A Western Maryland freight makes an early departure out of Cumberland and thunders Westbound through the Narrows towards Frostburg on a blistery cold morning.

While doing some hiking for waterfall shots, I ran accross this very interesting scene. A wheel set from who knows what/when. The wheel had Detroit Car and Wheel Company Imprinted on the wheel its... (more)

With golden afternoon light basing the scene, No. 44W drops downgrade through Kumis, Va., along the rails of the former Virginian Railroad with a lengthy grain train in tow. Spring has officially ... (more)

After cooling its heels in the siding at Tolland to allow Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr to overtake it, a loaded UP coal train heads downhill from the divide along South Boulder Creek, swol... (more)

BNSF 9139 prepares to leave T-15 at Northtown with a string of 25 SD75s in tow, all headed for NRE at Silvis, Illinois. What will become of them?

In April of 1983, the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad yard and the small town of Thistle, Utah became victims of of a landslide which dammed the Spanish Fork River. Residents of the small tow... (more)

Double-Up- It's been years since I've seen a train double-up a hill, voluntarily... This Marquette Rail crew, squeaked up into Brohman, in rain and leaves a few miles back, making the decision to ... (more)

Out of the most "uneventful" winter in the Puget Sound, comes a stunning sunset. Finally, passengers aboard the Cascades get to see something in the sky other than gray or black.

A view of the Spencer roundhouse with NS' gathering of its heritage locomotives at the North Carolina Transportation Museum during the media preview day. Thanks to NS / NCTM for hosting this event... (more)

Running along the Turnagain Arm between Anchorage and Portage, an Alaska RR coal train from Healy to Seward continues its journey south on a chilly March morning.

The future of Amtrak is being transported East on today's California Zephyr. This Siemens ACS-64 is the first of a 70 engine order that Amtrak placed. This engine will be taken off of #6 at Denver... (more)

Union Pacific's 110 car OGCY (Ogden, UT - Cheyenne, WY) drag manifest climbs the Evanston Sub grade at Peterson, Utah.

Northbound Amtrak 118 pulls the Coast Starlight with a Iowa Pacific dome car on the end across the Gaviota trestle on a winters day.

A dimensional move eases it's way through West Toronto before it's interchanged to CP to be taken to Hornby.

Southern Pacific's century-old Sacramento general shops was still going gangbusters in March of 1988, as the railroad was in the middle of its SD45T-2 rebuild program along with its usual tasks. T... (more)