Stiff winds blowing down the east side of Marias Pass have a habit of toppling lightweight freight cars or ripping empty intermodal containers from stack trains. Midvale Creek Trestle features a s... (more)

End of the line for LSRC 698.

A symphony in stainless steel. Metra's Burlington Fleet sleeps the night away in Aurora. Note the green-tinted windows, a feature that seems to be unique to Metra.

Two Southern Belle locomotives lead an unbroken string of Southern Belle hoppers northbound near Page Siding, amidst an unusual March snowfall on Rich Mountain.

A northbound Coaster hustles along the beach at Del Mar. The trees in this area are among the most distinctive I've ever seen.

CHOMP! Sitting next to the Arkansas & Missouri shops in Springdale, the former Belt Railway Company of Chicago Alco Century looks like it has just about had it.

The Wisconsin & Southern prides itself on keeping their locomotives clean, and with temperatures outside hovering around 10 degrees, "bath time" is an indoor activity.

The old girl can really fly. Otter Tail Valley GP18 192 is rocketing along jointed rail with the daily turn to Moorhead. This locomotive was delivered with a low nose as Norfolk Southern 13, and t... (more)

The last rays of sunlight glint off an eastbound stack train in the Mojave Desert. Traffic on I-40 is visible in the background, and shows the efficiencies of loading hundreds of containers onto a... (more)

This is the Wisconsin Central Santa Train, which brought holiday cheer to thousands of children in northern Michigan and Wisconsin. Sadly, after ten years of operation under WC, Canadian National ... (more)

Having dropped their inbound transfer at West Chicago, UP's Olympians dash on to Proviso.

Mist from the Monongahela River shrouds the valley as an eastbound train rolls through. Homestead, site of a major US Steel factory and famous for periodic labor unrest, has been reduced to ruins ... (more)

Bad day in Berea. CSX 5007 sits south of the Sprauge Road crossing, sporting a few dents and dripping diesel fuel. The mess is the result of a high-speed collision with a semi truck that became we... (more)

A southbound stack train is swallowed by the massive rolling roof of Seattle's Safeco Field.

Back in the summer of 2008, visitors to the Lake State Railway could routinely expect to see all-Alco and MLW lead trains, such as the northbound to Alpena, pictured here crossing the Thunder Bay ... (more)