Early Sunday morning in southern California's Inland Empire near Riverside finds the Union Pacific Crestmore Local working through Rubidoux with an ex-SP GP40-2 and original UP GP38-2 for power.

On President’s Day 2013, a slew (that’s a lot, right?) of locomotives populate the tracks of Union Pacific’s North Yard in Denver, Colorado. On the right, the South Local is powered by former Rio ... (more)

FEC 224 rolls across the bridge on a chilly morning in St. Augustine, 3rd train of a 4 train parade this morning.

Follow us at Alaska Railfanning! The barges are in! Winter is a notoriously slow time for the Alask... (more)

A veteran power set brings a load of empties west past the historic town of Harpers Ferry.

It's great when you arrive at a beautiful winter scene, get out of your car and randomly hear a train coming less than a mile away. What's not great is walking up to the edge of a river to get in... (more)

LDI07-16 "Local 7" departs La Salle with three cars after switching in the yard. Three GP40-2s power today's local and will have a stop in Fort Lupton and Brighton down the line.

Through The Fields. GMRC 264 rolls east through the open countryside east of Chester, passing between the fields of a dairy farm.

Trains framed in the doorways of abandoned gas stations has long been a crowd-pleaser for rail photographers. . . here's a westbound Rio Grande manifest tearing by this crumbling structure in the ... (more)

Rio Grande's crossing of the Green River desert is anything but flat, and anything but straight. There's rarely a tangent of any significance, and the railroad is constantly climbing or descending... (more)

Bulk movement of oil by rail was old hat to Rio Grande, who for many years handled a sporadic movement of processed oil from North Salt Lake City to refineries at Richmond, CA, interchanged to Sou... (more)

In keeping with its high-speed, four-motor locomotive philosophy for mainline merchandise trains, five GP40/40-2s bite into the 2.4% grade up the east slope of the Price River canyon, passing the ... (more)

A pair of GP40-2's emerge from Bootlegger Canyon near the end of a spectacular descent from the Green River Desert to the banks of the Colorado River on Rio Grande's amazing Cane Creek Branch, the... (more)

Rio Grande train #101 glides west through Provo on the sunny afternoon of October 9, 1986. Note the mix of Santa Fe and Burlington Northern box cars on the head end, a decade before the merger.

After working National Lima & Stone in Carey, H793 returns west up the former C&O to Fostoria with a slug set, five cars and a caboose. Once back in F-Town, the crew will tie up for the day and ge... (more)