Entering the stretch of line in the median of San Jose Avenue, an outbound J Church train accelerates away from the San Jose & Randall stop as the distant San Francisco skyline glows in the last m... (more)

Shortly after re-entering daylight following its passage through the 9,834-foot-long Stampede Tunnel, this westbound manifest is about to plunge into the darkness of Tunnel 4 -- albeit only briefl... (more)

The summer of 2005 was magical for me: I had recently graduated college, I was making my own way in the world, I had just begun shooting digital, and a power-short Indiana Southern Railroad had f... (more)

Dominating the Seattle-area skyline, Mt. Rainier grab the eye's attention from points spread across thousands of square miles of the Puget Sound region. Barely a month and a half into my tenure a... (more)

An eastbound coal load slowing to a stop at Range siding casts a long shadow during the last minutes of light on Halloween, 2010; a westbound out of Bond is the source of the delay to this train. ... (more)

The absolutely unmistakable form of the Forth Bridge towers over the Firth of Forth, silhouetted by the twilit sky and lit from below and within by spotlights. This bridge didn't take shape by me... (more)

Driving through the Port of Albany one winter morning, I was surprised to find a Sperry Rail Service test car parked at Canadian Pacific's Kenwood Yard. Rising in the background is Albany's uniqu... (more)

Little nuggets of gold waving in the breeze: This is the bread that feeds the railroads of the Palouse.

After a long afternoon of making toothpicks, the Eastside Freight crew is more than ready to call it a day as a cool rain shower envelopes Woodinville. Stopped for just seven seconds partway acro... (more)

Near the end of a spectacular spring day, a northbound BNSF freight rolls along the shore of Drayton Harbor in Blaine as it approaches the USA/Canada border. Looming to the southeast are the rugg... (more)

Electric train, meet electric car: A Downtown-bound streetcar hums past the Tesla showroom in Seattle's developing South Lake Union n... (more)

As the distant horizon still glows just minutes after sunset, a lonely crossbuck stands guard on a dead-end road outside of Hooper.

"Hey Rex, where's the 5012?" "Over Thera." // The PCC's lone GP50, built for the C&NW in 1980 and now owned by Webb Asset Management, is shut down on the elevator track at Thera, snoozing away on ... (more)

It wouldn't be a proper visit to the coast of Scotland without some rain. I got thoroughly drenched the last full day we were in the West Highlands standing on a few different hillsides waiting f... (more)

Strings of Ri 52 girder rail awaiting installation on Seattle's First Hill Streetcar line lie coated in frost on a chilly winter morning.

Although girder rail is the de facto standard f... (more)