The brake shoe haze and dust kicked up by a downhill Santa Fe coal train catches the reddish rays of the setting sun at the east end of Bealville. This heavy coal load is headed for a cogenerator ... (more)

Crawford Hill’s horseshoe curve
A BNSF freight grinds eastbound up Crawford Hill, Nebraska, with only two units on June 12, 2000. Trailing the former Conrail Dash 8-40BW are some empt... (more)

Can't you just imagine a fish lurking in that clear water? A new BNSF ES44C4 leads a westbound grain train on a fill west of Noxon, Montana, on MRL's 4th Subdivision.

Traffic on the road is very quiet this morning, unlike the parallel Union Pacific main line which is humming with trains. As seen from inside a long-abandoned gas station along the old Lincoln Hig... (more)

Got lucky Finding a prop, A train parked on a load out on the old MStL just off the Spineline. Shot at F 45 the sun was so bright you can see it in the lens bending around the aperture blades, Som... (more)

A northbound BNSF coal train heads across a fill just south of Bill, Wyoming. The Powder River Basin is a great place to catch beautiful sunsets.

Under grey skies a First Great Western HST descends Dainton bank on route to London, the pink of the doors neatly matching the spring flowers

Steam and smoke seems to erupt from every surface of Nevada Northern 4-6-0 No. 40 while on Steptoe Creek fill just outside East Ely, Nevada, during sunrise on February 4, 2007.

A westbound intermodal train on BNSF’s busy Transcon rolls westbound through Ludlow, California. Sometimes you spend so much time setting up for the head-end shot, that you miss a golden opportu... (more)

One of the millions of things I like about Montana is the clear water. This is plainly seen in this photo. Here a H-1 Dash 9 leads a BNSF freight over Bridge 55 on Montana Rail Link's 4th Subdivis... (more)

A commuter, let's call him Alfred, catches up on all the news prior to hitching a ride on a Trenton bound train. Better board that train quickly! Up above, a bird performs a flyover - will there... (more)

NJT cab car 7018 leaving Hoboken Terminal, NJ at the end of rush hour.

The uniformity of an empty grain train gleams in the morning sunlight. This empty is east of Wyaconda rolling east towards Galesburg and points north.

The 2.5 km. (1.5 mile) Forth Railway Bridge, the world’s first major steel bridge, with its gigantic girder spans of 521 m. (1710 ft.) ranks as one of the great feats of civilization. It was beg... (more)