One of the most popular places to photograph trains in North Dakota is from this hill in the Bad Lands. The story behind this photo is a little more involved than I walked up the hill and waited f... (more)

A favorite place in North Dakota for many to photograph trains is Sully Springs. The tracks here run through the very scenic Badlands on the outskirts of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Cool... (more)

A coal train breaks the pre dawn silence as it grinds up Logan Hill in the Powder River Basin near Bill, Wyoming.

The long sweeping roller coaster hills of the Powder River Basin are some of my favorite to photograph. This clean unit can be seen powering up the next grade as it kicks up snow on its way out of... (more)

Soo Line GP30 #700 rolls over a trestle across a creek between Duluth and Two Harbors, Minnesota on the North Shore Scenic Railroad.

Soo Line 700 crosses the Sucker River before it empties into Lake Superior between Duluth and Two Harbors. This ex-Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway bridge was also in the 1994 movie Iron Wil... (more)

Wisconsin Northern 1500 shines from a thunderstorm bath that has just passed through. The setting sun now shines through an opening bathing the power in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin along with creati... (more)

It has been awhile since I drove along the Wisconsin Northerns line from Chippewa Falls to Cameron. I watched as all the EMD switchers came over but now they are really adding a nice fleet of 6 ax... (more)

The new free handed "CP" logo on the nose. May want to use a stencil next to stay in the lines. Clean lines make a big difference.

One of my favorites, a Soo Line SD60, roll west out of Pigs Eye Yard along the Mississippi River on one of the coldest days of the year. The sun has set causing the temperature to drop even furthe... (more)

The Missoula bound gas local skirts along the thin edge of flat earth between the Clark Fork and steep mountain side as heavy flurries fall even though large pockets of golden sunlight shine into ... (more)

Westbound Boeing plane bodies on a BNSF trackage right train over Montana Rail Link in ironocally, Plains, Montana.

The Montana Rail Link gas train runs along the Clark Fork at track speed at Plains, Montana. The train will stop at Paradise before continuing to Missoula.

The Montana Rail Link gas local heads into sunlight just west of Plains, Montana leaving the snow flurries behind.

An early morning BNSF train full of loaded coal hoppers works up Montana Rail Link's 4th Sub along the Clark Fork River just southeast of Paradise, Montana. This is the first train of the day for ... (more)