Track layer RL3 is ready to return to work in the Bloomhill bogs of Co. Offaly. The extra-wide tracks on the crane are necessary to distribute its weight and prevent it from sinking into the bog..... (more)

Cut Loose Caboose: A few months ago, the barber I've been going to since moving to Issaquah relocated from his old storefront next to the Front Street Market; much to my surprise, Maurice s... (more)

Two-for-one: As an empty potash train soars high over the Snake River on UP's Joso Bridge, the Great Northwest Railroad's turn from Lewiston to Ayer approaches Ayer Jct. on the Riparia Sub. This... (more)

Glistening on a spectacular morning that had a hint of spring in the air, brand-new Sounder engine SDRX 923 sits coupled to a train at Amtrak's Seattle Maintenance Facility. Looming in the distan... (more)

Lending truth to the name "armstrong lever," the signal box operator at Tipperary leans waaaaay back to line up the morning eastbound service from Limerick Junction to Waterford. The levers are d... (more)

Clouds help obscure the setting full moon as a northbound Link train begins an early-morning journey to Seattle.

Shortly after meeting an eastbound freight around the corner at Merritt, Amtrak's westbound Empire Builder crosses Nason Creek and enters the narrow confines of the Slot on the 2.2% climb t... (more)

A giant structure
Now forsaken by rail
Yet proudly stands tall

Off to the races! A trio of horses gallop alongside a loaded grain train near Sunset, Washington, in the heart of the Palouse region. A late harvest brought on by unusually wet spring wea... (more)

Anatomy of a Meet, Part 2: Westbound M-SPOPAS1-23A is now just shy of the Providence Hill summit while eastbound S-SEPLPC1-23K cruises downgrade toward a clear signal at Sand. The benefit ... (more)

Even something so massive as a quartet of SD70ACes can be dwarfed by the sheer size of Montana's mountains and forests. A microcosm of that visual dominance was depicted on a rainy spring afterno... (more)

The shores of Lake Sacajawea in eastern Washington are dominated by 600-foot-high Palouse Hills, clearly indicative of the effects the Missoula Floods had upon the landscape 13,000-15,000 years ag... (more)

Like a scene from a storybook: "Black 5" No. 45407, named The Lancashire Fusilier, briefly pops out into daylight between the short Leachabhuidh Tunnels on a typically dreary day in ... (more)

A sea of blue: I was only 14 years old in the summer of 1996 and -- at the time -- the dissolution three years later of Conrail, the railroad I had grown up with, was an inconceivable notio... (more)

In a 1/15-second pan shot during the blue hour, the nearly-empty purple streetcar turns the corner from Thomas onto Terry as it continues its northward jaunt toward Lake Union. Looming in the dis... (more)