Evening commuters are starting their journey as their train pulls out of Boston's North Station and across the Charles River. Traffic is at a standstill on the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge,... (more)

A silhouette at dawn. The "Day Gas" grinds up Evaro Hill in the pre-dawn darkness. True to form, there is an exhaust trail from the SD45, but nothing from the SD70ACe.

Looking north from Anthony's Nose, one can see a southbound Metro-North train dashing along the Hudson River. CSX's River Line sits on the west side of the river, and the West Point Military Acade... (more)

Summer thunderstorms are busy dumping rain on the hills around downtown Pittsburgh, as a westbound train makes its way along the Ohio River.

Majestic Mount Rainier towers over a southbound Cascades Service train near sunset. The peak of Rainier is 40 miles from this photo spot.

Something old, something new at Shreveport. The lineup of power outside the shop building includes one of the few remaining white KCS locomotives, along with a brand-spanking-new SD70ACe, one of t... (more)

An eastbound baretable train rumbles through a cut in the rocks along the Columbia River. Not much lives in this region of the country, but this is fire ant territory, as we found out the hard way... (more)

The crew of Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr unloads checked baggage onto a dolly during the Glenwood Springs station stop. more)

Three out-of-town visitors pick their way through Collinwood Yard on their way to the fuel pad. CSX has been gathering and holding lease power here, as evidenced by the dozen or so locomotives sit... (more)

A southbound Cascades Service train set pounds the Steilacoom drawbridge. Of particular interest are the heavily corroded rails buried in the channel. You can see a fishplate and several bolt hole... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr skims along the desert floor at the foot of Utah's Book Cliffs.

Canadian National's Gladstone, MI to Green Bay, WI freight makes its way through a perfect winter landscape in Powers, MI. Snow, followed by rain, more snow, ice, and snow managed to coat nearly e... (more)

The photo that wasn't ... after busting through several snowbanks at track speed, the engineer of CN's 2008 Santa Train was forced to put the train in emergency to avoid an idiot stuck on the trac... (more)

After a frostbite-inducing wait at Argo Dam with fellow RPer Jim Thias, the Train Gods cooperated and produced a very overpowered southbound Ann Arbor Railroad freight. Business must be down sever... (more)

When it rains, it pours, and this muggy June day along the Norfolk Southern is no exception.