It is an August evening in 1946. DSS&A Train No. 2 has arrived in St. Ignace. It is about to board the rail ferry CHIEF WAWATAM and be taken across the Straits of Mackinac to Mackinaw City where ... (more)

Since this year SNCF has new freight cars for transportation of sheet metal coils.

As vehicle and truck traffic pass going east and west on I-10, an eastbound UP stack train makes its way toward Tucson and a crew change. In the distance is the silhouette of the Picacho Mountains... (more)

The San Francisco Peaks are in the distance. A Roger Puta Photograph

Nice golden brown color on the Tehachapi mountains now as a BNSF double stack ascends the grade near Allard. The end of the train and it's DPU locomotives can be seen down the hill from this vanta... (more)

Waiting for boarding in the Orient Express dining car number 4216, built in 1940 by "Ateliers de Construction Métallique Nivelles SA", Belgique (Belgium). It is a former restaurant car of "CIWLT"... (more)

Welcome to a lunch in the Orient Express dining car number 4216, a former restaurant car of "CIWLT", now owned and operated by the heritage railway Chemin de Fer de la Vendée.

The eastbound BNSF morning Z crosses Roland Lake just after sunrise on a beautiful July morning

As a northbound NS manifest in the foreground comes off the Cincinnati Southern Bridge, a CSX vehicle train rolls through CT Junction on its way to Queensgate Yard.

A westbound intermodal rounds along the Columbia River into Celilo Park., In the left side background can be seen the mouth of the Deschutes Canyon. Above the Union Pacific line is the BNSF Oreg... (more)

The light at the end of the tunnel may just be a train! Running on the eastbound main, westbound empty hoppers slowly roll through Harpers Ferry tunnel. Just before exiting the tunnel, the train w... (more)

Loram DC2 is part of the ballast-cleaning rig; this is the unit that moves the rig along the right of way. Here it's parked at Queensgate Yard, having worked on the CSX.

A railroad never sleeps
At 9:28 p.m. on June 26, 2017, an eastbound BNSF coal train leaves Toston, Montana, as it follows a zig-zagging Missouri River into the darkening confines of Lom... (more)

Eastbound Mixed Manifest passes through the town of Wishram and the BNSF Yard. A mix of cars along with a Herzog train sit in the yard. Celilo Drawbridge crosses the Columbia River in the backgrou... (more)

The long shuttered PRSL passenger station in Sewell still stands, albeit in rough shape, some 45 years after passenger service was abandoned on this portion of the Millville Branch. These days, th... (more)