Montana Rail Link’s gas local is westbound along a frozen Clark Fork approaching Thompson Falls, Montana, on a cold January 24, 2013. A rebuilt SD45 that MRL labels an SD45-2, No. 318 leads a ne... (more)

Amtrak's Pere Marquette greets a beautiful autumn sunrise as it rolls across the Kalamazoo River in New Richmond, MI.

A Chicago and North Western eastbound, with a UP SD60M on the point, thunders underneath the imposing coaling tower at De Kalb, Illinois, at sunset on September 17, 1994.

Just before sunup in frosty downtown Keystone, W.Va., NS's Interstate heritage unit shoves train No. 776 up Elkhorn Grade, with locomotives in notch-8, awakening the sleeping mining community on a... (more)

Forty years ago, in 1973, the last train rumbled across this line. Today, this is a place for the intrepid explorer to enjoy solitude while pondering the vestiges of a lost way of rural life. It... (more)

In the woods of upstate New York remain the last active rails of the long abandoned New York, Ontario and Western. Emerging from the fog is the CSX local out of Fulton with two cars to be spotted ... (more)

The quite rural village of Shushan is awoken by the sounds of the Batten Kill local moving through town on an Autum day.

Sunset on the MoPac, it has been 16+ years since a through train ventured through the small town of Leoti, KS. 16 years since the ABS signals have displayed a high green indication for a westbound... (more)

R.J. Corman runs a empty coal train up to the loadout at Pax.

Reflecting on a day filled with rain, the Amtrak and NS Veterans locomotives are posed for display at Rose Yard for the "All Aboard Altoona" event. Joining the patriotic duo is Amtrak's exhibit t... (more)

Full moon over the Transcon. An ES44C4 leads this west bound out of a colorfull sunset sky.

Under an incredibly dramatic sunset, eastbound Q382 throttles up and enters the plant at West Deshler, where they'll cross over to main one to get around stopped traffic ahead. Just one of those "... (more)

A horizontal view of 13T creeping across the Portage Bridge in Letchworth State Park. I can't fit the upper falls and river below into the frame going horizontal, since I did not have a wide lens ... (more)

Ex-SOO 6051 leads a lengthy CP 470 train over the hill east of Fairdale, Illinois in the last minutes of daylight.