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

The absolutely unmistakable form of the Forth Bridge towers over the Firth of Forth, silhouetted by the twilit sky and lit from below and within by spotlights. This bridge didn't take shape by me... (more)

A quiet morning at Potlatch: With nothing to do while the St. Maries River Railroad crew shuffles around empty log cars nearby, STMA 997 basks in the sun on the Potlatch mill lead. This old warri... (more)

Deseret Power Railway Units 1, 2 and 3 sweep past acres of sage brush and exposed outcrops at 27 Mile, about halfway between the Utah border and Deseret Power Plant.

One of the few level ar... (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)

It took two years of waiting for the opportunity to get back to the summit of Holum Pass, but when I finally was able to set up there once again I couldn't have arranged for better light. Storms ... (more)

Tucked away at Blue Mountain Energy's Deserado Mine, the east end of the Deseret Power Railway, is this old speeder used by maintenance-of-way forces. The logo on the flank remains that of Wes... (more)

It's just another winter night on the former Great Northern mainline as a meet is made at Scenic. The crew of westbound Z-CHCSSE1-12A is happy to have successfully completed another trip through ... (more)

Shortly after departing Missoula, MRL's Schilling Local heads west out of DeSmet with a cut of logs trailing the power. Barely visible in the distance are fellow RP member Railroad: Montana Rail Link
Locomotive: EMD GP35
Location: DeSmet, Montana, USA
Locomotive #: MRL 402
Train ID: Schilling Local
Photo Date: September 06, 2008

A downtown-bound streetcar hums through the Westlake & Thomas intersection during a summer evening's "blue hour." Standing tall against the darkening sky is the most distinctive structure in Seat... (more)

Peek-a-boo! The smiley face scratched into the grime on the nose door of BNSF 1090 expresses its relief at seeing sunlight once again following a 7.8-mile journey through the darkness of Cascade ... (more)

Drama had been building for a few minutes as I could hear the sound of laboring Geeps echoing through the remote canyon that the STMA's ex-Milwaukee Bovill Branch twists through between Lotus and ... (more)

First light on a spring morning finds an empty grain train stretched out along the namesake of BNSF's Lakeside Sub, Sprague Lake, as little cotton ball-like puffs of mist start to burn off under t... (more)

The setting sun casts long shadows as a loaded Deseret Power Railway train sweeps past the unusual rock formations of Coyote Basin.

Long shadows are cast across downtown Seattle during the last minutes before sunset as the purple streetcar begins yet another trip to South Lake Union.