A hazy summer sunset provides a perfect backdrop for an eastbound CP freight train as it rumbles through Belgrade, headed for a meet just ahead at Murray siding, then on to Minneapolis and St Paul... (more)

A Z train encounters Tunnel 11.1, built in 1940, at the top of the Trinidad Loop.

Strong storms of have moved east and the smell of fresh rain lingers in the cool evening air as an eastbound CP train splits the small Minnesota town of Belgrade at sunset.

The lights of a helper set bounce off the hills and glow up the tracks for those waiting at the Cassandra All-Nighter 2013 event. This helper set is destined for Johnstown to help assist a loaded ... (more)

The lights of a yet-unseen train cut through the landscape of bare trees, their leaves already fallen for the winter, as daylight wanes on this dreary November day in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Another winter night is settling in over the Clark Fork Valley as a BNSF coal train heads west through Trout Creek, Montana. Headlights pierce a low, rolling fog that is beginning to form amid the... (more)

An NS coal train breaks the still of a hot and humid night along the Tug Fork River.

The waiting game...

Old Southern Searchlights backlit from a northbound light.

With jointed rail still in use on this part of the Front Range Sub, we see the Laurel - Denver in the distance as they roll along through the Northern Colorado rolling hills a few miles south of t... (more)

Early morning northbound in the hills near Blanchet Kentucky.

Strong moonlight illuminates John Stevens Canyon on the west flank of Marias Pass on a chilly winter night. A westbound BNSF train brightens the inside of Tunnel 3.8, while on the hillside above ... (more)

Nighttime along the N&W.... It's a peaceful night with stars shining bright and beautiful, until the faint sound of a westbound time-freight begins echoing throughout the East River Valley.. Soon,... (more)

Soon after the tunnel door opens, an eastbound BN freight roars toward the portal.

Breaking the nighttime silence in the bottom of the New River Gorge at Thurmond, eastbound grain loads slice through the summer haze, left behind after a series of thunderstorms earlier in the eve... (more)