A ATSF caboose brings up the back end a BNSF local as it crosses the diamond at Joliet.

This vintage 1953 ex-Santa-Fe Baggage car has probably seen hundreds of thousands of boxes, bags and suitcases throughout its existence. As it lays over in the yard overnight it is void of any co... (more)

The Friday-only Grangeville Turn slowly climbs the three percent grade of Lapwai Canyon below Half Moon Trestle. The tracks climbed up the canyon far below, reversing direction in a horseshoe curv... (more)

A large pile of freshly removed rail sits along UP's Jeff City Sub after a bit of track maintenance.

What a REAL railroader looks like: Cigar-chompin' general manager and president Pete Ascher fills in as brakeman on Great Western's local switching the Coors Biomass plant at Johnstown, Colorado. ... (more)

With hands raised high, the children in the crowd at St. Paul hope to be one of the lucky ones to catch a toy from Santa.

A crossbuck stands guard over a private grade crossing under a dramatic post-sunset sky.

An Invisible Inferno. The 4 red aspects interacting with a heavy fog creates a blazing silhouette of a C&O cantilever at Hilldale. an 826 second exposure @ f5.0, ISO 200.

Looking huge and imposing, the not often seen Maybeury signals stand guard. They are not long for this world and living on borrowed time after standing guard since the early 50's. They were erecte... (more)

A patched NS caboose, of Norfolk & Western heritage. You'll always find a couple stored at the Cedar siding, awaiting backup coal loading service on the Delorem Branch.

West Portal Cascade Tunnel; What sometimes looks like a worm hole straight out of Star Trek or a time travel portal is the powerful headlights of a westbound locomotive highlighting the con... (more)

At dusk a loaded coal drag crawls off the Buchanan Branch at Ought-One, WV. Another loaded coal drag waits it's turn to head east up the long, grueling grade. One must take care along this section... (more)

The Norfolk & Western Illinois passenger car, with a brakeman rushing toward the grade crossing to flag traffic. The F units were really working, switching passenger cars around.

The time-old ritual of a crew change at the caboose is enacted once again as a Burlington Northern grain train swaps out the rear end crew arriving at East Auburn, Washington, as a new crew takes ... (more)

The combination of heavy, wet snowfall in the Cascade mountains and a relative lack of trains to push it out of the way made for relatively frequent use of Milwaukee Road's Tacoma rotary plow, ori... (more)