Christmas cheer lights up a dreary evening on Stevens Pass as a BNSF stack train rolls through Skykomish, WA toward Seattle. Inclement weather closed neighboring Snoqualmie Pass for part of the da... (more)

"Carroll Gardens/Manhattan.” No. 1 World Trade and it’s skyscraper friends shake off yet another New York storm and stand behind the much more modest homes of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. Threa... (more)

I had grand plans this afternoon to catch the eastbound California Zephyr as it rounded the curve at Crescent amid snow-laden pines with a glorious sunset over the continental divide in the backgr... (more)

November 23, 2015 marked a sad day in Green Mountain Railroad history, as the final ex-GMRC GP40 made its farewell voyage across the namesake piece of railroad. GMRC train 263-23 is seen crossing ... (more)

16N heads east on the Conemaugh Line through a very popular railfanning spot throughout the year but especially in the fall, West Park, or "The Trench". The late turning leaves of the Gi... (more)

The Bow Valley Parkway is deserted. No cars, no wildlife, just the crunch of old snow underneath the rental car's tires as I make my way south from Lake Louise toward Morant's Curve in the darknes... (more)

The northbound and southbound tubes are clearly visible on the left, with a Northeast Regional about to emerge from the jaunt under the Hudson River. To the right, the tracks ascend up to the LIR... (more)

Hello from the Windy City, where it feels like January rather than late March. Or perhaps it feels like late March. Either way, I had a few minutes to spend at OTC watching the scoots whiz by the... (more)

Never the same from one day to the next, Santa Fe’s Fast Mail Express, train 7 and its eastbound counterpart, train 8, were obliged by contract to carry all the mail the U.S Post Office presente... (more)

On September 29th, a day before the last day on Clark's Gap, myself and several friends climbed the hill to witness the last loaded coal train climb the 2.2% grade at Garwood. The wait was longer ... (more)

The Super Moon Eclipse begins to rise over the Colorado Plateau as a heavy Los Angeles Harbor bound stack train slowly climbs the 1.5% grade at Angell.

Norfolk Southern train M1R soars high above the town of Nicholson, Pennsylvania, as it crosses the 100-year old Tunkhannock Viaduct. On the second day of NS operations along the former Canadian P... (more)

On the 10th of January 2012, a train dumps a load of molten slag at the Beitai Steel Works in NE China. The site was first visited by foreign steam photographers in 2002. Since that time the manag... (more)

A strong afternoon thunderstorm moves towards Eastern Montana . There is little doubt the fishermen along the Missouri River are getting wet... Meanwhile the sun has re-appeared over Mullan Pas... (more)

Another sampling of a 10-day sojourn into the wilds of northern Quebec and Côté-Nord on some of North America's most disconnected rail routes... This shot required a 7-mile hike that was complim... (more)