A sea of blue: I was only 14 years old in the summer of 1996 and -- at the time -- the dissolution three years later of Conrail, the railroad I had grown up with, was an inconceivable notio... (more)

A pair of GEs struggle to drag what seems to be a mile-long box of Crayola crayons through Trinidad Loop, an unheralded engineering marvel laid out by the Great Northern that allowed the railroad ... (more)

Caressed by the golden light of sunrise, a westbound UP manifest rolls along the Columbia River near Rowena, OR.

A lone CSXT maintenance-of-way worker rides the last car of a welded rail train, keeping an eye on the quarter-mile strings of steel ahead of him. Although harkening back to the days when caboose... (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)

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

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)

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)

Stranger in a strange land: An MRL Officer Car Special cruises along Bellingham Bay south of Fairhaven, WA, running from New Westminster, BC to Missoula, MT via Seattle and Stampede Pass. ... (more)

In Coal Country, railroading truly is a religion.

Up, up and away! Spooked by the approaching grain shuttle, a heron takes flight away from its hunting grounds along the Palouse River.

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)

BNSF's Lakeside Subdivision has a 15-mile stretch of two main tracks between Cunningham and Lind which is often used for making running meets. The Pasco East dispatcher used this stretch to his a... (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)

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)