Early on a gorgeous spring morning, a lone CP unit leads 124 empty coal cars and a DPU southward along the Columbia River on CP's Windermere Sub at Radium Hot Springs, BC. On the bluff above the ... (more)

The car barn at the Yakima Electric Railway Museum, home of the Yakima Valley Trolleys, is an incredible place. At front-left is YVT 298, a GE electric locomotive built new for the original Yakim... (more)

A chilly autumn morning made for a spectacular show as "Black 5" No. 45407 charged across Glenfinnan Viaduct with the daily Jacobite steam train from Fort William to Mallaig. Deep in Glen ... (more)

Just because it's a holiday doesn't mean that Portland shuts down. An old gent strolls up Morrison Street on a wet New Year's Day as a northbound Portland Streetcar run works its way down the hil... (more)

The engineer of Sounder #1505 throttles up as his train plunges into the darkness of the 106-year-old tunnel under downtown Seattle, appropriately passing a billboard for the Sounders. Dominating... (more)

DPR-1 and its two sisters have just crossed the apex of Holum Pass, the summit of the steepest grade on the Deseret Power Railway. Every single one of the three motors' 6,000 horsepower are neede... (more)

The full expanse of the Forth Bridges (rail and road) at the end of a spectacular autumn day. The concentrations of bright lights beyond the roadway bridge are construction sites for the new road... (more)

Dozens of LRVs are parked for the night inside Muni's sprawling Metro East Maintenance Facility.

Demonstrating the efficiency of Bear Run Mine's double-loop loadout configuration, a loaded INRD coal train bound for Wabash River Generating Station departs off the inside loop shortly after the ... (more)

As the day's first light caressed the peaks of Temple and Crosby Mountains, Q-STPTAC1-25K was running for its life as it eagerly approached a Clear indication at West Skykomish. Just minutes ago,... (more)

Just blocks from the Pacific Ocean, an inbound train on the L Taraval line climbs the first of San Francisco's famous hills as the sun drops to the distant horizon.

On a spectacular Northwest winter day, a quartet of SD70Ms roll a southbound stack train along Puget Sound as dozens of sail boats participating in the annual Toliva Shoal Race tack across the dee... (more)

Just minutes after the sun disappeared below the horizon, Amtrak Cascades #516 sweeps through a curve along the shore of Bellingham Bay, the pastel hues of the dusk sky reflecting off the t... (more)

A proud man and his machine: The driver of haul locomotive LM409 poses in the cab door for a photo somewhere in the Bloomhill bogs of Co. Offaly. The 3-foot-gauge track under the loco is temporar... (more)

On my first visit to the Powder River Basin, this was one of the first trains I came across: A BNSF load having just entered the mainline at NACCO Jct. making a run for Logan Hill at sunrise on a ... (more)