The sun is rising on a cold winter morning, setting the eastern sky ablaze as a westbound for Winnipeg nears Glenwood.

Pushing hard on the rear of a westbound manifest, UP 7955 rolls past the unit grain train elevator at Ogallah, Kansas. The train is bound from Salina, Kansas to Denver, Colorado.

The first train of the day is rounding the 180 degree curve in Alp Grüm shortly after 7 AM. Temperature about minus 12 Celsius with a strong north wind. The lonely ABe 4/4 III railcar shoved a sp... (more)

Clear block into the blue
Passing one of Northern Pacific’s classic cantilevered searchlight signals at the east end of Laurel Yard on the evening of January 27, 2013, a departing BNS... (more)

Saved from the wrecking ball years ago, the Tacoma Union Station still stands watch over trains, trains that never will again stop at it's doors. It's function now, as seen by the reasonably well... (more)

Night moves
A westbound Santa Fe train led by Super Fleet GE B40-8W No. 524 pauses at the west service tracks at Belen, New Mexico, as dusk turns to night on May 22, 1991. Railroaders a... (more)

Sunrise at Morrisville.

Zipping through Secaucus en route to Washington, the Acela Express is eyed by the rising Freedom Tower.

The full moon is rising on a cold winter night as a long distance commuter train makes its lonely journey to Port Jervis.

An early morning commuter train stops at Newark Broad St Station en route to New York which is in the distance.

As Q163 races west across the former B&O Chicago mainline, a fiery sunset sets the sky ablaze on a bitterly cold evening in the farmlands of northwest Ohio.

Last trains. The 2010 Blizzard starts to intensify as Metrorail begins to shut down all above ground routes due to heavy snow.

Cold weather railroading at it's finest. It's -27 degrees below zero just before sunrise and the crew had to stop loading their train (seen in the distance) to wye the power because of "issues". ... (more)

REVERSE COMMUTE: Rush hour is in full swing on the UP-NW line and outbound Metra #609 breezes into Norwood Park as the city awakens to the warm glow of a new day.

Cold weather railroading at it's finest. It's -27 degrees below zero just after sunrise and the crew is returning to their train which can seen steaming away on the load-out track. They will con... (more)