I spent all night moving this train from Chicago to Dubuque. When I got home at 5am you could see that the sunrise was going to be spectacular due to some thunderstorms around and some interesting... (more)

As the sun sets this eastbound coal train slams thru the control point at CPU 108, near Blairstown in central Iowa. This PRB coal train is bound for unloading at the Oak Creek, WI, plant for Wisco... (more)

Western Maryland Scenic 2-8-0 No. 734 eases out of the Cumberland, Md., train station on its run to Frostburg with the Polar Express in tow. This locomotive is now down for a major overhaul, likel... (more)

NS 8098 head's up a westbound oil can through Steward, IL

The sun continues to dip lower in the western sky as a southbound empty sand train from Fort Collins, Colorado to Eola, Illinois dips through the "sag" just south of Berthoud, Colorado o... (more)

SEMAPHORE An old Semaphore signal and arm still stand on the former Gettysburg and Hanover RR Station in downtown Gettysburg.

In the very last sunlight of June 28, 2016, an eastbound BNSF grain train passes by on the main line while Montana Rail Link’s Helena local prepares to pick up a BNSF SD70ACe off the house track... (more)

Montana Rail Link's Laurel to Missoula manifest freight streaks through Lombard, Montana during an awesome light show courtesy of Mother Nature. I'm standing on the abutment of the old Milwaukee R... (more)

Early on the morning of July 4th the red NS engine leads rack train 27A up to CP Spring, where it will meet a southbound manifest before the crew takes the train its final few miles to CP Bridge a... (more)

Happy 4th of July from NS' Avondale Yard in North Kansas City! I took these from the parking garage at the North Kansas City Hospital, along with quite a few others, who strangely, seemed less int... (more)

Happy Fourth of July.

After 8 years of languish and vandalism on a siding in Sacramento, ATSF 5021 shows off fresh paint and new lettering on a nice warm Northern California summer night, these engines look way better ... (more)

As storms start to brew to the south, a brand new ET44AC leads NS 204 across the 1911 build trestle over the James River in Lynchburg.

Former Southern Railway FP7 #6143 (later 3498) now operates as Stone Mountain Scenic Railway 6143, pulling excursion trains around its namesake park near Atlanta. Stone Mountain itself is the wor... (more)

The Ringling Bro. & Barnum & Bailey Circus train heads west into the setting sun as it begins the steep 1.5% grade of Yampai Hill at Pica. Gravity begins to fight against the three GE locomotives ... (more)