Roster shots on a sunny day in Whittier, Alaska are hard to pass up! A pair of Alaska RR GP40-2s await a crew to take them and a freight train north to Anchorage.

A Seward-bound passenger train skirts the Turnagain Arm south of Anchorage on a picture perfect summer afternoon in Alaska. Forty eight years ago today on March 27, 1964, the Good Friday Earthquak... (more)

NS 77A westbound on the NS Appalachia District just west of Gate City with 'Southern' heritage #8099 catching the late afternoon rays of sunlight, less than 6 days out of the paint shop.

Less than a week out of the paint shop in Chattanooga, NS 'Southern' Heritage GE ES44AC #8099 leads empty coal train 77A westbound at Watkins siding on the former Southern Railway Appalachia Divis... (more)

Southbound CSX freight Q696 working through the reverse curves at Phillips Yard, just south of Dante in the heart of former Clinchfield RR country following a quick snowfall the night before.

A C&TS photo freight train works uphill toward the top of Cumbres Pass as seen from the rear of the train. This may be the C&TS in 2008 but not much about this image keeps it from being the DRGW 5... (more)

Northbound CSX Q697 working through a winter wonderland scene at Trammel, VA on the former Clinchfield mainline.

A heavy snowfall the previous night has left the northern end of the former Clinchfield RR in a winter wonderland scene as southbound freight Q696 gets underway at the south end of Allen siding af... (more)

A new 'boxcar' logo CSX GE leads a westbound empty hopper train through small community of Daniel Boone. In the steam era, a very active yard/wye was in place here (behind the engines in this fram... (more)

A new 'boxcar' logo CSX GE leads a westbound empty hopper train through Gate City on a beautiful late winter afternoon.

A southbound BNSF Z train works around the famous Tehachapi Loop on a beautiful January morning. more)

Westbound TILX empty hoppers roll out of Natural Tunnel led by a pair if CSX GEs. This train is operating on NS trackage rights en route to Big Stone Gap where it will be back on CSX rails for the... (more)

Three GEs lead a westbound BNSF stack train as it works up the stiff grade at Ash Hill on the Needles Subdivision.

With the morning sun just a few degrees over the eastern horizon a westbound BNSF intermodal train races across the roller coaster profile of the Needles Subdivision at Pisgah.

What appears to be one very long Z train is actually two trains, a westbound and an eastbound Z train meeting on the double track BNSF Needles Subdivision near Goffs with the famous Route 66 in th... (more)