UP 9102 stops at Reno Junction with a loaded coal train while an empty CNW coal train heads back to the mine. The threatening skies were common on our trip to the Powder River Coal Line in May of ... (more)

Adam Farence Photo

Exiting tunnel 2, of Tehachapi Pass, and into a pocket of sunlight on this perfect spring afternoon.

Now free of the grades and curves of the Tehachapi Mountains, a northbound BNSF Z rolls downhill out of Ilmon block and over Caliente Creek for the fast run to Bakersfield. The hills are still gre... (more)

UP GE ES44AC No. 7984 climbs Tehachapi Pass near Caiiente with a mixed freight train for Mojave. A wet winter across California has resulted in an extended green season on Tehachapi Pass and in mu... (more)

Nouthbound Union Pacific ES44AC No.8166 leads a Mixed Manifest into Bealville Siding. Meanwhile further up the hill the Distributed power unit is about to enter Tunnel 5.

Amtrak's Vermonter passes Connecticut's capitol on its way to Hartford Union Station. The lonely Vermonter is the only revenue passenger train running on the line currently, as all shuttle and reg... (more)

Late Night at the Office

The power for Pan Am Railways train BF-1 (MEC GP40-2(W) 511, MEC GP40-2L 504 and MEC GP40-2L 506.) sat in White River Junction, Vermont, for several days fol... (more)

Westbound grain train west of Maryhill in the Columbia River Gorge.

A southbound intermodal train snakes through the desert north of Las Vegas. The train is about 10 miles from the heart of the Vegas strip. In the background is the Las Vegas Range mountains, part ... (more)

The last sha bang, on a cloudy Tuesday afternoon East Penn's 52 brings the last run from the Paper Mill to the Falls Yard, after many years of operation's on this line, this was the last and final... (more)

Tracing the banks of the Missouri River through impressive Lombard Canyon is Montana Rail Link's Missoula to Laurel manifest freight just west of Lombard, Montana, on a perfect June 26, 2015. The ... (more)

Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTEs Nos. 6044 and 5946 overpower a one-car Potash local along the Colorado River after departing Potash, Utah, on March 4, 2012. The towering sandstone cliffs loom over ... (more)

After bringing in three loads from Cody, BNSF’s Cody local switches at Frannie, Wyoming, on June 24, 2016. The local is powered by two former Burlington Northern EMD SD70MACs, Nos. 9621 and 9709, ... (more)