End of the day at Chama following the final revenue run of the 2017 season.

Kansas City Southern intermodal train No. 10 crosses the diamonds at Air Line Junction and heads around a curve for the railroad’s Joint Agency yard in Kansas City, on September 15, 1990.

Arriving at Victor
Montana Rail Link’s Bitterroot branch (also known as the Darby branch) local arrives at Victor, Montana, under rainy skies on May 18, 2013. This line had high water a... (more)

A Pacific Surfliner occupies a crossing in downtown San Diego at sunset.

A Pacific Surfliner passes San Clemente Station and Pier in the evening, and the reflective lettering and stripes really stick out.

A couple of weeks ago Beamish museum held its annual steam fair. Two guest locomotives came from the Statfold Barn museum and they have yet to return. The two men in charge of the railways at Beam... (more)

An NS GP60 runs light and long hood forward in the yard outside the Arcelor Mittal plant in East Chicago.

Locomotives:
NS 7136 GP60

A herd of llamas relaxes in the cool evening air, although some get spooked by the "Thoroughbred of Transportation" as it runs light down Berthoud Hill near the town of Berthoud, Colorad... (more)

The Mount Lahaska Cog-less Railway, or...
Cogs? We don't need to stinking cogs, lol.

This is the view from the top of the crest at Lahaska, PA, the steepest grade along the former Reading... (more)

A single NS GP38-2 runs long hood forward to bring two gons of scrap and a long train of empty steel-coil cars into the Arcelor Mittal yard in East Chicago.

Locomotives:
NS 5360 GP38-2

A full moon rises behind the old Norfolk & Western CPLs in Radford, VA, on a cold Spring night.

It was a bit crowded on the morning narrow gauge train from Gwalior to Sheopur....

A railfan's paradise... San Clemente offers wonderful beach views with plenty of train action. Even my wife and two boys enjoyed watching this Pacific Surfliner roll through the heart of this beac... (more)

The Strasburg Railroad and No. 89 create yet another railfan.

Running on the wrong left-hand main is the South Seattle-Alliance merchandise/intermodal train that can be seen through a stone arch bridge at Spruce just north of Palmer Lake, Colorado on March 1... (more)