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)

Grinding upgrade into the Mt. Shasta foothills, a detoured BNSF manifest leaves the fertile Butte Valley behind as it enters Kegg siding to wait for a northbound UP train. UP's Black Butte Sub st... (more)

Fort Worth, we have a problem. Diesel fuel cascades from the walkway of BNSF 4019 as it departs Grass Lake, CA, following a stop to shut down the unit. Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE C44-9W (Dash 9-44CW)
Location: Grass Lake, California, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 4019
Train ID: H-BARPAS1-20D
Photo Date: June 22, 2013

Mount Shasta and Shastina tower over the Butte Valley as Amtrak's Coast Starlight blasts northward at 79mph on a spectacular summer morning. The searchlights and code line are living on bo... (more)

Storm clouds gather over Mount Shasta as a BNSF detour train grinds upgrade toward Grass Lake summit.

Eastbound CN manifest 416 follows the Thompson River upstream through the twists of Black Canyon between Ashcroft and Coho, BC. This train was one of the longest I have ever seen; my companion fo... (more)

My grandmother was an artist her entire life, working as a fashion illustrator for some years before setting aside her career to raise a family. She continued to paint as a hobby, and her talents... (more)

Departing and arriving First Scotrail services utilizing Class 170 DMUs pass each other at the west end of Edinburgh's Waverley Station as hints of autumn begin to appear in the trees of East Prin... (more)

Early on a glorious summer morning a loaded grain train works along the Thompson River, passing the west end of seldom-used Martel siding on CN's Ashcroft Sub. This water-level route is sufficien... (more)

Seemingly a scene from a massive N scale model railroad, CP trains pass each other at the exit of White Canyon along the Thompson River. The westbound stack train at left is twisting along CN's A... (more)

A rare sight in 2009 was this pair of patched (but otherwise unaltered) C&NW AC44CWs on the point of a loaded coal train. Cruising downgrade toward Reno Jct., the train passed through a small spl... (more)

With mainline dispatching woes hindering the flow of traffic on the Orin Sub, I found South Black Thunder Mine plugged with one load parked at MP 49.5 (the mainline junction), a pair of smoky SD70... (more)

Traffic jam on Logan Hill: A gloomy winter sunrise finds the three tracks at the summit of Logan Hill jammed with coal trains, while a BNSF load in the distance drops down towards Bill. Th... (more)

Sunrise on a spectacular spring morning finds the Northwest Railway Museum's excursion train parked in front of the Snoqualmie Depot, built in 1890 by the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway a... (more)

Thunderstorms rumble off the Cascade Range as NP Rotary Snowplow No. 10 stands sentinel alongside the Northwest Railway Museum mainline outside of downtown Snoqualmie. This proud warrior was buil... (more)