Just before sunset, priority mixed freight from Spokane, Washington to Northtown Yard in Minneapolis passes high above Lake Ashtabula behind a nice poker hand of 3 ACes.

Cogwheel double railcars Bhe 4/8 # 3044 and # 3041 of the Gornergratbahn in multiple control are running up the mountain between Riffelalp and Riffelberg, with the mighty Matterhorn as background.... (more)

Steamscape: The Snowshed Slide. "And by the time you get your hide past the Snowshed Slide.... You've had a ride on the Silverton, The Silverton Train." Those lyrics, penned over 4 decades ... (more)

The Glory of Steam

The Union Pacific Big Boy has just leaned into its steam pressure amidst the most glorious of atmospheric conditions. Heavy snow and steam wrap around me and... (more)

Raising is own rooster tail of blowing snow is an eastbound Burlington Northern freight at Grizzly, Montana, beneath the towering peaks of Glacier National Park on March 3, 1989. The train is led ... (more)

Fall color at Cement Wall. Deep in the Animas River Canyon, a Silverton Mixed Train behind D&RGW #473 charges north with some loads for the residents and businesses in Silverton, passing th... (more)

The early morning sun greets an empty CSX Brice coal train E321 starting into the cut beside the Levisa Fork in Pikeville,KY.

20 seconds into my time exposure and this happened. A single bolt of lightning from a severe thunderstorm moving out over the Atlantic, fanned out across the entire sky. Brand new crossing gates... (more)

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Storm clouds from a monsoon form over Antares, AZ as an eastbound stack train (Q LACLPC6) grinds up the grade out of Kingman under a double rainbow. This was a sight to see as 2020 have been a dry... (more)

An empty BNSF coal train crosses Union Pacific’s massive bridge at Joso, Washington, on September 21, 2015. These BNSF coal trains use UP’s Ayer Subdivision (the Washy) out of Spokane to the p... (more)

Rio Grande Heritage

The lines of our heritage hang loosely connected to infinity; relics from the last century scattered and disconnected. The stories these code line poles cou... (more)

A long way from home. On a summer afternoon, Eureka & Palisade #4 "Eureka" charges across the 1887-vintage, wrought iron trestle at Tefft (MP 477.80), as she makes her way south t... (more)

Snow Locked Flatirons

Westbound, high out on the Flatirons above the Great Plains in full snow flock the Provo manifest swoops in and out of tunnel 2, 3, and onward to the Gr... (more)

Hermosa Sunset

Magnificent glint only a late Summer day on the Overland a Route can do highlights the rails at Hermosa, WYO.