)

Two new locomotives, one a Dash 9 and the other a Dash 8, pull a westbound Santa Fe pig train across the Alhambra Valley near sunset on the Muir Trestle.

There maybe not be stranger bedfellows on any railroad in the world... FEF3 844 and DD40X 6936. Notice that 844 has its smokebox door removed as part its regular maintenance.

During the steam festival “Baie de Somme”, a diesel freight train is operating between Saint Valery sur Somme and Noyelles.

Fillmore & Western 3501 leads the Pacific Railway Society excursion Eastbound outside Fillmore, heading for Piru, where the train will reverse.

Fillmore & Western 3502 leads the Pacific Railway Society excursion Westbound out of Piru, en route to Montalvo.

Stacks from Detroit sit half in Ohio and half in Michigan.

BNSF 9755 (SD70MAC) sports unique numbering on the cab side.

Heading southbound on competitor rails, BNSF 4417 glides past Summerland with baretables in tow.

GP38-2 CN 7518, YBU-4m 526 and GP40 WC 3026 in map paint scheme switch a line of grain cars in CN's Edmonton Walker Yard. WC 3026 was painted with the map and statement " 150 years of Rolling" to... (more)

As the morning sun reunites itself with Tehachapi's golden hills the sound of dynamic brakes pierce the cool morning air in the Caliente Valley. BNSF 5309 has just finished the most daunting porti... (more)

As Kawasaki Railcar celebrates it's 25th year of building/ maintaining railcars at it's Yonkers, NY plant, more and more new railcars continue to emerge. Their most recent, photographed here, is t... (more)

CSX automotive train Q217 climbs up Sand Patch Grade west of Glencoe, PA on Oct. 14, 2000.