As we ring in the new year, Norfolk Southern wishes you a happy 2014! Photo by Casey Thomason. For more information about Norfolk Southern, visit more)

Showing signs of much glorious days and hopes of one day, maybe, being restored to her glory Reading 0-4-0 Camelback sits motionless and lifeless on a siding on the Strasburg Railroad. She was si... (more)

The "North Pole Express" has arrived at the "Village of Ashley" and is de-boarding passengers just as blue hour sets in.

Railtown 1897's Movie Queen Sierra Railway 3 sits in Sonora as part of a thank you event to Tuolumne County for helping keep Railtown open, the surrounding lights near the area where the engine wa... (more)

The engineer, fireman and conductor job brief on a bitterly cold early January morning, transporting the photographer back in time as if he were alongside Plowden, Shaughnessy, and others recordin... (more)

Dawn at Omaha Shops
As the Nebraska sky brightens to signal another summer day, the work at Union Pacific’s Omaha Shops continues on. Thirty-eight locomotives are visible in this view... (more)

At the 1990 NRHS Convention in St. Louis, TRAINS Magazine had a special and private photo staged in the afternoon where all four participating steam locomotives would be lined up for its staffers.... (more)

A SY chugs past the setting sun after a hard days work hauling slag from the massive Baotou Steel Mill. The setting sun was a potent metaphor for the future of this locomotive and her sister SY 2-... (more)

The NS F units guides an employee "Blue Ribbon Special" through downtown Atlanta minutes before sunrise. The train was operated from Atlanta to Jacksonville as an appreciation trip for several gr... (more)

Osier after dark. Free of the light pollution from modern civilization, the heavens above put on a spellbinding display over the old D&RGW water tank in Osier, Colorado. Backlighting by God... (more)

Under an incredibly dramatic sunset, eastbound Q382 throttles up and enters the plant at West Deshler, where they'll cross over to main one to get around stopped traffic ahead. Just one of those "... (more)

Ex-SOO 6051 leads a lengthy CP 470 train over the hill east of Fairdale, Illinois in the last minutes of daylight.

In an absolutely gorgeous setting, No. 820 drops downgrade through Kumis, Va., with a heavy coal drag bound for the ports at Norfolk, as the whine of dynamics disrupt the tranquility of the scene.... (more)

Crossing the Animas. Although the morning sunlight is already bathing the western walls of the Animas Canyon, the bottom of the gorge is still in shadow as the first of the Silverton Trains... (more)

Beautiful day on the beach, Metrolink Commuter train dropping off and picking up beach goers, was a perfect day on the beach.