A trio of clean Dash 9s step across High Bridge as they lead the charge of an empty grain train up the 2.2% grade of Stampede Pass on a glorious autumn morning. Unfortunately, the massiveness of ... (more)

At first light on an autumn morning, a long and heavy eastbound stack train grinds up the 0.7% grade at Essig siding, handicapped by the third SD40-2 being offline. (Credit where it's due: A phot... (more)

Another piece of history vanishes: It may be the dead of winter, but the business of moving the midwest's agricultural products hasn't stopped at the Graham Grain elevator in Terre Haute, ... (more)

On a late-winter evening with the wind chill cutting into the teens, a herd of horses are oblivious to the roar of an eastbound empty grain train climbing out of the Two Medicine River valley as t... (more)

BNSF's daily early-morning South Seattle-to-Chicago Z train is silhouetted by the rising sun as it rolls through the fog along the Snohomish River.

The northwest corner of Colorado is easily characterized as rugged; it's a tough place for anything to survive, and as the scrub brush adorning the rocky ridges attests, precipitation is a scarce ... (more)

I had scouted this shot three days earlier on this trip to BC, but overcast skies prevented a successful execution until late in my last morning north of the border. Yet another empty coal train ... (more)

After arriving at Endicott the day before with the 3651 in the lead, PCC engineer Larry wanted to make the morning run to Mockonema with 3004 on the point. Once the 3651 had been set over to the ... (more)

R&N 425 steps across the Hometown High Bridge with the season's first Autumn Leaf Trip. Colors around the Little Schuylkill River hadn't quite peaked this early in October, but a handful of vivid... (more)

James Hill's Great Northern mainline has withstood the tests of time and nature and today remains one of the vital arteries for moving freight traffic between the east and west. One thousand, sev... (more)

A lone CSXT maintenance-of-way worker rides the last car of a welded rail train, keeping an eye on the quarter-mile strings of steel ahead of him. Although harkening back to the days when caboose... (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)

In the last minutes of light on National Train Day, a southbound BNSF freight rolls past the healthy crops -- and not-so-healthy barn -- of a Skagit Valley farm. Looming in the distance is the 10... (more)

Northbound at the 49th Parallel: On a gorgeous Railroad Illustrated Day in North America 2009, BNSF manifest M-LYDVBT1-03A approaches the USA-Canada border as it rolls along the shor... (more)

Who says big-time yard operations are an ugly unphotogenic mess? The very first rays of sunlight on a sub-freezing winter morning glaze the east Receiving Yard ladder at Selkirk Yard with a golde... (more)