Mountain Climber: Smoke overtakes an upbound Mt Washington Cog train as it pulls up the side of the tallest peak in the east at 6288' in June 2008. Scenes like this could become rare as sitting in... (more)

Under A Big Sky: Montana Rail Link SD45-2 382 leads an SD70ACe and the Day Gas along the Flathead River near Knowles, Montana on the morning of May 18, 2009. With clear skies and a classic EMD lea... (more)

An eastbound BNSF grain train decends Evaro Hill just west of Missoula, Montana on March 24, 2008.

Spring in the Inland Empire: Union Pacific's Plummer Job rolls east through Mica, Washington under clear blue skies on April 8, 2011.

"The Main Street of the Northwest": Connecting the midwest with the Pacific Northwest, Northern Pacific proclaimed itself to be THE way to move freight and people from point to point. Be it from t... (more)

A pair of BNSF EMDs serve a DPU power on the rear of a westbound coal train as it travels across Montana Rail Link's 4th Sub near Cyr, Montana. Fish Creek Trestle was the site of a Northern Pacifi... (more)

A father holds his son as he gazes at the massive machine that is Southern Pacific Daylight 4449, having just arrived in Whitefish, Montana during its cross-country excursion.

An eastbound BNSF freight train races through Frenchtown, Montana on the afternoon of Thursday, May 12, 2011. The third unit is Montana Rail Link SD70ACe 4312, hitting home rails for the first tim... (more)

Wildflowers and an Alco: Batten Kill RS-3 4116 switches the Cargill Plant at Greenwich Jct, New York on August 13, 2008. Working not far from her birth place of Schenectady, the 4116 and sister 60... (more)

Summer in the Flathead: WAMX SW1200 No. 1214 leads a Mission Mountain Railroad local north towards Columbia Falls just before sunset on July 28, 2014. The trackage is former Great Northern ... (more)

Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway 0-4-4T No. 10 leads a four car train out of Alna Center during the groups annual Victorian Christmas event on Dec. 18, 2010.

Summer In The Lakes Region - Summer is a wonderful time to be in the Lakes Region of central Maine. From water sports on the lakes, endless hiking and camping in the Kennebec Highlands and even a ... (more)

One Shot: On a cross country road trip from Maine to Montana in 2010, I decided to take a detour through Utah for two reasons. One, I had never seen the desert. And two, I wanted to shoot o... (more)

Is an SD40-2 rare? Well maybe not a few years ago when I made my first trip to the storied Marias Pass line in northwest Montana, but after a year of living in the area, the sight of an SD4... (more)

Severe Clear: If the conditions of Dec. 27 were defined by "severe blizzard," then those of Dec. 28 could only be "severe clear." A day after one of the largest blizzards to strike t... (more)