Shortly after a line of late-summer thunderstorms rolled through the Wasatch Range, this westbound loaded coal train thundered out of Helper bound for Long Beach, CA. I first photographed the tra... (more)

Like a scene from a storybook: "Black 5" No. 45407, named The Lancashire Fusilier, briefly pops out into daylight between the short Leachabhuidh Tunnels on a typically dreary day in ... (more)

A fine winter morning finds Albany Port Railroad #13, "The Don Z," parked along Smith Boulevard near the railroad's offices. The APD is jointly owned by CSX and CPR and exists solely to serve rai... (more)

Portland is a vibrant city with a downtown that has thoroughly embraced pedestrian accessibility and transit options provided by TriMet. On this hazy summer day in Pioneer Square, a Red/Yellow/Bl... (more)

Having departed St. Maries much earlier than usual due to a lack of switching work around town, STMA's Clarkia Logger exits the St. Maries River canyon at Mashburn with three dozen empties bound f... (more)

Such a simple scene, yet so complex is the subject: A quartet of ex-NS (originally Conrail) GP38-2s leased by the Indiana Rail Road from Helm Financial tiptoe across a frozen Midwest landscape wit... (more)

A Nine Mile-bound train turns the corner from 14th Street to California Street on a crisp autumn evening in downtown Denver. The pedestrians seem oblivious to the giant black bear peering into th... (more)

Late on an absolutely frigid winter evening -- the air temp was 15F and the wind chill was almost zero -- a remarkably clean Warbonnet dodged shadows as it ducked under Fullers Flyover, crossed Fr... (more)

Late-afternoon sun glints off the "bat wings" on Cascades No. 517's Talgo set as the southbound train traverses a causeway along the shore of Bellingham Bay.

Late-afternoon sun casts the classic shadow of an SD40 onto the big cut above Austin as a clean pair of MRL's older units assist two modern GEs on the climb to the summit of Mullan Pass.

Bathed by the warm glow of an autumn sunset, a short southbound manifest skirts the shore of Bellingham Bay. Visible in the distance through the haze are Canada's Coast Mountains.

Exhaust pours from the stacks of Housatonic Railroad GP35s 3602 and 3600 (the latter having recently been repainted) as they accelerate northbound train NX-13 out of Lee along the line's namesake ... (more)

A chilly autumn morning made for a spectacular show as "Black 5" No. 45407 charged across Glenfinnan Viaduct with the daily Jacobite steam train from Fort William to Mallaig. Deep in Glen ... (more)

Slicing through the scissors crossover at Tukwila International Boulevard Station, a southbound train approaches what was then Central Link's terminal station on a crisp late-autumn afternoon. Th... (more)

A lone Seattle-bound passenger awaits the next northbound train at Mt. Baker Station as a southbound departs for almost-the-airport (the extension to actually reach SeaTac opens December 19th). T... (more)