The brakeman rides the rear of caboose 01485, serving as a shoving platform as four SD40T-2's back its 84 car train of coal empties around the balloon track to position for loading at Sunnyside mi... (more)

Rio Grande's Sunnyside Turn heads up the branch off the mainline at Mounds, passing underneath US highway 6/50. A caboose trailing a train anywhere on the Rio Grande was pretty rare by this date, ... (more)

An early morning commuter train stops at Newark Broad St Station en route to New York which is in the distance.

In the early morning a train carrying tankers with hazardous chemical residue and propane derailed in the center of town forcing the evacuation of 1,100 people. I was a senior in high school and ... (more)

Stratified sunset: During a vivid Wyoming sunset on May 29, 2009, a set of coal hoppers on a BNSF train rolls back to the mine for another load of black diamonds from Powder River Basin just south... (more)

A switch heater may be little more than a heavy duty pilot light, but these silent, hardworking blue-flamed sentinels protect the interlocking at CP-Bethlehem winter after winter, as reliably toda... (more)

Worn from the weather and the hot Texas sun, the old AT&SF logo and station sign at McGregor continue to witness the passing of BNSF freights and Amtrak passengers in 2013.

A visual symphony of light in the pouring snow at Fort Spring Tunnel.

Baked mud makes up the landscape of eastern Utah's Green River desert. Across it is laid the products of the steel industry, for many years the basis for most of Rio Grande's traffic: rail rolled... (more)

A Grand Centennial for Grand Central. While every visitor to this sacred piece of railroad history always seeks this very photo, today was something special. At 12:00 AM on February 1st, 1913, t... (more)

The oldest railway bridge in the world built in 1725 at a cost of £2000. Landowners in the North Durham area wanted a route to the river Tyne to take their coal to the ships waiting to transport i... (more)

Hagerstown, MD 1/26/2013 - Snow flurries fall over the south end of Norfolk Southern's Vardo Yard as a relic of the Norfolk & Western Railway stands quiet gaurd to ward off locals crossing the tra... (more)

Charles Town, WV 11/20/2012 - A B&O CPL signal stands sentry at midnight along the CSX Shenandoah Subdivision, protecting the diamond crossing of the Norfolk Southern's "H-Line" to Hagerstown. The... (more)

Fred Simon inspects a venerable GRS "2-A" semaphore in its last days of service on the former Northern Pacific between Spokane and Pasco, WA. Safetrans CTC signals are slowly marching westward. It... (more)

Over 100 years of train-order operations between Pasco and Spokane, Washington, on the former Northern Pacific are in their final days, and operator R. J. Keen is closing out the tradition, workin... (more)